There was a lot of build-up to that storyline, only for it to be resolved fairly quickly within the span of one episode. The characters, too, were not given their due. Though all of them had some kind of a conclusion, many of the conclusions were not satisfying. Some characters who had unsatisfying conclusions according to many fans were Daenerys Targaryen , Tyrion Lannister, and Jon Snow. While characters like Bran Stark and Sansa Stark had good endings, they were not satisfying to many fans.
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At a session at the Austin Film festival, a Twitter user documented their remarks. We could have gone to 11, 12, 13 seasons, but I guess they wanted a life. And finally there are fans, who have now seen the results of this spaced-out, shortened final pair of seasons, and most everyone believes that the show has felt painfully rushed as a result. How so? There are the bent-out-of-shape character arcs, which have flung these characters toward a specific end goal, ignoring that the path to get there does not make much sense.
In episode 2 of season 8, Jaime is hanging out with all his new friends in Winterfell, knighting Brienne. In two more episodes, Dany loses half her army, Jorah and Missandei, learns the truth about Jon and develops a taste for genocide.
Game of Thrones has always been about these long, epic journeys from place to place, which is where a load of character development happens, and twists and turns derail characters along the way. But after six years of that, the show realized it was running out of time because of this self-imposed deadline, and suddenly everyone is warping all around the map instantly, erasing that entire part of the show that was a key aspect of it before.
This results in some plot holes, but also a general sense of disorientation and like everything is moving at breakneck speed. And usually, this is done in service of just hammering us with battle after battle, with maybe one episode of downtime in between them. Yes, events follow from one another, but there will be sequences that leap forward by several weeks in scene transitions.
Episodes will crosscut between events that have to be taking place weeks or months apart, as when a relatively compressed story in Dorne back in season five was placed opposite far more sprawling narratives elsewhere. The effect of this elision of time is that the characters seem to be in stasis between their scenes. This could be read as a complaint — and I do wish the show was slightly more transparent about how much time is passing — but at the same time, this is probably inevitable.
Then the second half of the season covered the events of a few more weeks, as Ned Stark uncovered a deadly conspiracy and the characters struggled to stay alive in a treacherous political landscape.
It was by far the most compact the show had ever been. Yes, we kept cutting away to the adventures of Daenerys across the Narrow Sea, or Jon Snow at the Wall, but for the most part, the characters were in a handful of the same locations, which set up relationships the show has been playing off in every season since. Then Game of Thrones scattered those characters across its map for the next several seasons, only beginning to collapse the story back in on itself in season six.
But where season one was pretty leisurely and tied distinctly to the passage of time over the course of several weeks, season seven is flying all over the place. The reason for this is simple. In season one, we were still getting to know the characters. Digging into the relationship between Arya and Sansa, for instance, would establish character traits and moments of foreshadowing that the show is still paying off all these seasons later.
Thus, the early going of Game of Thrones was more welcoming to scenes that serve mostly to set up character or theme, and those scenes often occurred when characters were traveling from place to place. So long as the show kept us intrigued in some way, we were more willing to wait as it set up the basics. Subsequent seasons traced how those characters and themes shifted and changed as events in Westeros merited.
We know. Time is still passing for the characters in the same way, but the amount of it we need to see to follow the story has greatly decreased. This situation is by no means unique to Game of Thrones , either.
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