At the height of Woke as well.

Kinda funny how much the showrunners fumbled that bag. Anyway Knight of the seven kingdoms is pretty good

  • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I never read the books and watched the series with my partner who’d already seen it all.

    There’s a lot of foreshadowing about her going coocoo-bananas tbh it’s been a while but I was aware of the criticism of the ending season going in.

    That being said there’s a lot of really silly teleporting armies and logistical inconsistency in that last bit. Plus the dragon who got shot from below at the apex of the bolt’s trajectory was soooooooooo bad. There’s no magical physics in westeros as far as i could tell.

    • InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      25·
      4 days ago

      GRRM puts a little bit of “madness” into every single Targaryen, even the good ones. Just like John Brown was a little bid mad. It still is definitely not true to Dany’s character to have her become a tyrant for no reason. When you are in her head for thousands of pages it’s more clear how completely bullshit it is.

      The show was much more full on cynical, which matches the “trying to fix things is evil actually” cynical centrism of HBO and the showrunners. The books are not like that really, they display terrible stuff happening but they’re filled with hope and idealism and heroism. Things are not futile here, history and people can be changed and improved and society can evolve.