This just seems par for the course for media now. Disney does the same thing with marvel and star wars: just make it shiny, sure people whom actually CARE about our product and the story/characters will be upset but we can make MONEY RIGHT NOW OMFGBBQ!>!>!!!!11!
It's short term thinking that is so prevalent because people have shown, time and time again to be forgiving sheep, whom will run back to their media daddys the moment they put out something decent again. You see this most obviously in games, where despite the whinging about broken games with 50GB patches, microtransactions, lootboxes, and abusive behavior, said gamers continue to pre order and purchase these games sight unseen, and in the music industry, where despite complaints about generic samey sounding music the same boring tracks sell like hotcakes every year.
Media companies have figured out that people will gobble up the pig slop, complain about it, then go right back to slurping up as much as they can get. GoT, the main season, is over, so likely the writers just didnt GAF about what their customers wanted, and just did whatever they felt like, knowing their customers will just come back for the next installment anyway.
Alright we get it; final season of Game of Thrones hasn’t exactly been the best one.
It’s the worse case scenario for everyone and it’s a bad situation because the actors have had to work with what they were given and it’s unfair to the fans because we care about the story and the characters involved.
With that being said, the negativity is exhausting, unhealthy, and unnecessary; the ending is not great. But I feel as though everyone deserves to have their own experience.
Watch it
Feel it
Process it however you have to and don’t let others’ opinions shape your own.
There isn’t a single Game of Thrones fan that should let the ending of the series ruin the experience we’ve all gone through over the course of eight years.
Could the show have been better? If the writers had taken their time with the last season and not rushed ahead with character arcs and creating plot twists that either made no sense or were undeserving, than yes.
I’ll admit, I’m also upset on how the final season has turned out.
However, as unfair as it is to the fans for not get the ending we wanted, it’s more unfair to ask HBO to bring back the cast and crew to make a “do-over” season with better writers just because it didn’t please everyone. (Even the cast members admitted in separate interviews that they were also disappointed in how the series ended).
Instead of criticizing Game of Thrones on how it’s ending should have been handled, let’s just be appreciative and thankful to the directors, crew members, and especially the cast for making this show as memorable as possible over the past 8 years.
This comment is a great example. "Guyz, I know the latest season was horse manure, but it isnt FAIR to criticize them for replacing a 5 course meal with regurgitated McDonalds, they did so well before this, lets congratulate them with forced smiles!"
No. GoT's crew and cast has already received heaps of praise over the years for its quality film-making, they absolutely need to be called out for this behavior, and more importantly, people need to stop rewarding HBO for making it. You dont fix the problem by ignoring it.