#people only cared about jn dny ary and if jm ended up with b so of course none of the criticisms involve the characters mentioned above

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A really irritating thing is I do have some criticisms of season 8, because I have criticisms of ALL pieces of TV. (For example, I’ve definitely talked briefly before about how they bungled the ending of Mel’s arc and my conflicting feelings on Theon dying.) There are some other things I’d wished they explored. But I can’t say any of these things, because when I try to talk with ANYONE about the show out in the world, every ounce of energy and every second of time has to be spent explaining why I didn’t hate season 8 as a whole and don’t think the show itself has retroactively been turned into trash because of it.

#like...I know this is all probably making me look like a pretentious fuck but I do at least TRY to make my criticisms 'I cannot find #anything in the text to support this' instead of 'I didn't get my Perfect Fantasy Endgame Ending' #people only cared about jn dny ary and if jm ended up with b so of course none of the criticisms involve the characters mentioned above #because people missed the whole point and picked one or two characters to care about in any way and fuck everyone else #(and then try and moralize everything their chosen fave(s) did in order to...idk prove they stanned the 'good' character or something??) #like. most criticism I've seen boils down to 'dy was the Final Villain and then she died hashtag antifeminism' #(with maybe a side of 'whY dId j bETrAy hEr' and 'jm threw away a potential life with b why was he rEtcOnNeD iNtO a bAd pErSoN') #and these are the ONLY REASONS GIVEN as for why The End Was All Bad #it's never anything else!!!!! #(and imo those things were actually the endpoints of these characters that made the most sense to me!!!!!!!!!) #you want to talk about major story decisions that were ACTUALLY HANDLED BADLY ON ALL ACCOUNTS let me take you back to season 5 where #they did not do ANYTHING to set up stannis burning shireen at the stake and in fact went OUT OF THEIR WAY to tell the audience that #he loved his daughter up until like. the last possible moment. #but again. no one cares about THOSE characters so it was just 'oh haha what a bad dad *insert meme*' #In the Vents