Here's another: Jaime's redemption arc? Trope. And I could go on and on with other examples. (Here's another doozy: Many people, I think, were apoplectic that neither Jon nor Dany crossed off the Night King, despite the fact that it would have been a major literary trope for Jon or Dany to do it. I could make a long list, and maybe you could too. Many other tropes have been desperately wished for (including by me, I admit) over the years as well, and many (not all, though) are being brutally crushed by Season 8.
Remember how Khal Drogo went out? D&D had nothing to do with that, far as I know. Now, I think LOTS of fans reacted very poorly to that, basically saying it was mundane and anti-climactic (which it was), but IS it surprising that a major character on GoT got crossed off in a mundane and anti-climactic way? No, not at all. shocked and appalled?Ĭonsider Jaime's death. Many fans seem stunned by the fact that so many unexpected (and anti-trope) things have been happening in Season 8, but IS this really surprising?Ī huge part of what made GRRM's work so incredibly popular in the first place was the trope busting, yet now, it seems, many people WANT.the trope endings that we (including me) hoped for, dreamed of, and theorized about for years (and for some of us, like me, that's MANY years since we first read the books).Īnd so now, the show goes on a major trope-busting spree in Season 8, and people are. The only tension for the final episode is who gets to kill Dany, though if they really wanted to shock they would leave her in charge and have some epilogue about the long rule of the Iron Queen who saw Westeros through it's longest winter. Jamie suddenly reversing an arc of 7 seasons to die by Cerseis side even after her execution of Missandei is a case of the writers having a poignant final scene for Cersei but no idea of how to get there.Īryas transformation into invincible Ninja mas made her less a character than a plot device. The whole plotline where in the aftermath of Dany sacrificing huge parts of her force to aid the north, and then wanting to finish off someone who is a mortal enemy to the Starks, and not having any designs on the north beyond a status quo ante that existed for centuries, where this immediately results in the Starks plotting against Dany makes them look small minded.
Varys is completely inconsistent - he joined Dany when she was wiping out Slavers yet thinks killing Tarly is incredibly worrisome, but rather than bring his concerns to the Queen, he plots behind her back, literally doing the very thing he promised not to. But I will only add to this in getting to the Mad Queen they have torched so many other Characters in the process as well as having utterly ridiculous contrivances like Euron's Iron Fleet being invincible and then suddnely nothing more than kindling.
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