The Long Night - How Game of Thrones killed 8 years of character development

This time it's personal. My drunken analysis of The Long Night, and how to kill 8 years of good storytelling with one simple scene.

[@selina3460]

It's like they killed Voldemort in the middle of the movie and now they spend the remaining hours fighting over the house cup

[@clare2385]

Yes!!

[@Jwaxenbaum602]

It's like if Harry spent all that time learning about the deathly hallows, but then Ginny shoots Voldemort with a Glock.

[@JapanischErfahren]

bs. there are millions of boring 'good human guys vs evil monster' movies. That's Hollywood trash. GoT was always something better because of the lack of black and white , for the human, all too human.

[@ollirune]

@@JapanischErfahren Yeah, but people were hoping for the Night King to not just be another 'evil monster', that he actually had a purpose and a plan in mind other than just being the bad guy who wants to kill everyone. But nope, guess not.

[@simsence831]

thats what i wanted in harry potter, why didnt gryffindor win the cup in the 7th year??!

[@alexhe1987]

After thousands years of careful planing, Night King finally crosses the wall and kills Theon Greyjoy. Amazing Story !

[@Amystudio]

Lol exactly

[@TheOldBlackShuckyDog]

#actualyhappened

[@jacquelineking5783]

The Night King was a fan of the show but hated Theon. His only goal was to kill him.

[@helekarsargarian6831]

Theon only needed to say Hodor, he seemed about to say something at the end, but it looked like he forgot his line

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

Plot Twist: He was merely part of Ramsay's Twenty Good Men, hired to kill Theon.

[@GuitarGuy650]

Not only was this season bad, but it retroactively removed GoT from pop culture entirely. This show used to be what everyone was talking about, now, the only time it is brought up the only thing people ever focus on is how bad season 8 was.

[@jr1088]

And killed any spin offs from ever happening

[@GrandSupremeDaddyo]

This really can't be understated. It's actually quite incredible how possibly the biggest show in history just vanished from everybody's minds seemingly overnight.

[@deeskillz2000]

Yeah, it was bad. But still.....booooooobs

[@edgardavid1653]

Or Bronn's memes in 9gag

[@yasser9350]

@@jr1088 no they trying to sell some targaryan back story

[@jellybumfruitcakes]

Lena Heady must have laughed her ass off when she realised she was getting millions of pounds for staring out a window for a whole season.

[@LirylCrovyn]

The only actor who got an easier paycheck was Isaac Hempstead Wright. He got millions to just stare blankly while SITTING. lol

[@Jeudaos]

HAHA i mean i would have laughed. talk about good pay, just stare out the window looking pissed off. EZ MONEY

[@caronstout354]

She did drink her wine rather stylishly though...

[@osmanyousif7849]

@@LirylCrovyn , not to mention looking creepy as heck with how he looks when he's supposably "seeing the past". It makes the scenes when Littlefinger gets executed much more dumber. Arya: You Littlefinger are sentenced to death for the conspiracy of my father's murder and attempted assassination of my half-brother John. Littlefinger's defense team: Objection! Who does this girl have to collaborate these accusations? Arya: Why my little brother Bran Stark. You see, despite looking immobilized and like some creepy introvert, he can see the past. Littlefinger's defense team: The defense rests, Knights of the Vale. F-Off show....

[@mala6238]

😂😂👌

[@Buford_T_Justice1]

What do we say to good writing? Not today.

[@Lawful_Rebel]

Nor this decade..

[@jackoblllllllll]

More like "not anymore"

[@skyserf]

Buford T. Justice Sadly you are correct.

[@Lawful_Rebel]

@@jackoblllllllll and nor will we again, with dim-witted miscreant showrunners like them, runnng, or ruining, film and TV for the foreseeable future.

[@insaneweasel1]

@@Lawful_Rebel Dumb and dumberer

[@ContortedWhisk]

The Night Knight legit died like a random villain-of-the-week from the old Buffy tv show.

[@djolds1]

Buffy did it better. Hell, the series conclusion to Angel was DEEP on a philosophical level.

[@samlatifi3254]

@@djolds1 one of my all-time favourite episodes. I think its called 'Fade to Black'. The episode before was great too.

[@horseshoe2blah201]

I think there was a great opportunity missed. Ditch Assassin Spice/Girl power Arya for the ending scene. Instead have the Night King approach Bran's wheelchair. Bran looks up with his bland expression. Then, Bran's face contorts into pure rage and his finger starts tapping the tiny bell on the armrest of his wheelchair...Ding...Ding...Ding...BOOM!!! Cut to Jon Snow, "I win!"

[@firekind1980]

he looked pretty much like the master and the all got dusted like the vampires.

[@Lawful_Rebel]

Yeah. Except it wasn't supposed to be f*cking Buffy 🧐 Grrrr. 🤣 Haha. What a let down. I'm glad I don't get overly invested' in modern corporate entertainment or I might be annoyed, rather than slightly disappointed. Most writers today don't have the requisite talent to sustain a coherent narrative over a 2h movie, never mind extensive, and sustained, world building over an 8 season show.

[@dutchmansmine9053]

If you stick with the books, you'll probably never be disapointed with the ending, because it will probably never happen.

[@skowollon84]

I am pretty much convinced that Martin is in such a shock about how terrible this ending was, that he needs to reconsider the ending. I mean not all of season 8 would be as it shall be in the books. But some of it

[@sebastianb.3978]

@@skowollon84 Imagine seeing your 10 year masteeplan be executed by someone else and it's miserable. I'd need some donuts. And I bloody don't eat donuts xD

[@andrewbell7387]

it may be that the ending of the books is very similar to the ending of the TV series, which is why the books will never be finished. They have had their critical reception and to release them would damage any of the writers further works.

[@IBTU]

2023 here and still hasn’t happened 😂

[@rackcity5981]

They ended this show sooo poorly, I can't even do re-runs.

[@ianramsey101]

I can do one-offs but I can't commit to binging.

[@juliorodriguez2694]

Straight up

[@VitorHugoOliveiraSousa]

This is why a decent ending is important, it doesn't need to be great, just decent. You can kill a franchise with a bad ending. Mass Effect to this day still haven't recovered from that abysmal ending, even after going to another galaxy to run away from it.

[@kanjo4976]

Bro same, not even good as background noise.

[@Krax0n-]

@@VitorHugoOliveiraSousa attack on titan type beat

[@JohnDoe-qo9wh]

Arya killing the night king is the equivalent to some random New Yorker killing thanos

[@Shryce]

Random New Yorkers can teleport places ?!?

[@dwoodstwin]

Not really. She can be the person to kill the king but there just had to be more. Jon at least trying and failing, maybe wounding and distracting him or something

[@minutemengeneral1324]

Was there build up to Arya killing the night king because I feel like i didn’t see it

[@AnswerisB]

Nah, it'd be more like Daredevil killing Thanos. Daredevil's very capable on his own and can beat most any typical foe, but Thanos is WAY out of his league.

[@Kn1ghtborne]

It's like Shuri killing Thanos

[@BlazingOwnager]

The Audience: How are you going to fit everything in 6 episodes??? The Writers: How are we going to fill 6 episodes?!

[@billibillion7287]

Ahaha, apparently by sweeping everything under the carpet hastily hoping no one asks questions

[@0rthogonal]

This is all an elaborate scheme to goad GRR Martin into finishing the books by embarrassing him with this atrocity of an adaptation that will tarnish his legacy.

[@ARCtrooperblueleader]

@BlazingOwnager - lol

[@johnmiller8646]

@@0rthogonalI I legit just blew coffee out of my nose. Cheers.

[@xtremegamer96]

when they said s7 and s8 will be 7eps and 6eps i was like wait a min dany just left essos and there still cersi and nk how are they going to deal with them cuz these 2 characters deserve a season each to deal with them but apparently the plan was to kill the big bad in his 1st battle and they have the balls to call the ep the long night more like the long hr smh

[@Soulen1986]

You know it's bad when a show goes from being a cultural phenomenon too being that bad date you dont talk about or ever want to remember.

[@faceripper77]

It went from supreme popularity to being instantly forgettable. A true testament to the incompetence of the writers.

[@GenericUserName443]

@@faceripper77 After that last season i can´t recommend anyone to even start watching it, knowing how disgustingly bad it will end.

[@jeromeb.8739]

@@GenericUserName443 very true

[@firestick4991]

I’m so glad I waited to see if people liked how it ended - BEFORE I ever watched any of it. I learned my lesson after being so terribly disappointed with LOST. Then, I saw what happened with The Sopranos before I watched it. I thought I would wait with GOT, too. Yeah - Whew!

[@robr135]

@@firestick4991 For any show now I will always wait until the last episode airs until I see what the consensus is. I am not making that mistake again.

[@shubhragautam5955]

Game of thrones cameos Season 6 - Ian McShane Season 7 - Ed Sheeran Season 8 - Winter

[@yulbrynner8293]

You son of a bitch

[@MachoMan_Vert]

This comment had no business making me laugh hard as I did.

[@slenderfoxx3797]

Seriously there was a plant growing at the end in the last scene lmao...what a joke winters are supposed to last years and be super deadly especially this coming one...and it felt like the weakest winter I've ever seen...canadas springs get more snow than that.

[@SnootchieBootchies27]

Nailed it. Ha!

[@lola-to9om]

underrated comment

[@woodchuckcider1]

After thousands of years, the Night King...accomplishes nothing. The end.

