Perhaps the most optimistic people did not expect the final season of "Game of Thrones" to come so quickly. Even after nearly two years, the screenwriter still failed to come up with a satisfactory enough script, and now the fifth episode The broadcast of the 10-year contract for the audience only left the last meeting, and everything seems to be powerless, and the dust has settled.
Let's first look back to the end of the seventh season of "Game of Thrones" two years ago. It is necessary for us to take a look at what kind of mess the screenwriters left behind. The seventh season can be said to be a huge pit, so at the end of it, what are the problems that need to be solved urgently? The White Walker army that overwhelmed the Great Wall; the battle for the Iron Throne; the Three-Eyed Raven; the reunion of the Stark family; Snow's life experience; the relationship between Longma and Snow; the ownership of the King of the North; the Iron Fleet..
The end of Season 7 left too many pitfalls, so why didn't we think about it at the time: "How do we finish this stuff in six episodes?" The screenwriter also told us with his own actions that he couldn't speak. A big problem in season 7 is that the whole season is playing up the White Walkers, so much so that even though Long Ma has arrived on the mainland and faces a very inevitable battle for the throne, this season, Cersei's line is actually stopped.
What do I mean by "stop"? It means that if you start with the season 6 ending—Cersei blows up the cathedral, Tommen the Great commits suicide, and she starts on the Iron Throne—you can watch season 8 without any interruptions, and she’s been there ever since. She is still preparing for the decisive battle with Long Ma at the beginning of the fourth episode. She is still preparing, so what happened in King's Landing for so long?
In the world of Game of Thrones, many earth-shattering events can happen in just a few days. But this time, the proud multi-line narrative was interrupted, and even if they were given a White Walker, the line was completely unaffected. In the first three episodes of the eighth season, I was so anxious that I didn't have time to discuss what the people in King's Landing were doing.
This is a very fatal mistake. The writers put so much effort into this battle of life and death that they seem to have forgotten that the opening song ends with the appearance of the Iron Throne. This kind of mistake seems to have been inherited into the eighth season. It took two episodes at the beginning to prepare for the people in the north. Although I have to say that the atmosphere of this war is extremely well rendered, this is in the history of Game of Thrones. It has never happened, not to mention in the final season, when many problems have not been resolved. The failure of the multi-line narrative can also be reflected in the just-aired fifth episode, where the attack on King's Landing became the theme, so what about Winter's Landing? The Northern Territory, which was also plotting a rebellion in the previous episode, vanished entirely.This kind of narrative is too lazy and too unplayable.
The line of Bran disappeared for a whole season inexplicably in the fifth season, and in the sixth season, he hurriedly obtained the power of the Three-Eyed Raven, which wiped out all the foreshadowing of the previous four seasons. At the end of the seventh season, he finally used his ability for the first time and found out the truth about Jon Snow's identity. So what exactly is this character's ability? I believe that there are still many viewers who are confused about this point, but the screenwriter has no time to delve into the clues on this line. We have already seen the consequences. Bran, who has been touching our heartstrings since the first episode, is in After being crippled outside the Great Wall, he just wanted to be bait for the Night King, and his story seems to have ended here.
Fighting the Night King, hastily, or the conventional mode of killing the queen bee, makes people feel that the world is not worth it for the Night King. In killing the dragon, a few gigantic moves are deadly. People can't help but wonder why you don't shoot at this level in the fifth episode. Fighting King's Landing, the dragon is crazy output, and it's over before it's ready. Those problems that you couldn't solve because of the last few weeks, the screenwriter actually solved them for you in only three episodes! ? In fact, I say from the bottom of my heart that this season is very strong and the motivation of the characters is not as deep as many people think. But why is it so rushed?
Should Long Ma be blackened? Maybe this is really her doomed ending, because she has been an overly idealistic person from the beginning, and she is destined to go crazy, but why did a person who was fine before the war suddenly start to massacre the city in the middle of the fight? The past intersection of Daniel and Erya was good enough, but not long after the reunion, the firewood and fire always felt like something was missing. Jaime will definitely be back next to Cersei, and we've known her to be his favorite since the first season, but flirting with Beauty and returning to King's Landing shouldn't be in the same episode. The White Walkers have been under pressure for eight seasons. Can it take a whole season to come, divided into small battles and big battles, defeated several times and finally winning a big victory? Will it be more shocking and not so perfunctory?
The Iron Throne is the absolute core of this show. Shouldn't it be split for another season to talk about it specifically? In this way, you can stage a naval battle, and the dragon will not die so casually. Long Ma won't appear so impatient, and the blackening has enough foreshadowing. Could Cersei's character be better portrayed (already the only one that didn't break)? Can Jon Snow engage in more mental activities and stop acting like a cardboard cutout? Erya, can you not look so stunned, don't give people a thousand miles?
The screenwriters have been stumbling for several seasons without the assistance of Uncle Martin, and now they have set themselves an impossible task: to justify it in a very short period of time. I never thought this could be done, and they did fail. The reason for taking such a desperate risk is obvious. The more things you put in the last season and the higher the audience's expectations, the better the ratings will be, and in the end, the ratings will only be lost. In fact, since the fifth season of Game of Thrones, it has collapsed several times, but this time, it is the final season that everyone is looking forward to, and some mistakes are particularly unacceptable.
Game of Thrones has long been unable to sit on the chair of the "God Drama" for thousands of people to look up to. The wrong branches were accumulating more and more with the accumulation of the plot, and finally ended abruptly in the final season under commercial coercion. I don't think Game of Thrones' failure is a one-day event, but for many viewers, saying "disappointment" may be an instant thing. With the passage of time, the Iron Throne belonging to the "drama king" will inevitably have to be replaced, but it is a pity that the once arrogant Game of Thrones finally failed to usher in a glorious curtain call.
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