I had been meaning to start Game of Thrones, but hearing that the ending sucks kind of killed all interest for me.
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The problem with Game of Thrones is this:
They ran out of material to adapt. They hit a wall where they ran out of books and had to adapt Martin's PowerPoint slides, and it shows!
I think there was a lot more going on than that. Benioff and Weiss wanted out. They wanted to collect all their accolades and move on to fresh IPs. HBO was happy to give them more money and time to construct full-length seasons, but they chose to push the last two with shorter runs.
I think if they had handed the show off to fresh showrunners ready to build on the existing plot threads and pacing of the show, we'd be looking back on it very differently.
Yeah. There are a lot of story beats that everyone knows GRRM would write (if he only cared to continue the series) and those story beats were in the show. They had enough material to work with, they simply chose to rush through all of it.
Like a punchline is to a joke, the ending is the most important part of a story. The conclusion gives the journey meaning. Blowing the ending can - and often does - retroactively ruin an entire narrative. This comic is akin to saying “a bad punchline doesn’t ruin a whole joke.” It does. In the same way, a bad or missing conclusion undermines the narrative as a whole.
JK Rowling.
(I meant this satirically.)
i heard she tried to retcon the characthers after the og cast dint playball with her terfness.
"Surely if I satirize people who trash my favorite show, it'll make me feel better about how it took a shit at the end."
Was it Game of Thrones? If so, don't worry, that's not applicable either way,
because
it was always shit.
Nah first few seasons of GoT were peak TV. Then they shit all over it.
Dog shit adaptation of dog shit books, nothing but trash from beginnig to end. It was always going to go out like a bitch.
That doesn't sound like a criticism, it sounds like the show was never to your taste and never would be regardless of its actual quality.
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The first season is one of the best adaptations of a novel ever done. But everything after follows a steepening downward bell curve.
I'm sorry someone criticized your fav, comic guy :(
It's almost like stories are different from people and stories are comprised to a beginning middle and end. The only time this doesn't count is if the series is not serial based and a mess of episodic with serial through arcs.
Meanwhile you have BNA:Brand New Animal, A show with an ending so bad it taints everything that leads up to it. I have never seen a show undermine its own message like that.
I mean it varries a lot, a lot of shows put huge emphasis on building up to an ending.
I would say probably the biggest example would be lost... it feels like it's building up to something special all throughout... it's just like "a few more pieces and it will finally make sense".
Then you get an ending that... well if anything can be improved with small edits.
Show: Look! Look here! The shiny! Ooooh what might it be?! Oooh something's going to happen at the end! Just you wait! Just you watch to see what it is! Ooooh shiny! ... psych it all turns out to be dumb bullshit.
You: Ah well, at least I got to see shiny.
Well when the preceding story is contingent on it leading to a satisfying conclusion, that being 99% of the shows I've seen critiqued this way... I'd say it's a valid conclusion.
And then there are people who fiddled kids for a side job, but they died a celebrity, so they're a beloved legend
Every single person of note in Canada, lauded for building something good in Canada, for all Canadians, is eventually found to have cursed out a left-handed albino otter one day on a Monday, and is thus Satan incarnate.
Here we chastise people in glass houses from throwing stones; but we also don't respect a redemption story or long-lasting contributions in case Buddy had a bad day once.
Could you give an example?
Is this cartoon about RBG?
Shows sort of suck after about the 5th episode. They all start doing filler at some point.
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