Oh, the Irony! (Seriously, if you're a QaF fan you need to look at this!)

[gaedhal]

Brad Fraser is on Facebook bitching about GoT and terrible
endings of beloved shows!

Let me repeat that… Brad Fraser!

Comments

[wren_kt7oz]

Truly hilarious. Especially as I was totally okay with the way GoT ended. That's how you end a series on a minor note instead of with a banal happy ending and still have it remain true to the characters involved.

[gaedhal]

I knew you'd enjoy this!

[beloved4always]

The whole time I was watching GOT S8, which has had some _really_ BAD writing, I thought about the last season of QAF. In fact, some of it's been so ridiculous, IMO, that about a week and a half ago I decided I _had_ to read spoilers (thank god I did - it made things so much easier and less meaningful) which I haven't done with any show since, you guessed it, S5 of QAF. In fact again, I actually never watched most of S5 QAF on Showtime (just the 'I love you' scene and the last ep) - I only watched the spoiler CDs, which came out at the beginning of the season... and once was enough.

While watching GOT and musing about stinkin' showrunners/writers (LOL), I was surprised to realize how very happy it made me when I thought about the fact that CowLip hasn't been able to create anything of significance since QAF. Couldn't have happened to more worthier folks than them, IMO. (and here I thought I'd grown much more enlightened and unconditionally loving in the past 14 years, but guess not, at least where one thing is concerned *BIG grin*)

[gaedhal]

Oh lordy, lordy!

[gaedhal]

These are some of his comments (stolen from his FB posts!):

As finales go that was one of the worst written and most ineptly directed ones
I have ever seen. It actually killed my love for everything that came earlier in
the series. On the plus side, at least we will stop hearing from those smug
assholes who've never watched an episode of "Game of Thrones".

Episode six ends with a mysterious, sooty white horse showing up and Arya
riding out on it. Episode seven starts with Arya and no mysterious, sooty white
horse. No addressing what happened to it.

Just one example of shit storytelling and the presence of no story editor because
the showrunners/also writers/also directors think they're brilliant.

They were far from it.

The "Game of Thrones" finale was like suddenly being dumped by someone who
seemed like they were totally into you up until that last moment.

Oh, my!!!

[gaedhal]

This from a guy who had writers on his staff who admitted
that they never bothered to watch Season 1 (I'm looking at
you Del Shores!).

[wren_kt7oz]

Quite aside from anything else, there were only 6 episodes in S8, so no, Ep 7 did not start with Arya without the horse

[bksbracelet]

What a twat! I am one of those smug arseholes who hasn’t watched a episode of G oT

[gaedhal]

I watched the first two seasons.

That was enough for me!

[wren_kt7oz]

I think I was lucky. The only character I was ever really invested in was Ned Starke, so after he got killed so early I stopped watching for a while. I went back to it, and caught up, but I never after that had strong feelings about what I wanted or didn't want for any of the characters. So I could be much more objective about the ending than most other fans that I know.

That being said, what I loved about the show was the sheer spectacle of it, and the way it was filmed. Visually, it was simply a feast. There are some images that are just ingrained in my brain, they were so stunning. Plus it had an amazing cast. Sean Bean, Ian Gillen, Iain Glen, Diana Rigg, Charles Dance, even Iwan Rheon (who was so sweet in Vicious and so amazingly evil in GoT) - what's not to like?