Thank you for this. Have wanted to rant since I watched the episode, so, here goes.

I’m disappointed in how the last couple of seasons of Game of Thrones have turned out and this is gonna be my rant after watching S08E03.

Fuck the Azor Ahai prophecy. Fuck Lightbringer. Fuck “born amidst salt and smoke.” Fuck Dany’s vision in the House of the Undying. Fuck the prophecies behind “Jenny of Oldstones,” a song they chose to do in just the LAST EPISODE. Fuck whoever invested time and soul in this show because we’re deciding to go vanilla for the normies in the last couple of seasons. And did a 12 year old do that battle planning? Seriously, where are the seige weapons? Why are the trenches BEHIND their army? Why are the Dothraki charging into literal darkness? If they ultimately had to retreat into the castle, why not plan a seige instead? Why TF am I seeing Jon on a dragon? Didn’t the dragons fly before him riding them? He is an able military commander and a fighter. His place is DOWN BELOW where the soldiers are. Fuck Ghost because we’re going to put our entire CGI budget in showing dragons flying around doing nothing when literally nobody wants to see that. “But hey we showed a glimpse of Ghost for that one scene for those 2 seconds na psst.” Ugh. Why is that scene in the crypts so unexplained? Sure, there are dead in the crypts which can be risen but the crypts are fucking built by BRANDON THE BUILDER. The same guy who built the Wall, Storm’s End and Winterfell. A guy who was PROFICIENT with magic and he sure as fuck would’ve put magic in the crypts. And it’s not like the Night King’s Mark (on Bran) had been down there to counter that magic. Okay, maybe I’ll grant this one. No magic since this is all speculation. But how the fuck did those dead break out of stone tombs? Because last I remember, the wight they captured in S7 couldn’t come out of a fucking wooden crate. Why are there so many ex machina’s and so much plot armor in the show now? Am I watching Game of Thrones or a Tiger Shroff movie? This was supposed to be the “big battle episode.” Let’s be real, who died? Theon? Lyanna? Jorah? I didn’t even flinch. And how many times did the main characters JUST get saved from death at the very last moment? Not that I want major characters to die but it’s more than plausible that they do because they’re fucking fighting an UNWINNABLE BATTLE. Hardhome was a 15 minute battle against the Undead and it was MILES BETTER THAN THIS. Hell, the previous episode was miles better than this. Fuck it, the unaired pilot they cancelled because it was “bad” was better than this. “Oh but the long big battle episodes tend to get monotonous and boring; hence your reaction.” Really? S4E9 (Watchers on the Wall), S6E9 (Battle of the Bastards). Need I say more? In the books, Beric lays his life to revive Lady Stoneheart (Catelyn, for those of you who don’t know her), and here “the Lord brought him back 7 times because he had to pull another ex machina on Arya which easily could’ve happened any other way and become useless.” Oh and about that Arya scene. Granted, Arya has had a GREAT character arc up until S6. (imo they ruined her post that.) Granted, she’s a badass. BUT. She’s an ASSASSIN, NOT A HAND TO HAND COMBAT KILLER. SHE’S NOT A FUCKING SOLDIER. “Build up a villain for 8 seasons and end him without any build-up whatsoever in 6 seconds when a little girl jumps on him from nowhere lmao it’d be epic.” If they had to completely fuck up the Azor Ahai prophecy and the Lightbringer prophecy, why not just make Theon kill the Night King? Why not Grey Worm? Why not Hot Pie? Tbh Sons of the Harpy were harder to kill than this fucker. This was their “GREAT WAR,” huh? Remind me to switch to LOTR from tomorrow. The world of ASOIAF is INSANE and the showrunners have just made it into a joke at this point. Tbh, D&D lost interest in this project two seasons ago and now they just want to be done with it. This is just not cool. Having invested YEARS, I think I deserve better.
I started watching the episode keeping tissues in reach to wipe my tears. All I had to clean off my face in the end was the look of disappointment.