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I watch ‘Game of Thrones.’
I’m certainly not as hardcore a fan as many out there, but I do like it, and I’m excited to find out how it all wraps up on Sunday night.
While this last season has seemed rushed compared to the first few seasons, I don’t have the same guttural HATRED for the last few episodes many other fans do. I expected it to unfold this way – and I never really liked Dany. (My man is convinced it’s because women always hate the hot girl. He’s so wrong. Sansa is totally the hot girl this season, and I love Sansa.)
ANYWAY – People are really, REALLY ticked about what happened last week… and they want a do-over.
SPOILER ALERT. Turn around NOW if you don’t want to know what happened last week.
According to Fox News:
Following the massively popular HBO series’ penultimate episode, titled “The Bells,” opinions are split now that many expectations for the end have seemingly been thrown out the window. Although there’s still one more episode left for creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to turn things around, some devoted fans are already taking action.
I think they’re just ticked Daenerys turns out to be a nutjob…
After spending the entirety of the series being built up as the savior of Westeros, the mother of dragons set the city she came to rule ablaze rather than accepting its surrender. Now that she’s a murderer of countless innocent people, more than 350,000 viewers don’t have faith in the show to adequately address the story in one more episode.
This is especially devastating for the people who NAMED THEIR DAUGHTERS after her. Daenerys and Khaleesi have both become popular baby names. So… that’s awk. You named your kid after a merciless mad woman. What now?
PRO TIP: don’t name your kid after a character in a show until you know how the show ends.
A Change.org petition surfaced urging the network to “remake ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 with competent writers.” As of this writing, the petition has gained more than 350,000 signatures from disgruntled viewers.
“David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have proven themselves to be woefully incompetent writers when they have no source material (i.e. the books) to fall back on,” the petition’s creator wrote. “This series deserves a final season that makes sense. Subvert my expectations and make it happen, HBO!”
Again… I DO think it makes sense. I just don’t think they had enough time to explain her descent into madness. She’s lost EVERYONE she loves (including John, who doesn’t feel cool with banging his aunt.) and went off the deep end. She always had it in her. That’s just my two cents.
Fellow GOT fans, what do you think? Should the season be remade? Or should people just accept YOU DON’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT?