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Fire and blood, or a dream of spring?
- Once again a Game of Thrones-game disappoints, because the last Game of Thrones-game by Cyanide was also average at best. This role playing game lacks any polish, looks amateurish and lacks a good enough story arc to remain interesting. Even for diehard fans of Game of Thrones we can't recommend this.
- Every IGN Game of Thrones Review. Like Westworld and Lost before it, we want to believe that Game of Thrones is as clever as it thinks it is, but for those of us who love to theorize.
- May 19, 2012 Initially I wasn't aware that there was a Game of Thrones RPG. So when I saw it I knew I had to play it. The story is great and the 'Chapters' they use to tell it do a good job of mixing things up.
- Aug 12, 2012 Far from the RPG the Game of Thrones deserves, but still better than its components have the right to be. Like books, it's often a bad idea to judge a game by its cover – or even by its first.
- If you find yourself without a depth of knowledge of George R. Martin's world, like myself, however, you'll find an unspectacular, but entertaining, RPG modeled after BioWare's titles. Unfortunately for both parties, Game of Thrones is an incredibly rough title – glitches abound, and while few of them are game-breaking, they're still considerably frustrating.
- Game of Thrones allows you to wander around freely, but it never tries to pretend that it’s anything but a linear, story-focused game. These teeth are for talking For some reason, the PC version of this game runs the graphics card way harder than it has any right to.
The first thing you'll need is 'A Song of Ice and Fire RPG: A Game of Thrones Edition' (Green Ronin Publishing, 2012). This is the game's core rulebook, and so it contains everything you'll need.
$18.99on Amazon series finale review contains spoilers for GoT S8, Ep 6, 'The Iron Throne.' For more on the series finale, here's why that A Song of Ice and Fire callback is so meaningful, the significance of Naath, and what Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke thought of Jon and Daenerys's endings. To dig deeper into the finale, watch our episode breakdown in Dragons on the Wall above, or download the podcast version here.You can also check out the finale's biggest WTF questions, why Drogon did what he did in the end, peruse every IGN Game of Thrones episode review ever, or learn why Westeros' new leader could be a terrifying choice.
It was a neater Game of Thrones ending than some of us might have predicted. Aside from Daenerys, there were no major casualties (RIP nameless Lannister soldiers) - and while the surviving lords and ladies of Westeros laughed off Sam's optimistic suggestion that they should establish a democracy in place of a monarchy and finally allow the people of the Seven Kingdoms a vote (nice try, Tarly), everything seemed to work out okay in spite of Dany's mass genocide. Despite Sansa's observation that there were thousands of angry Northmen outside the walls of King's Landing rooting for Jon's freedom, we never got a sense of how this conflict affected the wider world, or whether the civilians in other parts of Westeros were even aware of the petty squabbling between queens. It was almost too clean. (Also: Did winter really come and go that quickly, after all that hype?)In the end, it came down to the cripples, bastards, and broken things who began the story, with Bran's wisdom - and more importantly, his knowledge of the past - proving to be more of a qualification for rule than violence or blood; hearkening back to Tywin Lannister's lesson to Tommen about what makes a good king - someone who listens to his counselors and doesn't try to make every decision on his own. And it's a relief that after seasons of Jon insisting he didn't have any desire or ambition to rule, it wasn't forced upon him because of something as arbitrary as who his parents were. (Although that whole Aegon twist really did become much ado about nothing in the end, huh?)
Sansa became Queen in the North, presiding over an independent kingdom that will no doubt benefit from her keen sense of strategy and care for her people; Arya set herself up for a perfect spinoff, setting sail to explore whatever's west of Westeros and living like the wild, untamed creature she's always been; Tyrion became Hand to a ruler who is basically content to let him rule instead; and despite all that nonsense about being exiled to the Night's Watch again, it seems as though Jon intends to go up into the real North with Tormund and Ghost and the rest of the wildlings, to find the kind of simple, peaceful life he might've had with Ygritte, if people had stopped trying to thrust some grand destiny upon him years ago. (And did you notice that sprig of green growing through the snow as they rode into the forest? A dream of spring indeed.)
'The Iron Throne' followed the show's longstanding tradition of going big in each season's penultimate episode and using the finale to tie up loose ends, which felt a little more anticlimactic here than usual, given that we've had eight seasons of build-up to get to this point. And I'm no happier about Daenerys's poorly-executed heel turn now than I was after 'The Bells,' especially when we finally got to hear her justify herself. This was clearly no psychotic break or vengeful spree against the people of King's Landing for any perceived crime against her, just a delusion that Cersei was using 'their innocence as a weapon' against Dany to try and make her hesitate in taking what she wanted, despite the fact that she didn't need to attack any innocent people at all to claim the throne.No one challenged Dany that she could've gone straight for the Red Keep and still triumphed, since it was entirely clear (even from the back of a dragon) that Cersei wasn't in the streets, and the Lannister soldiers were mostly defending the wall that she and Drogon had already destroyed. Nothing about Daenerys's character up to this point has implied that she would countenance the needless slaughter of women or children - indeed, she emphasized to the Dothraki and Unsullied that they had 'liberated the people of King's Landing' and that her priority from now on was in 'freeing' the men, women, and children of Westeros from 'the wheel' with no trace of irony. Her lack of remorse in this episode didn't come across like the ravings of a dictator who was prepared to win at any cost, as one might've expected with all of those 'Mad King' comparisons - it just played as if the showrunners had made up their minds that what Daenerys did was the most efficient way to get Jon and Tyrion to switch from supporting her to betraying her, never mind if it lacked any narrative logic or justification.
Just as the show did a huge disservice to Cersei this season, relegating Lena Headey to a mere 25 minutes of screentime in Season 8 and offering us no insight into her mental state or motivations (beyond subtly touching her belly or staring mournfully out of a window), Game of Thrones similarly fumbled Daenerys's Anakin Skywalker-esque descent into villainy. Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss said that they purposefully avoided showing us Dany's expression once she started laying waste to King's Landing in 'The Bells,' but by keeping us at a distance, it was impossible for us to follow Daenerys's reasoning or empathize with her, something that's vital when you're trying to transition a beloved hero into a villain.
Walter White's trajectory in Breaking Bad was so effective and so heartbreaking because we got to witness the slow but steady erosion of his morals and boundaries over the course of several seasons - positioning the story from point of view to help justify his decisions (something that Benioff and Weiss absolutely could've done with Dany this season, and that George R. R Martin will hopefully accomplish in his novels) while still allowing other characters to react to and be repulsed by his behavior. But by deliberately keeping the audience out of Daenerys's head and showing her only through the lens of how others saw her, the final season missed out on a vital opportunity to offer context on why she made the choices she did, reducing a previously nuanced and fascinating character to a one-dimensional shadow of her former self. Both Emilia Clarke and Lena Headey deserved better, after putting such thoughtful work into Dany and Cersei over the past decade.But despite how viscerally I responded to 'The Bells' (enough to write a 3000+ word rant about it), at least it made me feel something, and the most disappointing part of 'The Iron Throne' is that I didn't really feel much of anything. I didn't cry, I wasn't shocked by Jon's decision to stab Dany in the heart (one of many callbacks in the finale, mirroring Jon's own betrayal by Olly), and the most poignant moments of the episode came from Drogon mourning his fallen mother, Lion King style, and Jon finally touching Ghost after three seasons - something that wouldn't have even been emotionally affecting or resonant in the first place if the show hadn't been so weirdly insistent on keeping the direwolf separate from his master for all this time. Brienne finally getting a chance to fill in the rest of Jaime Lannister's great deeds in the White Book of the Kingsguard was an earned and beautiful callback, but it was a little soured by how callously and hurriedly he left her - again, offering no real insight into his feelings for either Cersei or Brienne.
For the most part, the finale felt oddly flat. For a show I've invested countless hours in, both professionally and as a fan of Martin's books, I figured I'd at least tear up about the prospect of saying goodbye to these characters. But as I discussed in last week's review, that's the problem with expectation versus reality, and since Game of Thrones is potentially the last true 'watercooler' show that will succeed in gathering such a vocal weekly global audience all discussing and analyzing and obsessing about it in real-time, it was inevitable it could never completely satisfy those of us who have been madly theorizing about it for years.
