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*Warning: This topic obviously contains massive spoilers regarding GoT Season 8, and GoT as a whole*

Right.

So despite this season being a wonderful spectacle in terms or action, cinematography, and acting, I think it's universally agreed upon that a lot of the character and plot points have been an inconsistent mess, mostly for the sake of subverting expectations. ITT of boredom, I throw a few obvious (and not obvious) ideas to make some of what was shown this season better.

Problem: Arya killing the Night King.
Why it's a Problem: 2 fold: It's illogical and denies Bran Stark (the Three-Eyed Raven) a point of existing not only this season, but almost at all in the whole series.
First, it's a total Mary Sue moment for Arya, and D&D flat-out admitted they did it just to be unexpected. How did she Spider-Man into the middle of the godswood, and from where? How did she slip past everyone? We know Arya has stealth and sneaking in the bag, but you gotta show us how she snuck past everyone. And defeating the unstoppable killing machine that is the Night King with just a sleight of hand is as unconvincing as it is lazy.

More importantly, the series has spent a long time establishing a clear connection between the Three-Eyed Raven and the Night King, and blatantly saying so in Ep. 2 of this season. Bran volunteers to bait the Night King, then spends half the episode warging for what looks to be some plan or scheme. The clues are there to believe that the Three-Eyed Raven has special insight/powers to beat the Night King. But no. And without that, Bran's character serves virtually no point to the story, and hasn't for many seasons. Much like how Arya gained assassination skills while away, and Sansa gained a fucking clue, Bran also returned home different and with abilities, and is supposed to show them off. Maybe he doesn't have to be the one per se to kill the Night King, but he should be more than just grub on a fishing line.

Fix to the Problem: Bran un-makes the Night King against the Weirwood tree.
This one makes too much sense. It doesn't matter if he does it via special Three-Eyed Raven magic, warging, a trap, w/e. Having him un-do the Night King with the knowledge and powers of the Three-Eyed Raven against a weirtree, symbolically and actually un-making the Night King the same way he was made, makes too much sense, and gives Bran a real purpose for fucking around North of the Wall this whole time. It also allows Arya to have a "big" moment later, when it makes more sense.

Problem: Rhaegal (dragon) being shot down by Euron/Iron Fleet. Drogon easily destroying said fleet/Scorpions.
Why it's a Problem:The internet has already reviewed to hell and back how problematic the scene was where Euron downs Rhaegal with the Scorpions (how coudl they not be seen from so high up? How would there not be scouts ships that would be ahead of the main convoy? Etc.). Like too much of the battles in this season, logic is sacrificed for spectacle/rushing the plot forward. But Euron's ships have to be hidden WAY better for any of that to be convincing. But OK, fine, let's say that all happened as show.

Well, tonight's episode shows that, with like 5x the amount of Scorpions, including the same Iron Fleet with Euron that already killed one, and only 1 dragon target to aim at, somehow everyone turns into Imperial Stormtroopers and can't hit shit. Not only that, there were a few shots of people manning the Scorpions, Drogon fly right past them, and no one firing. It's incredibly jarring to show Scorpions to be an ace-in-the-hole one episode, and then completely useless the next. It's just sloppy.
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