There were probably people with terminal illnesses holding on so they could catch the finale of their most-beloved TV show, Game of Thrones, and who died horribly disappointed.

z3rOR0ne

Pfft. I held out for Winds of Winter and A Dream Of Spring...I might be immortal as long as George RR Martin keeps on aiming for perfect being the enemy of the good enough, lol.

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You're only as immortal as GRRM himself. Have you tried Brandon Sanderson? His work isn't nearly as gritty as Martin's, but his world building is top-notch, and he, um, actually writes.

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Did they die disappointed, or perhaps die of disappointment?

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As a non-Lost watcher, this is the normal level of confusing for Lost references.

z3rOR0ne

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll investigate.

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Another recommendation is Joe Abercrombie. His First Law series scratched the ASOIAF itch for me as is is similarly gritty. The full series is 2 trilogies with 3 "stand alone" novels inbetween them, and a book of short stories.

Also Preston Jacobs on YouTube is working on a collaborative alternative Winds of Winter. I really enjoyed their Alayne chapter.

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Makes me think of the story Steven King told about getting a letter from a fan, sometime around book 5, explaining that she was over 90 and begging him to tell her how it ended, because she didn't know if she'd live long enough for him to finish the series. He had to decline, explaining that he simply didn't know yet, and wouldn't know until he wrote the last page.

It's oddly heartbreaking, as she probably didn't; it took him 22 years to complete the series, all told, and 6 or 7 years from her letter to the culmination of the story.

Anyway, your thought reminded me of that.

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The terminally-ill people died of their illness, disappointed.

Some of the non-terminally-ill people got terminally ill, whether from or with the disappointment is yet to be determined.

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Poor guy. It's been 8 years since I last watched that show and I'm still pissed.

themeatbridge

Good policy.

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"Why do you think I came all this way?"

*dies*

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i never quite got what was so bad about the ending. i heard for years how shit it ended and i waited for the show to become shit and i waited so long that the final episode finished and i was still waiting for the shit

arglebargle

How could you miss it? At some point way before the end, the characters behave strangely, the dialog is crap and the actions are ridiculous. Then the end comes and you realize that nothing made any sense.

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"OK. I'm ready now." ×.×

ddh

And then there was Jimmy Carter.

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Honestly, /r/freefolk really have a nice list.

The quality of writing tanked.

Multiple story threads from all the way back to season one went literally no where (like the patterns), Arya and the Faceless Ones. So many characters who just blinked out of existence because D&D forgot they existed and they didn't directly server the plot (like literally everyone following Bran around for so many seasons).

Characters started not acting like themselves. Daenerys went from the savior of the people to mad queen... a roll that better fir Cersei, in a blink of an eye because of "bells". Cersei nukes a chunk of the cities. Daenerys earned the title 'Queen of Meereen' from her campaign in Slaver's Bay. Bran was shown to be the villain and it's literally never addressed. He has wild powers and doesn't use it. Seems to go from an innocent child on a wild adventure to positioning himself as king.... instead of anyone else that would have made sense. "Who has a better story"... FFS, EVERYONE. And D & D seemed to forget the "Mad King" was saying "Burn them all" because Bran, yet again, fucked with someones head.

D & D forgot where Westeros was... Also forgot about the Iron Fleet

Cersei dies by brick to the head... (just more pointing out the lame writing). Contrast that with like, Eddard's execution.

Just go to /r/Freefolk... Season 7 and 8 were shit. Because D & D wanted to abandon GoT to go do Star Wars. HBO had more money for them, told them they could do more seasons. Naw, last 2 they phoned it in with 2 "seasons" there were the length of 1 and the quality of the aftermath of a night out of drunk taco bell binge eating....

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i muat have accidentally skipped those episodes then, because i really dont remember crap dialogue or ridiculous actions

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daenarys was going to be the mad queen from episode 1, so that specific complaint has no ground because you can see the foreshadowing all over the series. honestly, think of all the times daenarys had to be talked out of mass slaughtering

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OP is referencing the Dark Tower series for those who didn't know.

Phoenixz

I would have said that at s8e2