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Give me your rewrite for seasons 7 and 8

posted 6 years ago by gater (199)
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The show seemed solid until the end of season 6 - with Dany sailing to Westeros.

It started falling apart with this ridiculous idea of bringing a dead guy to Cersei - that never made any sense.

I would have made season 7 primarily about taking the Iron Throne, and the reveal about Jon and how he deals with it.
From the beginning Jon thought he was a bastard - then he finds out the truth, that he is a Targaryen and the rightful King - and his reaction? I don't want it - I want to be a bastard. yeah right. Seriously - who wrote this crap?
There should have been real conflict between Jon and Dany, with Jon proclaiming he is the rightful King, Dany agrees and orders her armies to accept Jon as their King. With Jon is charge, he takes Kinds Landing and sits on the Throne.
Season 8 should have been about the battle with the dead. This was supposed to be what the show was really all about - the coming winter and the battle with the dead.

Jon names Dany Queen, as he travels North to battle the dead as King and commander of the Army. I would have Brienne, Jorah, and some other minor characters die in battle. Once the dead are defeated Jon decides to stay in the North.

Cersei should have died in season 7.
Arya should have used her faces at least once in the final 2 seasons.
Missandei and Greyworm should have sailed away together.
Arya should have ended up with Gendry.
Sansa should have died in the battle, such a useless character.

It didn't have to have a "happy ending", but at least a satisfying ending that people would want to watch again.

They turned this once great show into a steaming pile of burning shit - just awful. horrible, clueless writing.

[–] Atarimaster (442) 6 years ago

> There should have been real conflict between Jon and Dany,
> with Jon proclaiming he is the rightful King, Dany agrees
> and orders her armies to accept Jon as their King.

That would have made ME say: "Seriously - who wrote this crap?"
Totally out of character for both. But we’ve had this discussion before.

I still think you (that’s the general not the specific "you") should distinguish between things that you simply didn’t like because you hoped for/predicted something else, and things that really went bad.

[–] gater (199) 6 years ago

No - the writing was bad, beyond bad - bring a dead guy to Cersei?
Jon is a bastard his whole life, finds out the truth and they do nothing with it??
Dany is against slavery, loves children, then she go nuts and kills thousands of women and children?

The writing was shit - they did not stay true to the characters they developed over the years.

[–] Atarimaster (442) 6 years ago

they did not stay true to the characters they developed over the years

As do your suggestions.

[–] BigWorm (683) 6 years ago

A change I might have made to the ending.

arya and the hound spilt up just as in the show. Cersei stumbles past the hound and finds herself under the keep with the walls coming down. Then Jamie appears, they embrace, she bleats on about loving him and sorry for everything. They hear voices and fighting and run down the path Tyrion had laid out. He leads her out past the rubble and the dead. Greyjoy is still on the beach, dead with a smile on his face. They get into the dingy and they both row away taking a side each. They row past the burning fleet. They take a break from rowing, Cersei moving into the Jamie’s arms leaning against his chest as they both look on the destruction of kings landing from a distance. Cersei begins to talk about the future. A second chance with their new baby. About getting revenge. She lays it all out in great sadistic detail with a far away look in her eye. Her eyes go wide as she feels the blade glide across her throat. She gurgles and spurts blood as she turns her head to look at Jamie. Her expression asks why, jamie tells her. “For my brother, for my mother, and for my father, Ned Stark.” And then plunges the dagger into Cersei’s heart.

My reasons are I haven’t seen anything from Arya that says she would just give up her quest. Especially not after one very short conversation. Maybe if they had fleshed out Arya and the hounds journey south were he had been planting seeds of doubt the whole way, but that would have required more episodes. I don’t really have a problem with how it ended, it’s that it was so poorly executed that’s the issue. HBO should have just told D&D to take a walk finished the show with as many episodes as was require to get it right. After seeing the effort the production staff put in, it’s truly awful that D&D forced the ending the way they did.

[–] spurtle467 (1558) 6 years ago

Not quite sure how I'd rewrite it. Quite like the idea of the Night King not being dead after the battle at Winterfell and then he comes to King's Landing, while the living retreat there. It could be written that Dany and Co. would have a better chance fighting at King's Landing due to the use of wildfire and the scorpions to use on dead Viserion.

The things I'd definitely do are, extend the show to 9 or 10 series so it can be properly fleshed out, have Arya use her faceless magic once more, and have Bran do more.