Game of Thrones Season 8 left a scar on most fans that will never heal. But in this video, I do my best to show how the series could have ended in a more satisfying way.
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@@bryanmanuel4945 I don't even consider Season 8 canon. I'm even iffy about Season 7. And I'm not saying that as a whiny fan, I mean, it's as if my brain just doesn't identify it as canon. It's like bad fan fiction in which the characters are completely different. Tyrion is stupid. Varys is no longer sneaky. Dany is a homicidal maniac. John has no agency. And on and on. As far as my brain is concerned, we never received a canonical ending to Thrones.
@@PedroRPFerraz , I think you're exactly right and the problem extends beyond Hollywood. You see it in the world of work and politics, people rising to positions of power and status because they "know someone" or have the gift of the gab and can blag their to way to the top of a company or political party. Meanwhile, people of actual talent and capability get overlooked and disallowed opportunities to reach their full potential.
I was waiting for that for years. That fortune thing, that her little brother was going to kill her, and Tyrion was way too obvious, so it had to be... a fucking building.
@@jewel8425 well, see what had Happened was…..she got hit in the head/ spine , neck by a beam and was suffering horribly and was in terrible agony under the rubble . So with his last deed , with the last ounce of strength he had left , Jamie suffocated Cersei in an act of love and mercy bringing the premonition to fruition . Tadaaaaaaaaaa
Yeah like he said there was a million little sub plots he couldn’t get into but what he did come up with is miles better than anything the writers came up with. One sub plot I was super disappointed with was how they did my boy Little Finger. Like his final character arc didn’t even make sense they just gave him some random scheme, seemingly for no justification other than “because he’s the scheming character”, then he gets unceremoniously girl-bossed by the 2 stark sisters and executed with like no payoff. Super anticlimactic with how they’d built him up over the years
@@Justin-gv3lpIt was also pointed out previously that the real Little Finger would have gotten the fuck out of Winterfell the second Bran said " chaos is a ladder". But the plot needed him to stay so the writers stripper him of all his cunning and political genius. I mean he didn't even request a trial by combat. Pathetic writing.
Out of all The Drinkers videos, this is probably the best example of why in an ideal he should be in charge of allllll major film and TV productions coming out of Hollywood, no pressure...
They aborted his arc in the books and refused to allow him to move past the zombie drone belief that Cersei was his truest love. The books are setting up him getting with Brienne and turning on Cersei (he already turned his back on her and spurned her), but because they dropped all of that beyond his interest in Brienne in the show they brilliantly decided that Jaime was just 'addicted' to her.
That actually seems so, but appears to me as a mistake in the Drinker's solutions here. Cersei would know Jamie will never execute that order to burn them all. He is Kingslayer for refusing that same act before, plus... she knows he got soft. No, Cersei should kill Jamie! Shock and horror! Who then kills Cersei I don't know. Bitchfight with the other queen? Nah, lame. Ooh, The Hound! He could bring that kill with casual brutality. Ya know chop her in half or something. Main point: no way would Cersei trust Jamie with that order.
@@tjeerdhoek2549 Arya should kill Cersei. Use the assassin training that she got from the previous 8 years of the show to take her revenge on the woman who murdered her father in front of her eyes and the reason she started her list.
Love the video and love the drinker but it’s not a Herculean task. Dan and Dave fucked up every single choice they made in the last season. It’s like they scienced out how to make it shitty and unsatisfying and went with it. Making the ending better is a task my 10 year old niece could pull off. On a napkin. On her lunch break at school. And the amazing thing is how much were the writers paid for this bullshit? They literally made everything that came before it pointless and unwatchable. And until season 7 I fucking loved GOT. Bastards.
It would make sence if Danny completely destroyed kings landing first, killing her only opposition to power and making a huge statement, uniting the 7 kingdoms in fear. This would be a necessary evil to unite everyone in time to face the night king. Then she could have faced the dead army at the twins where their larger force would have been completely bottle necked and open to artillery fire. We could have also learnt about the night kings and his origins. Reading the other work by JRRR Martin, his 1000 worlds stuff, it would have a been a great twist to learn that the planet was once an advanced human colony that regressed to medival technology. With old tech now regarded as magic.
And so seemingly effortlessly. How some studio or media head hasn't put this this guy on retainer to write content is beyond me. Some eventually will. He's already a novelist. Im just surprised it hasnt happened already, his critiques and fixes are so dead on. I watched an old series from 2013 this past week called *_The Fall,_* about a serial killer and a female detective hunting him down. It was shot mostly in Dublin. I had never heard of it. If you havent seen it, with Gillian Anderson (even if her UK accent is a bit spotty in places) and Jamie Dornan as the charming killer, it was definitely above average for TV, I thuoght. Everyone in it was excellent and the writing was good. It surprised me.
A couple small thoughts. Jamie should be set as John’s head of Kingsguard, acknowledging that he has the guts to take out a king who has overstepped and gone mad (or mad with power). Bring him full circle from Kingslayer as an insult to a title of honor. Second, early in the books, Dany keeps thinking about when they were running from Kings Landing and living at a house with a red door. She should return not to rule Essos, but retire to a peaceful home with a red door.
GoT s8 was awesome. Drinker's version is dumb. No way would Jon retreat if the Night King killed Arya. He'd attack no matter the odds. Drinker doesn't understand GoT. The GoT s8 haters are stupid.
Loved it all except for Arya’s ending. I like how the Hound helped deliver her from the bondage of hatred and her quest for revenge. I’d have found a way to keep that in. Then I’d have had her kill the Mountain, thereby returning the favor and saving the Hound from his. The Hound survives and chooses to serve John...as he finally has a noble ruler to follow. Arya survives and returns home to Winterfell to serve on Sansa’s Queen’s Guard.