[@HWDragonborn]

Well, he managed to kill Theon

[@MikeBarbarossa]

He was slain by a powerpuff girl, flying down on him. Pew!

[@neilbreen371]

He killed theon, who at least held Winterfell for a short period of time

[@Vipre-]

He was never going to accomplish...whatever it is you were expecting, he's not the protagonist.

[@neilbreen371]

@@Vipre- yeah,but he and the WW were build up from the first scene of the first epidode to be the most formidable and feared entities ever. 8 years and 7 seasons of build up for nothing

[@ugx7td5]

The night was short and full of errors!

[@bernardoheusi6146]

Sigh King

[@wendybennett9469]

Beautiful

[@BlazingOwnager]

Winter IS coming... for Star Wars. Didn't think winter could come to a frozen over hell but it is.

[@rascallyrabbit717]

Best comment this week may2019

[@Meowww_notttvcat]

Lmao...perfect!

[@TheStapleGunKid]

Melisandre: "Stannis, you need to sacrifice your daughter to make fire." Stannis: "Really? You don't have any alternative way to make fire?" Melisandre: "Nope. What do you expect? That I'd have the ability to just make things catch on fire at a distance with absolutely no consequences or restrictions? What a ridiculous idea...."

[@SunlightGwyn]

To be fair it’s possible she learned more powerful magic since then.

[@sskspartan]

@@SunlightGwyn no, no it's not

[@SunlightGwyn]

@@sskspartan Stannis died in Season 5. Melisandre cast fire on the swords in Season 8. Plenty of time for her to learn new magic or more powerful magic.

[@maryf720]

@@SunlightGwyn Isn't she hundreds of years old? How is she going to suddenly learn much more powerful magic in like 3 years when she couldn't do it over hundreds?

[@alexanderzack3720]

@@maryf720 also she never left westeros since she showed up there..... not liek she went back home to other red priests that might´ve had something to show/tell/teach her... no she stayed in westeros where she was the only red priest/ess

[@JackAcid]

This is very interesting: and absolutely spot on. I worked on this episode in Belfast, filming about 3 weeks of the 50+ days of night shoots in a freezing quarry. I worked in the physical SFX dept, so we did the fires, smoke, flaming swords, etc. I'll tell you why they only used the Trebuchet's once: because they didn't actually work that well during filming! At one point, it flung its load directly up whilst the extras were running into shot, and the flaming balls (very real) came very close to hitting someone. So, they had to cut around them, as they were established in the footage by this stage. My favourite meory of this was sitting back of set as the horsemen were all being lined up for their various passing shots, huddled around an Artem smoke machine, when I was suddenly surrounded by an entire legion of White Walkers in full make up, as they waited to be positioned into the next scene. I didn't hear them come up behind me because of the wind and storms we were filming in, and I leapt off the floor in shock! Anyway, I had a lot of fun filming this (some scenes, like the flaming pike pits, were filmed inside a studio - that was HOT!), and I thought it'd be amazing. But the way the White King was killed off so...so...well, easily; it just ruined it for me.

[@faceripper77]

All thats work you guys put in and the audience couldnt see shit

[@MundaneThingsBackwards]

Props for your efforts! It's a shame so much hard work by the cast and crew went unappreciated due to the mediocre direction and writing. The visual effects that season were top, that much I can say.

[@MrHealingmonk]

Thanks for the insight of how the scenes were done.

[@rexxbailey2764]

@@MundaneThingsBackwards IT WAS NOT MEDIOCRE, IT WAS ALL STRAIGHT UP SHIT! 😒😑

[@heatherphillips5983]

@@faceripper77 Get a better TV, or turn up your brightness, genius.

[@timangar9771]

Season 1: Kill Ned Season 8: kill the show

[@seriousreview8371]

I don't know why but after John Snow died I stopped watching because it was the end in myy mind ... NO REGRETS AND I SPENT MY TIME WASTING ABILITY ON OTHER STUFF MUHAHA

[@ChuckstaGaming]

@@seriousreview8371 that really pissed me off too. I fif go back to it, but not till 2 more seasons had already been completed.

[@PurushNahiMahaPurush]

That definitely sUbverTed oUr exPectAtIons

[@dualityomk9854]

they stole that idea from the simpsons!

[@divinitygaming8673]

I just gave you the 1000th like. Where's my money ?

[@linzdubs5258]

Arya killing the Night King is Timon and Pumba killing Scar in Lion King

[@kirbyfazendoummoonwalk9214]

So basically Lion King 1½

[@rarminqorset3628]

No that would actually be worth the watch

[@kangwachama7835]

Hahahaha,,, lol classic😂😂😂accurate for days...

[@nileshkalambe7346]

Or captain Marvel killing thanos in endgame.

[@nickimillennium3748]

The girl power though!😂

[@DisonantDyscord]

For years, I couldn't quite figure out WHY the Night King's death bothered me. I mean, the quick stab-shatter-whitewalkergobyebye demise was VERY unsatisfying....but it wasn't THAT. There was something else that I just couldn't quite put my finger on about the Night King's death that bothered me. It was only recently that I finally figured it out: WE NEVER SAW HIM FIGHT!.....NOT! FUCKING! ONCE!!! Throughout the entire series, we saw his army fight wildly to kill every person it could. Then when he finally got to his target, there was no fight. No back and forth. No clinking of swords as he fought a valiant foe. All we got was Theon clumsily charging at him and the Night King taking half a step to the side, and feeding him his own weapon. They built him up into such a powerful force, that was incredibly OP, and theeeeennnn....YOINK! stab! The end (of iceman). No fight. It was as dissatisfying as ending a fantasy story with "And then he/she woke up. The end."

[@davidhaddad9022]

I'm very happy we didn't see him fight. They would've screwed it up big time by having Jon or Arya or who knows who effortlessly dispatch him the way Jon did to every White Walker he faced.

[@GholaTleilaxu]

But you did saw him fight. What you wanted to see was him using a sword or spear to swing at other sword-wielding warriors, which is a movie cliche.

[@trevorandrade]

Didn't he hurl a spear and knock a dragon kill a dragon early on and convert it to a zombie dragon.

[@mijanhoque1740]

@@GholaTleilaxu So Arya knifing him is satisfying? Fuck no, cliche sword fight is far better than the absolute trash we got

[@mijanhoque1740]

For real his confrontation with Jon Snow was built up for so many seasons only for it to not pay off. He should have atleats killed half the cast him and have a epic sword dual with Jon.

[@lordkizzle]

The greatest part of the episode was seeing Sansa Stark save her people by hogging the only dragon glass dagger in the crypt while hiding as children were slaughtered. Her rise to queen for her bravery was well deserved.

[@margarethmichelina5146]

Too be honest, Sansa is the character who has upside down in development. She showed her potential to be a manipulator in Season 4 by lying of Littlefinger for killing her aunt only in Season 5 she becomes Ramsay's toy and weak again. Then, in Season 6, she becomes the voice of the reason for Jon to take over the North from Boltons and even lying to him to call Littlefinger with the Vale armies and in Season 7, they tried to make her care to the North remains only later being Littlefinger's victim again by baiting Arya with the letter that she sent from King's Landing a long time ago and out of nowhere, she outsmarts him. And she tried to be badaas in last Season by shutting down Dany about "What will you do to the North?" Only later just be there, whining, complaining, and Boom! She's the Queen of The North. As much as I don't like Dany, but at least Dany has a lot of moments of struggling and how she develops as person while Sansa looks like a cheater.

[@lordkizzle]

@@margarethmichelina5146 Bran's first act as king was to betray the trust of everyone and hand the North to his family instead of uniting the 7 Kingdoms in a way only he could. All because Sansa wants to be a queen and everyone is for some reason ok with that.

[@black-sv4gk]

Sansa was in my opinion the worst character in the show. She needed someone there all the time to survive. And she says to Arya, you don't know what I had to do to survive. Or something like that. She probably had the easiest time in the show. Bran also suck, i feel sad, that the girl who saved him, was not there at the ending. I liked her more.

[@rowanmelton7643]

@@black-sv4gk She most definitely didn't have the easiest time in the show. But yes, she did have to rely on other people a lot

[@black-sv4gk]

@@rowanmelton7643 so, her time was harder than bran? Or Jon, or Arya, or Jaime. Who do you think was easier. Im counting the characters who go through a bigger change. So im not really counting Cersei. Who is easier in your opinion?

[@MrFudgepump]

If Tyrian wasn't locked in the crypt he would've pointed out how stupid the entire episode was

[@wojtek1582]

Nope because his intellect was downgraded by 75% since the books have ended ;).

[@jakew6076]

Bet littlefinger is happy he is dead now cuz he would have facepalmed at the plans that unfolded

[@cliftt]

Jake, lol.

[@cliftt]

Wojciech Agreed.

[@jessicagibson7892]

Nope, because apparently now we find out all of his smart moments were sheer luck.

[@josephbalinski]

Be thankful Brie Larson didn't ride in and do it

[@hunterhunter5906]

You just described an epic parody my friend, I am picturing that in my mind and it is hilarious!

[@Crichjo32]

While Rian Johnson claps in the background.

