Game of Thrones’ viewership scorched records with its penultimate episode last week, topping Sunday night on cable and broadcast, but fans have widely criticized the HBO hit as it comes to a close, The Washington Post reports.
Fans are upset with the speedy delivery of the eighth season – the show’s creators only made six episodes total, with the final airing Sunday night – but two scenes have taken most of the heat, according to the Post.
In episode four, Euron Greyjoy slew one of Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons with a crossbow. Tyrion, Grey Worm and Missandei also got attacked – Missandei was beheaded later. Targaryen’s dragons are pretty difficult to kill – she had three until the Night King – who possessed supernatural powers – was able to bring one down. Yet Greyjoy, the mad pirate king, pulled it off.
“Euron? The worst fun uncle in the history of fun uncles? The creepy social climber who pressured Cersei into sleeping with him despite the fact that he didn’t even bring the elephants? THIS GUY has accomplished the same near-impossible feat the late Night King once pulled off? . . . [He] apparently has a preternatural penchant for physics on par with Archimedes,” wrote Anthony Schneck at Thrillist.
But episode five brought additional scorn when Daenerys took revenge on Cersei Lannister, the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.
Lannister surrendered to Daenerys and her dragon when attacked, but Daenerys set the city on fire, killing everyone on King’s Landing and turning into the “mad queen.”
“It seems disrespectful to this beloved character and to anyone who loved this powerful female fictional person,” writes the Esquire’s Matt Miller. “This should have been a transformation to have begun seasons ago.”
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