[Spoilers] What we all forgot re: the Night King and need to remember about GoT’s ending

The thing is, you cannot go from a game of thrones, to a a much larger and more important survival of life and death, and then back to a game of thrones and expect the audience to be impressed with the ending.

Throughout the series we were captivated by the hatefulness of Joffrey, the innocence of Tommen, and back to the evil of Cersei. We were drawn in by the character developments of Ned, Jon, Arya, Tyrion, and so much more. We felt real emotions for these characters because some of them were good and deserved better, some of them were bad and deserved worse.

Once they introduce the Night King and the real battle of life and death, those emotions we had before pale in comparison to the fear we have of everybody in the series fucking dying. Taking one episode and killing that threat without so much as a single large character (Jon, Bran, Arya, Daenerys - hell, even Jaime or Sam) dying is just killing the storyline. Now we are supposed to care about who wins the iron throne after we just watched a subpar battle that the series has been building up since it started? Not a chance.

I was under the impression that the series is supposed to be a lesson. Minor squalls between families and houses are nothing compared to the threat of death itself. Am I interested to see who sits on the throne at the end? Sure. Am I as interested as I was four seasons ago? Hell no.

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