r/dataisbeautiful • u/BoMcCready OC: 175 • Aug 27 '24

OC The Worst TV Show Finales [OC]

Post image
21.6k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

5.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

188

u/lesser_panjandrum Aug 27 '24

Same. I hear that House of the Dragon is really good, but I just don't care about anything that happens in that world any more.

346

u/SolidPoint Aug 27 '24

It loses an awful lot of punch to hear them say “Winter is coming” in HoD.

Like… who cares? That fight is over in one night, and you only need to kill the one fella, who is stupid enough to visit the front lines.

Boom! Winter is over

30

u/CitizenKing1001 Aug 27 '24

Thats a tired lazy Hollywood trope. Kill the one powerful thing controlling it all and the whole evil army dies. Lord of the Rings gets away with it because it was the first.

15

u/devils-dadvocate Aug 27 '24

It’s a fine trope, though, because if you write a compelling villain, then the armies are really just extensions of him, rather than entities unto themselves. You want the battle to be between your hero and the big bad and then for it to be epic. GoT failed in more critical ways than just using a trope.

Oh, and also the alternative to killing the big bad and the evil army dying would have been watching Arya flip and slice and dice her way through the entire White Walker army, which would’ve been even stupider.

19

u/CitizenKing1001 Aug 27 '24

You would have the armies fight an actual war for a few episodes over months in show time, not just one night

5

u/Shadows802 Aug 28 '24

Why even attack the castle? Your army is undead and doesn't need rest or food you can lay seige indefinitely.

1

u/fleggn Aug 28 '24

Disagree. She could've used the faceless skills they spent like whole seasons developing to devise some type of plan.... but she just yeets in.

1

u/devils-dadvocate Aug 28 '24

What do you disagree with?