Hhaha. It's calmed down a bit from the initial outpouring of rage and I am seeing some different reactions now, but that first foray onto Tumblr was scarring, yo.
Ooooh yes. Day Four specifically. Fandom IMPLODED! The show never recovered.
Of course it didn't help that 'Miracle Day' was shit, but yeah, the fury was... Incredible. Also RTD's response at the time was 'If you can't handle drama, go watch Supernatural, with the pretty boys' and 'Don't you DARE tell me that I'm homophobic because I killed half your OTP, you are all stupid CHILDREN who know nothing about what gay people have been through!'
As a PR exercise it was awful, but dammit, I still respect the hell out of him for it.
Oh so many things, but primarily Dany finally snapped and destroyed King's Landing with dragon fire after they had surrendered and Jamie Lannister left Brienne of Tarth after a month of domestic bliss to go die with his sister. And they both got crushed by the collapsing Red Keep instead of somebody getting to kill Cercei.
It was some prime-cut tragedy. Naturally the internet is in a meltdown about how the producers threw out everybody's character arcs and destroyed the show.
In the meantime I'm here looking for any scrap of commentary that doesn't start with the premise that this was morally bankrupt storytelling and enjoying that special afterglow that comes with the reveal that the character you haven't liked for seven seasons was evil after all.
Hi there, just wanted to let you know that I probably won't be much on LJ or DW anymore, since life is really picking up and I was being pretty scarce anyway. Take care! :)
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Date: 16 May 2019 07:35 pm (UTC)Better because the writing was excellent, and worse because it hurt me more than anything else ever has.
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Date: 16 May 2019 07:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 16 May 2019 08:14 pm (UTC)Of course it didn't help that 'Miracle Day' was shit, but yeah, the fury was... Incredible. Also RTD's response at the time was 'If you can't handle drama, go watch Supernatural, with the pretty boys' and 'Don't you DARE tell me that I'm homophobic because I killed half your OTP, you are all stupid CHILDREN who know nothing about what gay people have been through!'
As a PR exercise it was awful, but dammit, I still respect the hell out of him for it.
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Date: 14 May 2019 02:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 14 May 2019 11:04 am (UTC)It was some prime-cut tragedy. Naturally the internet is in a meltdown about how the producers threw out everybody's character arcs and destroyed the show.
In the meantime I'm here looking for any scrap of commentary that doesn't start with the premise that this was morally bankrupt storytelling and enjoying that special afterglow that comes with the reveal that the character you haven't liked for seven seasons was evil after all.
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