The epic fantasy TV series Game of Thrones has ended after eight seasons.
Somehow I feel very sad because it is finished and I don’t know what will come next — if anything. However, I am NOT disappointed. To me the end seems to be a fitting one. In some aspects, I am not even surprised. People were expecting that an epic series would have an epic ending, but life is rarely like that. It is the perfect “all evil was defeated and they lived unhappily ever after” type of ending. What else were they expecting? Evidently, the millennials who are not used to not have their way will demand a new ending. What a silly thought! That’s almost funny if it wasn’t so stupid…
Now, without giving away any spoilers, we can only ask that — if all surviving heroes appear to be going on new adventures — what will come next? The very end of the series clearly calls for something more and we know that many sequels / prequels could be in the works. I can hardly wait to see what it will be.
In the meantime, HBO will not leave us hanging dry as they have been announcing several new series of interest. I am particularly curious about the Watchmen TV series (in Fall), the third season of Westworld (announced for 2020) and a TV series adaptation of His Dark Materials (based on Philip Pullman’s young adult novel series and due to premiere in late 2019). The visuals I’ve seen for the first one seem a little disappointing, so I am quite apprehensive about it, but the latter looks incredibly promising. We’ll see…
Game of Thrones has given us a good run and we should be grateful for it. Our collective popular culture shall be much richer for it. And, beside the possible pre/sequels, there is still those two final books (A Song of Ice and Fire #6: The Winds of Winter and #7: A Dream of Spring) that will certainly add a lot to the story as told by the TV series. We just have to be a little more patient…
Amusingly, the controversial last episode of the eight season, “The Iron Throne”, had the highest ever audience (nearly 14 millions of viewers in the U.S. alone, according to Nielsen, more than the final of The Sopranos) but the lowest critical response (a rating of 4.4 on IMDb down from an overall ratings of 9.4 and a critical / audience rating of 67% / 36% on Rotten Tomatoes, down from an overall average of 90% / 82% !!).
The final season of the series was plagued by controversies. First, many fans were very disappointed with the ending, some (nearly two millions!) even starting a petition demanding a rewrite of the entire last season! On top of that, not only a Starbucks coffee cup could be spotted in episode 8.4 (#71) sitting on the table in front of Daenerys, but also plastic water bottles could be seen at the feet of both Samwell Tarly and Ser Davos Seaworth during the “council of the Seven Kingdoms” in episode 8.6 (#73)!
Television will never be the same…
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- Game of Thrones Season 8 Picture Gallery (ICv2)
- ‘Game of Thrones‘ Trailer and Premiere Date (ICv2)
- ‘Game of Thrones‘ Season 8 premiere recap: Secrets, Starks and spirals in ‘Winterfell’ (USA Today)
- 10 “Game Of Thrones” Podcasts You Should Listen To This Season (BuzzFeed)
- Growing up Game of Thrones (RollingStone)
- Behind the sounds of ‘Game of Thrones‘ (NBC)
- “Game of Thrones” season 8: Ramin Djawadi’s piano music key to HBO show’s greatness (Quartz)
- Games of Thrones‘ coffee cup and 6 other TV and film bloopers (BBC)
- Sophie Turner Names ‘The Culprit’ Behind ‘Game Of Thrones’ Rogue Cup Goof (HuffPost)
- HBO Releases ‘Game of Thrones’ Documentary ‘The Last Watch’ Trailer (Cosmopolitan)
- Apple just gave you the best way to watch ‘Game of Thrones‘ without an internet connection (CNBC)
- Someone Is Rewriting The Ending Of ‘Game Of Thrones,’ George RR Martin (Forbes)
- ‘Game of Thrones‘ series finale: who won the Iron Throne? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- ‘Game of Thrones’ Spoiler Alert: A Spanish Doctor Will Tell You How It Ends (WSJ)
- ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Finale Recap: All Hail King Who? (The New York Times)
- The Game of Thrones Finale Was a Big Womp Womp, According to the Internet (Vogue)
- Game of Thrones finale gets mixed response (BBC)
- A Game of Thrones do-over? Now that’s a fantasy (The Star)
- 3 Reasons Why ‘Game of Thrones‘ Had the Best Ending Possible (Men’s Health)
- Game of Thrones: Why That Final, Tragic Twist Felt So Inevitable (Vanity Fair)
- After Game of Thrones, what’s the next must-see fantasy epic? (The Guardian)
- George R.R. Martin reacts to that Game of Thrones finale (EW)
- George RR Martin (sort of) reveals whether the end of his ‘Game of Thrones‘ book will match the show (CNN)
- Plastic water bottle appears in ‘Game of Thrones‘ finale (Mashable)
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