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In this all too brief life of ours, I try not to hold grudges. Life is just far too short to waste time actively maintaining disdain for anyone or anything. Live and let live, as the saying goes.
However… FUCK those Game of Thrones writers, fam. Fuck them all to death, as President Garrison would say on South Park.
Now, had they just merely written a bad season, I’d cut them some slack. Mistakes happen — trust me, I know. But the issue with David Benioff and D.B. Weiss is that all of Game of Thrones issues were borne out of their own selfishness and/or laziness.
The fact is that HBO offered “The Double D’s” full 10-episode seasons to close out the series, an offer that they ultimately declined. Why? Well, we’ll never really know, but the consensus is that they either bailed because they were A) tired of doing Game of Thrones or B) wanted to move onto their next project.
The results speak for themselves, as the seventh season of the iconic HBO fantasy drama was alright, while the final 6-episode season is widely considered to be an unmitigated disaster.
Well, folks, I’ve got bad news: if you thought you hated the Game of Thrones finale before, just WAIT till’ you get a look at some of the details in the series finale script.
Because the series was somehow nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series at this year’s Emmys (which is a legitimate farce if you ask me), a downloadable version of the series finale script is now available online.
And in the said script is a tidbit about the moment Drogon burns down the Iron Throne that adds a whole new level of stupidity to Benioff and Weiss’ storytelling decisions down the stretch:
“Drogon looks down at Jon. We see the fire build up in his throat. Jon sees it as well. He prepares to die. But the blast is not for him. Drogon wants to burn the world but he will not kill Jon. He breathes fire on the back wall, blasting down what remains of the great red blocks of stone. We look over Jon’s shoulder as the fire sweeps toward the throne — not the target of Drogon’s wrath, just a dumb bystander caught up in the conflagration.” [IndieWire]
“Just a dumb bystander caught up in the conflagration.” I mean… wow. Look, I wasn’t a fan of the whole Drogon-burns-down-the-Iron-Throne thing to begin with, but to describe the moment as essentially an accident is just truly baffling to me.
Was it a clunky moment regardless? Absolutely. But if you’re going to do it anyway, at least have it be on fucking purpose.
The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards will be held on Sunday, September 22.