[@Lordoftheswollen]

@@Crichjo32 wearing a "chosen one is female shirt"

[@Lawful_Rebel]

@@Crichjo32 I hate that dick 🧐

[@JacobBen94]

And no sold a headbutt. Fuck that pissed me off😂in hindsight the mcu movies are not that good written either now I've digested them

[@Bamazon1990]

I was laughing with my friends at how the white walkers finally cross the wall and all die at the first place they attack. They murdered every single character arc: Brianne became a whiny little girl Aria forgot her entire list and became Captain Marvel with stealth powers just long enough to air-drop and kill the Night King Tyrion became an idiot who couldn't strategize his way out of a wet paper bag Varris became a cowardly little bumbler who Tyrion betrays for no reason whatsoever Jon Snow became 100% irrelevant to everything in the series Night King and his white walkers became an 8 year long con pulled on the audience Jamie forgot everything he learned and all this personal growth and sided with Cersi again anyway Danie completely forgot she wanted Cersi dead and decided to snap and kill random peasant families instead, just so Jon Snow could kill her The Hound became an immortal god with enough endurance to shrug off attacks from the Undead Super Powered Mountain Bran became king for no reason in the universe and provided no help at all to anyone in season 8. Sansa becomes queen of the north; there was no reason for her to be in most of season 8 at all And finally Cersi watched her city burn and decided she was tired of acting.

[@thelittlemoonling]

This is very thourough. Well said. Thank you.

[@AakashSharma-qd5uo]

Everything is correct except The Hound part because that was the only part in season 8 that made sense to me, the redemption arc for Sandor, one of my favourite characters.

[@Bamazon1990]

@@AakashSharma-qd5uo I mean the Mountain crushed a man's head just by shoving him. He was extremely superhuman so the Hound's head should have broken from one punch, and he got punched like 20 times and he was basically fine. I hate inconsistencies like that. He should have outsmarted the Mountain without taking a punch bc no human could do that

[@angermacfadden2702]

​@@AakashSharma-qd5uoWould have been perfect if he had burned his brother then died perhaps saving someone.

[@TheInverseable]

Lmao finally watched this video and I completely forgot bran became king

[@eds1942]

To paraphrase: “Well, we built Jon up to be the hero who would face the Night King. But to subvert everyone’s exceptatiins, we decided that Arya should do that instead, because of all the foreshadowing.”

[@Damian-qv6wh]

season 1: winter is coming season 2: winter is coming season 3: winter is coming season 4: winter is coming season 5: winter is coming season 6: winter is coming season 7: winter is so close... season 8: winter is h- oh its gone see you in ten thousand years

[@nathanwarnes3681]

a full hour and a half battle wasn't good enough for you?

[@MileRastovac]

@@nathanwarnes3681 lol what, you think that GOT was about BS SGI and action? -.-

[@nathanwarnes3681]

@@MileRastovac no.... Obviously not. But what else did you expect this battle to be?

[@Damian-qv6wh]

Nathan Warnes the battle of winterfell was long enough but they could've dragged it on for longer with other battles. Imagine how cool it would be with the White walkers trying to take out all these other castles slowly parading down to kingslanding and idk

[@venway5465]

Damian no 1 episode after 68 episodes of build up isn’t enough

[@davidmedina4549]

I've never watch a war fought so incompetently, yet won so quickly.

[@MrBenjaminsisko]

The task failed successfully

[@GianniFickoo]

David Medina agreed

[@matthewcavallaro9715]

Also they only used the catapults once

[@bartoszkuklinski90]

When you have a "go girl" on your side, what actual armies do on the battlefield becomes simply irrelevant. Anything becomes possible except perhaps good battle scene.

[@stevem2323]

@D M They did that Dothraki charge because of visuals, that's it. But Dothraki can't defend static position with horses , they are attacking force and not much disciplined. They should have waited for dead to charge and then attack. But what's your plan, to put all those forces into Winterfell, really? Can they even fit in there, i don't think so. So what's the plan when dead stormed the walls like in Hardhome, ha what then?

[@jimmy_dee]

It’s over a year now, and I still haven’t gotten over how bad it was. The only solace I get is watching KZbin videos trashing the final season.

[@Cadavu2]

Bran was able to influence the past; the biggest twist probably in the whole series...which they never used again or explained, or did anything with.

[@chessman88]

hodor

[@Vasharan]

"Visually I can't fault it." Yeah, I couldn't see anything, to fault, either.

[@Lord_Volkner]

Same problem here. There was one episode (3 or 4) where I couldn't see anything the whole episode.

[@Ludak021]

your shitty TV is to blame, I saw everything just fine.

[@robertwoods3871]

@@Ludak021 that's a shitty excuse

[@aztecwarrior5189]

Ludak021 I guess your rick and morty intellect let’s you see in the dark

[@Ludak021]

@@aztecwarrior5189 No, I am just not stupid, I have good TV and I have calibrated it. Unlike you, with dynamic contrast, brightness and posting on YT.

[@illyay1337]

I feel like Arya's whole arc was to kill Cersei.

[@neilgriffiths6427]

Totally - could have been an epic scene, kinda like where she kills Lord Baylish but with her instead of Sansa doing the Judge Judy as well as Executioner...damn, so many opportunities missed...

[@mattwho81]

Instead she dies to a brick...

[@MrAlleluia00]

Close. Her whole story arc was to kill the show.

[@henrychinaski5938]

@@mattwho81 Jokes on you , that was Arya pretending to be a brick . You're just hating .

[@pvtmarcos]

I completely fucking agree. If they paid any attention to their own show they would have known for that to be a absolutely phenomenal arc.

[@ShadowWizard123]

Remember when the riders of Rohan were about to charge outside Minas Tirith and King Theoden gave that speech? Everyone got goosebumps. Why can't anyone write a script anymore?

[@ToneSherpa]

this really needed something like that to happen. maybe the Dothraki weren't even there yet since they were coming back from High Garden or whatever. and they arrive in the morning to out flank the army from the rear. it could have been triumphant. but no. just ride blindly into an army of dead ice zombies. great.

[@jonathancooper4914]

Because industry execs are surrounded with ‘yes’ people who tell them everything they want to hear.

[@luiscesarvianagomes970]

"DEATH" Still get goosebumps just remembering, and I haven't see it in almost 10 years

[@Eternaldarkness3166]

hell even when his daughter killed the guy and she was like, I am no man, I didn't cringe at that like I do with other stuff like that.

[@businesscasualsauron]

​@@luiscesarvianagomes970 I can hear the musical score just reading this one word.

[@logicaldude3611]

I think the characters who got the worst treatment in the last season (in terms of completely undoing their entire character arcs) were Jon, Dany, and Jamie. Jon is being built up to be a great leader and then devolves into a spineless baffoon muttering, "She's muh queen" for an entire season. Dany goes from being an idealistic young woman with a claim to the throne who has been the moral compass of an entire movement to a maniac seemingly overnight. Jamie has spent the entire show going from completely unlikable sister f*cker to one of the more noble and good characters, then they have him completely revert back to his former self and go die with his sister when it was PERFECTLY set up for him to go down in a blaze of glory as both Kingslayer and Queenslayer, killing Cersei. The story had practically written itself and somehow they undid three of the most important character arcs in the series. Not to mention Tyrion completely lost his swagger and clever lines in the last couple seasons of the show. It absolutely sucks how they ruined this show. It went from being a show you recommended to everyone to a show you don't recommend to anyone.

[@drewtwon7374]

Agreed. I’ll never watch the show again just because they ruined the finale season

[@simonseddon5793]

According to the creators on 'Why Arya?': "Because Jon would be too obvious". So, there you have it...

[@MohAmer834]

i would much rather have jon wtf

[@BobbyBaloney]

insert "genius" meme here

[@elordas]

Thank god i put all my life savings on arya to beat night king. 9.25 odds

[@livTarg]

Jon should have died when he was stabbed in the first place.

[@derbenrich]

It should have been Jon. But in a real fight with a smug overpowered NK. And Jon would lose but could stab him in his last breath. That would be a victory under a great loss. GoT-style... Or better kill Jon earlier by the NK. Then revive him with all the other Zombies. Later before NK kills Bran, let him have his mighty Soul moment or Bran getting in his head so he kills NK as a zombie and dies again. So many possibilities!

[@rocketman3285]

The biggest twist was thinking john snow actually meant anything in the show..... seasons 1-7 sure fooled me.

[@GholaTleilaxu]

"From my blood come the prince that was promised, and HIS will be the song of ice and fire." I guess that's just George R. R. Martin trolling us, and let that be a lesson for all the naive children out there!

[@Jeudaos]

yeah, so much for the dragon raised by wolves. They dropped that plot thread like a hot potatoe as soon as they did the reveal.

[@kyleferguson4236]

What r u talking about? He was KUNG OF DA NORF!!!

[@nickimillennium3748]

Literally fucked off to the woods like a dying dog. 😕

[@durinV]

@@kyleferguson4236 Then he became "Muh queen" for all the last season until last minute

[@dominiquecharriere1285]

The perfect tactical disposition of troops before a middle age combat has always been: first front line: unprotected cavalry, second line artillery you can't use because the cavalry is to close, third line infantry to protect the artillery once it has been destroy. And last line the huge walls of your castle (why would you be protected inside it when you can fight unprotected outside?). Cesar invented it!

[@BigPuddin]

If you kill enough of your own troops, you'll win a moral victory over the enemy. The bad guys will feel like they're fighting special needs soldiers and surrender out of guilt.

[@sopyleecrypt6899]

Two words: fan service. That’s what the writers and show runners thought they were doing with Arya killing the Night King. And maybe some “fans” did enjoy it.

