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Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
05-27-19, 04:06 AM
#301
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
Totally fan service. I don’t deny that. I think anything true to the story GRRM wants to tell would require a time jump epilogue showing the children of the characters we know starting their own war for the throne. I fully believe one of the points he wants to get across is that there’s no “happily ever after,” just the same shit happening again and again as new generations come of age.
05-27-19, 04:33 AM
#302
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
05-28-19, 05:47 PM
#303
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
Per TMZ:
UPDATE: 3:34 PM PT -- Kit's reps got back to us, and say he "has decided to utilize this break in his schedule as an opportunity to spend some time at a wellness retreat to work on some personal issues."
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Kit Harington was hit hard by "Game of Thrones" coming to an end -- so hard, he checked himself into a rehab center for stress and alcohol before the final episode aired.
The actor, who famously played Jon Snow on 'Thrones,' entered a luxury Connecticut facility for a mental health retreat weeks before the May 19 finale ... according to the NY Post, which first reported his rehab stay.
Kit's been getting treatment for stress, exhaustion and alcohol abuse. The Post says his wife -- fellow 'GoT' star Rose Leslie -- has been very supportive of the decision to get professional help.
The rehab facility is believed to cost over $120,000 per month ... no word yet on when Harington will be released.
As you know, 'GoT' wrapped its highly-anticipated 8th final season earlier this month. Reviews of the whole season were extremely mixed, at best, and downright awful at worst. It still got HUGE ratings, though.
Video of Kit reacting to the final script in the 'GoT' behind-the-scenes documentary as he read the fate of his character and Emilia Clarke's Daenerys Targaryen went viral ... because he broke down in tears.
Clearly, he wasn't just being dramatic. He has since said he needed therapy after learning how the show ends for his character.
Kit's also been very open about how much the show's worldwide attention has impacted his life. He told Variety the "darkest" point was when Jon Snow was killed ... but later came back to life.
*****
Kit Harington was hit hard by "Game of Thrones" coming to an end -- so hard, he checked himself into a rehab center for stress and alcohol before the final episode aired.
The actor, who famously played Jon Snow on 'Thrones,' entered a luxury Connecticut facility for a mental health retreat weeks before the May 19 finale ... according to the NY Post, which first reported his rehab stay.
Kit's been getting treatment for stress, exhaustion and alcohol abuse. The Post says his wife -- fellow 'GoT' star Rose Leslie -- has been very supportive of the decision to get professional help.
The rehab facility is believed to cost over $120,000 per month ... no word yet on when Harington will be released.
As you know, 'GoT' wrapped its highly-anticipated 8th final season earlier this month. Reviews of the whole season were extremely mixed, at best, and downright awful at worst. It still got HUGE ratings, though.
Video of Kit reacting to the final script in the 'GoT' behind-the-scenes documentary as he read the fate of his character and Emilia Clarke's Daenerys Targaryen went viral ... because he broke down in tears.
Clearly, he wasn't just being dramatic. He has since said he needed therapy after learning how the show ends for his character.
Kit's also been very open about how much the show's worldwide attention has impacted his life. He told Variety the "darkest" point was when Jon Snow was killed ... but later came back to life.
05-28-19, 05:50 PM
#304
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
I doubt it was because of how the show ended for Jon Snow, and the fact that he's no longer on a hit show and his future is unknown.
05-28-19, 05:56 PM
#305
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
I'm sure he'll be ok. He'll never have this success again, but not many people do get repeat hits. He should take some time off... take small roles in indie movies... find a juicey part thats very against type... wait until a great part comes along for TV.
05-28-19, 06:06 PM
#306
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
05-28-19, 07:58 PM
#307
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
Ah yes, celebrities and socialites. What would overpriced shrinks and luxury "mental health retreats" do without them.
05-29-19, 03:01 PM
#308
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
I rather enjoyed this
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05-31-19, 06:40 AM
#310
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
Of course not, but it may explain why he didn't make the final cut for the new Batman role...earlier this year, it was rumored he was being looked at.
05-31-19, 06:51 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
06-07-19, 03:20 PM
#312
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
For those Alt-Shift-X fans, his last episode video finally got posted today:
06-21-19, 09:27 AM
#313
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
I, like many of you, have GoT ending fatigue and only watched this video because of how many likes it had. Even then, I was highly skeptical but, having watched it, I am quite impressed with what this guy came up with. There are a few quibbles I would have, but overall this would have made a much, much better ending to the series (episode 3 onward):
06-21-19, 03:40 PM
#314
Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
I, like many of you, have GoT ending fatigue and only watched this video because of how many likes it had. Even then, I was highly skeptical but, having watched it, I am quite impressed with what this guy came up with. There are a few quibbles I would have, but overall this would have made a much, much better ending to the series (episode 3 onward):
07-01-19, 12:20 PM
#315
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
Do you guys think that Daario will try to track down and kill Jon Snow after he hears what happened to Dany?
07-01-19, 12:27 PM
#316
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07-14-19, 04:34 PM
#319
Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
I have been thinking about the last couple seasons and I think the problem really is simple. And actually the opposite of what many people think. It sucked because they tried to stick to GRRMs arc and ending.
In something of this size, there are tons and tons of little changes to characters plots and arcs. It's like the butterfly effect, but really by Season 3 or 4, the world, characters and arcs of all the main characters were just different than the books. It was it's own thing at that point, and as time went on it became more and more difficult to align with the books.
