Game of Thrones aired its climactic, penultimate episode this week and well, Kate had thoughts. As Noel gave up on the series back in season one, Kate invited on Clint Worthington of The Spool and friend of the show Allison Shoemaker for a special bonus episode of The Televerse. Allison, Clint, and Kate break down the good, the bad, and the ugly of Game of Thrones’ most divisive episode in years, diving right in, and still somehow barely scratching the surface 40 minutes later.
Note: Usually we keep things PG here at The Televerse, but given the subject matter, we didn’t bother bleeping the F-bombs this time. If you’re mature enough to watch Game of Thrones, we figure you likely won’t mind some mild profanity.
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For the past couple of years I’ve resigned myself to accept the fact that GoT wouldn’t end in a great way, and that it’s best years were in the past. Most of the end results of this episode I’m not surprised by, but how they got there was not satisfying or earned in any way, save for maybe Qyburn’s death. It really feels like the showrunners are rushing to the end using GRRM’s bullet points, but ignoring any character or logistical (eg. the scorpions’ effectiveness last episode to this one) consistency to jump to the next point.