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Old 07-18-2017, 05:41 PM   #2232
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Originally Posted by JohnnyB View Post
All this talk of ice dragons, giants etc. makes me hope this doesn't just turn into a Hollywood-style special effects extravaganza to end the series. Everything awesome and compelling about this show has been based off of plot and character, but that temptation of visual extravaganza must be strong.
Yes it would be highly disappointing if this just degraded into the classic fantasy trope that Game of Thrones was originally written to satirize.

A giant, overstuffed world-ending conflict of good vs. evil with big LOTR set pieces would be an ignominious unsatisfying end to this series.

I still hope that the fundamental conflicts of this series continue to be the main thematic drive of the plot. Those themes are the weakness of valour, the importance of family, the emptiness of society without justice and the difficulty to address collective action problems.

Those themes need to be central with giant battles with zombies providing the backdrop.
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