[@bouncer812]

They’re not fans. Never were, never will be.

[@zeroz88]

"It feels like he has been written out of his own story line" I feel like that statement sums up Jon Snow pretty well.

[@leoki4804]

Can we say since his father was a pure targareon that Jon CANT be burned by fire. Or can he? Why is Cercie the main baddy and not the evil as death incarnated name the Night King? Is there any continuity remaining in the story to end this well?

[@taylorgriffin5445]

@@leoki4804 but Dany's brother was "pure" and he was burned when he died. And it's called game of THRONES, not game of death incarnated. It's about the throne. I always thought the white walker story was filler.

[@renegadexblackout]

@@taylorgriffin5445 the series is called a song of ice and fire, game of thrones is only the first book. Game of thrones is just a more marketable tv show name, so no. It has always been about the white walkers coming and showing that squabbling over a chair isnt important and the realm of men must come together, like the children of the forest and the first men, to survive

[@renegadexblackout]

@@leoki4804 jesus...no targs arent fireproof. The first time for danny was because of magic, the second time in the hut was....idk wtf that was. But targs arent fireproof

[@bigtuna1312]

@@taylorgriffin5445 You're being very superficial with your view of the show. If the show is only about the throne, and the white walkers are filler, then literally the entire show is useless and filler. George R.R. Martin is very anti-war, the point of the story is to show that if people would work together (in this case, to fight the night king), instead if squabbling over petty issues (in this case, the Iron Throne), the world would be a better place. But the show threw that out so we're left with meaningless crap now

[@Pandaho79]

I am so happy movies and shows are now throwing away plot points and character development just to show girls can be strong to

[@IDPhotoMan]

That's silly. Had nothing to do with it. This has been foreshadowed for YEARS. By GRRM. It was part of the plot. Granted, the execution of the final scene and the battle was a little absurd.

[@IDPhotoMan]

@@thealphaincel1619 I'm not an apologist, just a realist.

[@VhsVcr]

oh good another incel that hates girls. at least the whole ARYA shit was SET UP SINCE SEASON 1. This episode was fucking so stupid. The tactics of the battle were infuriating. and so fucking stupid. Then you constantly see people being attacked buried by dead people and then the next scene they are fine. they are ALL FINE. so dumb. How the fuck are they ALL FINE? they should all be dead. ALL OF THEM. It really deflated the enemy. SO easy to kill and survive. What were we all worried about all these years?

[@Lawful_Rebel]

@@IDPhotoMan That's absolute bollocks 🤨. However, the episode wasn't just absurd friend, t'was FUBAR (shame I couldn't really see any of it though, but ye get ma point)... It was a monumental clusterf*ck.

[@INMATE2468]

@@IDPhotoMan D&D said themselves they only decided Arya would kill the NK only like 2 and a half years ago. There was no foreshadowing lmao. They decided to alter earlier quotes because they make it up as they go along.

[@jthm419]

Watching Game of Thrones is like going to a Hibachi Steakhouse and being seated in front of a masterful chef whom has no rival in performance or culinary mastery. The exquisite commanding of both crowd and knife as they entertain the crowd around the grill. Perfectly timed flips and twirls of sharp tools and even sharper wit presenting the most tasteful and beautiful morsels of food in appetizers and entertainment. The seated guests are amazed and enthralled with every passing moment, each one as special and tasty as the one before it. Money and time truly well spent! As the chef prepares the main course the sight and smell of the final dish sets an amazing precedent of what's to come when it finally enters the mouth... but to everyone's surprise the chef reaches behind and appears to grunt out a wet shit and throws it across the food. Not missing a beat, the chef does it again, and again, until the piles of shit smother what remained. The chef continues to prepare the shit-smothered food with the same dedication and skill as with the previous dishes and appetizers, apparently oblivious to how offensive the material is now to the customers. The customers are wide-eyed looking at each other with confusion, filled with shock, horror, rage, and disappointment to realize that one of their greatest experiences was forever ruined by this obvious blatant act of betrayal, and even more shocked that this chef is still doing it with the same seriousness as presented before. Then as the smoldering pile of "what used to be good but is now covered in shit" monstrosity is served to each customer, the chef removes their hat and uniform, folds it neatly and places it on top of the grill, lights it on fire in front of everyone and happily skips away leaving the restaurant.

[@Thor-Orion]

I love you. I really needed that laugh. Not usually a fan of toilet humor, but the way you subverted my expectations? *chefs kiss*

[@thekiller7994]

This comment is the only time I laughed at toilet humor

[@LesActive]

Grossly accurate analogy.

[@Jourmand1r]

Saying shit doesnt automatically make a jo0ke funny.

[@liammcnulty1987]

@@Jourmand1r you've left sooo many comments here. You're so triggered lol. Anime pfp.

[@michaelrud4351]

This show is the very definition of "Its not about how you start, its about how you finish". It went from the most talked about show to something people make jokes about

[@Kayne1b]

GoT lost me when Arya took a dozen stabs to the gut and healed in a day or two after having some soup.

[@joekerr9197]

I was still in denial then...it didn't even lose me when Jon did that stupid shit and got knocked in the frozen lake...hell it didn't lose me when they botched the entire Dorne retardfest of a storyline...but now my rose-tinted glasses are finally off...they fked up the entire show, all 8 seasons got destroyed with just one episode, it has been getting worse and worse the last 3 seasons and culmination is still yet to come...I feel bad for the ppl who invested themselves into the show like me...hell I even feel really bad for the actors who gave their best only to be served with this crap story at basically the very end...

[@NuclearHaggis]

She also had none of these skills when she got on the boat home. But fuck character development, HBO needed a #badassbitch

[@b.chuchlucious5471]

The actress who gave her soup said she used to punch holes in her husband for visiting whores then patch him up, but she can't be that good.

[@helekarsargarian6831]

@Ethan Morris Add the conceited asshats who before this didn't even know the meaning of epics, now talking like they had been AD&D fans all their life

[@kernal1127]

Deus Ex Arya

[@skulking17]

All is lost as the Night King approaches Bran. The few people left living struggle for survival. In the background we hear AC/DC start playing... all of the sudden Iron Man flies in and vaporizes the Night King with a laser beam. Tony Stark is the Stark that saves Winterfell. This is about as random as Arya leaping 10 ft in the air and stabbing the Night King.

[@c1000101c]

slight revision: The song playing is "Back in Black" and, as we see Tony land in the clearing near Bran, we notice that he is wearing Mk. LXXXVI armor that has a very distinct "Crow" feel to it with all the dark colors, feathers and fur. He scoops up a few abandoned dragonglass weapons and asks Friday for "some help with this." Friday affirms his request and the armor reforms itself to consume the weapons. Tony attempts to amuse the Night King and his merry band of white walkers with witty banter and a few awkward jokes. The Night King remains silent. The Night King is not amused. The Night King is still trying to figure out how this asshole flew into the clearing without the aid of a dragon or other magical creature. Friday, in her sexy robot brogue, notifies Tony that the modifications are complete. Tony takes a step back and smugly says, "fire." Tony's faceplate closes up. Two batteries of mortars rise and lock into place on the rear shoulder areas of the Ironman suit. Several dozen finger-sized projectiles launch vertically from Ironman's shoulders in rapid succession. The last few notes of "Back in Black" give way to the popping sound of the little bombs and the night sky is illuminated by Stark's fireworks show. The light rains down in the distinct weeping willow pattern of cluster-bombs. The bomblets explode yet again just before impact with the ground. The wights, white walkers and the Night King are all showered with tiny slivers of dragonglass. They didn't stand a chance. Tony Stark gives the crowd a smug "you're welcome" before turning, taking a few steps and blasting off into the night sky. The triumphant living spend the rest of the night celebrating, building funeral pyres and tweezing shards of dragonglass from faces, necks, hands, asses and any flesh that was not sufficiently shielded during Stark the Sorcerer's great fireworks show.

[@c1000101c]

"Stark the Sorcerer? If the weirdo in the cape finds out about this, he'll never let me live this down. Or Banner. Friday, any way we can get a few ninth-grade chemistry books to these cavemen before I hit the portal?"

[@NikeBG]

I wouldn't be surprised if HISHE actually does this. At least I hope so!

[@georgedare3046]

I would honestly have enjoyed that more. George RR must be spinning in his grave.......What do you mean he is still alive. Why the hell hasn't he released the last book?

[@SunwardRanger83]

Tony Stark: "Tank Missile!"

[@S1ipperyJim]

The hound had a panic attack because he has a fear of fire

[@S1ipperyJim]

@Ken Nuppenau You're way off

[@S1ipperyJim]

@Ken Nuppenau Oh, I'm sure you are "right" 👌

[@grass7864]

@Ken Nuppenau Pretty sure Gen Z didn't write this garbage. 😂

[@edvfya9922]

But was getting over his fear while he was with Berric learning about the lord of light and starring into the flames and all that.

[@darthimperious1594]

So, yeah, I get that, except he's overcome that fear of fire multiple times throughout the show. He straight up fought and killed Dondarrion while he had a flaming sword. Yes, fire scares him, but he's a warrior and knows how to overcome his fear. I'd expect fire would cause him to pause for a moment, not freeze up entirely.