And while the episode was beautifully directed and shot by Benioff and Weiss (the visual of Daenerys with Drogon's wings outstretched behind her may be the most indelible image in the show's history, while the moment when Drogon melted the Iron Throne was the only scene in the episode to truly give me chills) it felt like too many other episodes have this season, like boxes were being checked off, rather than allowing moments and character choices to develop organically. And while Ramin Djawadi's score once again elevated the episode's most meaningful moments, it was most potent when it was absent - the episode opened with an almost 10-minute stretch with no musical accompaniment at all, heightening the horror and shock in the wake of Daenerys's destruction right up until Tyrion discovered Jaime and Cersei's bodies, a powerful showcase for Peter Dinklage's consistently excellent performance, but one that was once again undermined by the futility of Jaime and Cersei's demise.
'The Iron Throne' certainly wasn't a disastrous finale, or one that will tarnish the legacy of the show (more than the reaction to 'The Bells' already has for some fans, anyway), and by allowing some of our favorite characters to survive and thrive (the season undeniably wasted Bronn, but seeing the 'Lord of Lofty Titles' on the Small Council, bantering back and forth with Tyrion again, was delightful), it offered a note of hope that last week seemed almost unimaginable. But compared to all the potential there was in earlier seasons, it's impossible not to wonder what might have been, had Benioff and Weiss agreed to more episodes and more breathing room to let these conflicts develop in a way these characters and this story deserved.
At least we'll have Martin's final books to offer more insight into how we got here and why, if they ever arrive.
Verdict
'The Iron Throne' offered a bittersweet but ultimately hopeful ending to one of the most popular TV shows of all time, and in that respect, it's probably more than we could've hoped for. But after last week's undercooked (no pun intended) Daenerys twist, the finale couldn't entirely stick the landing, struggling to resolve many of the show's lingering plot threads in a satisfying and coherent conclusion (and ignoring others completely), and once again falling victim to the season's needlessly truncated episode order. It's not quite the dream of spring we might've hoped for, but it's not a disaster either. And now our watch has ended.
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I discussed my issues with Daenerys’s convenient heel turn at great length after “The Bells” and “The Iron Throne” (although if you want to beat a dead dragon, we unpack it from pretty much every conceivable angle in the final episode of Dragons on the Wall above, or download the audio version of the episode here), but when looking back at Season 8 as a whole, it becomes clear how deeply all of our “POV” characters suffered from being stripped of their point of view in these final six chapters.As I touched upon in my episode 5 review, David Benioff and Dan Weiss have purposefully kept the audience at a distance from the characters for the past couple of seasons, placing more value on shocking us than building a coherent narrative structure. Part of that could be because, once they passed George R. R. Martin’s novels (which literally spelled out Jon, Daenerys, Cersei, Arya, Sansa, and Tyrion’s internal monologues in black and white), perhaps they didn’t have Martin’s insight into exactly what our heroes were thinking - just the endpoint the author wanted them to get to, without the full context behind it.
But even if they didn’t have Martin’s blueprint to follow, Benioff and Weiss have still been in these characters’ heads for the past 73 episodes, so it’s hard to buy that they simply forgot how to believably explain our protagonists’ motives and inner turmoil - even though it often felt that way when we were watching Jon fumble every opportunity to have an honest conversation with Dany or act strategically against the Night King, and seeing Tyrion make mistake after mistake in his schemes against Cersei, despite having been keenly aware of his sister’s vindictive and destructive streak all of his life. (These are the same writers who did such a thoughtful and poignant job of fleshing out relationships we didn’t get to explore much in the books, like Robert and Cersei’s, or Tywin and Arya’s, but they're also the ones who completely mishandled Dorne and the Sand Snakes, some of the most interesting characters in the novels.)The totality of Game of Thrones Season 8 isn’t a failure by any means; on a technical level, it’s one of the most impressively constructed TV seasons of all time, demonstrating the kind of visual artistry that you could previously only see in a multiplex. The machinery around it, from the global publicity and marketing blitz to the actual production on the show itself - which spanned multiple continents, created thousands of jobs, and necessitated the kind of security and secrecy previously only required for transporting royalty, was unprecedented and unparalleled, and in that way, it’s a towering achievement, one that the cast, creatives, and crew should be rightly proud of.
