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Same, I didn’t have an issue with what happened so much as how it happened. For example, the fact that Dany lost her second dragon was fine, but the way it happened was plain stupid. The guy who did it uses magic in the books, but in the show they basically cut that and replaced the spooky dread captain with a generic, but edgy pirate.
Instead of a magical explanation for why his fleets are overpowered, or why he has so many ships. It’s just kind of written off as 'they made some ships (despite his island specifically having no trees or natural resources, ya know, the reason they’re raiders) and a nearly deus ex machina technological improvement that counters dragons.
The show needed 10 full seasons to do it right. It feels like the showrunners got bored and just wanted to move on. They should have just handed it off to someone else and retired from the project if they wanted out so bad.
I read somewhere that they explicitly wanted to get rid of all the magic stuff “because it’s for nerds” which is just awful because the most interesting part of the GoT world to me is seeing this low fantasy medieval bullshit fuckin’ pottery kingdom react to the reappearance of magic but instead we literally only have the dragons and a bit of Warlock shit that basically never comes up again after that weird little girl tries to assassinate daenerys
I heard Sam is gonna be a wizard in the books and that sounds fuckin’ awesome and so much cooler than whatever I expect to happen in the show (I haven’t finished it, lol)
