- Because GRR Martin passed his writing rights to David Benioff and DB Weiss.
- Because they were hired to create the new Star Wars.
Haaa… but everything is explained. In fact, it’s a bit like you when you submit your resignation letter and you have 1 week of work left, you really don’t care because, anyway, what’s the worst thing that could happen to you? Get fired? DB and DBW both have a great career plan that awaits them so respecting the prophecies, the common threads, the character constructions, the intrigues, it passes 30,000 km above their heads.
For previous seasons, the series’ script was based on Martin’s books. The 2 authors therefore had no need to “invent” or “imagine” conversations. All they had to do was take Martin’s superb dialogue and follow the common thread of the story (with a few changes here and there to make the series interesting even for Game of Thrones readers). As a result, there are lots of incongruities that no longer make any sense. We no longer feel Martin’s “pen” and the series loses all its soul.
In episode 3, the battle against the dead. We’ve been waiting for THIS moment for 8 seasons. It is the battle of the living against the dead. The entire future of the human race is at stake. All eyes are on the King of the Dead. Jon fails. Daenarys and her 2 badass dragons fail. And suddenly Arya comes out of nowhere (literally) and sticks her dagger into him. While a few minutes before she was herself in the middle of a mess with a handful of dead people in a castle that she knows like the back of her hand, but outside, in the middle of nowhere, in the fog, with no hiding place, she avoids a horde of dead to reach the most protected dead of all? Cool. Logic.
Personally, I expected episode 4 to start with an explanation but no. The viewer must simply swallow this fact and move on. She could very well have achieved this with her power of disguise and it would have made for a pretty cool scene.
To get back to the dialogues. In episode 2, when we witness the exchange between Tyrion and Varys, what do we think of this:
- “You take great offense at dwarf jokes, but love telling eunuch jokes. Why is that?”
- “Because I have balls, and you don’t”
*Varys and his opinion on Tyrion’s joke.
Sorry but my 7 year old nephew is into exactly the same type of humor at the moment. Pee, poop, smelly ass and plastic dick. Not really what I expect from a series that was able to squeeze out deep dialogues and monologues from me.
There were also missed moments where a little twist could have been added to add value. Like for example the moment when Tyrion is in the crypt and says “ I should be up there fighting, maybe my intelligence could make the difference ”. Why not choose THIS moment to bring the dead out of the crypt? It would have been irresistibly ironic to highlight the lack of reflection of the characters (especially Tyrion, advisor to the queen) in relation to the crypt as “the safest place in the entire castle”.
Episode 5, which should have been completely epic, is poorly written. Daenerys spends years being the “breaker of chains” and company only to end up losing her temper at the last minute when everything is already won? We don’t know if she acts out of passion, out of revenge, out of defiance…
And Euron, after his fight with Jamie who exclaims “I’m the man who killed Jamie Lannister” , while 3 minutes before he was making fun of the fact that he was disabled and that he didn’t fight well. Why change your opinion? You should know, is he bad or is he legendary? It doesn’t hold up.
And let’s not go into the details of Jon Snow’s passivity throughout Season 8 between ” She is my queen ” – wow – and ” I don’t want to be king “. No action, no decision, no twist, no development for a character who was THE character, the favorite, the King in the North, the “promised prince” (well yes, the prophecy, then?), Jon Snow, what… all that for that… No. NO.
And the last episode is.. arrrgll.
Anyway, I could write ages about it but I’ll stop there.
So here it is: Why do the dialogue scenes in Game of Thrones season 8 sound so bad? Thanks to David Benioff and DB Weiss for their cruel lack of respect for an Epic series.