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As funny as the coffee cup was, I do feel a little bad because that was def someone's job to look out for stuff like that, and they slipped up as we all do from time to time, but they ended up with the whole world making fun of them.

 

There were a lot of eyes that failed on that one, so hopefully it’s not just one random intern getting destroyed over it.

I wish they had just leaned into it and kept it forever and ever. Those kinds of mistakes are always fun to look back on but now it’s gone. Feels very surreal that it can happen so quickly.

 

I told my friend that I hope for whichever talk show the whole cast does after the finale is released that they all walk out with Starbucks cups in hand and just have a good time with it.

 

Have they said anything about the spin off shows yet? If other main characters signed contracts, what it's about, etc.?

 

It seems insane, with how much hype has surrounded this last season, that this can even be possible

 

All online ratings are 100% a load of bullshit and aren't worth looking at. They're so easily manipulated and misconstrued.

 

Naomi Watts is leading one of them that was supposed to be called The Long Night, but I think they’re changing that title now.

 

I kinda wish they left it too - I think it speaks highly of the show that it's legit just sitting there on the table yet so many people missed it. I know I was caught up in the dynamics of what was happening with the characters and I was definitely looking at Emilia Clarke's face in that scene when I watched the first time .

 

not surprising. everyone i talked to at work yesterday, a lot of my friends, even the person who got me into the show have all said they hated it

 

They’re definitely not gospel, but they are absolutely useful and fun for getting a feel for how people are responding to an episode or a season generally. It is certainly interesting that of all the questionable or just plain bad episodes that have come before, THIS is the one that is getting completely destroyed. I’m sure being close to the endgame has a lot to do with that.

It’s a total farce and a travesty that UUU is more highly rated though. It deserves the worst of the worst title, and they would have to go full Dexter for that to change now.

 

I'm thankful everyone I know personally really enjoyed this week's episode.

 

To me, any online scoring that is sourced from online voting, it's immediately out the window because of trolls, like this situation for example.

But even critic scoring, especially Rotten Tomatoes, the way things are weighted and summarized just do way too poor of a job construing anything.

I really just don't like rating systems for art anyways, so it's a personal thing for me.

 

I was actually going to mention earlier that every person I know in real life who is obsessed with the show and who has been blowing up my FB for a decade (complete with memes mocking those who don’t watch the show) has had a super negative and vocal response to this one. Even people who I’ve seen defend the current season hardcore. Something about it just managed to make tons of people mad for tons of different reasons.

 

So like a system rating sex scenes would be like your personal hell, huh.

 

The only hate I've seen for any of these recent episodes is just on stuff like reddit or here or the typical troll people. Everyone I know in real life is absolutely loving these episodes, minus a few nitpicky moments.

 

Haha, yes

 

Yes, that line/moment in the shows' history was so terrible.

 

I don’t think it’s fair to dismiss all the criticism as trolling. There have been a ton of really thoughtful posts and comments about why this episode let fans down. I even saw someone who put a ton of work into figuring out how the response to this one differed based on IMDB ratings, and it wasn’t from being brigaded or anything like that. It just seemed to tap into something in a way that discouraged a bunch of people who watch it for different reasons.

 

I'm not dismissing all criticism and am glad to read it for stuff I both like and dislike, but when I see brigading ratings on IMDB and the like for stuff like this or The Last Jedi, Captain Marvel, etc... it really sours my whole view of a system that I already don't like in the first place.

 

Love this. I’m so glad it’s not being swept under the rug or being forgotten in light of coffee cups or magic arrows.

 

Maybe I'm just projecting my own feelings about it, but I think it's possible to love these episodes while also having so many people dislike them. I say this because I think this season, especially this past episode, felt more like a Summer Blockbuster popcorn movie than a well written TV drama. It's still entertaining as hell! We're getting all these big moments and reveals and it's awesome! Just like a summer blockbuster movie.

However, part of what made this show GOAT material in 1-6 was all the little moments and dialogue and plot points and etc. This season has definitely been super rushed, way more so than last season even, and it's taking away from all the stuff that made the show great early on. It's still fun to watch, it's still bringing a resolution to the story, so that's good...but it all just feels so rushed. These 4 episodes, but especially last week, really are showing how the show could have used two full seasons to end it instead of two shortened ones.

I do want to add that I think this is a problem that a LOT of big stories encounter, where towards the end things start to wrap up and it happens kinda quickly and you're like wait what huh?....but I think it's especially easy to see with this show because of how great it did all the different plot threads in the first 4-6 seasons (Season 5 is obviously somewhat the exception there between Dorne and such), and it's def obvious how much better the show would have been in the endgame seasons of it if they had just stuck with what Martin had in the books instead of eliminating/changing entire storylines.

 

It being rated the second worst episode of the show overall is a stretch I think. An overreaction as a result of it being the third to last episode. There's plenty of episodes I disliked at the time they aired way more than this one.

 

Like, how much better would this Dany turn be/feel if we had an extra season of her getting frustrated/thwarted/etc by Westerosi politics and dealing with the Aegon reveal? etc