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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
As a run of the mill fan it just feels like Season 8 ran out of books, so we’re back to standard fantasy TV pablum. The worst of it is that the show stopped caring about its own conventions.
Big explosions, and nonsense decision making. Scorpions are badass till they aren’t. Danerys goes mass murder because Jon doesn’t kiss her back. The Dothraki are back? The Second Sons (or was it the Golden Company? I guess it doesn’t matter) are instantly obliterated because... they’re inconvenient? Arya turns away from her life long quest of killing Cersei because the Hound talks her out of it for 30 seconds?
How can I view any of this as exciting or threatening when literally nothing in the past matters?
Perhaps 60 min episodes would have focused the story somewhat. It doesn’t feel like 90 min are needed with how slow and meaningless much of the interaction is. Maybe that was the excuse - “We’ll wipe out the Lannisters without them firing a shot, and Cersei will just stand there helpless, but we’ll take and hour and half to do it, so it seems harder.”
I can’t imagine this is how poorly the books finish up. I’ll be thankful for that in the interim.
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If you think this is the only reason she goes mad, you haven't been paying very much attention. She showed up in Westeros with 3 dragons and 2 massive armies. She was then convinced to not do what she wanted, take the Iron throne. This led to the loss of half her armies and 2 of her dragons. Varys betrayed her, Ser Jorah, the one person who truly loved her died, She can't trust her hand at all, and the man she thought loved her betrayed her the second after she begged him not to. She has lost everything, and was hearing the bells, realizing that it was probably another failure form Tyrion. She sees what is going on and decides the only solution is full destruction. She even said something similar earlier about starting from scratch. Her arc is one of the most complete on the show. Jon not kissing her probably wasn't even the proverbial straw.