More than 860,000 angry 'Game of Thrones' fans and counting have signed an online petition demanding HBO remake the whole Season 8 “with competent writers.' GoT GameOfThrones
Not only are more than 3,500 kids named Khaleesi disappointed by Game of Thrones’ penultimate episode, almost one million people have signed a petition to have the entire last season rewritten. Up until season eight everything was quite like a theatre play. The story was calm, it built up narrative arcs, and it got people to really care for some very complex characters that had good and bad in them. Time moved slowly in those seasons.
Game of Thrones is one of a number of new types of TV series. With the evolution of AMC, HBO and Netflix, people now buy into a channel, take out a subscription, and know they are going to watch an entire season. This switch from old-fashioned TV—where there was competition between channels and people could just switch between shows—to online streaming and subscription services, gives narrators more creative freedom to develop their shows.
Writers have done this in Game of Thrones, possibly without realizing. Fans are not having relationships with flat, stereotypical characters. They are having relationships with complex human beings. So the writers are really caught out by the format they created, which has a slowly moving timeline and a slow development of the universe and the characters. All of a sudden, Daenerys Targaryen, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, one of the most beloved characters and a strong leader and role model for women, takes an unanticipated new direction and goes crazy. People are outraged and they have good reason to be.
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