[@cappy2282]

Writers: "Jon's a white straight male...he couldn't possibly have epic battle with Knight king." Janitor: "But sir, we've been building up to this for 10yrs?" Writers: "We're subverting expectations." P.s Arya failed her assassin training and screwed them over. Assassins guild didn't want revenge and she somehow became the greatest assassin ever. (She did train for 3-4 days so makes perfect sense)

[@romanetolaneta]

She train for months maybe years

[@cappy2282]

@@romanetolaneta lol no she didn't....and she failed

[@ninshu412]

@@romanetolaneta It was only a few months lol.

[@MVPboppin]

The amount of times Sam and Brienne got swarmed and pinned down by 25 zombies with swords and managed to survive without any injury was infuriating.

[@AriaIsara]

This made no sense. What were the wights doing? Tugging at their clothes? lol

[@visionist7]

@@AriaIsara *Wight to Brienne* _"Snarl_ You give me fancy armour now Lady!" Ok that was terrible

[@Shaylok]

Nothing can penetrate plot armor.

[@WayStedYou]

As soon as thry didnt have any George RR Martin source material the show fell to pieces

[@marcellogenovese199]

Yea I already started disliking the show after last season. You could already see then that they had no idea how to treat the characters. I mean, Arya didn't even actually train. She was stabbed in the gut and tossed in a gutter only to barely eek out a win and for that she was offered training and declined lol. Yet suddenly in the next season she is capable of killing an entire keep full of enemies. So cringy. It sucks too because she was my favorite of the Starks. She went from a level headed honorable person, surviving despite the harsh world she was thrown into only to become an arrogant, unlikeable Mary Sue that is suddenly infallible.

[@NightshadeX85]

Nope , they had source material they just did not bother , look at Dorne and Iron Islands plots for that . Also no Mummer King either . They are just streamlining it and stripping away everything , the mysticism around the lord of light , the others , Varys , Lady Stoneheart . They clearly just want it to be done .

[@daindigokid]

de Morhalle, Good point. Streamlining is exactly what it felt like with the NK death. The beat him in 60 minutes. What a waste.

[@aramfingal5180]

To be fair, the GRRM source material since 2000 hasn't been that great either. He's slow-walking the release of the next book for a reason -- he has no idea how to end this thing.

[@michaeldukes4108]

Fuckin’ George.

[@luiscesarvianagomes970]

It was not only "The Long Night" that killed 8 years of character development, there were very fewe characters that actually retained their character arc in season 8. Almost all of them basicaly spat on the face of the last 7 seasons.

[@alexanderzack3720]

name one character that stayed consistent...... okay maybe podrick

[@angermacfadden2702]

Ironically imo Bronn the sellsword was pretty consistently hilarious!

[@Biscuits645]

And all of that wasn't as bad as Bran becoming king.

[@buktismuktis2473]

Man this writing breaks my heart, not because of the deaths, but because the storyline has deteriorated to ruin

[@badgerstorm2188]

Nice copy and pasted comment

[@scottpepper7028]

Stop watching it then.

[@tawilk]

what's so far off from the books? please elaborate.

[@RenegadeVile]

It can't even break your heart because of deaths because a total of three named characters died in the episode and only Jorah could be called somewhat of a primary character. I'd argue he's more secondary... But the other two, Berric and Edd are tertiary at best (as much as I liked them).

[@xtensionxward3659]

surprisingly your avatar face matches the image of the schmuck who keeps complaining just like your comment does damn just noticed even your name does too XD 777

[@NiceCreamyBaileys]

The white walkers could hear drops of blood in the library, but couldn't hear Arya running, screaming and flying through the circle of white walker guards to get to the Night King?

[@taylorgriffin5445]

She didn't scream until the final second. And she did that on purpose - she expected him to hear her and disarm her. But, her "dancing instructor" from season 1 taught her to make him think you're going to go left when you're really going to go right. Plus, the music was pretty fucking intense out there, vs being silent in the library.

[@kaidar12]

“she expected him to hear her and disarm her” What? As opposed to stabbing him in the back? That makes no sense on any level, and if her plan was to be heard and disarmed, it would have failed had he just crushed her throat instantly. Or just parried. Or moved. All of which were entirely possible, but he didn’t do for plot reasons.

[@renegadexblackout]

@@kaidar12 yea thats retarded lmao "she wanted him to grab her" 😂😂

[@ufiCz]

@@taylorgriffin5445 She didn't know nothing about NK, so she bet her life, that guy who want everything dead doesn't instantly kill her ? Good tactic ? Maybe she should spend more then year in bravos, or maybe somebody should resurect mr Forel, so she could train with him more then few months ......... Really nobody wonder why is she such killing machine ? On that battlefield there were thousands of man who had more combat and actual battle experiences and more training then she had. John snow trained every day + he fight few wars he didn't spend years traveling and years in captivity

[@Satanthony]

J.R. Vasquez yes!

[@b0zz1380y]

‘I can’t do this, you’re going to have to excuse me for a minute’ *ad plays* Well played Mr Drinker. Well played

[@MasterCleife]

I think Jon should have gone one on one with the Night King and lost. Just as he's about to finish Jon, Jaime comes out of nowhere, and plunges Widow's Wail into the Night Kings back but not before being mortally wounded in some way. Jon and Bran comfort Jaime as he dies, Jaime remarks "I lived a kingslayer, I die a kingslayer" Bran tells him that he had to push him out of that window to find himself here. Jaime dies, completing his character progression.

[@matthewgarrity9405]

I can see Mr.Coster Waldau perform that so well in my mental envisionment. Your comment alone is better than anything D&D could come up with.

[@GiovanniV69]

I can picture that scene so well. This would have been so much better.

[@uberboomer8670]

This is now canon as far as I'm concerned. I feel all warm and fuzzy knowing Jaime completed his redemption arc. A full 3 years later and I still need comment section group therapy

[@adityaarun8181]

First half is great. But the second half is bullshit

[@trevorday7923]

That was basically better and more epic than the output of the entire GoT writing department for season 8. And 7

[@collegerebel]

"Smug, unstoppable, overpowered Mary Sue who's already caused more pre-mature deaths than the fat positivity movement." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ficheye00]

What the heck do those little symbols mean?

[@headout3116]

@@ficheye00 they are laughing emojis

[@ficheye00]

@@headout3116 - Ah.. On my computer they just look like little boxes. I have a Mac, so I guess Windows emojis don't translate. Thanks. Mystery solved.

[@JudgementalGoat]

The highlight of the whole fucking video

[@SusanDelgado1177]

That was brutal 🤣😂

[@JailBr3ak3r77]

If Arya is capable of defeating the Nights King after a year or two of training just imagine how powerful Ja’qen Hagar is.

[@mattdiller6003]

Geo. Will lol two years did not pass between her father being beheaded and episode 3 of season 8

[@JailBr3ak3r77]

@@mattdiller6003What are you talking about? Nearly all of her prowess came from the training shes done with Jaqen Hagar in the house of Black and White. Before then she was not much of a fighter, so it would be idiotic to include those years. Like I said before, in about 2 years of training her able to complete these feats is illogical. And with this concept, Ja'qen Haagar stomps everyone in Westeros, including the Nights King.

[@MileRastovac]

Dude it's just bad writing, chill ..

[@tawilk]

it's an accumulation of her life experience. also, she bested Ja'qen, because she's good at what she does and has focus on an objective.

[@Winchester7734]

@Lord Tetra DUDE JUST TURN YOUR BRAIN OFF LOL. JUST PRETEND TO BE STUPID

[@halneufmille]

"I'm pretty apprehensive about the last episodes." How innocent we still were...

[@mattwho81]

Shout out to Drogon and Rhaegal for trying to do the work of a whole lighting department!

[@samlind8330]

Lets not forget that the Lord of Light brought back Barreck Dondarrion 7 times just so he could save Arya from ONE white walker!

[@mattrixx007]

I think it was 9 times

[@samlind8330]

I looked it up it was actually 6

[@sirjoey3137]

Yup, my G got resurrected 6 times just to throw a sword at 1 simple wight so that person he 'saved' could then proceed to kill the main villain in the most anti-climactic way possible.

[@st4ne4rmthevill63]

Shit hurt my soul. Dondarrion is one of my favorite characters from the books & especially the show. They massacred my boy. He could have at least died protecting Bran or something.

[@OneWanAndHisDog]

Enabling her to kill the night king...

[@anthonygreen6219]

The red woman was built up for seasons culminating in the scene where she finds her final purpose of enflaming the cavalry swords in holy fire just to have them charge into darkness and die off camera. Nice 8 season payoff.

[@DDickinson458]

I remember in the break between 7 and 8 I thought for sure she went to Essos to get The Fiery Hand or whatever... all the priests of R'hollor to come and use their fire to fight the ice zombies. Nope. Sad!

[@274pacific]

And then she dies by literally walking into the snow and falling over.

[@kalinmir]

The entire lord of ligh storyline got dropped lol

[@redditstories2750]

Ever thought about the fact that her arrival was a surprise? As were the fiery swords? Yeah. Let that sink in.

[@ragnakak]

@@redditstories2750 Your username suits you.

[@reeceleach6233]

I will never forget when I was watching this episode. We were watching it with a friend who was not that big into the show or somethin, and right before the red lady light their swords on fire, he said in his own words, "she's probably going to give them flaming swords or something." Then she lit them on fire and we all freaked out. It was great.

[@ReaverSTHLM]

Having Arya kill the Night King could have been fine. Just have Bran suddenly stand up out of his wheelchair, stab the mofo and then take his mask off and voilà, Arya. At least then her skillset would have been applied properly. Christ.

