
The final episode of Game of Thrones was, if anything, even more of a disaster than any of us could have imagined:
A quick recap: Daenerys took her turn to tyranny to its natural conclusion, announcing a world-wide campaign against, well, tyranny. Tyrion mourned his dead siblings, then Daenerys imprisoned him for his role in their futile escape. Tyrion convinced Jon Snow to end Daenerys’s reign of terror; Jon kissed Daenerys, swore his allegiance, then stabbed her to death. Drogon burned the Iron Throne, then flew away with Dany’s body. All the surviving Westerosi lord and ladies gathered at King’s Landing, and after Tyrion gave a stirring speech about the magic of storytelling, voted Bran as King of the Seven Kingdoms. Tyrion became his hand, and Bronn, Ser Davos, Ser Brienne, and Sam sat on his small council. Sansa announced the North’s secession from the Seven Kingdoms and became Queen of the North. Arya declared her intention to travel west. Jon returned to the Night’s Watch.
The article goes on to list a huge number of plot holes and logical fallacies and idiocies to be found in the final episode. Judging by what I read through the finale spoilers on The Daily Mail, the whole thing was just plain IDIOTIC.
Daenerys gets killed by Jon Snow because she went bugshit nuts and killed thousands of people, and her exact motivation for slaughtering all of them was… what, exactly? Watching one of her most beloved companions getting killed by Cersei’s latest squeeze?
Drogon, the last remaining dragon in all of Westeros and possibly even the entire world, given the Doom of Valyria, uses his dragon breath to melt down the Iron Throne. (I’ve been around girls who ate a bit too much garlic with dinner, so I have some idea what that’s like.) Then he picks up the body of his “mother”, and flies off. And… that’s it. Last dragon ever, gone, nobody knows where, for no reasons whatsoever.
The King of all of Westeros turns out to be a… disabled dude? Who literally cannot lead an army into war, has no experience whatsoever of governing in any capacity, and has considerably less of a claim to the throne than his bastard cousin? And can never have children? Which means, inevitably, that there will be a massive civil war after his death, just like there was after the death of Robert Baratheon? And then, instead of devoting his actual time and energy, whatever a cripple might have of those qualities, to, oh I dunno, REBUILDING THE DAMNED KINGDOM, he basically says that he’ll use his scrying abilities to go find the dragon, and gets wheeled out and leaves his council to sort out the whole mess?
Jon Snow kills his beloved queen – and, as it happens, aunt, which is seriously creepy even by Gamma Rape Rape Martin’s low standards – because he realises that she has gone completely insane, in direct contradiction to her entire character arc for the whole series in the space of a single episode, and then ends up in the Night’s Watch and goes beyond the Wall. Well, OK, fine, but… the Night King is dead. What, exactly, is the point of the Night’s Watch anymore? There is no use whatsoever for the Night’s Watch anymore, or the Wall.
Yeah, OK, he ends up right back where he started, which in narrative terms is actually a useful and good way to end a long series, but what exactly was the point of the previous 7 seasons of television in the first place?
Seriously, the amount of sheer narrative stupidity involved in all of this is astounding, even by SJW and Gamma male standards.
Our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) actually thought that the final episode of Game of Thrones wasn’t actually that bad:
I was pretty shocked at first when he said that he liked the finale. I haven’t even watched it, and almost surely won’t do so anytime soon, but I figured that it would be a cinch to watch His Voxness tear the writers and GRRM several new assholes in the process of destroying their literary pretensions.
But, as he goes on to explain in the video, there are some good aspects to the finale – and then it all goes straight down the shitter.
His Voxness has a number of good points to make about the way in which all of the various relationships and psychological aspects of the characters were tied off in reasonably sensible and satisfying ways. However, the problem is that all of the tying up of loose ends was basically incredibly forced, and the extremely stupid and cack-handed way in which it was all done was inevitable given the dumbassitude exhibited in previous seasons.
Again, I haven’t watched the series. I don’t care much about it beyond my interests in nerd culture and fantasy literature. I know that A Song of Ice and Fire is basically beyond redemption at this point. The thing is that it had just enough interesting ideas to make it a decent read, up to and including the third doorstopper of the series, but then of course it completely lost the plot and the doorstoppers simply became shit-sandwiches.
Unfortunately, the horrors inflicted upon storytelling, narrative, character, and world-building by the head writers, Doug Weiss and David Benioff, are now going to be applied to the rotting, disgusting corpse of the STAR WARS franchise:
There goes another great SF/F franchise, then.
We might as well admit it, boys: everything that we loved as children and teenagers has been co-opted, subverted, and perverted by SJWs and Gamma hacks who couldn’t create any kind of respectable – never mind good – work of fiction if we held them up at gunpoint.
Fortunately, all is not lost. There are plenty of other alternatives for us to give to our children, and for us to spend our money upon.
Some of you know of the “opportunity” that our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) has lined up for us. If you don’t… then just trust us Vile Faceless Minions on this one: it’s gonna be pretty astonishing once it is made public.
More of you know about the excellent works of sci-fi and fantasy created by the likes of Brian Neimeier, Jim Butcher, science fiction grandmaster John C. Wright, Excruciator Majoris Tom Kratman, and of course His Most Dastardly Voxness. Those are the kinds of books that you can really sink your teeth into, and Mr. Wright’s young-adult fiction in particular is superbly suited to the maturing boy who needs something along the lines of Heinlein’s Juveniles to guide him into manhood.
So, don’t worry, my friends. Yeah, Game of Thrones went SJW and as a result is an irredeemable pile of shite. But there are plenty of other great SF/F universes out there for us to enjoy, and many of them are being created, built out, and enriched by men just like you and me, who believe in all that is good and true in this world.







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