I’m with you. This show lost its quality after season 6.
Season five was the worst of the lot. Season six was a big improvement but still nowhere near the quality of 1-4, maybe on par with 2.
You speak the truth. Personally I didn’t like the last episode so much, only because some of the acting was pants, the dialogue wasn’t very good, and it came on the back of episode one which was just another reunion episode. Would’ve been better served in my opinion to have done episode one and two reunions interspersed with scenes of the White Walkers slaughtering their way through the North to get to Winterfell. Really build up a greater sense of their relentless ruthlessness, and increase the tension. The juxtaposition with the reunions at Winterfell, would’ve given the viewer more foreboding of the impending deaths of “beloved” characters to come.
I wasn't really expecting much from season eight anyway. Most of the good actors are dead or in the background now. The children have all grown up into pretty terrible actors and are now at the forefront, which doesn't help. I don't really think the dialogue has actually gotten much worse either, they just have way shitter actors doing it which makes it much more difficult to pull off.
The bit where they pronounced almond as "armond".
Compare the two mate, I'm no writer but the difference in quality is incredible -
I don't agree with the show being ruined in the last two seasons but what I do believe the show rather intentionally set out to make just about every character double sided, someone that has something for and against them. Imho that's the strength of where we re at now, rather than a weakness. Most characters are floating in a gray area...that is also why I thought s8e2 was so powerful: for a moment you re briefly reminded who they all are and the journey they made over the seasons. There are enough shows with definitive good and bad guys.
People don't like characters that dont show much emotion, Arya is a bit terminator like at times, very cold and only really shows emotion around family. People assume it's bad acting when the reality is it's just that her character is pretty dull now. I mean shes a badass, but the whole "i'm really dangerous because i'm treating everyone like they're beneath me" arc is a bit meh. It's the same with Bran, I mean how the feck is that lad meant to make the character interesting when he's basically an emotionless cripple. I feel sorry for them, I don't really get why Bran has to behave like he does, he's like that "i've seen shit" dog.
I think the point of Bran is that being this somewhat omniscient seer he had been elevated beyond his former self and left his original character behind.
I think it's probably because the guy is a hopeless actor.
Good point, to be fair.
The original three eyed raven had charisma and wasn't some kind of spaced out druggie though which is what Bran comes across.
He's had a massive data bump and it's taking time to defrag his hard drive.
Bran...flake. Oh come on!
Yeah they’ve holywooded the absolute shit out of it. Shocking writing
Bronn used it on Drogon in season 7, that’s it though.
Makes sense I guess but as another poster just said, i dont see bad acting with arya but do with Bran. I sort of think the same. I agree, Bran could be acted so much better.
Well he's not doing the robotic drug induced coma kid by himself, it's the director and character that demands him reading his lines like an emotionless skeleton. It's just a bad character, cool concept but makes for a boring person. Should have made him a bit crazy rather than someone with zero charisma.
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Aye, it's a real problem that 3 of the main protagonists are played by wooden actors/actresses.
