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“[Point of Order: The review by “DittyKnitty” needs to be removed from so close to the top of the user reviews list. It spoiled the fates of several main characters for me and I’m sure I’m not the only one. An unforgivable crime.]
Finally, the Season 8 we should have gotten. The storytelling and characterizations are much more in keeping with the show we followed for the first 5 or so years (before they ran out of books for source material). And making a full 10 episodes lets the characters interact and breathe and LIVE in ways we never saw a single time in the super rushed tv version of Season 8.
The writing is terrific, treating these characters as the intelligent people they are who always make choices consistent with who we know them to be. I’m most impressed with the dialogue, which is crisp, whip-smart, and at times surprisingly witty. There are popular fiction authors and tv shows who never manage to turn out material written this well.
Kudos as well to the voice actors, many of whom nail their live-action counterparts. Narrating a show of this size and scale had to be a daunting task—YOU imagine describing everything that happens to an audience who can’t see it for themselves—but the chosen narrator grabs your attention and holds it quite well, without once going over the top.
But my favorite thing about this work of fan fiction is that it does one all-important thing that the tv series shrugged off and forgot to care about anymore—and does it well: it remembers the show’s own history! The prophecy of the Prince Who Was Promised, completely dropped on the show, returns here. All the time and effort that was spent on Arya learning to become the greatest fighter in Westeros got barely a few seconds of payoff on the tv show. Here it’s a crucial plot point throughout the season. Likewise her unique face-swapping ability. The tv show producers clearly had no idea what to do with Bran and the Three-Eyed Raven thing, forgetting entirely about his ability to visit history or his warging powers. The same can’t be said here.
I have but a few gripes, and all of them about personal preference. I had high hopes that one character who turned evil in the show would fare better here, but that was not how the cards fell. At least it made a lot more sense in this version, and was far more believable. And several of the major characters who died in the Battle of Winterfell were just unthinkable. Maybe that was the point—the shock factor. Martin always went for that sort of thing, so i suppose it honors his legacy. But hours of time invested in a popular character should not be wasted on a meaningless, undignified end.
All that said, this is still, BY FAR, the Season 8 we should have gotten. Bravo to whoever put this together; the quality of the finished product speaks for itself.”
robinparrish via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/13/22
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