I enjoyed almightycutie’s but this sounds more refined and a bit more satisfying at the end, so I’d be very interested to have a link please.
A couple of thoughts:
- In almightycutie’s, there was a scene which really stood out to me as an issue, where two scenes of Jamie and Cersei talking together (one from season six and one from season seven) were merged into one single scene, which ultimately led to them ‘breaking up’. The dialogue and the narrative was fine, but I think they both completely changed outfits in the middle of the scene. Just wondering if you preserved that collision of scenes? Or if you feel you’ve been forced to do anything like that where you’ve had to accept a continuity error for the sake of broader clarity?
- Regarding Varys, I’m glad you left him alive, because he didn’t deserve to die the way he did in the original. He doesn’t have a conclusion, but at least he doesn’t have a bad conclusion. However, you mentioned that you leave the matter of who rules the South fairly ambiguous, and maybe you can kill two birds with one stone, by including a couple of shots of Varys overlooking the (burned) throne then smiling slyly - perhaps during the ending montage - just to imply this situation has somehow played into his hands and that he sees an opportunity to continue his agenda. I’m not suggesting sitting him on the throne or anything, so much as being involved in what comes next.
Yeah, I did things differently there with Jaime/Cersei. Narratively, I thought what almightycutie did worked, but I wanted to expand things a bit more in my version. Maintaining clothing continuity was just a bonus from the expanded episode (which I believe occurs in Episode 5 for this particular story arc).
As for Varys, there was a deleted scene with him talking to one of his little birds (presumably from when they returned to King’s Landing for the dragon pit meeting). I toyed around with adding Varys in a post-credits scene in the final episode to give the illusion that he was up to something, but I just couldn’t make the dialogue work. I wasn’t satisfied with him just being around KL without a good way to sell that he was gonna be scheming for control, so I ultimately just left him at Winterfell. I did leave open the possibility of doing something more in the future with his ending if I could come up with something satisfying, but I’m not there yet.
Working on finishing my season edit really burned me out with GoT so I haven’t taken a look at revising it anymore. However, I have been reading the feedback from you and others as it’s come in and have been making notes for the eventuality of me returning to the season to polish it some more.
-P.S.- I’ve also been sending the link for those PM requests in the thread as they’ve been coming in, but just making a point now to say so. I’ll be sending you the link as soon as I finish typing this. 😃