I don't think anyone blames Kit Harrington or any of the actors for the direction the show went. I understand seeing "I dun want it" memes and feeling like they're directed at you, it's your face, you spoke the line and realistically in character that was really what your character felt.

I also think that large parts of the ending we got make sense and are likely where the story, at least in George's mind, will end. The difference is that it won't all happen in a few episodes. As a character you can understand how everything that plays out makes sense.

But we didn't see that in the show. That's not what's on screen. Things happen too fast. Character motivation lost. Characters feels change. All within minutes.

And then you have things that just don't make sense. We're teased a fight between Jon Snow and the Night King at Hardhome. Instead Jon screams at a dragon. Arya, who has no connection to the Night King, kills him. Tyrion, the smart one, hides in the crypts full of dead people, but we know he can revive the dead.

The list goes on and on. I can rationalize it if I really need to. I've had years to think about it. Maybe Jon was distracting the dragon. The Night King didn't know about Arya. She is a master assassin after all. Bran was bait. He knew he was bait. Bran set the whole plan up. But none of that was on screen. That didn't happen.

I don't know where this ranting is going but in the end the story told sucked. I blame the showrunners. I don't blame Kit Harrington.

[–] superduperpirate@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In no particular order, I blame the GoT writers, showrunners, producers, and GRRM.

The cast and other crew hold no culpability whatsoever in the situation.

And yeah I can understand being sore at being the subject of a million memes about “Ah dun wunnit, she’s mah kween”

But it’s not Kit’s fault that GRRM couldn’t keep up the pace with the source material, or that the producers tried shoe-horning ten or twelve episodes of plot points into a final season of six episodes.

[–] mr_account@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Iirc it wasn't 10-12 episodes worth of plot in 6, but rather 40 episodes into 13. The original plan was to have 10 seasons, 10 episodes each. Then around the end of s6, the showrunners were in talks with Disney to work on their own Star Wars trilogy after GoT ended. Their solution was to cram the rest of the plot (40 eps across seasons 7-10) into 2 seasons, which ended up being 7 eps for s7 and 6 eps for s8. After this royal fuckup tanked the brand, Disney refused to hire them

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I blame Martin first and fucking foremost for never finishing the series.

Once the producers ran out of his actual content, they bailed rather than try to fill in his blanks. They deserve a lot of blame, but none so much as Martin, who spent decades partying off his fame and doing anything other than finishing the work that made him famous.

Fuck him.

[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The actors were so good it makes watching seasonb1-4 worth rewatching

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I mean the story is also still solid early on. I did a rewatch a few years back and still enjoyed the series. The trainwreck hurts less when you know it's coming.

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Ya, the last season had a "I dont want to make this show anymore let's be done" vibe to it. You could just feel it every episode.

And that had nothing to do with the actors. In fact, Kit Harrignton I thought was one of the actors that made the show work.

[–] CaptMurica@beehaw.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I still haven’t been able to bring myself to watch the last two or three episodes.

[–] iltoroargento@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

I watched them once in a watch party when they came out. I'm pretty sure none of us have watched them again.

I had seasons 1-5 saved on a hard drive for a while and deleted them a couple years ago because I'm sure I'll never watch them again. The last season for sure (and sorta the last two seasons) completely poisoned the rest of the show. It was passable, fun, somewhat gritty fantasy that broke through to mainstream and then everyone involved in creative decisions just ruined it.

It took me a while to get over how shit this series and the star wars sequels were.

[–] hexagon527@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago

unpopular opinion but i liked the ending shrug