The ending of the second season finale has some fans in a fire-breathing uproar: “Great episode, but it had no business being a ‘HOTD’ finale.”
Wait, people are disappointed by a Game of Thrones finale? Shocked pikachu
i member a time when people were delighted by a game of thrones finale, then they figured out they could string along the audience with nonsense non narrative movement FOR YEARS, and cash in on those sweet sweet subscription dollars, and the producers seemed to have learned almost nothing from the backlash to the ruinous ending of GoT, and bringing the practice of fucking your audience for subs to HoTD. sad face dollar sign eyes
That was a franchise that could have kept them going for years and years. Instead they hurried it up and destroyed everything, and it looks like HBO is doing the same here. I know the show runners did it too, but HBO and ATT had every chance to say “this season sucks, go back and try again.”
This is what happens when you want to stretch out a story for several seasons when it can be told in 2 (or maybe 3 if you want to push it). HOTD is a good show. The problem is they have a very short plot to work with and are having problems with pacing it out since the network wants to stretch it out as long as possible to milk it.
This whole season could’ve been boiled down to Rooks Rest and the Dragonseeds, and that’s it. Daemon’s Harenhal Acid Trip was B story filler.
85% of this entire second season was filler. Rooks Rest was the dragon fight we’ve been waiting for, but everything else was taking advantage of a captive audience, fluffing out 8 episodes, while teasing a season 3, which I wouldn’t bet isn’t also going to be filler teasing out a season 4.
This is all so cynical and upsetting. They ruined Daemon and turned Ryhaneara into a pussycat.
This season sucked overall, and the finale, with a 5 minute montage of more action and movement than the entire rest of the season, was a thumb in the eye.
I remember during the dark ages when most shows were 40 minutes long (+20m commercials), and of that 40 minutes 2-3 would be the series A plot line, and the other 37 minutes would be the B filler plot.
Amongst other things, it allowed TV show runners to have a 30 second what you missed montage at the beginning of an episode, because they didn’t have to recap that much A plot.
I’d hoped that style of story telling died with cable tv.
Sapochnik departed as showrunner after the first season, leaving Condal to serve as the sole showrunner for the second season.
Maybe this change in tone is due to the change in show runner?
From the people who brought you GOT season 8 comes a show that has a bad ending people are shocked SHOCKED I SAY!
Haven’t seen it yet, hope Daemon walks around Harrenhal while having visions.
