In another way, GoT may have given them the gift of looking forward to a legit ending.
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Sweet relief
In the wise words of Lindsay Ellis: "The ending being bad was foreshadowed by other things being bad."
Lindsay summed up the theme of the final season so well in the thumbnail of one of her videos: "Dragon Lady Bad".
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Within this context, netflixes policy of unceremoniously killing shows is probably keeping people alive.
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Makes me think of the story Steven King told about getting a letter from a fan, sometime around book 5, explaining that she was over 90 and begging him to tell her how it ended, because she didn't know if she'd live long enough for him to finish the series. He had to decline, explaining that he simply didn't know yet, and wouldn't know until he wrote the last page.
It's oddly heartbreaking, as she probably didn't; it took him 22 years to complete the series, all told, and 6 or 7 years from her letter to the culmination of the story.
Anyway, your thought reminded me of that.
OP is referencing the Dark Tower series for those who didn't know.
Which, while they are quite good, they feel like the least "Stephen King" of his novels, even the bachman books.
I read the first book and had absolutely no fucking clue what was happening. Do they get better? I feel like I needed to be doing cocaine at the time.
I enjoyed them but as I recall it stays weird. I'm into that, though. My favorites are mostly pretty weird.
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The first one is mostly vibes. There's not a ton of good story meat in it, and it's pretty short. Book 2 really gets going though, and book 3 is just wild. Once you get to Wolves of the Calla, though, it's really gonna test your patience.
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It could have been better, but I was OK with it. I didn't hate it like many people did; I just thought it could have been better.
How the writers are still employable, let alone not in massive debt, astounds me. They single-handedly got one of the most successful shows, a show that people wouldn't shut up about and were hanging for each episode every week, and turned it into something to feel a bit embarrassed to admit liking. All the potential DVD/bluray sales - gone. All the merchandising - gone. The potential for spin-off shows - gone. HBO and their partners just watched millions in revenue disappear in one catastrophic season,and somehow D&D got away with it.
I did laugh when Disney told them their services weren't needed after all though.
All the potential DVD/bluray sales - gone. All the merchandising - gone. The potential for spin-off shows - gone
I'm sure they're still making money hand over first from DVD sales & streaming. Not to mention they actually did launch a spin off show
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Not sure what people expected. They were copying a book series that was unfinished. Most of the writing and dialogue were pulled straight from the books. The series got bad when there was nothing left to follow.
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Yes, I was almost one of them. I went on living out of spite.
Seriously though, that's a really sad fact of life. Just think about those who died after the "Lost" finale.
Nah, they'd just assume they'd died a year ago and were in purgatory since then.
I did not understand that reference.
Final season of Lost, viewers dubbed the weird plotline that replaced the flashbacks 'the purgatory' they were all in until each had died and they could move on together.
Sorry, I was going for a play on "I understood that reference" and "LOST was overly complicated and I didn't get it." But I appreciate the explanation, thank you!
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Did they die disappointed, or perhaps die of disappointment?
The terminally-ill people died of their illness, disappointed.
Some of the non-terminally-ill people got terminally ill, whether from or with the disappointment is yet to be determined.
And then there was Jimmy Carter.
My guy was so disappointed he died. Rip
My cousin and How I met your mother.
Poor guy. It's been 8 years since I last watched that show and I'm still pissed.
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Yup. That's the thing that upset them.
What is dead may never die.
"Why do you think I came all this way?"
*dies*
"OK. I'm ready now." ×.×
I would have said that at s8e2
After episode 4 I would have squeezed my IV shut myself
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Pfft. I held out for Winds of Winter and A Dream Of Spring...I might be immortal as long as George RR Martin keeps on aiming for perfect being the enemy of the good enough, lol.
You're only as immortal as GRRM himself. Have you tried Brandon Sanderson? His work isn't nearly as gritty as Martin's, but his world building is top-notch, and he, um, actually writes.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll investigate.
Another recommendation is Joe Abercrombie. His First Law series scratched the ASOIAF itch for me as is is similarly gritty. The full series is 2 trilogies with 3 "stand alone" novels inbetween them, and a book of short stories.
Also Preston Jacobs on YouTube is working on a collaborative alternative Winds of Winter. I really enjoyed their Alayne chapter.
+1 for Sanderson. Just leave The stormlight archives for last because it's an ongoing series and might take a while to finish. He has plenty of other good material, though.
didn't that one guild (web series) character come back from their dream dimension for got?
I hated the ending of GoT almost as much as I hated the ending of Mass Effect 3.
I still am not over that trainwreck.
At least with Mass Effect, most of the third act was solid. Plus, there's always the Indoctrination Theory to help cope (even if it wasn't intended).
GoT is utterly unsalvageable.
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