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I've just recently rewatched a BBC miniseries based on a book I love called Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrel.

It's a fantastic and funny fantasy series that takes place during the Napoleonic era in England about Magic returning to England (Which has a long history of it before it disappeared several centuries ago). I'd give it a watch, or better yet read the book as it has created an entire lexicon of in-universe books that the main book references through footnotes.

Binge watching House of Cards and waiting(dying) for GoT to start up again.

Anyone watching 13 reasons why?

Binge watching House of Cards and waiting(dying) for GoT to start up again.

I still haven't caught up on Game of Thrones... Finished the books several years back, but not the show.

Just wondering, which Aegon have you named yourself after?

Anyone watching 13 reasons why?

It only came to my attention through the Streisand Effect. (Schools were telling parents to discourage their children from watching it, apparently.)

Aegon the Conqueror.

Also, my countries animal is Balerion who, apparently, lives in the forest and is being threatened by the logging industry.

I binge watched the latest season of House of Cards about a week ago. I don't know if it was as good as some of the previous ones, but it certainly left off with an interesting situation.

I wouldn't know. I just binged season 2 after a year hiatus and am giving it a few days before I start season 3.

Aegon the Conqueror.

Also, my countries animal is Balerion who, apparently, lives in the forest and is being threatened by the logging industry.

Ah, I was kinda hoping it'd be Egg (Aegon V the Unlikely).

Season 7 was horseshit. Complete and total horseshit.

I wouldn't say it was horseshit, but it definitely left something to be desired. Several of the scenes were very well shot, particularly

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the Targaryen/Lannister battle and the gang of 7's trip beyond the wall.

But, yes, all in all, it was a bit unsatisfying. It felt like the producers are just rushing to get it over with already. Like the series jumped to 10 times speed and forgot the fact that Westeros is still as huge as it was in the previous seasons. And so they jam-packed the episodes with "significant" scenes that they knew the fans would want and just left out all of the dialogue. They definitely could've made seasons 7 and 8 20 episodes rather than just 13, and it is lazy and unjust of them to finish off such an amazing series in such a half-assed way. But I wouldn't go so far as to say it was complete and total horseshit.

Is it worth watching, then? Or for that matter, I've read the books, and a lot of people (especially book readers) seem to think that the first few seasons are the best ones, and I've already watched them, so is it even worth catching up with the rest of the seasons?

In a way, they are the victims of their own previous success. Seasons 2 and 3 just raised the bar so high that something like this previous season just left such a bad taste as to elicit a response like mine.

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The season just didn't make a whole lot of sense, either. There was never any chemistry between the actors playing Jon, Dany, Sansa or Arya, and their motivations were completely lacking all throughout. Why does Jon suddenly think Dany would be a good queen, when she's just given him reason upon reason not to think so? Why does Tyrion, for that matter, when he is clearly not a fan of her mad decisions to burn people alive for no reason whatsoever? I'm sure there are some layers they could have added somewhere, but they just don't want to.

In a way, they're falling prey to asking: "What happens next?" instead of "Why does it happen, and what would these characters reasonably decide to do in response?"

EDIT: Added spoiler tags, in case anyone is even remotely interested at this point.

Maybe they're running out of money.

In a way, they are the victims of their own previous success. Seasons 2 and 3 just raised the bar so high that something like this previous season just left such a bad taste as to elicit a response like mine.

In a way, they're falling prey to asking: "What happens next?" instead of "Why does it happen, and what would these characters reasonably decide to do in response?"

I've heard quite a few people argue that this is because they no longer have GRRM's writing to work off of, only the basic plot ideas.

Maybe they're running out of money.

I'm assuming that that's a joke, because their funding is higher than ever, allowing them to stick in more big action scenes than before...