The idea of Danni returning to esos is perfect because it fits with how she found herself there and everything was generally made better by her ruler and she was clearly happy but when she came to Westeros everything messed up so the story can have her realise this and basically realise where her true home is now
From the books I remember something along the lines of, when Dany thinks of home the image of a red door to a house in Essos (where she basically grew up after her family had to flee) pops into her mind. I'd love the idea of Dany defining where "home" is for her and liberating herself from the path her brother tried to force her on.
You should have added the "valonqar prophecy" touch, by adding "choke her to death." Cersei was omened her doom by a woods seer Maggy the Frog. She asked if she'd marry the prince (Rhaegar Targaryen). "Never," Maggy replied. "You will wed a king." "But will I be queen?" "Oh yes," Maggy said. "You will be queen, for a time... Until there comes another, younger and more beautiful and cast you down and take all you hold dear." "Will the king and I have children? "The king will have twenty, you will have three." Maggy said. Cersei tried to interrupt, clearly confused. "Gold will be their crowns, and gold will be their shrouds," she continued before devolving into hysterical laughter. "And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life out of you." Valonqar means little brother in Valyrian. Cersei would believe it to be Tyrion, but it would really be her brother Jaime who was also born after.
I think the show runner didn't actually engage in the lore to notice this poetic detail which gives closure to Cersei. So G.R.R knew that they were beyond help.
@@brentreimer6411 Your missing a key and very important factor. That may possibly play a even more unique, instrumental, non-critical role and much more important to the story... UNCENSORED DICK!
I was just imagining Cersei saying "burn them all" when she orders Jamie to ignite the wildfire which triggers his memory of the mad king. That would have been an incredible scene if it had happened.
Ohhhh I get it.... So what this means is she's JUST like the mad king now.... Wow..... Pretty corny line if you ask me hahah with got and tlou 2 everyone suddenly became a professional writer
I love GoT s8 and think what we got was infinitely better than that. Daenerys was fulfilling her father's final order when she decided to torch King's Landing, that was awesome, it was the Targaryen wheel coming full circle. I love TLOU2 as well. I'm baffled by people hating this amazing season and that amazing game and then having these lame ideas about them and slapping each other on the back for their new, completely rubbish, storylines.
I come back to listen to it just about every half year. Just to pretend-make it really THIS rendition. This is one hell of a way to fi ish it, and I totally wish that HE had written the ending at this point in my life. He may he a drunk bastard, but he's goddamned good at writing as well! A man of many talents, indeed. A toast the most, Critical Drinker! My hat is now off to you good Sir. Be well on This most joyous of nights.
For me, this is now canon. The drinker fixes in 12 minutes what Dumb and Dumber couldn't do in 3 years. Martin is never going to finish this saga so thank you so much you Scottish legend.
Canon for me is they all die both sides should have been too depleted to fight the night king effectively and any defeats are more troops for the night king yeah the living should have lost. Plus is kinda the ultimate subversion as the “good guys” are defeated because wouldn’t stop fighting.
Inversely, Brienne of Tarth doing it, and bridging the gap between her and Jaime, as far as her constant talk of honor and devotion to her betters making it seem unthinkable
Given that it took almost 8 seasons for the white walkers and wights to make it from North of The Wall to Winterfell,I can't imagine how many more seasons it would've taken for them to reach King's Landing
A lot of that consisted of the Night King gathering his strength. I see the undead army as a massive boulder teetering on the peak of a hilltop. It takes a long time for the boulder to gain enough momentum to finally tip over that hump at the top, but once it starts rolling, it picks up speed and turns into an unstoppable, rapidly moving force that will crush whatever is in its path. All that to say, it wouldn’t have taken them long to reach King’s Landing once their army was assembled and in motion.
@@cmillspa1 I imagine it would have been a much quicker process to get to King's landing as every town and city in their path would be turned into wights.
Realy not that long, not like they need rest or anything. They could be sprinting not stop towards Kings Landing just stopping right in front of it to enter formation (and some dramatic stare-down). If you need the time for character stuff in Kings Landing, let them be slowed down by some ancient swamp-magic-leftovers in the Neck between North and South
50 years later Jon is a drooling vegetable that can only speak "shu's muh quon", much like Hodor, and only years later is it revealed what it actually means.
It amazes me that Hollywood haven't looked to people like Critical Drinker, RLM and Mauler as consultants for their scripts. It's an untapped source of amazing story writing
I work at an assisted living facility for the elderly. During the hype of Game of Thrones we had a few residents who watched the show and even they were appalled by the way it ended. In remembrance to William Baker, he once told me "I fought in Vietnam and even that had a better resolution than Game of Thrones".
Yeah its so sad. I woulda liked it if bran took control of the white walkers and they have to use them to take kings landing as their armies are gone resulting in them having to destroy bran/new knight king after. Even that would ve better Edit: finished watching now basically what the drinker said. Great drunken minds think alike i guess
Wow...that's actually incredibly well thought out, I love it! I have one observation about Daenerys' madness: if I remember correctly, it has been foreshadowed throughout the entire show that her family line has a tendency of going mad and to me it did seem like that with every loss or betrayal she slipped further down the road towards a more unreasonable, darker version of herself. Daenerys - driven by her desire for power to do good and change the world for the better - gradually going mad in the process would have been a fitting and tragic end for her. The problem was the pacing. This should have been a gradual descent over an entire season (or rather, two). Instead, she basically went mad within like 3 episodes. That's what felt comically out of place and distinctly inorganic to her character to such an egregious degree it shattered all the nuance and development of her character into oblivion, leaving us with nothing more than a meme character.
I agree absolutely, it could have been done well if there were signs from at least a season before even. Having her randomly go mad in some two episodes made it seem like a rushed decision that made no sense, which it probably was anyway.
