Game of Thrones 8.04 "The Last of the Starks" 5/5/2019 [Show discussion]

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@SenorBeef

Alright, I wasn’t going to post anything about this in this thread, but can we please stop the fucking GRRM worship? You know what his ending is? Nothing. He’s just not going to do it. Creating an interesting beginning and middle of a story is easier than sticking a complex ending. That’s why he’s not even going to bother. And apparently this is his best move, because his fans are just going to assume that his ending would’ve been awesome with him not even bothering to do it.

The showrunners don’t have the option of just deciding not to finish it, so they’re stuck trying to land the complex ending. They’re largely failing at it. But I’m so tired of hearing about how dumb the show writers are how much better the great GRRM would do it. Well, he’s not going to, probably because he can’t.

He had 9 years during the show’s run to give a good ending that they could adapt. He didn’t. So a lot of the criticism here should go to him, but instead people worship him even though he has completely failed here. The idea that he should be praised because of some imaginary ending he never wrote and will never write instead of being criticized is maddening.

I’m fine with criticizing the decline in the quality of writing of the show - I’m doing that as much as anyone. But I’m tired of all of the “oh the show runners are just morons who never knew how to write and only tricked audiences into thinking the first few seasons are good because of the infallible GRRM” bullshit.

Nice strawman you invented. Nobody is “worshipping” Martin, but he’s clearly a better storyteller than the showrunners.

You’re the one whose been babbling about the writing and plots being dumbed down for the unsophisticated masses. Make up your mind.