Post by Leo of Red Keep on May 12, 2019 9:14:57 GMT
Jon Snow's dumb resurrection and Daenerys' turn into the tyrant she was always meant to be in S6 killed the show but Super-Arya poisoned it.
To be honest, I was done with the thing after S6E02. The logic had started to unravel in the last third of S5. It had taken a final blow in S6E01 with Davos acting all contrived and Brienne turning up as needed. That in itself had been lethal and I was no longer watching with a benevolent eye. The pleasure was gone.
I could ignore the Dornish nonsense as a wart to be excised but the story lost its appeal when Jon Snow was revived. When Daenerys burned the Khals it started to stink.
I kept watching, though. Reluctantly. I wanted to hope it would catch itself, return to something worthwhile. It didn't. When the finale came, I didn't watch it. I stayed away from discussions for about two months but when I read Arya had been made to kill Walder Frey for pure fan gratification without any plausible basis, I knew there was no returning to it. I finally watched that wretched thing to get it past me and it was all worse than I expected.
When S7 came, I found myself unable to press the "Play" button. Recaps told me Arya had been made even worse and the Daenerys stench was overwhelming. It seems I was wise not to bother with any of it. Jon Snow remained a sad parody of a "good ruler who didn't want to rule", Daenerys kept stirring the foulest smelling fandom in history and Super-Arya remained that irritating waster of a good story.
The farce is now coming to an end and nothing can erase what it went through. Daenerys turning bad will uncover the stench of her fans but not remove it. Arya with blow up in another puff of smoke (yes, Tyrion foreshadowed that, not funny) and… do something, I suppose, which will not redeem anything. No matter how the story ends, it will still be a rotten corpse that has been kept waiting for its funeral way too long.
To be honest, I was done with the thing after S6E02. The logic had started to unravel in the last third of S5. It had taken a final blow in S6E01 with Davos acting all contrived and Brienne turning up as needed. That in itself had been lethal and I was no longer watching with a benevolent eye. The pleasure was gone.
I could ignore the Dornish nonsense as a wart to be excised but the story lost its appeal when Jon Snow was revived. When Daenerys burned the Khals it started to stink.
I kept watching, though. Reluctantly. I wanted to hope it would catch itself, return to something worthwhile. It didn't. When the finale came, I didn't watch it. I stayed away from discussions for about two months but when I read Arya had been made to kill Walder Frey for pure fan gratification without any plausible basis, I knew there was no returning to it. I finally watched that wretched thing to get it past me and it was all worse than I expected.
When S7 came, I found myself unable to press the "Play" button. Recaps told me Arya had been made even worse and the Daenerys stench was overwhelming. It seems I was wise not to bother with any of it. Jon Snow remained a sad parody of a "good ruler who didn't want to rule", Daenerys kept stirring the foulest smelling fandom in history and Super-Arya remained that irritating waster of a good story.
The farce is now coming to an end and nothing can erase what it went through. Daenerys turning bad will uncover the stench of her fans but not remove it. Arya with blow up in another puff of smoke (yes, Tyrion foreshadowed that, not funny) and… do something, I suppose, which will not redeem anything. No matter how the story ends, it will still be a rotten corpse that has been kept waiting for its funeral way too long.