One theme through the books is that _everyone_ who seeks power falls to depravity and madness, and there was some additional foreshadowing of her madness too - for example, after defeating the slavers kingdoms in the old world Daenerys wanted to massacre them to the last child, but was talked out of it by her advisors. Or is that something I remember from the books that was edited out of the TV show? So I'm certain her fall and death is what George R R Martin intended. But the in the TV adaptation it was rushed and thus failed.
@@Dennis-vh8tz yeah I believe that, imo i think the real ending would have been a broken kingdom where only jon could have united them all and he chose the watch instead as he believed he had committed horrible crimes and must be punished, with sansa becoming the queen in the north, arya walking away from it all after seeing her family squabble at the end and bran elected the throne as a puppet by everyone.
Boy, I see this from person to person occasionally: Jon Snow should have been the king. That seems like the worst possible outcome for that character. He would have made for a terrible King, possibly an even worse King than Ned Stark if one could believe that. A job that he really would not have wanted, that neither shows nor books set him up as being capable of doing, and a job requiring a lot of subtlety and compromise, things that he was never very good at. Hell, look at Robert baratheon, a way better King than Jon Snow would have been. Look at the compromises and politicking that he had to do to keep the seven kingdoms together for 20 years, things Jon Snow would have been utterly uncapable of doing.
Remember when we used to recommend this show to everyone and their grandmother? Now that we are in a global pandemic and there is nothing to do besides sit and watch shows inside your home, no one is re-watching this show let alone recommend this to someone else. It’s like they really did kill it at the end.
Crazy, huh? It was the show everyone was talking about, the anticipation for a new season was insane. Then in the space of a single season it went from 100-0 and now no one cares at all. Its like it never existed.
The biggest mistake they made was making Cersei the final enemy. It made her seem like she was more dangerous than the night king, when the night king definitely was more dangerous . And they rushed the shit out of it.
I wouldn't say that making her the final enemy that they faced was a mistake. They could've had her seem like she was a lesser threat that they were going to deal with after the big bad or a knife waiting in the dark _if they weren't incompetent_ .
it was silly to make her seem more of a threat than the white walkers but they tried to do that in Episode 4 by miraculously killing off a dragon with a once in a lifetime shot then wrecking a good part of Danni's fleet. It made you think "hey, maybe Cersei is a big threat! Then Episode 5 her entire army is obliterated in less than 10 minutes
You had me on the edge with this audiobook adaptation- 100% this would have been better than what we got - not to mention they obviously missed an opportunity with Jaime killing Cerci - easy poetic slam dunk and they dropped the ball
Great Fixes!! I can't believe how perfectly Jamie's arc fits into place in your version. As soon as you hear it, you think, "Of course! They were laying the groundwork for this all along!" Brann's new storyline is incredibly inventive and surprising, but totally works. Arya's would've been painful to watch, but retains the tension for her character far better than "exploring the world." Well done. Thanks! I'll think of your fixes next time around.
The ending of GOT was the greatest tragedy in modern television. How the showrunners could just give up and dump that phoned in crap on us will never be forgotten.
@@fernandoqueirozpopovic7024 The difference is the level of letdown. GoT was the best fantasy TV show of all time for a few seasons, and have fallen to that level where ST:D and ST:P was at the get go (tbf I consider the final GoT episode worse than any NuTrek so far).
@@SigmundJaehn They weren't, HBO wanted 3 more seasons, but Disney called and wanted another star wars trilogy which "thankfully" never happened... people won't forget their names now.
One thing i love about your version is how Jaime is the one to kill Cersei, from the moment Jaime confessed to Brienne about why he killed the Aerys. i always thought he will be the one to kill Cersei, it would've been so poetic, and i would also add that Jaime either kills himself or get killed by the mountain, since he told Tyrion he wants to die in the arms of the woman he loves
Let’s start a crowdfunding campaign to re-do season 8 (and maybe rewrite season 7 in the bargain ) exactly the way Drinker laid it out. Brilliant! The parallel story arcs of Jon and Jamie being forced to do the unthinkable is a great touch.
The guy is loaded and HBO is going to make a pre-quil with their own writers. All he has to do is kick back and collect his paycheck, doubt he even gives a fuck.
Man your alternate ending is fantastic! I literally just felt the emotional roller coaster it took me on, and I’m genuinely happier about GOT now, just believing that’s how it really ends….thanks for the ride! Cheers!
I appreciate how, over the years, Drinker's persona has come to be less like the angry drunk you happen to meet in a bar and more like the drunk uncle that likes to regale you with his ideas and is, beneath it all, just glad to have someone listen to him. "Go away now" feels less like a dismissal and more like a firm farewell at this point.
And what's funny here in my country they are selling all the seasons on blu ray at really low prices. You would think a very popular show like this would hold its value on blu ray and dvd. Ironic!!
They literally killed their own show with season 8. It's absolutely baffling how they screwed it up. This was the Nr.1 tv-show in the world for several years, becoming bigger & bigger with every year and now nobody gives 2 shits about it anymore. That's how disappointing the final season was.
Even if the other characters you didn’t mention were never seen or heard from in any way, this retelling would STILL be 10x better than what we got. I was actually enthralled listening to this! Once I even thought, “Damn, didn’t see that coming,” before realizing how ridiculous the thought was. Anyway, good job. If only, if only. Thanks.
@@nickentros i think that's what annoys me the most about it. These idiots literally sat in a room and decided what can we do that no one will see coming? Umm yeah no one would see it coming because you've had seasons of setting shit up just to completely ignore it all 🤦♂️ it so frustrating as it could of been fantastic and now it just leaves a sour taste in my mouth even after all this time!
I've actually watched this video quite a few times. Your version makes me feel like there are still some sane ppl out there in the world. And it feels so good to watch the images of your story playing out in my mind. It just feels good, and takes away MOST of the pain of what really happened. Thanks drinker!