Dany, Jon, Bran, Sansa even Arya (though maybe the closest) were just not like the book characters very much at all, and the people surrounding them were VERY different. Selmy is still alive in the books, Doreah is as well in fact like GRRM likes to point out many more people were alive in the books than the show.
Because of this, the book Arc essentially no longer fit the TV shows characters. And that is why people hate it.
Dany's Mad Queen turn made NO sense in the TV show. It may in the books.
Bran's story was NOT the best story of the TV show as Tyrion said, in fact pretty much everyone had a better story than Bran. The characters in the TV would have NEVER elected Bran, nor would they have embraced Jon Snow even with the lineage thing which was just a useless MacGuffin in the show.
TV Jamie would not have left Brienne. He might have started, but would have come back.
It would have angered book fans a touch, but going into the last 2 seasons of the show, the showrunners should have looked at the characters and situations they were in on the show, and figured the arc that made most sense for the TV show even if different than the books even completely different.
There were paths forward for Sansa to wind up on the iron throne. In many ways would have been the simplest to do, and she could have effectively been reunited with Tyrion as the king consort.
There was a path forward for Arya as well. Even in the season that we GOT, it would have been simple with a few changes to have either Arya or Sansa wind up there. If Arya saves many of the people of King's Landing from Dany and then kills Dany, it would have been an effective end to the show.
John would have been more difficult but they could have had the reveal of his lineage way earlier and have him OPPOSE Dany the whole way, leading him to wind up there.
The whole white walker battle could have been different, happen at KL and have Dany saving the day and not taking the Iron Throne but given it.
But the GRRM sequence made literally ZERO sense for the TV show. None of that was organic or earned.
I hope it is a lesson for the WOT series. They can follow the books for 3 or 4 seasons, maybe, but after that the story will need to be almost completely different while still incoporating some of the major events.
In something of this size, there are tons and tons of little changes to characters plots and arcs. It's like the butterfly effect, but really by Season 3 or 4, the world, characters and arcs of all the main characters were just different than the books. It was it's own thing at that point, and as time went on it became more and more difficult to align with the books.
Dany, Jon, Bran, Sansa even Arya (though maybe the closest) were just not like the book characters very much at all, and the people surrounding them were VERY different. Selmy is still alive in the books, Doreah is as well in fact like GRRM likes to point out many more people were alive in the books than the show.
Because of this, the book Arc essentially no longer fit the TV shows characters. And that is why people hate it.
Dany's Mad Queen turn made NO sense in the TV show. It may in the books.
Bran's story was NOT the best story of the TV show as Tyrion said, in fact pretty much everyone had a better story than Bran. The characters in the TV would have NEVER elected Bran, nor would they have embraced Jon Snow even with the lineage thing which was just a useless MacGuffin in the show.
TV Jamie would not have left Brienne. He might have started, but would have come back.
It would have angered book fans a touch, but going into the last 2 seasons of the show, the showrunners should have looked at the characters and situations they were in on the show, and figured the arc that made most sense for the TV show even if different than the books even completely different.
There were paths forward for Sansa to wind up on the iron throne. In many ways would have been the simplest to do, and she could have effectively been reunited with Tyrion as the king consort.
There was a path forward for Arya as well. Even in the season that we GOT, it would have been simple with a few changes to have either Arya or Sansa wind up there. If Arya saves many of the people of King's Landing from Dany and then kills Dany, it would have been an effective end to the show.
John would have been more difficult but they could have had the reveal of his lineage way earlier and have him OPPOSE Dany the whole way, leading him to wind up there.
The whole white walker battle could have been different, happen at KL and have Dany saving the day and not taking the Iron Throne but given it.
But the GRRM sequence made literally ZERO sense for the TV show. None of that was organic or earned.
I hope it is a lesson for the WOT series. They can follow the books for 3 or 4 seasons, maybe, but after that the story will need to be almost completely different while still incoporating some of the major events.
07-14-19, 09:34 PM
#320
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
Bran's story was NOT the best story of the TV show as Tyrion said, in fact pretty much everyone had a better story than Bran. The characters in the TV would have NEVER elected Bran, nor would they have embraced Jon Snow even with the lineage thing which was just a useless MacGuffin in the show.
07-15-19, 10:03 AM
#321
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
That moment was possibly the most ridiculous of the entire series. It wasn't just the absurdity of the situation, but also the laughable reasons given for choosing Bran while all of them sat there and nodded approvingly. It was a true LOL moment. What a shameful final move in "The Game of Thrones."
07-15-19, 11:17 AM
#322
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
I assume Sam was there to represent the Reach as the now head of House Tarly since House Tyrell was wiped out. Of course there were a lot of people whose presence at that meeting didn't make sense.
07-18-19, 09:30 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
Just like the season as a whole, it felt rushed.
Writers seemed to just want to get it over with.
That's my impression. The whole season was just not up to what we had gotten previously in terms of sub text or plausible development.
Just my feelings.
Writers seemed to just want to get it over with.
That's my impression. The whole season was just not up to what we had gotten previously in terms of sub text or plausible development.
Just my feelings.
07-18-19, 09:50 AM
#324
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
A little, but more than the writers, I think the actors wanted to move on as well.
07-19-19, 03:34 PM
#325
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Game of Thrones (S8E06) -- 79 minute Series Finale -- “The Iron Throne” -- 5/19/19
It felt as though everyone thought someone different should win the crown and quickly grew bored with the discussion and so in some twisted sense of fairness they went with the only character no one chose and wrote it out of spite.