Just needed to get this out there.

[rogueslayer452]

I stopped watching Game of Thrones years ago, like I legit just don't care for it anymore. With this being the final season, with the series finale next weekend, and hearing about the kerfuffle going down and how fandom has been reacting which has been unavoidable since it's been everywhere, I just have this to say:

The show is not the books. The show was never the books. What happens on the show is not canonical to the books.

While there have been some changes made and moments that I liked in the show and while the books themselves aren't exactly perfect and do have issues of their own, the books are 5000% better than whatever the show turned out to be. So whatever has happened so far especially in the final season, and whatever happens in the series finale, just know that the books aren't going to happen the same way (and yeah, I know that GRRM has claimed that it's the same, but he's not been entirely reliable anyway with anything relating to the last two books he hasn't even finished writing yet, so, y'know, take what he says with a grain of salt).

Adaptations are tricky things. Some can turn out to be good even if they deviate a bit from the source material, while others not so good. And unfortunately while Game of Thrones might have started out decent enough with adapting the first book with the first season, it did go downhill after that. There's been many theories as to why, but I personally think that HBO/the showrunners had a completely different agenda from the start that wasn't meant to adapt A Song Of Ice And Fire as it should have been, or at least as what I believe it should have been.

Regardless, the show is almost over. What happens will happen, and we'll just have to hope that GRRM will get on to finishing the last two books so we can see what actually occurs in the end.

And even then, the fanbase for ASOIAF has been having their own fan theories and speculations for the series marinating for so long due to the long delay between the book releases, that I'm sure that even what happens in the final two books won't please everybody and it obviously won't stop them from keeping their particular headcanons. Same with the show, I'm sure. Because that's what fandom does, that's what fandom has always done when they don't agree with canon. So even if you're disappointed or upset or just plain hate everything, just know that you're not alone and that fandom will always thrive with making fanworks and content to fill that void even if GRRM hates it.

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[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

I'm still astounded how everyone in Westeros didn't seem to care about the existential threat of the White Walkers.

Seriously. And I mean, they did the entire White Walker arc so dirty by basically making everything about them useless and to be destroyed easily, especially with them being such an looming threat the entire series, but to not have the characters care all that much? That makes zero sense. Here's an unknown entity that is threatening Westeros and all you can do is just shrug your shoulders and go, "welp"? WTF?

And I still can't after them blaming the dragons, and, who was it, Tormund? Who was like, "I don't trust anyone who rides a dragon" or something like that and I'm just like BITCH YOU RODE A DRAGON WHEN DANY SAVED YOUR ASS FROM THE WHITE WALKERS!

Also, Cersei was a stone cold bitch and deserved a better death than crying and having a ceiling fall on her. I wanted her to go out like a BAMF.

That was such a disservice to the character, I still can't believe they gave her a weakass death.

I mean, we can rant for hours about the injustice the show did not just in the final season but just overall throughout the show's run, but basically this was a story that deserved better showrunners/writers. There was just so much wrong with what they did, it's kind of amazing how they fucked up and how much they just don't care, like at all.

I mean, it's a paycheck, but I have to wonder about the satisfaction of doing something that isn't as great as it used to be (SPN, I'm also looking in your direction).

There are some shows, SPN included, where I'm very curious to hear about an actor's thoughts about it after its done and they're no longer underneath contract. Some actors might not want to burn bridges, but there are some who will state discreetly their opinions on certain things (and others that don't give a fuck and will go off the rails and rant about things). I mean, for some of them it is a steady paycheck but sometimes I wonder if they regretted signing their contracts (or extending their contracts) and if it prevented them from doing other things that they might've wanted to pursue.

I know that for some Game of Thrones actors, particularly those that had their characters killed off (esp when the characters were still alive in the books), they had some...choice words about it. Really, there needs to be compilation of all the actors who had negative experiences on that show and spoke about it, whether in a discreet manner or not.

[silverusagi]

they did the entire White Walker arc so dirty by basically making everything about them useless and to be destroyed easily, especially with them being such an looming threat the entire series

I know! They literally opened the series with them, and then you've got the whole winter is coming thing, but no one actually seems concerned? It was such a rush job at the end that all of the mythology and world building that had been built up didn't matter and there was no one magical left alive to comment on it or even talk about it. Like, 'oh the curse has been broken' etc. For a song of 'ice and fire' it spent more time at the end on politics (that didn't even make sense!) than it did on the worldbuilding.

And I still can't after them blaming the dragons, and, who was it, Tormund? Who was like, "I don't trust anyone who rides a dragon" or something like that and I'm just like BITCH YOU RODE A DRAGON

The whole populace just had to be against Dany because of Reasons. And I mean, it's not like I think everyone has to like Dany because I like her, but it needs to MAKE SENSE! It made no sense that everyone hated her so much.

Some actors might not want to burn bridges, but there are some who will state discreetly their opinions on certain things (and others that don't give a fuck and will go off the rails and rant about things).

This reminds me of Robert Pattinson, who clearly had no fucks to give about Edward and Bella. It was really kind of hilarious.