Brilliant fix! Makes sense from a narrative sense, and the choices you've put in stay true to the character arcs developed over the course of the series . . . VERY nice!
This franchise broke my heart. It was such a cool story but the show was completely ruined. There’s the hope of the books but I don’t see George being able to finish them before his time comes. In the show we will always have a great story that became trash, while in the books it certainly looks like we will never have a conclusive narrative.
@Vincent H. They didn't care one way or the other, they were in a hurry to go elsewhere for a new writing job. They'd even been offered more seasons of GoT but turned it down, apparently. Also, as the Drinker said, they'd run out of source material, so you're kinda right too, they didn't know what to do either and deserted the sinking ship.
It should've beem Jon. What do they say a lot very early in the show? The one who doesn't want to rule usually should. That's Jon. He doesn't want to be King, but he's good at it. Bran had potential, but his character arc was butchered and I hated how he just went emotionless all of a sudden.
Not "useless" necessarily. Without Bran, knowledge of R+L=J would have died with Ned in Season 1. I personally would nominate Rickon for Most Useless Character, hopefully he at least serves as a Stark rallying point in the books.
Yeah, the Bran story really should have ended with the revelation that his time travelling caused the Mad King to go crazy and stockpile wildfire, and that his time travelling caused him to become the Night King.
What makes even less sense is Sansa (terrible character anyway) deciding to secede from the Seven Kingdoms. Why? Bran is a Stark, you’d think the North more than any other kingdom would be fine with him as King of Westeros.
S8 literally felt like a final project that was thrown together the night before. There was tons of fan lore and predictions, all the writers had to do was go on reddit to find a better ending.
After S7 I gave up on the show. The writing wasn’t great in 5 or 6, but 7 was straight fanfiction. And seeing what the public had to say about S8, I missed nothing
@@ShanghaiRooster Ok check it, the pre-quils are bad, but they are still Star Wars, they still feel like Star Wars. The sequels are bad and they don't feel like Star Wars, its like they went up Bevis's bung hole in searching for the great corn holio but they never found him instead they got a turd.
All except the Danny gives up her claim bit. She should have died fighting the night king. Otherwise it just ignores her entire character. The whole burning down the city bit *could* have worked if they had just accepted the extra season they were offered. But frankly, the ending we got set a pretty low bar.
"The show ends with thunderous silence as everyone desperately tries to understand what the f*ck they just saw" - That hits home perfectly, that's exactly what happened to me, my family, my friends, my neighbors and their dogs
@Kenny McCormick 1. If you are organized and willing to make sacrifice then even if it's a three weeks retreat, it's not impossible. In fact this kind of event can make a lotta characters shine bright and become memorable. Hell, a lot of plot holes could be plugged. 2. You need to redo a lotta scenes to connect Bran to the Night King, a whole mini series even but it'd still be a lot better than the show's resolution. 3. The way of the show then it really makes no sense for Dany to do that, but again, this is a whole new branch of reality so she could have actually grown up to be a better person. Drinker's fix is only as good as a drunken guy trying to make sense of smt as sh!tty as GoT SS8 so 2/10 score is reasonable. Still the show ending is definitely not 5/10, more like 0.5/10. Yes, it's harsh but that's because early seasons were so phenomenal.
I watched this video when you first made it, and man, it is SO much better than what HBO did. What a shame we can't go back and put you in charge of this show.
Well said. It would have been a huge twist. She seemed near invincible by the end. It would have shocked everyone. Not to mention a huge threat. Arya Whitewalker would have been threatening as hell.
Arya deserverved to do something big. She was a strong female character and she did earn it through the tough work of character progression. So what they had her do was a slap in the face of her character as well. When winning is really losing.
Arya becoming a white walker? I don't know if that makes much sense, some earlier dead characters coming back as a white walker would be so much more exciting
@Kenny McCormick I love legit criticism. I'll ad my 2 cents. 1. Well they could have the dragons burn down the forest between them and the NightWalkers chasing them. Giving them the time to retreat there and also creating non battle scenes that were a badly needed buffer between all the action. 2. I'm not going to ponder that hard on this one, only say that this was a very intriguing idea(and of course magic is part of Bran's character history, so a magical explanation is plausible) 3. If Dany in the end actually wants to be Of the People, then she might want to respect their wishes and since there they didn't want her, her going back to the people she freed actually does make sense. It would seem your hating at the end of your comment is more a reflection on you than it is Critical Drinking.
The most obvious arc would have her delivering the killing blow to Cersey (along with the two Cleganes duking it out), bringing her revenge arc to an end. And TBH, albeit predictable, this would have been perfectly satisfying. So, why couldn´t we have at least THAT? The problem with DnD isn´t that they didn´t put enough "effort" into the story. The problem is that they put *too much* effort into "SuBvEArTiNG EXSpacTaciOns" until they flipped everything around and nothing made sense anymore. - Arya killing Cersei? Nah, too obvious. - Arya becoming a white walker (or suffering some other gruesome fate)? Sounds like a classic GoT shock moment. But aren´t fans expecting stuff like that as well? - So, what if Arya, like, kills the ACTUAL NIGHT KING mid-season and like, ummm... does fuck nothing after that? OMG, that´s perfect! No one will ever expect that! Mission accomplished boys!
It’s not sad when professional fan fiction is more satisfying than the “real thing”…it’s sad that contemporary storytelling really makes that the case every time.
@@vandalcreed While that is true, season 8 made very basic mistakes that I believe could have been avoided, such as ending the threat of the White walkers with what was essentially a whimper after spending the previous seasons building them up. Having characters going completely against their established personalities and traits, especially with little to no forshadowing or in-universe reason is also a big no-no, and I believe that was at least part of the reason it fell apart so badly. And the characters going around doing nothing made me think of old martial arts movies, where the bad guys stand in line to get their butts kicked, and while I do understand why it's done it still looks stupid.