[@that_lebanese4747]

Voila*

[@MaynardCrow]

That's almost as stupid as what they want with.

[@leojamesquiambao1047]

That is pretty good that I'm surprised they didn't think of that

[@davidhaddad9022]

@@leojamesquiambao1047 You're surprised they didn't come up with something good?

[@CoolAdam247]

Arya would have to peel brans face off for that to work.

[@DrWolfenstein313]

Keep in mind, Arya is in Winterfell after learning all the secrets from a religious organization of assassins, that she then betrays AND NOTHING HAPPENS. All the realism the show built we must now forget, Arya is special and she has plot armor from the medieval mafia. Fuck you, show. Fanservice killed GoT.

[@thomasdemarteau6367]

All the realism died when she gott stabbed 5 times fell from a bridge had to swim to shore and then walked half an hour around the city and survive all that

[@cainyourkids]

@@thomasdemarteau6367 God, I remember watching that years ago and spending the next three weeks laughing my head off about it. Meanwhile, Ned gets stabbed in the leg and is handicapped for the rest of the season lol

[@youareallbots7536]

@@cainyourkids They gave up realism for shock value with the stabbing scene. It was 100% there just to make you scared for Arya, didn't really have that effect though when you know she should've died but had plot armor.

[@dexterityyyy]

@@thomasdemarteau6367 yeah I literally bursted out into laughter when I saw that for the first time

[@havareriksen1004]

It is wrong to say that nothing happened after she betrayed the order of assassins. The acolyte is sent to kill her. I imagine that in their twisted world view, they felt she owed them her life but she paid that debt by killing the acolyte and offer her up instead. A life for a life.

[@cookiecookie88729]

I'm sick of this "Arya training" excuse. She spent half of it begging, sweeping and selling oysters

[@JamesTaylor117]

*_and cockells_*

[@veng1974]

🎶Oysters....🎶clams....🎶and im gonna ruin the showwwwww

[@Grandmaster-Kush]

@@JamesTaylor117 Oh yeah forgot about Gendry

[@RealllyGoodGaming]

Before you call Arya Stark a Mary Sue lemme hit you with some goddamn fact. 1. Trained by the best swordsman in Westeros. 2. Trained by the best assassin 3. Studied/Watched the brilliance of Tywin Lannister 4. Studied/trained with The Hound Shes a full bred warrior, fuck off.

[@BlazingOwnager]

Maybe they should have just jumped the full shark and had her challenge the Night King to a dance off, GotG style.

[@observantgeezer3292]

Had the script writers read about any historical winter battle or played 5 minutes of Total War they would realise "PIKEMEN AT THE FRONT!!"

[@sarahbryan6884]

I’m only just seeing this video and may I say, your voice sounds so much gentler and less traumatized. My heart goes out to you 😭

[@lionofthemorning7997]

“There’s nothing left to do but stand & fight.” “I feel like we forgot to do something important, though...oh shit...the defenses...”

[@zoopdterdoobdter5743]

>Me when the Dothrakie charge into the darkness: >"WTF!? Did anyone even say 'charge!?'" "Wait, WTF are the catapults doing all the way to the front!?" "WTF is everyone just watching the cavalry's flaming swords wink out!?" "Did no one scout the enemy position!?" "Where are the damned archers!? You got, like, 6-7 dudes with bows covering from the walls!?" >A short time later: "Da-fuk!? Oh, yeah, wait till your infantry is getting overwhelmed to use your air power..." >Rest of episode watched in this fashion.

[@simonpotter7534]

yes, like putting your soldiers inside the walls of the castle where it gives you a 10 to 1 advantage.

[@patricioansaldi8021]

@@zoopdterdoobdter5743 bang on

[@patricioansaldi8021]

@@simonpotter7534 or using fire more effectively to light the battlefield and funnel the wights into choke points. Or even just using that "wildfire" stuff that's burns like a mofo. They could have lit up all the wights that way, easy. Or at least tried coal or burning oil or ANYTHING before that last minute desparate act of lighting the stakes, which coukd have been done earlier and more effectively to light the battlefield and cordon the enemy. Smh

[@zoopdterdoobdter5743]

@@patricioansaldi8021 Yeh. Nobody dropping rocks from the walls...how bout some burning pitch -- I understand those were popular siege countermeasures... Maybe oil the walls or spackle in the crevices: it's not like John hasn't seen the fuckers scale up the side of shit before. Actual war plan: "Yeah brah, let's lightly populate the battlements with some infantry and a few archers. Should be good, yo. Worst comes to worst and we have to light the barricade on fire, we can just *stare at them* while they *stand completely motionless* until... whenever! YOLO!"

[@jeverly]

It's like if you build up Harry vs. Voldemort for 8 movies and then in the end you don't get the epic Harry vs. Voldemort duel but instead Voldemort gets hit in the back with a killing curse from Neville or Hermoine. Brilliant writing because they "subverted expectations"!!!

[@makara80]

Well said but one has to ask: just how does a righteously gurl-powah'ered, 5 foot nothing little poppet being implausibly badass (to the detriment of strong male characters, naturally) 'subvert expectations' in the current year?!

[@Dark_Voice]

Neville or Hermione are too badass. I would go for Cho Chang out of nowhere :D or you know what Rita Skeeta would be great too :)

[@Ashleymfranklin1990]

Dark Voice Arya is a badass tho that what his trying to say

[@TheFilthyCringer]

And then for the rest of the final movie Draco is the main villain.

[@helekarsargarian6831]

The issue is not really the hand that makes the kill, is the vomit inducing timing. Voldemort is the last boss, he has to escape several times and win several times too. What Got made here is kill Voldemort in the movie 5 and made the last boss the annoying pink woman from the ministery whose name i don't remember

[@chadsimmons4496]

The Red Woman tells Arya that she “will shut many eyes…brown eyes, “blue” eyes and green eyes” in season three. The loudest foreshadow in the whole series.

[@gaijinhakase1575]

Does anyone else feel like the Arya/NK bit was a rip off of Tolkien’s Eowyn/Witch-king? All she needed to say was “I am no man”

[@twinkletoes6852]

a bad rip off, eowyn's one made sense and felt epic but not this

[@brn98765]

Also, Eowyn killing the Witch King actually happened in the real story. And it was the fulfillment of a prophesy.

[@ToneSherpa]

"Silly girl. Don't you know no girl can kill me?!" "I am no man!" Arya shits her pants. Fade to black.

[@SnootchieBootchies27]

Not a rip off, a bullshit SJW sidebar.

[@summushieremiasclarkson4700]

Eowyn wasn't a raging political statement retrofitted to ancient times, she was deeply flawed as well. Plus she honoured family and loyalty. That's what made her such a great character.

[@josephnissenson3252]

Imagine if Gamora killed Thanos halfway through infinity war and they faught Hydra for the rest of the movies

[@gaelofariandel6747]

>XD

[@JackSpear1000]

After watching the cringefest Ep.4, I just remember when Ned Stark first said 'Winter is Coming'. This ending is a crime.

[@Fuckingusername]

@algogy exactly. It's so frustrating to see people defend season 8 when it was such a blatant insult to everything that made the show great, as well as basic common sense. And then the writers had the gall to blame it on the fans! Fucking disgusting.

[@georginho36]

winter is he- ah fuck nvm then, well, off to kill cers- oh come on!

[@kamcobbe]

The Drinker sounds so depressed in this video, representing the feelings of all lovers of good writing...

[@olliehays3206]

At the end of Hardhomme, they set up a promise with Night King staring down Jon. You knew it would come to a final conflict between the two. They renege on this promise completely, letting Aria steal the moment. Storytelling 101 disaster. They also built Cersei up to one of the greatest villains of all time, only to have her do literally nothing in final season. As far as Dany going psycho, that was telegraphed from way back. You're just in denial if you don't see it.

[@Kydos37]

"As far as Dany going psycho, that was telegraphed from way back. You're just in denial if you don't see it." So true. But that's what's funny about season 8, they managed to annoy everyone. People who thought Arya killing NK was cool hated Dany's turn and people who saw Dany's turn coming from a mile off thought it was dumb that Arya got to kill NK. Everyone got a little of what they wanted, and a lot of what they didn't. That's what happens when you're more concerned with pleasing people than telling your story I guess.

[@officialthomasjames]

@@Kydos37 it was all shit. Dany going mad was executed horribly.

[@silkscrim]

Dany going mad wasn’t developed properly, and it felt like she was out of character in S8. They literally flipped a switch with her, even if there was some ambiguous foreshadowing.

[@Kydos37]

@@silkscrim There was nothing ambiguous about it, it was plainly obvious. I can only assume people got distracted by her boobs and didn't think her burning her enemies alive was a red flag. Dany let Drogo brutally kill her brother as she watched; burned the witch alive for tricking her; locked Doreah and Xaro in a vault to starve to death; burned Kraznys alive and stole the Unsullied, immediately using them to kill their former masters; crucified hundreds of the Meereen masters; burned one of the masters alive in front of the others to intimidate them into obeying her; burned the Khals alive to take control of the Dothraki; burned Randall and Dickon Tarly alive to force their soldiers to join her. Most of her arc is literally just her burning people alive to gain power, in what way was she out of character in S8?

[@silkscrim]

@@Kydos37 wow everything you mentioned you’ve twisted into something it wasn’t lol. I guess we interpreted her actions and motivations very differently lol. And what boobs? You need to get out more

[@try1and1own1me]

Also, how the hell does the undead dragon take down the wall with almost no effort, but can't go through a smouldering pile of rubble to kill Jon?

