How Game of Thrones Should Have Ended

Talk to me about your reaction when you read the script for your final episode

Ummm

oh, I... I was

Errr... I was really

Pleased with... that

[voiceover from review excerpt] I hate Dumb and Dumber the producers and writers of the show. I have never liked them

They are the most overrated,

egotistical, sorry excuses for talent in Hollywood

[Think Story] as of the making of this video, the petition to rewrite season 8 is approaching a

Staggering one-and-a-half million signatures that's like more than the petition to end world hunger, but it's one thing to hate the season

It's another to claim you could have written it better

So before you go ahead and automatically dislike this video hear me out if you don't like what I'm putting down fair enough

But the whole reason I'm making this video is because I love this show so much and felt the characters deserved a lot better

I'm splitting this video into two distinct halves

First my two major critiques of the season and two the rewrite

So if you're interested in just the rewrite portion

I've left the timestamp in the description below but keep in mind my critique of the season

Informs the rewrite a few ground rules before we begin this is going to be a broad overarching

Revision of some of the main tentpole moments not a scene-by-scene rewrite or else we'd be here all day

in fact

I'm leaving episodes 1 & 2

Relatively untouched opting to start with episode 3 where things started to go downhill for me and then onward to episode 4 where

things went completely off the rails while Daenery kind of forgot about the iron fleet and Euron's forces

And I'm also not going to magically add episodes or seasons

I want to give myself the same constraints the showrunners had

Even though the last 35 minutes of the final episode arguably could have been an entire season in and of itself

So I'm going to briefly go over what I believe the two major problems of this season were now I know there are literally

Hundreds of things to bitch about this season and I could do a video entirely just on that

But for the purposes of my rewrite

I'm gonna focus just on these two major points one the night King and two character arcs

The night king is the main antagonistic force that propels much of the narrative in the show

It's his presence that forces people like Danny and John to band together in order to save humanity if the night king is

Successful in his quest then. It doesn't matter who's on the Iron Throne

I argue that the night King is more important of a foe than

Cersei and there's more at stake should our heroes fail against him look all the way back at the very first scene in the very

First season it doesn't start with the death of Jon Arryn palace intrigue or something to do with the throne

It starts with the White Walkers. That's how important day in the night king arm

This is why the night king dying in Episode three was a major mistake

Not only were we denied an epic battle between Jon and the night king

Which was essentially promised to us with the end of hardhome

But all eight seasons of the show have been building up to this moment

Will they defeat the night king or not by having him die in episode three?