Whether they ultimately agreed with their characters’ fates or not (or got the material they deserved, which many of them didn’t), for the most part the entire cast delivered powerful, nuanced, engaging performances, reminding us of the humanity of these characters even when they were sidelined in favor of visual effects or shocking plot twists.
For me, the failure of the final season was that I didn’t feel much when we said goodbye to the people we’ve followed for the better part of a decade. I went from loathing Jaime Lannister in Season 1 to rooting for his redemption, and yet his demise alongside Cersei barely registered with me, because of how rushed his abandonment of Brienne felt and the fact that we hadn’t had any insight into Cersei’s mental state all season. While I was relieved that all of the remaining Starks made it out alive, everything felt far too clean, too easy (even for Jon) - mostly because everything was decided by committee, probably the least dramatic method of conveying information. (Give Jon a trial by combat against Grey Worm, you cowards!)It feels like the showrunners just lost sight of the story they were telling by choosing to focus on the spectacle instead. By widening their scope to encompass ever-bigger battles and set pieces, they pulled so far back that the simple human relationships that once drove the show disappeared from view altogether. In earlier seasons, we were watching every major character’s journey unfold through their own eyes, and listening to them vocalize their desires, fears, and insecurities via intimate, meticulously-layered conversations with the people around them, regardless of whether they were friends or enemies.
It’s telling that when Emilia Clarke was asked what she would’ve liked to see from Daenerys’s ending, she expressed a desire for more scenes between Daenerys and Missandei, and scenes between Dany and Cersei. It’s staggering to realize that these two powerful, ambitious women barely said two words to each other throughout the entire series, despite being pitted against each other for two seasons - can you imagine how electric it would’ve been to see two tyrants, both absolutely convinced of their righteousness, facing off? They were two sides of the same coin, both victims of circumstance, betrayed and belittled by those they loved, lashing out at a world that could never accept them.Daenerys’s trajectory was likely intended to be tragic, but she wasn’t even permitted a final word, barely even a realization of Jon’s ultimate betrayal - it was Cersei who was given the “romantic” ending, dying in the arms of a man who loved her in spite of her darkest impulses, who wasn’t willing to let the world burn, but still chose to leave it with her, rather than face the prospect of living in it without her. Both women were shortchanged by the truncated season and Benioff and Weiss’s inexplicable rush to the finish line, but Cersei at least had years of nuanced character development before Season 8 to make her an understandable villain, if not always a sympathetic one.
But that narrative shortcutting is indicative of a larger issue - that Benioff and Weiss didn’t seem all that interested in the actual mythology of this world, despite having leaned so heavily into it for multiple seasons, to the point where viewers can be forgiven for feeling underwhelmed by the Night King’s tidy defeat, the sidelining of the Stark family’s direwolves (and by extension, the power to warg), the mysteries surrounding Azor Ahai, and Arya’s forgotten face-stealing skills.Battles and explosions are fine, but they only have stakes for the audience if we’re invested in the people on the ground and believe that they’re truly in peril. Yes, all fantasy storytelling requires some suspension of disbelief, but we have to buy into the rules of a fictional world in order to follow it. The series still needs to adhere to its own internal logic to avoid undermining its story - something that Game of Thrones frequently forgot in Seasons 7 and 8 between Jaime’s miraculous survival after seemingly drowning in “The Spoils of War,” to pretty much every POV character’s plot armor in “The Long Night.” Rather than asking if a character could believably survive certain situations or would behave in a specific way according to their previous experiences, at a certain point the writers seemingly just settled for asking whether it would look cool. (And sure, it frequently did.)
And although it previously seemed as though Bran had knowledge of the past and occasional insight into the present as the Three-Eyed Raven, in the finale, he basically admitted that he could see the future by telling Tyrion, “Why do you think I came all this way?” when asked if he wanted to be king. Leaving aside the fact that it’s just a smarmy, needlessly condescending response, it also opens up some disturbing implications about Bran, and, as my colleague Dan Stapleton points out, basically turns Westeros into a surveillance state.
