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NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I can understand saying it was rushed and poorly done, but the trained assassin, who serves the god of death, absolutely should have been the one to kill the night king. No one has a bigger beef with death than the undead army master.

Jon came back to kill Danny and take the throne and restore what passes for peace.

The Three Eyed raven took it from Jon.

None of this was especially well laid out or planned or paced correctly, but it’s the most Game of Thrones path they could’ve taken.

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CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I mean, it was Martin’s plan, but the writers took the most stupid and lazy routes to get there.

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- Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I honestly think he hasn’t finished the books because he’s got no idea himself how to actually end it. And after the backlash the show got, he’s now pretty sure it shouldn’t end like that…
  
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  - ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s worse than that: there does not exist a good way to end it. He started too many plot threads and now it’s impossible to end them all in a satisfying way.
    
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  - psmgx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    His two main assistants also fucked off and then wrote The Expanse series of books. Style is surprisingly similar to GoT, and makes me wonder how much was George and how much was them…
    
    Then The Expanse got made into a show and thems two fucked off for good.
    
    IMO his assistants did a lotmof the heavy lifting, and there was too much left to tie off with GoT so he just gave up.
    
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Filthmontane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s not about who killed the night king, it’s about when he died. If the opening scene of the show is about the white walkers coming and killing everyone, that should be the final scene of the show. Imagine return of the Jedi beginning with killing off Darth Vader, the main villain that the protagonists have been fighting against the entire time, and then the rest of the movie is Luke trying to defeat Jabba. Or if frodo got the ring to Mt Doom and then they still had to defeat saruman

They should have lost the battle in winterfell, retreated to kings landing, then had a final battle against the night King and cersei all in one major battle. It truly doesn’t matter who kills the night King, just that he is the last antagonist to die since he was the first one to be introduced. It’s about closing plot threads in the order that you open them.

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- NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Should I have put the part about being poorly paced, planned, and executed in bigger text or something?
  
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  - Filthmontane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s pretty general though. I’m trying to pinpoint the issue as the show not properly nesting plot threads.
    
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