

It’s not just Daenerys and her sudden urge to rotisserie all of King’s Landing.įans had such high hopes for Jaime. But many fans found these recent episodes straight-up confusing and frustrating.

It’s one thing to leave some mystery for viewers to figure out on their own.
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What about Brienne, who was left crying in Winterfell after being jilted by Jaime Lannister? Where is Bronn? Samwell Tarly? And can we get an update on Ghost? Jon just left him like he hardly knew his direwolf. In Episode 4 he and his fleet are long-range sharpshooters, but come Episode 5 they suddenly can’t hit a thing when Drogon flies right by them.

Seriously, what are the odds? Was it a Biblical reference? A real-life symbol of the toy horse the girl from King’s Landing was holding onto? Then, just as Arya seemed doomed to die in the flaming wasteland of King’s Landing, a white horse magically appeared to rescue her. She’s a trained assassin, but how is it that Arya is one of the only people who appear able to survive the flames from Dany’s dragon Drogon? How did Arya and the Hound get from Winterfell to King’s Landing so fast? Either Westeros is smaller than we think or those Uber horses ride at warp speed. “As much as they wanted more, they understood that this is where the story ends.” “We always believed it (the series) was about 73 hours, and it will be roughly that,” Benioff said. But the showrunners decided to limit the final season to six episodes instead of the usual 10. Many fans expected more, especially if there was no rush to end the series.īenioff and Weiss told Entertainment Weekly that HBO would have been happy to have more episodes in the final season. Seeing her crushed by falling rubble in the Red Keep’s crypt was not as climactic as some had hoped. But it happened all too quickly.Įarlier seasons, in which Dany liberated slaves and showed compassion for the downtrodden, led many fans to believe she would be the show’s big hero.Īnd let’s not forget about Team Cersei fans who wanted an epic death for their ruthless queen. The show foreshadowed the Mother of Dragons becoming the Mother of Ashes like her villainous father, the Mad King. The plot’s pacing is too fast for only six episodesĭany has gone mad, and the plot’s execution didn’t prepare fans for it. HBO has declined to comment about criticism of “Game of Thrones,” but it’s used to saying goodbye to series, such as “The Sopranos,” with divisive endings.Īs we head into Sunday night’s finale, here are some of fans’ biggest complaints.
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“This series deserves a final season that makes sense.” the books) to fall back on,” says the petition, referring to the two “Thrones” showrunners and the source material by author George R.R. Weiss have proven themselves to be woefully incompetent writers when they have no source material (i.e. (HBO is owned by WarnerMedia, CNN’s parent company.) More than a million of them have signed a petition urging HBO to re-make the final season. With one episode left before the series ends, that’s a lot for fans to take in. Last week’s 80-minute episode took a sudden, dark turn by making longtime heroine Daenerys Targaryen a mad war monster who used her lone surviving dragon to waste hundreds of thousands of innocent lives.

Instead, fans are grumbling on social media about rushed storylines, unexplained loose ends and beloved characters doing things that don’t feel true to their nature. This final season was supposed to be a climax of brilliant storytelling, a time when all the pieces in this sprawling, intricate Westeros puzzle finally snapped into place.