[@ugx7td5]

The plot armor is strong.

[@SimunSansa]

Imma play the devil's advocate and say that the night king riding the dragon might be making a difference.

[@endangeredspecies8441]

I think the hole in his neck was dampening his fire power. Like pipe with a hole in it.

[@EditioCastigata]

Especially powerful against ice, but malus if he fires at stones?

[@CODA96]

Jon AND Arya can use blood magic to summon plot armor from all the fallen extras that die in an episode.

[@DsLink1306]

That phrase has been changed now Now we say "Jumping the Stark"

[@danlorett2184]

I thought it was "nuking the fridge" but "jumping the Stark" works too

[@vincegray7206]

NICE

[@haillobster7154]

The jumping Stark :- Arya.

[@yulbrynner8293]

Marvelous.

[@evanroberts2771]

Now, it's actually "Jumping the Tie Fighter"....

[@applet8330]

This series of critiques needs to never die. Thank you so much

[@lochnessmonster5149]

Jon Snow's entire character arc turned out to be nothing more than a plot device to turn Dany into the Mad Queen.

[@GholaTleilaxu]

But NO! It was a woman who turned the mother of all dumb dragons into the Mad Queer, and her name is Cersei. :)

[@Kydos37]

The hottest take from people who dislike season 8 is that Dany shouldn't have turned. They laid the groundwork for that from season 1 onwards, she was always a narcissistic, ruthless killer.

[@HA-gu1qk]

Oh yeah? Like when she begged Khal Drogo to spare the lives of the witches, who finally killed him?

[@user-yc5um2pl5v]

@@Kydos37 Based.

[@user-yc5um2pl5v]

@@HA-gu1qk Any more moments like that?

[@Hardrada_129]

Who else cared more for the Night King than for Cersei and her obnoxious smirking?

[@CODA96]

Lets consider that Cersei planned and plotted her way to the Iron Throne for 8 years, just do die by falling Bricks. Lets consider Jaimie that had a huge redemption arc for 4-5 seasons, to lose all of his character progress and die by falling Bricks.

[@mards2479]

If it wasn’t D&D crash and burn season, then I’d be happier with the political aspect ending GoT, rather than the white walkers, however D&D are absolutely horrible and don’t have the depth to pull off the political side of GoT

[@haillobster7154]

They had their chance to add their own, original fantasy villain to the hall of fame, alongside Sauron and Darth Vader. And then they Unsullied themselves. Also, fuck Cersei hard, the most irritating character in GoT.

[@Lord_Volkner]

@@haillobster7154 They didn't Unsullied themselves, they Sullied themselves.

[@yulbrynner8293]

Yeah Cersei's a total cunt, but isn't that the point?

[@Vaerah]

"GoT narrative structure has been wavering since it ran out of book material to guide it; the writers don't seem to know what they're doing anymore." Agree wholeheartedly.

[@Ubafunksta]

It’s that simple

[@kalinmir]

The stupidity was seeping through since s1...i originaly liked that some characters needed overcome adversity in an unusal fashion but then i red the books and what happend was that they changed drastically one character but meke the related one behave basically in the same way (thinking of Drogo)

[@roningaijin7701]

Kathleen Kennedy told Benioff & Weiss that they could have a Disney deal if they made Arya Stark the hero and John an insignificant footnote. You can see how that turned out for the show and their Disney careers.

[@johnny_thunder_1815]

Is it true?

[@RichSmithson]

@@johnny_thunder_1815 Wouldn't surprise me. Disney is ground zero for the "lets replace all the white straight males with women and minorities"

[@alexanderzack3720]

@@johnny_thunder_1815 not sure how exactly it played out but the gist of it: they had talkings about being allowed to write star wars for disney, they decided to rush to the ending to finish fast and get to that deal, game of thrones flopped hard and their deal about star wars stopped

[@silkscrim]

Makes perfect sense

[@michaelmcgee2026]

The 2 writers went on vacation and turned their phones off during the final episodes. They knew how bad it was.

[@jaybird8192]

Melissandre was the real hero! She killed herself after the episode!!

[@vatsalpandya5415]

and people are fighting over why Arya Stark. It was such a fitting end to the episode - the death of the Messenger of Light.

[@vatsalpandya5415]

@Super it's sad if it's sarcasm

[@benmjt]

@@vatsalpandya5415 It was a joke. She killed herself because it was so bad.

[@vatsalpandya5415]

@games guitars and gore why? Are you but able to handle a different opinion?

[@vatsalpandya5415]

@@benmjt okay fair enough, it was a joke, I got the comment wrong. But for me, this episode was about her and Arya...

[@lorddanny2988]

"Theon and his archers are in the Gods Wood trynna protect Bran while he spazzes out in his wheelchair" ...Absolute gold.

[@Daosguard]

The very next episode "Hey Dothraki guys, didn't you get wiped out to the last man last episode?" "Nah we got better"

[@yankeehill10]

Right when you said, "You'll have to excuse me for a second," an ad started. Couldn't have been more perfect timing

[@hootax8980]

Arya using Jaime's face to kill Cersei = poetic justice and the culmination of all of her training. Arya killing the Night King = weird creative choice meant to SubVeRt Ur eXPeCtaTiOnS

[@imforlife35]

I 100% expected that to happen and wanted it to happen.....would of been a great scene.

[@deangoldenstar7997]

... you could have actually given Bran a great degree of menace during a scene where Arya murders Jaime while Bran tells Jaime about his ultimate purpose as a skin sack that'll help them kill his true love.

[@darthravo]

Yup this would've been such a beautiful round off since cersei was on her list and she'd have died at the hands of the one person she actually trusted.

[@GordKeen]

I knew they were going to use arya to kill the night king since she serves death and the night king works against it by using the dead as weapons. However the fight sucked. I thought it was going to be way cooler than what happened.

[@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869]

And a excuse for a lesbian romp before the death stroke.

[@MetalGamer666]

George R. R. Martin set out to write a fantasy story without all the clichés and tropes typical of the genre. No plot armor for important characters, no convenient last second rescues, no evil villain that had no other motivation than being evil etc. And when the show runs out of book material, they start introducing every damn trope Martin hates! Especially the convenient last second rescue! It happened all the time in this episode! And I really hate that!

[@flankspeed]

It happened to a few characters more than once as well. Cheesy AF.

[@MikhailaRaibead]

Oh they started changing stuff in season 3. Arya for example never has a scene with Melisandra at all in the books. Dorne..the most equal/free society in westeros was shit on as well as all the characters from there. I think of the TV show now as Fan fiction as it has deviated so much from the books and adds or removes characters just for there own story plot.

[@burstyourbubble3500]

"Especially the convenient last second rescue!" This is one of the worst tropes, and it's in literally everything!

[@MikaelLV]

Yes. This isn't George's story anymore. He has barely mentioned the show since he left the production back in season 4. That tells you a lot right? I bet it's painful for him to watch.

[@tombarry1824]

You perfectly summed up the last few seasons of GOT.

[@rovingpursuits3229]

You made a great point about the Night King and Bran not having a conversation of some sort. They should have been about to reveal or resolve something related to the 8 season build up.

[@QUITUTINCIPICTURES]

I can live with Jon not being the one who kills the night king, but I am so pissed till this very day for the fact that he didn't even get to have a one on one epic battle with the Night King, I was expecting something like the battle between Hector and Aquiles and the show really teased it so many times and we got nothing

[@scottr640]

The show is complete fan service with unlimited plot armour for main characters. Theyve lost what made the show stand out from the rest, nobody was good or evil everyone had their own motives and dreams. And nobody was safe from dying. Thanks for the honest review good sir

[@TheJollyMisanthrope]

Jon should have died when he was surrounded by the newly risen wights. They could have at least had Ghost rush in to help him fight until he found an opening. I guess direwolves are smart when it comes to not bumbling into a situation where the odds are not in your favor.

[@scottr640]

@D M not to mention he was the mf lord of the vale with 20,000 men, and they publicly executed him because a crazy boy in a wheelchair said he seen him in his dreams. Nothing makes sense in the show anymore

[@scottr640]

@@TheJollyMisanthrope the writers dont have the balls or ingenuity to have jon be killed or to have him saved by his telepathicly warged wolf ffs. It seems so obvious to us but the writers are so inept

[@stupidusername84]

“It looks visually impressive, of course, but ultimately it’s pointless and self defeating” ... like this whole season.

[@Aredel]

Or the sequel trilogy

[@stupidusername84]

Antonio Sonntag Haha! Oh god, that’s so true.

[@Kydos37]

And season 7.

[@Noone-of-your-Business]

I could get used to the idea that it is Arya who offs the Night King, but what really pulled me out completely was the fact that the last time we saw her before her Jack-in-the-box appearance was trapped in the library, letting go all hope. Oh wait, no. She changed her mind that - _without _*_any_*_ change of her situation and her options_ - she was not going to die after all. Was that it? I really can't be sure. There are so many convenient plot contrivances that I completely lost count before the end of the episode. Let's just settle on she comes out of nowhere that makes sense for her character. Her big skill is _infiltration,_ not teleportation. I mean, if she had put on a fallen zombie's face to smuggle herself into the White Walker army to get close to the Big Cheese, then it would not be a very poetic resolution, but it would at least not come out of complete left field. I do agree that this is very much the stupid "guess you didn't see *_that_* coming!" script writing that is in its full putrid blossom in this day and age and that gave us the priceless turd collection they call Disney Star Wars.

