Game of Thrones: How did the "drama of the first generation" end badly step by step?
Note: This article is a spoiler.
On May 20th, Beijing time, the series Game of Thrones, which lasted for nine years, finally came to an end. However, as the final season of a generation of "divine drama" in the new millennium, fans who had been waiting for 18 months kept complaining from the beginning of its broadcast. After the massacre in Zhou Long, there was even an incident in Change.org where millions of fans jointly petitioned HBO to remake the final season.

HBO released a thank-you poster on the day of the final episode, but "Quanyou Powder" didn’t buy it.
In the earlier publicity, HBO constantly emphasized the high cost, excellent production and the length of many episodes comparable to movies, but from the beginning of the broadcast, the whole story was carried out in an almost meaningless way until the third episode "The Long Night" was broadcast, and even the most loyal fans had to admit that Game of Thrones was really unfinished.

On the rotten tomato website, the score of the eighth season from episode 1 to episode 5 showed a cliff-like decline. Although the final episode climbed, it was still in the lower-middle scoring area.
Whether it is rotten tomatoes, IMDB or MetaCritic scores, it has been all the way down this season, especially since the third episode, and the final season has continuously created the worst reputation since the eighth season. The freshness of rotten tomatoes in the last three episodes has not reached 60%, and the last episode IMDB just aired is only 5 points. MetaCritic, a relatively strict film review website, gave ultra-low scores of 2.9 and 3.4 for the fourth episode and the fifth episode respectively (the score of the sixth episode has not yet been released), and the score of the eighth season on Douban has also hit new lows, which has fallen below 8 points so far, which is the only season with a score below 9 points in the whole eight seasons.

"Power Tour Powder" launched a petition on the website, hoping that HBO can re-shoot the final season of Game of Thrones.
From the text to the production level, this season’s Game of Thrones has suffered quite a lot, which can be divided into three aspects:
First of all,It is the sudden collapse of many characters who have paved the way for seven seasons. The most obvious thing is the sudden death of the Night King. As a villain who spent seven seasons portraying, he actually led the army of ghosts to "send their heads thousands of miles". How can the collapse of such a direct character set be accepted by the audience looking forward to a big war? Then there is the screenwriter who seems to want to keep the tradition of HBO’s "pornography", so this season, some unnecessary passionate scenes were forcibly set up. In the third episode, Ai Liya’s nude scenes were actually a little abrupt, but in the fourth episode, the screenwriter even arranged for Zhan Mu and Britney to sleep with their good comrades, which directly made the touching feelings of Zhan Mu’s knighthood of Britney disappear in the second episode.


After the third episode of the eighth season, the online ridicule for the night king was overwhelming.
Tyrion, known as "Little Devil", continued the whole IQ offline from the seventh season. First, he still believed Cersei would send troops to the north to fight against the aliens before the Winterfell War, and then he went south to King’s Landing with Dragon Mother, and then he tried to persuade her to surrender with the children in Cersei’s belly, so as to avoid the suffering of the people in King’s Landing. This situation of frequent tricks didn’t get any better in the fifth episode last week. After learning Jon’s life story from Sansa, Tyrion turned around and told Varis the secret (the screenwriter seemed worried that someone didn’t know the secret and would repeat it almost every episode in the final season), almost sending the latter to die in disguise. Later, Zhan Mu, who was caught by Long Ma, Tyrion chose to risk treason and let him go to town to die knowing that there would be a big war the next day. At this time, Zhan Mu suddenly said, "I don’t care about innocent people’s lives", which is completely contrary to the previous characters’ setting. If Tyrion still has a trace of reason or he really cares so much about innocent people’s lives, in the case of knowing that the Red Castle has a secret tunnel, he can let people sneak in and take care of Cersei, and then he will bet all his bets on Dragon Mother.
As for the dragon mother, who was originally a liberator, she was driven crazy by the screenwriter. It seems understandable that she would feel insecure when she learned about Jon’s life experience, but Jon expressed her loyalty from beginning to end. The shooting of her beloved son Rega and the beheading of her friend Missandei naturally aggravated her anger. However, it seems too far-fetched for the screenwriter to give the last straw to crush the camel. That is, Jon once again showed hesitation in showing his love for Dragon Mother. This hesitation undoubtedly has an ethical problem that Jon knows Dany is his aunt, and she regards this hesitation as betrayal. Therefore, when she entered King’s Landing and clearly heard the bell of the other party’s surrender, she was still angry. In the end, the dragon flame was almost indiscriminately aimed at everyone.