Season 8 of GoT and the Last Jedi are "shit the bed" bad. :D It's on par with bad fanfiction. It lacks any quality, and is transparently lazy and disrespectful, to the material and the fans.
it's incredible how literally no one is talking about this show anymore not even die hard fans, so much for once having been the biggest and most revered series on television...
I speculate as to whether the show was some sort of psychological operation of some sort, based on the mass media promotion of it and the way it caught on with the public. Benioff's dad is Stephen Friedman, former Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve bank aka a member of the real world equivalent of the Iron Bank of Bravos.
I’d consider myself a die hard fan; I grew up reading the books. I even have a large Lannister tattoo on my torso. I rewatched the first six seasons a few times... I don’t talk about the show anymore.
What hurt the most besides watching the Night King being gutted by Aria who had absolutely no relation to that storyline rather than having Jon Snow and the Night King facing off in a 1-on-1 desperate final battle with the rest of Westeros being completely overrun by Wights, (As the Night King Invasion of Kings Landing is what the Final Two Episodes SHOULD have been about instead of a pointless squabble between Dany and Cersei) was seeing Jon, Tyrion, Varys and Jamie all being Jake Skywalker’d one by one within the span of a few episodes.
Its like if stars remade old palpatine oringinal death and made it so Lando sneaked into Death Star and shot palpatine dead and ,Darth Vader and Luke are just standing there
yeah it made no sense for her to be the one to kill the Night King. I wonder if that is really how it happens in the books.. it seems so dumb that I can't believe GRRM would write it that way.
I'd happily watch an hour long drinker fixes GOT to tie up all the loose ends starting from the end of season 5/6 and give me the closure I didn't know I needed!
I quite liked the idea of Jaime dying protecting Bran, maybe even killing the Night King himself in the process, and Arya taking his face to kill Cersei.
The show had been foreshadowing a showdown between Jon and the Night King for 7 years. They even cast a sword fighter as the Night King, obviously in anticipation of a climatic final sword fight between he and Jon Snow. The fact that they didn't do this so that they could instead give us a woke Deus-Ex-Aria ending is an unforgiveable sin.
Imagine how much more impactful Game of Thrones could of been if the Night King won? The North falls, Jon is struck down by the Night King, and all the while there is no great army to take on the slow march of death. There is no resistance. The Game of Thrones is played one last time to decide who will sit on the Iron Throne when the Night King inevitably arrives to sack King's Landing. The last episode ending on the visual spectacle of the Night King sitting on the Iron Throne.
@@vortigern7021 yeah that's not going to go well... "Hey guys... remember that show we got you invested in for years then fucked you over in the last few weeks?... Well we have more of that coming for years if you're interested in wasting more time"
You know what?? Just hit me that Bran survived the fall BECAUSE JAMIE USED HIS LEFT HAND!! It was foreshadowing his losing his right & how ineffective he was with the left--too bad he didn't turn more & do the job properly
Dave from 2024 here. I am now re-watching this show for the first time since it originally aired. Knowing what’s coming does make me sad, but nobody can take away that we have 7 seasons of the best tv that ever tv’d. It’s just astonishing that they fucked this up so badly at the end. All the pieces were set to make this show an ever green much loved thing. We should get a season 8 do-over. It’s the right thing to do.
Mfer says “it wasn’t perfect” but proceeded to come up with an absolute banger of a pitch, Jamie becoming the “queen slayer” while also fulfilling Cersei’s prophecy was just a goddamn chef’s kiss! Bravo Drinker
'There are dozens of other stories and characters that I didnt have time to deal with, otherwise this video would be Three Hours long' // Mauler has entered the Chat
An entitled, self-righteous woman who demands a land she has never been too is hers, under a culture she has never been part of. And who enjoys burning people in her constant search for "justice." That kind of person would never change her desire for what she believes is hers.
@@als3022 Exactly. While I appreciate the Drinker trying to revise it, this is ultimately how the character was going to end up. It was just rushed and done so poorly, so it left a bad taste in people's mouths, making some people wish none of it ever happened. There are however those people who did mistakenly idolize the character and see her as some female Jesus girl boss, thinking she was the kind of person who would end up being everyone's hero. The skeleton of the end of Daenerys' story is I think how Martin intended it to be. Her actions in the end weren't bad writing, it was all foreshadowed. It's just that the events building up to it were terrible writing.
@@4u5t Pretty much my thoughts. Everyone saying "Oh this isn't where her arc was going." Haven't been paying attention. The road to it got full of rocks and feces, but it's the direction it was going. I was predicting it around Season 5. And so were alot of others. Never understood the Dany fans. "OH she is good?" Yeah no one that self-righteous and bloodthirsty is going to be the hero. To be honest most "corrections" are giving Dany a happy ending.
@@als3022 She does not enjoy burning people. Her empathy with the common folk is real. Burning the commoners of Kings Landing is not in her character. Thems the facts. A misplaced sense of rightiousness and stubborness are her flaws. Season 7 set everything up for a redemption arc for Daenerys. Everything felt forced in the other direction in season 8. It would be a much shorter leap if all that had happened to her lead her to the conclusion that she is the one who dUn wAn iT.
Yeah, what "story"? Considering his arc was the one I usually skipped through to go to the more interesting parts, him being King was a major let down, especially for that reason.
wow the Brand/ nightking twist was so brilliant! got goosebumps, glad the excess characters were thinned out and that the Nightking was the main Antagonist in your version
8 Seasons of blunt Trash and Sex; to make the Fans believe its 7 Good Seasons. And the worst thing: It f-ing worked. God, i hate modern times. GOT is a true example for bad quality being viewed in all legit Truthness as Good. Wow.
