[ SECRET POST #5049 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5049 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[this was a text secret, I just screencapped it - I'm not one of the pretty secret makers, sorry]


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Comments

[fscom]

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[philstar22]

For me the series ends at the end of season 6 with the ships heading towards Westeros. There are parts of those seasons I don't like, but overall they are decent whereas seasons 7 and 8 are overall bad with the occasional good moments.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I genuinely enjoyed S6 and still love that season finale. S7 was so bad that I was kind of numb by the end of the series.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm torn between ending it at 8.2 because that was genuinely the only good episode of the season and just pretending the Night King killed everyone off, or at 8.3 with a summary that Cersei was defeated after everyone regrouped and recovered (which I hate to do, since it means accepting those lousy battle tactics from that ep). Don't care who the hell ended up on the throne.

[melissatreglia]

Same here. S6 finale was great. Everything officially went downhill with a vengeance during 7 & 8.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't rewatch any of it because I know that it's all so fundamentally MEANINGLESS. A bad ending can really fuck up a story. But I'm glad you've found something to salvage all that time and effort on the part of the creators.

On an only slightly related note, I really hope that the utter failure of GOT's ending and the fact that while we might get Winds we'll never get Dream will dampen the lust for "ANYONE CAN DIE" stories. Because, surprise, if anyone can actually die it's really hard to tell a good story. If you devote three books/seasons to a plot and then kill off the related characters it's really hard to keep going. I'm sick of it being this pinnacle achievement, maybe there's a reason most people don't do it ya know?

If you kill my favorite character in a series I'm done with the series. And I don't think they is anything wrong with me.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like there needs to be a happy medium. I absolutely support killing off popular characters in a story if there's a good narrative purpose, I feel like there are quite a few stories I've read (comics and manga come to mind here particularly) where there's such a clear unwillingness to kill off anyone permanently that the stakes slowly feel lower and lower because you know the author will never kill off one of their darlings.

On the other hand, when a story gets billed as 'ANYONE CAN DIE' I think at some point the writers start to buy into their own hype and begin killing characters less for good narrative purpose and more for sheer shock value, like ha ha I bet you thought we wouldn't kill that guy -- and yeah, we did think that because killing that character was an awful narrative choice. (To say nothing of all the copycat series that then crop up and start immediately butchering their cast to show how edgy they are while ignoring that if you start killing off all the side characters right away your viewers will very quickly start finding the number of likable sympathetic characters dwindling and will abandon ship because why get attached to anyone who's just going to die anyway.)

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who has some hope about getting at least the next book (I said some, not a lot, and I'm not betting on it at all), I don't blame you.

[sparklywalls]

The Starks were basically the only reason I was so invested and even their ending wasn't entirely satisfying to me. I mean, it was better after several books/episodes of "how can we make the Starks even more miserable?" but I was so pissed off by the entire series at that point that I no longer cared tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

lol same, but Sansa becoming Queen in the North made up for some of it to me tbh (def not all of it, but some.) That was one of the few things I wanted really really bad at the end and I was so pleased to see it come true

[sparklywalls]

Agree re: Sansa anon. It's 100% what she deserves! Glad she was able to say "nah fuck this" and stick to it. In my head she never marries and the only reason she'd get involved with someone is to produce an heir who will then be under her guidance, not his.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like the crappiness of the ending STILL hasn't really hit me yet? As in, with other shows I've raged forever (The Magicians a few months before certainly felt different) but with this... it's just numbness?

Like, the whole show is ruined for me (I never expected Dany on the throne in the end, but she was one of my favs and JESUS FUCKING CHRIST), there is no rewatch factor, but there is no rage. IT just feels like someone snuffed out the love I had for it. There is nothing left.

I do find it hilarious how they managed to ruin the absolute phenomenon they had in just a few episodes. So many people were willing to ignore the flaws cause overall it was just such a great event every episode. It was like the whole world was watching. They could have had people talking about the show for ages if they stuck the landing. Spin Offs. So much merch.

And now nothing. (Not saying there are no fans left or that absolutely everyone hated the finale, but it really just went from 100 to 0 on the "talked about scala".)

[(Anonymous)]

Dany turning Mad Queen could have been so so good if they had put effort into it. But no! We got That instead.

[sparklywalls]

Trying to fit a full on Mad Queen arc into a tiny handful of episodes is one of many wtf decisions. Like yes, the seeds are there even in the books. But to causal show viewers it was done SO quickly. I'm not surprised people were angry even though the arc was indicated several years prior. You still need to truly earn something like that even if you have the groundwork.

Honestly imo, villain to hero and hero to villain arcs are so rarely done very well. It's so frustrating.

Jon could've been a lot more cut up about needing to kill her too. Tbh the way his loyalties were portrayed in the last couple of seasons annoyed me anyway. I can't quite put my finger on why but it annoyed me!

[(Anonymous)]

HBO was planning to have so many spinoffs, but I guess all but one have now been quietly forgotten and people don't seem to be that eager to see that one either. So yeah, quite a financial fuckup.

[(Anonymous)]

Hard same.

Also, Jaime. What the actual fuck was that?

[(Anonymous)]

It's the severe drop off that surprised me, I wasn't expecting the final season to be as amazing as die-hard fans and I figured that there'd be disappointment from fans in some regard, there always is when people have expectations imo. But just how badly they dropped the ball, to the extent that it went from being beloved to despised almost overnight, was truly staggering.

It takes some serious lack of brains to fuck up a final season that much and I'm still flabbergasted by it tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

Horror is really subjective. The Shining actually still scares the shit out of me (I think it's the child's perspective, the slow, creeping way it all unfolds, and definitely the score), but The Exorcist, another really lauded horror movie, is mind-numbingly boring to me, even if I can appreciate the Linda Blair scenes. I also always hear people talk about how scary The Descent is, and it's an okay horror movie to me at best. We all react to different things. But I think it's awesome to see horror movie talk on F!S :)