Could killing Bronn fix Game of Thrones? What if you capture Jamie, fix Tyrion’s plan, make Daenerys and Jon Snow go north together, and make it character driven instead of focusing on just plot? Welcome to my Game of Thrones video essay where I attempt to fix the writing in season seven. Subscribe for more video essays about writing:
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Awesome review!!
have DD watch THIS
I loved this! Not just the ideas you presented, but the editing as well. You deserve a thousand times as many subs!
You're hired! You and your underwear thinking produced a SUBSTANTIALLY better season seven storyline than the supposed pros. All of the excuses given for D&D fail to hold water for me. There's no reason why they had to produce as well as write. They aren't good writers. That's it. But they have a ludicrous budget and an industry stuffed full of fantastic writers they could have brought in at literally any moment. They should have been planning for the day they might run out of the books since the beginning. Clearly – CLEARLY – they never did so.
Love your thoughts. Please continue as you said you would in the end of the video. Killed me watching the wannabe Avengers escapade north of the wall. In the least they should've killed Jorah in the journey. The tragedy there would've been perfect. He survives grayscale only to die immediately once he returns to serve his queen. I would've loved to hate that.
Really enjoyed the video, even though I enjoyed S7 it was my 3rd favorite season. Pretty sure it was your british accent.
He (bronn) should have died, period. Mike drop.
I do agree with you killing Bronn and the reasons behind it, but that isn't going to make the show "better". What we need is exactly what you said "CONSEQUENCES", not some cheap death of a well-loved character just to make you tear up a bit and stop giving a shit right after. You aren't the first person that thought of this solution. The writers did too, and the last time they got itchy to kill someone Barristen Selmy died like a chump. This is how I'd write a death,
(Btw it's going to be the entire episode, Blackwater Style)
1) The unsullied are at the front of a narrow gorge 300 hundred style. Their clothes are in tatters and they look gaunt. They went from 8,000 strong to 4,000 due to starvation and attrition. Randyl Tarly rides up to the front of their ranks and orders them to surrender and they will receive hospitality. Greyworm steps up and says no, and the battle rages on. The unsullied fight long and hard but there numbers are windled down. Regardless of this they still continue to fight and the lannisters are losing more soldiers then they put in. Then Randyl Tarly comes up with the plan to flank them from the other side of the gorge since he's such a military genius (Even though we don't see shit). The unsullied are now sandwiched on both sides fighting for their lives and sad music starts playing as greyworm struggles to survive but he ultimately fall to the ground lifeless as you hear a dothrahki screech and the sounds of horses trotting in the distance.
Also, what I liked the most about the previous seasons was the abundance of irony, poetic justic, and breaking fantasy characters archtypes. GoT felt like a soap opera in a magical medievil era, but now simply feels like meaningless fantasia.
Awesome video dude. Some parts I rewinded because of how much I agreed with you. The fake deaths are awful and have just made this show feel like your everyday low budget fantasy series. I really hope the show goes back on making sure that consequences are inevitble in every decision and having every character, especially heroes, be crippled by their flaws.
Great vid, The excursion beyond the Wall was really stupid and I felt that nothing in the season had any weight to it, bad choices should have bad outcomes and ppl should die, that is what used to happen.