Season 8
• Fix the coffee cup and water bottle
• Improve the colour/darkness of Episode 3 (Poppasketti WOW AWESOME WORK!!)
• Improve the Rheagal death scene similar to Reddit above, insert another scene though directly after before Euron seems to time travel back to Kings Landing
• Possibly remove the silly Bronn scene or could dialogue be added so that he still threatens them but he is torn and more jokey with them?
• When Dany offers surrender to Cersei outside of KL, change the VFx so that they are standing much further away from the scorpions and are out of range (or reduce the amount of scorpions)
• Insert footage from the upcoming prequel show when it arrives into The Long Night battle or show white walkers attacking The Last Hearth using footage from Hardhome etc we just need a bit more to show them slaying innocents and to show off the destructive nature of the WW
• Insert something/anything between the Jon/Dany murder scene and the election scene, the cut and change in tone between the two was terrible and jarring. Maybe have a shot of each of the different armies gathering outside the walls
• Remove some of the humour in the election scene as above (I can’t get the video to work but it sounds great)
Now I liked each of the six episodes as standalones (apart from the last half an hour of ep4) but the season needed more episodes/footage and too many plot points felt unearned or unresolved. However I think the show could be improved massively by including a flashback section at the very end of the final episode after Jon has disappeared into the woods. The show needs a Keyser Soze moment to end on and there are loads of Reddit theories that I really like, most are tin foily and would boil down to personal taste but I think the show is crying out for one involving Bran (who’s character was butchered this season).
E.g. Jon disappears into the woods with Tormund and the Wildlings, fade to black then:
• Maybe imply that there is a new Night King, Bran’s eyes could go blue or maybe even show him warging into Drogon or reanimating Dany with blue eyes etc
• My personal take is that GRR Martin will reveal that Bran has been manipulating time and influencing history throughout the whole show. He has basically Littlefingered everyone to become King. He has played each of his enemies off against each other and moved everyone into the right place at the right time so that these events we have seen for 8 seasons played out. I believe there is some minor evidence of this in the show (just wait for the prequel) but lots more in the books. With an extended flashback scene and by using some of the narration from the histories and lore documentaries I think some of his manipulations could be alluded to. I also think you could provide some much needed motivation for the Night King right at the show’s death. You could either imply that Bran has been working towards “breaking the wheel”, for the good of the realm or instead for purely evil purposes. I’m tempted to lean towards the latter because I think it will improve the show if we suddenly discover Bran is the real villain who has tricked us all to become king, although I think Martin will make Bran more of a saviour in his books.