Game Of Thrones - Série 8

Drehbuchdilettantismus des schlimmsten Kalibers. Den größten Teil der konstruktiveren Kritik lieferte mir bereits das Internet, das den Filmemacher nun gnadenlos grillt. Und zu Recht. Staffel 7 mag zwar keinen großen Sinn zu ergeben, aber wenigstens ging es da ab wie die wilde Luzi, und es war auch Cool genug, um die unlogischen Parts zu verzeihen. Bei Staffel 8 geht dies nicht. Nach 8 Jahren ist es so ein Qualitätsabfall, vergleichbar damit, wenn nach Die zwei Türme Owens King Arthur anstelle vom Die Rückkehr des Königs erscheinen würde. Was allerdings in Westeros noch viel schlimmer ist als beim Vorsitzenden des runden Tisches, ist die Tatsache, dass hier alle Charaktere im selben Schlamm baden, die uns so viele Jahre am Herzen lagen. (20.05.2019)

Too rushed and with a bungled screenplay. It goes to show how just important the amount of time that Martin devotes to it is. The parts where the creators have to catch up with parts that have already appeared in the books are so painfully obvious that I regret not reading the books instead. The final threats of freedom are crossed with the ridiculing of democracy and the news of the eventual imposition of the status quo is the only realistic conclusion. A satisfying end of a road still under construction. (20.05.2019)

Over the course of eight years, I did not see this ending coming. I don’t know if I am more disappointed or angry. When I think about everything I have lived through with this show, I wish that at least one storyline had a better ending than that prepared by HBO scriptwriters. At the same time, I feel that this season is completely different from all the previous ones. Sure, when it comes to technologies, the best episode is the penultimate one and the last of the final battles. In contrary to that, the battle with the white walkers was quite a fiasco, I still cannot understand why it was so dark. Even the behavior of almost all characters is completely unreasonable. They reach some sort of catharsis only to go back to all the things they have spent the whole seven seasons learning from? Seriously? And the ending? I’m not sure if it was supposed to lighten the mood, but the angrier I got, the more I did not understand all those wannabe funny moments, which in the last episode made me want to punch the person who created them. It feels like they just spent eight years making fun of us. I remember that years ago I was really into Lost, which was as intricate and complicated as Game of Thrones. Even there the last episode was really stupid, but over the time I have grown to accept it. I doubt it will be the same with this one. (22.05.2019)

Season 8 may have been one of the weaker, but it definitely doesn't deserve 65%. Technically, it remains the best television show ever and episode 3 along with the battle in episode 5 were among the best ever shown on TV. The last episode was a bit too tedious for my taste, but all in all I'm happy with how it turned out. 80%. (23.05.2019)

Anticlimax². The more lavish in design, production, scale and epicness unprecedented on the screen, the more moronic and tastelessly flinging and smearing the legacy of the opening four series, not to mention the source material. Martin must be spinning in his grave… no, bed. There is no denying that the final series has many moments, scenes and passages that are perfectly filmed and breathtaking. It's a shame that logic is not so much absent throughout it as it is committing ritual harakiri every second of the running time. If the eighth series were the culmination of the forgettable consumerist bland dark fantasy that library shelves are full of, it would be hard to have even one single complaint and I would be jubilant. But by being the climax of a series built on characters, sharp dialogue, twists and turns, uncompromising political pragmatism, the unspoken between the lines… It’s not worth talking about. There's not a single decent dialogue, everything is said at the top of its voice, deus ex macina is followed by deus ex machina, there’s no justified twist, no surprising moment, no logical progression, it's pure fanservice (ironically, not giving a crap about fans) of the coarsest grain, just nothing you wouldn't find in any generic "Chosen Child versus Big Very Bad Evil and the love of it" fantasy saga for teenagers. While the previous series still passed off as guilty pleasure, this time around there is a phenomenal display that is worth seeing as long as you can get past the fact that you want to smash your head on the coffee table. (20.05.2019)