@@slevinchannel7589 The first 4 or so seasons were pretty good though. It started dropping in quality when the Dorne plot was introduced and it was mostly downhill from there, though there were still some good moments until the end of season 7. Season 8 was trash. So the show wasn't all bad.
I want to cry because your ending was far more satisfying than what we had, but sadly (and this is why I feel like crying) it will only exist in my imagination. We simply can't have anything nice these days
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Have you reviewed Curb Your Enthusiasm? Got the feeling I'd find that one a real knee slapper.
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fix this
*Damn, that's actually good! I'll be damned! Pity the Two Amigos didn't bother to hire at least one **_competent_** writer...*
Love this
They single handedly destroyed the replay value of their own show with this season 🤦🤦
Ehh, I still watch seasons 1 through 6 regularly.
@@HowlitzerPaul u a different breed lol
@@HowlitzerPaul Are you made of mithril? Because I wouldn't rewatch GoT knowing how it ends, all that build up made to shit
Like How I Met Your Mother did
@@bryanmanuel4945 I don't even consider Season 8 canon. I'm even iffy about Season 7. And I'm not saying that as a whiny fan, I mean, it's as if my brain just doesn't identify it as canon. It's like bad fan fiction in which the characters are completely different. Tyrion is stupid. Varys is no longer sneaky. Dany is a homicidal maniac. John has no agency. And on and on. As far as my brain is concerned, we never received a canonical ending to Thrones.
When a drunk Scot does better in ten minutes than overpaid Hollywood writers do in years.
He has the right combo of drink & imagination😎
Well, to be fair, said drunk Scot is also a writer of thriller fiction, and, may I stress it, a professional, unlike some we may name. So.... :v
George should never have revealed the ending to D+D, it might have been better if they had come to their own conclusion.
@@PedroRPFerraz , I think you're exactly right and the problem extends beyond Hollywood. You see it in the world of work and politics, people rising to positions of power and status because they "know someone" or have the gift of the gab and can blag their to way to the top of a company or political party. Meanwhile, people of actual talent and capability get overlooked and disallowed opportunities to reach their full potential.
They should have just hired the Drinker!
Jamie becoming the “QUEEN SLAYER” would have been the greatest arc of a character we’d ever have seen since Walter White.
I was waiting for that for years. That fortune thing, that her little brother was going to kill her, and Tyrion was way too obvious, so it had to be... a fucking building.
@@jewel8425 well, see what had Happened was…..she got hit in the head/ spine , neck by a beam and was suffering horribly and was in terrible agony under the rubble . So with his last deed , with the last ounce of strength he had left , Jamie suffocated Cersei in an act of love and mercy bringing the premonition to fruition .
Tadaaaaaaaaaa
Agreed
It would also have been the most predictable which doesn't feel right.
@@adamwilcox6405
You know what else didn't feel right?
"To be honest I never really cared about them. Innocent or otherwise."
Drinker comes up with a version 100x better than D&Ds version while almost undoubtedly drunk. Give this man a writing gig on a sequel show
Yeah like he said there was a million little sub plots he couldn’t get into but what he did come up with is miles better than anything the writers came up with.
One sub plot I was super disappointed with was how they did my boy Little Finger. Like his final character arc didn’t even make sense they just gave him some random scheme, seemingly for no justification other than “because he’s the scheming character”, then he gets unceremoniously girl-bossed by the 2 stark sisters and executed with like no payoff. Super anticlimactic with how they’d built him up over the years
And probably in a couple days, maybe even like an hour. The dude is super talented.
@@Justin-gv3lpIt was also pointed out previously that the real Little Finger would have gotten the fuck out of Winterfell the second Bran said " chaos is a ladder". But the plot needed him to stay so the writers stripper him of all his cunning and political genius. I mean he didn't even request a trial by combat. Pathetic writing.
Out of all The Drinkers videos, this is probably the best example of why in an ideal he should be in charge of allllll major film and TV productions coming out of Hollywood, no pressure...
Jaime killing Cerci was the obvious and perfect choice for their arc. How they missed that opportunity I’ll never understand.
They aborted his arc in the books and refused to allow him to move past the zombie drone belief that Cersei was his truest love. The books are setting up him getting with Brienne and turning on Cersei (he already turned his back on her and spurned her), but because they dropped all of that beyond his interest in Brienne in the show they brilliantly decided that Jaime was just 'addicted' to her.
Subverting expectations.
That actually seems so, but appears to me as a mistake in the Drinker's solutions here. Cersei would know Jamie will never execute that order to burn them all. He is Kingslayer for refusing that same act before, plus... she knows he got soft. No, Cersei should kill Jamie! Shock and horror! Who then kills Cersei I don't know. Bitchfight with the other queen? Nah, lame. Ooh, The Hound! He could bring that kill with casual brutality. Ya know chop her in half or something. Main point: no way would Cersei trust Jamie with that order.
@@tjeerdhoek2549 Arya should kill Cersei. Use the assassin training that she got from the previous 8 years of the show to take her revenge on the woman who murdered her father in front of her eyes and the reason she started her list.
The only payoff that Hollywood asshats are consistent at is disappointment.
Praise our drinker for performing such a herculean task
Love the video and love the drinker but it’s not a Herculean task. Dan and Dave fucked up every single choice they made in the last season. It’s like they scienced out how to make it shitty and unsatisfying and went with it. Making the ending better is a task my 10 year old niece could pull off. On a napkin. On her lunch break at school. And the amazing thing is how much were the writers paid for this bullshit? They literally made everything that came before it pointless and unwatchable. And until season 7 I fucking loved GOT. Bastards.
He's a total Olympian. Truth
It was good. I gave up on this show 5 years before season 8 and his ending makes me wanna watch it all haha.