The Completion Degree of Game of Thrones in Eight Seasons, which is widely circulated on the Internet.
Moreover,There are too many wars in the eighth season that ignore the fighting logic. The most obvious one is the battle in Winterfell in the third episode. With many experienced warriors in the seat, it is hard to understand why the cavalry should charge and die when they can’t see the enemy in front of the battle completely. If the red witch doesn’t appear, isn’t everyone at the scene aware of igniting in advance? As for why the dragon with unlimited firepower in the fifth episode is so weak in the third episode?
Of course, when we enter the fourth episode, we will find that this kind of child’s play-like battle originally runs through this season. The scene that the Youlun fleet suddenly shot and killed Rehgar with an ambush giant crossbow is also full of irrationality. Let’s not mention why the dragon mother in the sky can’t see the huge iron fleet. Don’t Tyrion and others completely observe the surrounding situation before anchoring? In fact, it can be seen from the picture that they are completely facing Youlun’s fleet. When Long Ma took people to stand at the gate of King’s Landing, Cersei, who has always been ruthless, was merciful, and even Tyrion, who was going to buy a murder in the first episode, was directly spared. This contradictory character decision was really confusing. After entering the fifth episode, Long Ma took her only dragon and went directly into the open mode. It can only be said that the writers really have no mind to take care of rationality when even the plot is not round.

Watching the eighth season, netizens should roll their eyes like Bran.
Finally,Even if the plot is put aside, it is obvious from the eighth season that the whole crew of Quanyou seems to be in a state of "well, we can call it a day after filming". Apart from the writer’s own incompetence, this slack can be seen from the director’s scheduling, photography lighting and even post-editing. Although the whole work of Game of Thrones has always had the visual characteristics of gloomy overall color matching, in the third episode of this season, this is not only a matter of color matching, but also the dark lighting and poor photography scheduling directly lead to the darkness of many scenes. Later, the photographer’s explanation was quite confusing. He said that the audience should turn on the TV or find a dark environment to watch it, but it was not enough to solve the problem. Even if the author watched it on a 50-inch TV through high-definition live broadcast, it was still difficult to distinguish many specific scenes.
Another big problem in this season is the frequent appearance of goof shots. The fourth focus is on the celebration banquet after the war. In front of Long Ma, there is a take-away drink of a certain brand, which not only shows that the scene was not completely cleared during the shooting, but also makes the editing unable to find this bug in the later stage because of the dim lighting of Quan You. Of course, this is not the only goof shot this season. In the final scene of the finale, there are two characters who even have mineral water bottles at their feet. This carelessness has almost overflowed the screen.

The coffee cup in the fourth episode of the eighth season can be said to have been advertised to Starbucks for free, but in fact, it is a paper cup used by a coffee shop near the shooting location.


Season 8 episode 6 continues "crossing" and a mineral water bottle appears.
Of course, there is also a detail that makes people laugh and cry. Although HBO claims that the budget for the last season’s single episode has been raised to 15 million US dollars, it seems that many scenes still directly lead to logical collapse or the appearance of false scenes due to lack of funds. The most typical one is when Jon is about to go south with Long Ma to say goodbye to everyone in the fourth episode. At this time, the crew can’t even let him be in the same picture with Bai Ling, let alone hug and say goodbye. Please! Don’t their emotional ties deserve a hug? Except that I don’t want to spend money on the interaction between real people and CG, I really can’t find any justification for making this decision. In the fifth episode, there was also a picture of the dragon flying alone in the sky, and the dragon mother disappeared directly. It can be said that the crew really fought to save money.

The picture of dragon mother disappearing
No matter how amazing each episode is this season, it can’t hide the fact that the volume of six episodes can’t give this series a happy ending at all. Earlier, there were rumors that HBO actually didn’t hesitate to pay more and shoot more. However, the sponsors, chief screenwriters and executive producers of Game of Thrones, david benioff and D·B· Weiss, are obviously unwilling to fight. On the one hand, after leaving the original work, the text ability of the two screenwriters can’t support this huge world view. Since the sixth season, the whole plot and characters have been declining. Just looking at the behind-the-scenes special of the final season, we can find out how the two screenwriters lack logical self-consistency. For example, in the fourth episode, You Lun will ambush successfully, and their only explanation is actually. On the other hand, as the "behind-the-scenes" who are in charge of the right tour, these two writers and producers of the "Star Wars" trilogy, which was picked by Disney, ended the right tour early probably so that they could corrupt another classic IP.
In the end, it doesn’t matter whether Jon angered the dragon mother or the iron throne that has been sprayed by the dragon on Brandon. The online spit for the final season is more exciting than the work itself. It’s hard to say whether this is a kind of sadness. Fortunately, the fans of Quanyou still have hope. Father Martin’s book may be finished in his lifetime. In addition, he also participated in the creation of three derivative dramas of Quanyou. Under his control, perhaps this IP will have a brilliant day.


"Quanyou Powder" can only wish Grandpa Martin a long life, stop fooling around and write a book at home honestly.