Five years ago, Game of Thrones went out not with a bang, but a profoundly disappointing whimper. What exactly went wrong?
Ending a TV show well is an infamously hard thing to do. Plenty of great, talented writers have tried and failed over the years, and even more fans have been left disappointed as their favorite shows failed to stick the landing. While bad final episodes have been a part of the TV landscape for decades, no series finale in modern memory has been as universally and passionately detested as Game of Thrones‘.
Recommended Videos To date, no one has tried to change the public’s opinion about Thrones‘ finale. Most viewers, in fact, still seem just as angry about the show’s final episode as they did when it premiered. In honor of the finale’s five-year anniversary this week, though, it’s worth asking again: What exactly went wrong?
For its first six seasons, the show successfully kept its focus on its characters, even as its size and set pieces only continued to grow. In its final two seasons, though, Thrones abandoned its character-first approach to drama. It leapfrogged over years of necessary character development to turn Clarke’s Daenerys into a tyrannical conqueror and abandoned the brutal logic of its fictional world in order to justify its increasingly unearned depiction of her as a literal mad queen.
*This is to say nothing of how Thrones’ final season also botches one of the greatest arcs in television history by having Jaime Lannister shed all of his moral beliefs and regress Barney Stinson-style in its last two chapters.
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