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It also seems to implicate Bran as the ultimate mastermind of this game who, whether through callous inaction or purposeful cruelty, allowed thousands to be slaughtered at Winterfell and King’s Landing just to pave the way for his eventual rule (which, as many fans have pointed out, could theoretically last for thousands of years, given the average lifespan of previous Three-Eyed Ravens). That’s not so much breaking the wheel as greasing it to better crush people for millennia to come.It would’ve been a far stronger message if the series hadn’t chickened out on Sam’s suggestion of democracy in favor of an oligarchy, since there’s no guarantee that the next generation of lords and ladies doing the picking won’t be every bit as corruptible, mercenary, and self-serving as the likes of Joffrey or Euron. Despite the horrors of what she did in pursuit of power, Daenerys ultimately didn’t succeed in changing much of anything, and that’s heartbreaking.
By refusing to ever explain the extent of Bran’s abilities, Benioff and Weiss turned him into the ultimate deus ex machina. Nothing about his brief appearance at the newly formed Small Council meeting gives any indication that he would be a just or wise (or even particularly vocal) ruler - Tyrion is basically king in all but name - and it’s disturbing that his only interest is in tracking down Drogon, basically the Westeros equivalent of a nuke that Bran can maybe or maybe not warg himself into if it suits him.And considering all the strife and paranoia it caused, and all the years of build up, Jon’s identity as Aegon Targaryen ultimately meant nothing. If the majority of the remaining Lords and Ladies of Westeros are aware of his lineage, they’re certainly not throwing their weight behind him now, and if Jon actually does hold true to his renewed Night’s Watch vows (although why should he, when it doesn’t seem like there are many brothers in black around to check on him?), he’ll die as the last Targaryen - forgotten, like Maester Aemon. There’s something fittingly poetic about that, in line with the destruction of the Iron Throne - blood certainly doesn’t qualify anyone to rule.
Adapted material always faces the hurdle of expectation versus reality, and perhaps I’ve always given the show too much credit. While we want to believe that there’s meaning behind every Game of Thrones symbol and prophecy because of the level of detail Martin included when crafting his world, the show has never really been able to withstand the level of scrutiny we’ve focused upon it, because, honestly, nothing could. After all, the show’s central, lingering mystery about the identity of Jon Snow’s mother - the test that Martin posed to Benioff and Weiss to prove their worthiness to adapt his material - is one that fans of the books guessed years ago, long before the show breathlessly unveiled it like it was some grand revelation.Like Westworld and Lost before it, we want to believe that Game of Thrones is as clever as it thinks it is, but for those of us who love to theorize about the stories we love, the collective cultural consciousness will inevitably come up with ideas far more creative and satisfying than one author or two showrunners, because we’re overanalyzing every conceivable angle rather than simply trying to tell a tale.
There was truly no way for Benioff and Weiss to win this game, and I sympathize with them. But they painted themselves into a corner just as much as Cersei did by rushing the most vital part of the story, and while we are responsible for our own high expectations, we also have every right to expect more from shows that never used to talk down to their audience or prioritize spectacle over substance. (Remember when the show used to cut away from its big battles and only show us the aftermath?)
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The human drama in Game of Thrones has always been more interesting than a bunch of people swinging swords, no matter how impressive the Battle of the Bastards was, but as the show’s budget and popularity grew, it seems as if Benioff and Weiss might’ve fallen into the same trap that George Lucas did when crafting the Star Wars prequels, believing that people were watching for the scale and razzle-dazzle rather than the complexity of its characters and their tangled loyalties.Verdict
So yes, Season 8 felt underwhelming. But the one thing Game of Thrones has going for it is that even at its worst, it’s generally more ambitious, engaging, and impressive than the majority of other TV shows, and I only hold it to a higher standard because I know it’s capable of greatness. Plenty of TV shows can have disappointing or downright disastrous final seasons and still be considered great, and no matter how anticlimactic I found these final six episodes, it doesn’t tarnish my enjoyment of the series or my love for the characters. Daenerys deserved better, and so did we, but if this season taught us anything, it’s that you can’t always get what you want.
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