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Three Lessons I Learnt as a Writer from Watching Season 8 of Game of Thrones
When Game of Thrones premiered in 2011, I knew that the show would be at least somewhat good. It wasn’t my kind of show (I’m not a fan of things staged in medieval times) but I started to regret not watching it when so many people recommended the show to me.
To be honest, I had to watch Game of Thrones for some work I was contracted to do so I watched summaries of seasons one to seven on YouTube before I watched the premiere of season eight.
Watching the first two episodes, I was overall fine. I knew we were all waiting on the fateful long night, but even as a newbie watching it, something felt… off.
Many things didn’t make sense and that would be a theme that would reoccur for the remainder of the season. Here, I will discuss three things that season eight of Game of Thrones taught or reminded me.
1. If you can’t do something, or you don’t want to do something, don’t do it.
While some fans are okay with season eight and with the series finale overall, I cannot understand why. And I know I’m not alone in this sentiment.
Weiss and Benioff, the writers of the series, had excellent source material from the novels that George R.R. Martin wrote…
