"I understand that if any more words come pouring out your cunt mouth, I'm going to have to eat every fucking chicken in this room." - The Hound
Oh the agony! Oh the ecstasy! The game is over and I feel like tossing the table and storming out of the fucking room (much like when I'm losing at Monopoly)
If you haven't figure it out from one of the Hounds most iconic and beautiful quotes, Game of Thrones came to an end last week. In fact, its been exactly one week (at the time of writing this, not publishing) and I find myself already having withdrawal symptoms. I am now watching all the behind the scenes shows and "Thronecast" hosted by my lovely girl crush Sue Perkins just to get my fix.
The final season has divided fans. In fact I haven't seen so much division between members of the public since Trump got elected! But I think that most will agree that it was worth investing almost a decade in. Unless you're me and as usual was late to the party and started watching a mere 3 years ago. It was my colleague, who I loving refer to as "Geek" who introduced me to it, badgering me for months to watch it and promising that I would love it. Before that fateful day where I descended in to the madness of the GoT world, I had of course heard of the show but it wasn't really something I thought would interest me. If there's two things I cant abide by entertainment wise, its Westerns and Medieval genres. However Geek would not give up, even changing one of my passwords at work to Gameofthrones1. (I will clarify that he was allowed to do that as he was one of the IT guys. There's no GDPR breaches on my watch thank you very much) Eventually I gave in and I'm glad I did. I will be forever grateful for his relentless attempts. I also thought it would be great conversation for when I eventually asked him out on a date.
I actually managed to watch all 6 seasons in 2 weeks (claim to fame?) On a diet of 5 hours a night after work and all weekend with no breaks other than to pee, yes, I binged watched to end all binge watches. I'm just gearing myself up to see how long it takes to watch all 8 seasons at once... should be interesting to say the least.
So I'm not going to dissect the show from beginning to end. I'm not going to bitch about the loose ends that they failed to tie up or character arcs that left me wide eyed, open mouthed and slightly confused. I will confess that I was disappointed with the last season and feel that with the couple of more episodes (they condensed the season to a mere 6!) they could've received a better reaction than they did. from the fans worldwide. I mean, they were never gonna satisfy everyone were they? Everyone had their own ideas and own needs as to who died, where, by who's hand and why? They just needed more time. Hell, in an ideal world they would have taken it into another season and milked it for every penny they could. I wouldn't have minded that at all. Although when they announced that it would take two frickin years for season 8 to be released, I was sure I was gonna get hit by a bus the week before it aired and die without ever seeing what happened. I mean like totally convinced. It would just be my fucking luck.
What do we say to the God of TV?
So what now?
To come, we have prequels which have begun shooting already and of course George R.R Martin has to finish his books. I haven't begun to read them as I rarely read the book before the TV/film adaptation. Quite frankly its just two confusing for my already overcrowded brain to deal with. Dear old George has said however, that the book will not end the way the show did and I'm sure many of his fans past and present will be glad to hear that. Will I read them? I'm not sure. They are by all accounts huge and complicated and I don't want to find myself skipping pages to find a mere hint of a name that I recognise from the show. Despite that I'm sure that Amazon will have jacked up the price since the show became the overwhelming success that it is/was/continues to be. After all, the show may have ended but I'm sure the world will be discussing this wonderful show, this global phenomenon for a long, long time.
"Turns out, far too much has been written about great men and not nearly enough about morons. Doesn't seem right." - Tyrion
