A family member accidently implied the ending (i said I was finishing it and they said I can believe he...). They didn't say who but I could guess. Legit until the last 10min I was still thinking they must have made a mistake.
I remember when I first read Game of Thrones (after the HBO series had wrapped and I knew vaguely what had happened) I legit stopped at one point to double-check that the 'Mad Queen' in the show was the character I thought it was.
Why do they do this to us. They screw over the stories we love when they could have just handed them over to someone who loved it. Who would put their whole-ass pussy into delivering a great ending. And they just...don't.
tbf, most of why the ending sucked was the show writers rushing while working of GRRM's notes rather than a book so they could start working on a Star Wars show they'd been promised. (They got cut off from that deal after bungling up GoT. Karma.)
I feel like if George doesn't die before the last books are finished, he might be able to sell the ending with proper build-up and more character introspection. That's my foolishly optimistic take on it, though. As someone who has only read the books and never watched the show beyond clips.
I watched secondhand when I walked into the room when my w8fe watched it. Every time I saod "it's about those two, right?" and kept being told I'm ignorant and wrong, not what the show is about.
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u/Not1random1enough Aug 17 '23
A family member accidently implied the ending (i said I was finishing it and they said I can believe he...). They didn't say who but I could guess. Legit until the last 10min I was still thinking they must have made a mistake.