...or just watch the final episode and bitch about it.
That's the plan.
I was hoping for a better ending to this saga, but oh well.
When you turn on the TV you get what Hollywood gives you. Most of the time it sucks.
I suspect that if any of us had the opportunity to talk to either Dumb or Dumber about Season 8 they would tell us they gave us a spectacular ending. After all visually it has been great and we all know it took over a year to make and cost a ton of money.
However, neither one of them would have a clue as to why we were disappointed. After all they gave us the Hollywood formula. What could possibly go wrong?
Once they went off of Martin's script and started to make up their own story it was destined to suck.
Martin is an asshole and a Moon Bat slob but he was a genius creating the world and a rich story. Dumb and Dumber just typical Hollywood scrip writers. Their next project will probably be Mod Squad II or something.
That's nice.
I had expectations and I've been disappointed.
It is NOT the end of the world, nor even the end of the day.
I watch and read with the expectation of being entertained by a story, complete with all the elements that go into a story. If the story sucks, I put it down and stop reading, or change the channel. If the story is great, I read or watch all of it, then I process the story internally and assess if I am satisfied with the outcome.
If I am, I recommend it to people who ask or who are interested in recommendations on movies or books.
If I am not, I bitch about it as every person on the planet does.
So far, A Song of Fire and Ice has been a good series of stories and I look forward to finishing it. Game of Thrones, while having its problems, was entertaining and worthy of the time taken out of a busy day to watch and be entertained.
Until this season.
It seems that the vast majority of the people who were into GoT are also very disappointed in the ending. They, like Me, are expressing dissatisfaction with the way this was wrapped up.
Seems like we are holding to tradition, as we should. The reasons for its bad ending are just speculation but based upon some reasonable issues that have plagued this season.
The consequences to HBO may or may not be significant, but one thing is certain. They should relearn the concept that people get invested in storylines and they'd do well to not cut corners when bringing them to an end.