It would make sence if Danny completely destroyed kings landing first, killing her only opposition to power and making a huge statement, uniting the 7 kingdoms in fear. This would be a necessary evil to unite everyone in time to face the night king. Then she could have faced the dead army at the twins where their larger force would have been completely bottle necked and open to artillery fire. We could have also learnt about the night kings and his origins. Reading the other work by JRRR Martin, his 1000 worlds stuff, it would have a been a great twist to learn that the planet was once an advanced human colony that regressed to medival technology. With old tech now regarded as magic.
And so seemingly effortlessly. How some studio or media head hasn't put this this guy on retainer to write content is beyond me. Some eventually will. He's already a novelist. Im just surprised it hasnt happened already, his critiques and fixes are so dead on. I watched an old series from 2013 this past week called *_The Fall,_* about a serial killer and a female detective hunting him down. It was shot mostly in Dublin. I had never heard of it. If you havent seen it, with Gillian Anderson (even if her UK accent is a bit spotty in places) and Jamie Dornan as the charming killer, it was definitely above average for TV, I thuoght. Everyone in it was excellent and the writing was good. It surprised me.
The White Walkers not making it to King’s Landing is absolutely criminal.
Right what about the vision in the house of the undying with the snow and broken keep!
Did they even get past the wall? After "winter is coming" for long it's suddenly spring just like that.
@@dtczyk8976it was Ash? And it did happen
The Bran/Hodor reveal was incredible. Bran being the Night King would have been awesome.
Bran was the Night King, this ending is canon as far as I'm concerned!
Now that I look at them, I just realized how they have basically the same face and demeanor.
This would have been the only acceptable ending.
This will permanently replace the last season of GoT's in my head. Amazing job!
So this is what closure feels like...
A couple small thoughts. Jamie should be set as John’s head of Kingsguard, acknowledging that he has the guts to take out a king who has overstepped and gone mad (or mad with power). Bring him full circle from Kingslayer as an insult to a title of honor. Second, early in the books, Dany keeps thinking about when they were running from Kings Landing and living at a house with a red door. She should return not to rule Essos, but retire to a peaceful home with a red door.
Exactly! *_THIS_* is how you finish a story!
GoT s8 was awesome. Drinker's version is dumb. No way would Jon retreat if the Night King killed Arya. He'd attack no matter the odds. Drinker doesn't understand GoT. The GoT s8 haters are stupid.
Loved it all except for Arya’s ending. I like how the Hound helped deliver her from the bondage of hatred and her quest for revenge. I’d have found a way to keep that in. Then I’d have had her kill the Mountain, thereby returning the favor and saving the Hound from his.
The Hound survives and chooses to serve John...as he finally has a noble ruler to follow.
Arya survives and returns home to Winterfell to serve on Sansa’s Queen’s Guard.
Me too ... it feels like a PTSD therapy :D
Though Hypnosis. And snap your fingers and this is how I remember it from now on
In less than 15 minutes the Drinker showed more creative talent than an army of writers did in years on an actual production.
I have to disagree. Although his battle against the night king is better the rest seems more like fan fiction
The drinker is a bestselling author
@@Nelcomarproductions was his story perfect? No but it is a hella lot better than what D&D gave us.
@@Nelcomarproductions Drinker’s version is more coherent than what D&D slopped this season
@@Nelcomarproductions Agree, but the last two seasons were also fan fiction.
The idea of Danni returning to esos is perfect because it fits with how she found herself there and everything was generally made better by her ruler and she was clearly happy but when she came to Westeros everything messed up so the story can have her realise this and basically realise where her true home is now
From the books I remember something along the lines of, when Dany thinks of home the image of a red door to a house in Essos (where she basically grew up after her family had to flee) pops into her mind. I'd love the idea of Dany defining where "home" is for her and liberating herself from the path her brother tried to force her on.
You should have added the "valonqar prophecy" touch, by adding "choke her to death."
Cersei was omened her doom by a woods seer Maggy the Frog.
She asked if she'd marry the prince (Rhaegar Targaryen).
"Never," Maggy replied. "You will wed a king."
"But will I be queen?"
"Oh yes," Maggy said. "You will be queen, for a time... Until there comes another, younger and more beautiful and cast you down and take all you hold dear."
"Will the king and I have children?
"The king will have twenty, you will have three." Maggy said. Cersei tried to interrupt, clearly confused.
"Gold will be their crowns, and gold will be their shrouds," she continued before devolving into hysterical laughter.
"And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life out of you."
Valonqar means little brother in Valyrian.
Cersei would believe it to be Tyrion, but it would really be her brother Jaime who was also born after.
I think the show runner didn't actually engage in the lore to notice this poetic detail which gives closure to Cersei.
So G.R.R knew that they were beyond help.
I went from recommending this show to everyone to telling them to not even bother wasting their time.
Same.
can i ask what actually happened that abruptly made it so bad? i havent watched it, but im interested in why
The show runners ran out of material to adapt, making it up as they go. And they mishandled every character and plot point.
same tbh
I just tell people to stop watching at season 7.
If we send this to George R. R. Martin, I think he might actually rip you off and finally finish his books.
BUT WHAT WAS HIS TAX POLICY, THOUGH?
@@VargVikernes1488 Cannot imagine reading LOTR and wondering about a fucking tax policy. 😂
@@brentreimer6411 Your missing a key and very important factor. That may possibly play a even more unique, instrumental, non-critical role and much more important to the story... UNCENSORED DICK!
That will happen never.
Those books are long dead. He should have stopped at 3.
I always thought that bran and the night king being the same person was very logical and an intriguing plot
I actually want the 3-hour version of this.
I was just imagining Cersei saying "burn them all" when she orders Jamie to ignite the wildfire which triggers his memory of the mad king. That would have been an incredible scene if it had happened.
that would have been perfecto
Also...Bran wargs a dragon to fulfill his vision and the Old Tree's prophecy that he would fly.
Yes!
