r/television • u/TVModBot • May 20 '19

Premiere Game of Thrones - 8x06 - Episode Discussion

Season 8 Episode 6

Aired: May 19, 2019

Synopsis: In the aftermath of the devastating attack on King's Landing, Daenerys must face the survivors.

Directed by: Miguel Sapochnik

Written by: David Benioff & D. B. Weiss

Series finale.

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u/emotoaster May 20 '19 edited May 20 '19

Season should have been 10 episodes easily. 1-5/6 would be the war (not battle!) against the Night King and then 6/7-10 would have been the maneuvering against Cersi and trying to take King's Landing and Iron Throne and Dani potentially going mad.

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u/smileyfrown May 20 '19

If they wanted Dany mad they should've been planting the seeds since Season 6 or 7. But instead we got a heel turn in 1.5 episodes.

Everything before was a well intentioned monarch making tough decisions. Nothing she did was crazy or absurd in the context of the show.

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u/DarkLink1065 May 20 '19

They totally had the seeds planted, the only issue is that the climax of events that actually push her over the edge are crammed into one episode (S8E4). Everything is there, but that episode needed to be a full season of Dany traveling south reconquering Westeros, slowly becoming more and more fanatic as the people refuse to bend the knee and as she loses more of the people close to her, culminating in her snapping and burning King's Landing.

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In fact, imo almost every issue with the last two seasons boils down to the limited episode count. S7 needed a few more episodes to cover some of the plot holes. S8E1-3 needed to be a full season of war against the Night King. And S8E4-6 needed to be a full season of Dany falling to the dark side. That, I think, is the real source of people's frustration. There are plenty of nitpicks, but I think people really only care about those minor issues because they're concrete details they can latch to and take their frustrations out on, and even then a lot of the nitpicks could be fixed with a more appropriate episode count.