So my neighbor finally binge watched Game of Thrones (I used to tell him to watch it back when the show was good but he had kids and work, but now that he works from home and his kids are a little older he has more time). As expected he thought the ending was horrible and what really annoyed him was how the whole white walker thing ended.
He said he felt that it made no sense for Jon Snow to not have a confrontation and fight the night king and that Arya killing him was purely for girl power points. Also said that the White Walker storyline could have been a season with good writing or at the very least 3 episodes. He then asked if he could borrow the books from me to get the bad taste out of his mouth. I let him borrow them but warned him that there are still two more books to be written and this is a series that is looking less and less likely to be finished.
Do you think that GOT suffered due to the whole "strong women" pandering? I actually like Arya's character and I enjoyed most of her chapters in the books. I know D&D said that she was supposed to kill the Night King all along, and that having Jon kill him would be what everyone was expecting (because they had set it up that way). I really wish after the online outrage over the Sansa rape that they would've said, this show takes place in a very brutal world and there have been plenty of men killed and tortured as well.
I loved that show early on, but I feel like when they
killedJon Snow the first time is when it started downhill fast. Everything just got too mixed up after that and the pacing was screwed up, etc. I've read the first book ages ago but I didn't really get into the books so that's the extent of my experience there.I don't necessarily mind Arya's character despite some of the plot holes later that I put more on the story and not the character. Despite being a typical "strong woman" character I didn't necessarily come away with a forced political narrative from her. I'd apply the same to Brienne of Tarth a bit too. Both actually had some character.
I actually see the feminism in Daenerys and later on Sansa. It feels forced with them. Women that will rule the world on one hand and be a whiny bitch on the other. Maybe that's just because that's also the traits I see in most of the feminists pushed on us in the real world.
Yea I enjoyed Ayra. I thought it was dumb to have her kill the night king. Or have her and Jon work together since they are close. Brienne was a good character. The show was rushed at the end but I blame GRRM for not finishing the series.