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Game of Thrones Final Thoughts

Kevin Maggiore
7 min readMay 22, 2019

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After letting the end of HBO’s Game of Thrones marinate for a few days, I feel that I’m now ready to put out my thoughts and feelings on how it was wrapped up over the course of Season 8.

To say Season 8 was my favorite season would be an absolute lie. There was a lot of hype for a series of episodes that were rushed. Due to the rushing of storylines, we saw certain character arc’s get completely destroyed. To me, that is what put a damper on certain episodes throughout the season.

All in all, I’m not totally upset about how it ended. I WILL NOT sign a damn petition to get the season rewritten. All those who do sign that petition need to get a life. Or better yet, why don’t they start writing their own season? In the sections below, I’ll discuss my main takeaways and how I felt about the close of what was without a doubt one of the greatest TV shows of my life.

(SPOILERS AHEAD)

THE NIGHT KING

As I mentioned earlier, there were a lot of storylines that were rushed. The one that aggravated me the most was the Night King’s storyline. For almost the entire show we were led to believe that the Night King was the biggest threat…

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Kevin Maggiore
Kevin Maggiore

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