[@soundslave]

Aryas story ark should have been all about killing Cersei. That makes more sense

[@SuperKratosgamer]

Well, her story ark was mostly completed after she killed the freys, she mostly walked around teh castle and was picking fights with her sister after that.

[@Bacchian]

@Joey's steamy taint Cries for mercy Not really. It would tie in nicely with her having missed the opportunity to have Tywin killed, and Cersei was always right up there on her list.

[@MacBaza]

Cersei will kill Arya with her own weapon. Expect the unexpected.

[@blockyorbits2376]

Jaime is supposed to kill Cersei

[@danscava]

Arya will kill Cersei using Jaime`s face. Then she kills Daenerys using Cersei`s face. Then she kills Jon using Dany`s face. Then she kills Sansa using Jon`s face. Arya is the new Queen. The End.

[@alexandercummins]

If your a man in the south, during season 1 you would think the white walkers were a silly myth. During season 8, you would still think this!

[@TheMaleRei]

"Oh, drunk heathen Northerners with their superstitions... Oh, your army has been decimated and you're marching south? Well, you still have two dragons, so I guess you'll win... What? You want us to teach our children that you defeated the Great Evil? And if we don't, you're burn us alive with your dragons? Insecure, much? What, we can't question your fighting the Great Evil? Questioning the Great Evil will be a beheading crime for wrong think? What are you talking about?"

[@renegadexblackout]

Exactly, the white walkers didnt do shit to Westeros. Even people just down in the riverlands have no idea, and Cersei was right all along in not going 🤷‍♂️ really she saved lives by not sending her forces there

[@astrobot4017]

*you're

[@lukec2004]

@@TheMaleRei Yeah because she is the protagonist *wait*

[@kalocaploc124]

I will only tell you this: i actually started watching the episodes(season1) again 2 days ago with my father, and i wanted to skip every and any scene with the Night's watch/the wall/wildlings you name it. Any scene that had anything to do with wight walkers used to be suspenseful and interesting, now i just wanna skip it. Show ruined , real long night begins until the old man finishes the books.

[@warren286]

This whole season should have been fighting the undead. Getting pushed back to where the series started. They should have built up dread of losing battle after battle. All the while searching for a way to defeat the Night King, which should have been something more substantial than finding a special blade...

[@paulinegallagher7821]

its called Game of Thrones. I never gave a F about the whitewalkers, only who would win the Iron Throne. Course, that was a big old letdown as well

[@Adam-dt6bo]

@@paulinegallagher7821 the opening scene in the entire series is about the whitewalkers

[@paulinegallagher7821]

@@Adam-dt6bo I know, i remember but i preferred the war of the Seven Kingdoms stuff more than the whole 'Winter is Coming' thing

[@nametagg0574]

7:26 got an ad there right before technical difficulties popped up, brilliant use of resources mate.

[@Soppybobs]

THOUSANDS of years of plotting and preparation..... but he was not ready for the old drop the knife switch a roo!

[@yulbrynner8293]

I'd be surprised too if I was having a nice chat with my Wheelie Pal and someone magically teleported past my huge army, manifested themselves out of thin fucking air and tried to kill me using the dumbest trick in the book

[@CODA96]

@@yulbrynner8293 Arya actually learned bloodmagic offscreen. She killed all those lannisters, in exchange for teleportation and precognitive powers.

[@yulbrynner8293]

@@CODA96 Oh okay makes sense

[@robertfitzgerald3118]

And why didn't the other walkers slice and dice the minute she came into their area.

[@T_bone]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@number0017]

Now my question is....why doesn't jon snow just send Arya to kill cerci. She able to kill an entire kingdom and also sneak pass entire army of zombie.

[@arksredemption937]

Zero maby she will kill Cersei lol since she has green eyes bro

[@Forced2]

Game of Thrones has put so much thought in every episode, always. And now people criticize them for how they handled this episode and people think that they're smarter then the developers. Well guess what. They're not. They havent even SEEN the last episodes because they are not out yet. So how about these idiots shut their mouth and watch how their mind is going to be blown because everything is thought out, twice as good as they expected. Lowlife dumbshits.

[@obakpolor85]

Force My Team To Finish They put thought into this episode you say? How do you kill a wight according to Jon? Fire and Dragon glass, I assume Valaryian steel too. Dramatic irony is the idea that we the audience know something that the characters in the show do not, an example We know Jon’s parents but Danny did not. We knew Melisandre would come, but the Dothraki did not. The Dothraki were equipped with there regular steel curved blades. These do not kill wights. Which means all the commanders in the meeting room knew how wights can be killed and what wouldn’t kill them nonetheless they put the Dothraki on the front lines with no dragon glass or fire and made them charge first. If Melisandre didn’t turn up all of the Dothraki would have died and not killed a single white. But yea, the writers are real smart for doing that.

[@simong.7948]

She might have put on a Wight’s face to lower the Walkers’ defenses and then taken it off right before that epic Michael Jordan-esque jump from the free throw line to stab the Night King with the pointy end of the Valerian steel dagger.

[@sweranero9976]

@@Forced2 "twice as good as they expected" More like halfas good as expected, so far, lol.

[@laurenanderson61]

"She's an assassin, not a warrior." Exactly.

[@desmondhew5449]

Assassins are warriors dummy. You and the drunk are obviously referring to assassins in our times not in medieval fantasy times

[@captainmarvelwilson508]

Besides the visuals and most of the acting, there is absolutely no way to defend this episode.

[@Eagle_SFM]

Can't even see the acting because it's so effing dark

[@kieferclaes4067]

Looks like the writers hove no idea how defensive castle sieges work, "Hey I got an idea let's put all of our defenders and defences outside the castle walls" "hey I have another Idea, let's copy Ramsey's failed tactic of charging when we have the defensive advantage" "hey I have an idea, let's not put any archers on the wall" "hey I have an Idea, let's not use boiling oil,and other useful castle defences" "trebuches and catapults outside the castle walls? GENIUS!" Phalanx = wall of shields - "lets put wall of shields IN FRONT OF WALL OF STONE! UNBELIEVABLY INNOVATIVE! STUNNING AND BRAVE!" "Did you know that swords can penetrate a steel breastplate?" "No, but know that I know I will add it into the show, and whenever someone grazes plate armour, they will also cut through the layers of chain mail and layered cloth, making sweet, sweet blood squirt all over the battlefield!" "Did you know that you can use light cavalry as shock cavalry?" "No, but now that I know, I make these light weight barbarians charge into the bulk of the enemy forces, what a clever idea, AND SO INSPIRING!" "OOH! Mr. Dragon can napalm/ carpet bomb undead? Fuck that, lets blindly chase each other in the clouds for a few hours." "Bigboy Giants can bash through our gates, do you think we should reinforce it? Remember Castle Black? Remember BATTLE OF THE BASTARDS JOHN SLOW? Don't worry, this pint sized grumpy girl can stop whatever comes through the gate because ZOMBIE giants are secretly ENJOY killing and vaingloriously look at their victims up close." "Here is another logically infallible idea, what if Sir Brienne of Fokin' Tarth (a glorified body guard, not without merit) commands a major section of the army over Jaime Fokin' Lannister, who has first hand experience leading troops offensively, and defensively?" "OWEN WILSON WOW! that must be our most innovative idea yet, I twirl my pretend mustache at my own intellect!" Visually stunning, but undeniably stupid episode.

[@kerbe3]

"Hey how should we have them defend the magic raven boy? Should we get a large number of men to make a phalanx around him?" "Nah just get some fucking archers and spread them out." "Well, you'll add some swordsmen too for when they run out of arrows right?" "Psh, why the fuck would we do that?"

[@jimrb67]

Great post. It's funny when some posters object to anyone using common sense and logic in their criticism, since the whole series is based largely on elements of fantasy - dragons, white walkers etc. But while we're all willing to suspend reality to a degree in order enjoy this type of show, there has to remain some level of logic and sensibility. "Vaingloriously look" - loved that.

[@kieferclaes4067]

@@jimrb67 Precisely, the show (and book) is based heavily on our own classical and medieval history, and it is quite grounded despite some of its fantasy elements. The story has established that the same rules of historic warfare apply in GOT, they have just added fantastical elements. It shouldn't be, by any means, controversial to make any of the critiques I have made. The show even hyped the defensive capacity of Winterfell, in season 2 by Theon Greyjoy himself. And its not like there weren't a good number of defensive tacticians in Winterfell. From characters who planned defenses, to characters who fought defensively, it's theoretically stunning to see (within the story) the defensive tactics implemented, and the defensive tactics not implemented.The true fault goes to whoever wrote and planned out the episode. It was either a display of spectacle in spite of reason, or it is simply ignorance. Glad you found the post entertaining.

[@menotyu9576]

and that is what is most annoying. on at least 3 occasions they have shown us that they understand basic battle tactics.....so why ignore them on your biggest battle? Entirely sacrificed reason for the sake of spectacle.

[@menotyu9576]

@@kerbe3 hey we have this magic raven boy and he is litterally the primary target and we already know that NK likes to kill 3 eyed ravens himself and we know that we have this assassin chick that can kill NK....so shouldnt we send Bran somewhere far away from all the people so NK doesnt kill them all trying to get to Bran? Nah screw that noise there must be blood!