Ohhhh I get it.... So what this means is she's JUST like the mad king now.... Wow.....
Pretty corny line if you ask me hahah with got and tlou 2 everyone suddenly became a professional writer
I love GoT s8 and think what we got was infinitely better than that. Daenerys was fulfilling her father's final order when she decided to torch King's Landing, that was awesome, it was the Targaryen wheel coming full circle.
I love TLOU2 as well. I'm baffled by people hating this amazing season and that amazing game and then having these lame ideas about them and slapping each other on the back for their new, completely rubbish, storylines.
"He won't finish it in his lifetime."
"Nah, it will be fine." Says R.R. Martin's 98% clogged heart.
He gets mad when people say this, but come on. Let's be realistic. My guy could die at any moment and leave millions of fans hanging.
@@kyle857 *Getting Wheel of Time flashbacks*
It's okay, as long as he doesn't get kneed his heart won't be an issue!
Season 8 has even put me off ever reading the books again, couldn't care less about the next one whether he finishes it or not
He doesnt have a desire to write anymore, most likely.
Damn it was so good. I picture the plot in my head and enjoyed it 10 times more than the actual series.
Could you fix some more stuff pls
Same!
I come back to listen to it just about every half year. Just to pretend-make it really THIS rendition. This is one hell of a way to fi ish it, and I totally wish that HE had written the ending at this point in my life. He may he a drunk bastard, but he's goddamned good at writing as well! A man of many talents, indeed. A toast the most, Critical Drinker! My hat is now off to you good Sir. Be well on This most joyous of nights.
Pls
@@rexbanner7256agreee!
How can a 15 minute video be more satisfying and make more sense than years of writing to a multi-episode season?
For me, this is now canon. The drinker fixes in 12 minutes what Dumb and Dumber couldn't do in 3 years. Martin is never going to finish this saga so thank you so much you Scottish legend.
Seconded.
Agree 💯
Agreed, when I rewatch GoT Ill go from season 1-7 then watch this video
Robin and the other great family’s: what about us?
Canon for me is they all die both sides should have been too depleted to fight the night king effectively and any defeats are more troops for the night king yeah the living should have lost. Plus is kinda the ultimate subversion as the “good guys” are defeated because wouldn’t stop fighting.
Mad props to the drinker for giving Jaime a complete character arc that makes sense. Tatianna would be proud of you mate 🍻.
and maybe she'll...burn your Dragon Throne!! HEH HA HA HAAAAA!!
Inversely, Brienne of Tarth doing it, and bridging the gap between her and Jaime, as far as her constant talk of honor and devotion to her betters making it seem unthinkable
It was exactly how I thought it was gonna go to begin with, imagine my slack jaw confusion even as the bricks fell lol
@@GorramT so you’re a lousy writer too, eh?
Yeah the drinker put together a symmetrical yet satisfying plot in 2 hours. Kudos, drinker.
Given that it took almost 8 seasons for the white walkers and wights to make it from North of The Wall to Winterfell,I can't imagine how many more seasons it would've taken for them to reach King's Landing
If it was like the first 4 seasons, another 15 seasons. If it was like season 8, 1 episode
A lot of that consisted of the Night King gathering his strength. I see the undead army as a massive boulder teetering on the peak of a hilltop. It takes a long time for the boulder to gain enough momentum to finally tip over that hump at the top, but once it starts rolling, it picks up speed and turns into an unstoppable, rapidly moving force that will crush whatever is in its path. All that to say, it wouldn’t have taken them long to reach King’s Landing once their army was assembled and in motion.
@@cmillspa1 I imagine it would have been a much quicker process to get to King's landing as every town and city in their path would be turned into wights.
Kinda like luffy finding One Piece
Realy not that long, not like they need rest or anything. They could be sprinting not stop towards Kings Landing just stopping right in front of it to enter formation (and some dramatic stare-down). If you need the time for character stuff in Kings Landing, let them be slowed down by some ancient swamp-magic-leftovers in the Neck between North and South
That was awesome. I especially like the part where bran serves a purpose
DRINKER: “There’s a lot to fix here. But then the video would be three hours long.”
DRINKER’S FANS: “OMFG DO IT!”
Do itttt
I could listen to him rant for hours
Yep
I throw my weight behind it
Yep that’s what I thought, after hearing the short cut I’m like - fuckit, I’m in!
Jon Snow turned into Groot for the last season in all he can say is some form of "She is my queen".
"we are queen"
"I am simp" -- Jon Snow, knower of nothing.
Hodor 2.0, I think Bran washed his brain too.
"He is my queen." - Jon Snow.
50 years later Jon is a drooling vegetable that can only speak "shu's muh quon", much like Hodor, and only years later is it revealed what it actually means.
It amazes me that Hollywood haven't looked to people like Critical Drinker, RLM and Mauler as consultants for their scripts. It's an untapped source of amazing story writing
I'm not gonna lie. This ending sounded wayyyy more satisfying than what we got.
I work at an assisted living facility for the elderly. During the hype of Game of Thrones we had a few residents who watched the show and even they were appalled by the way it ended. In remembrance to William Baker, he once told me "I fought in Vietnam and even that had a better resolution than Game of Thrones".
Holy shit 🤣
ahahaha
RIP
LMAO damn
I feared you'd say that some got stroke, it was so bad.
Ouch, man.
I still can't believe the White Walker war never actually reached King's Landing.
Greatest threat to the world in a thousa... oh nevermind. Little sister got him.
I still can’t believe Jon ree’d at the dragon.
It was the biggest disappointment in the entire season , 7 seasons for the Whitewalkers to get killed by a 13 year old
Yeah its so sad. I woulda liked it if bran took control of the white walkers and they have to use them to take kings landing as their armies are gone resulting in them having to destroy bran/new knight king after. Even that would ve better
Edit: finished watching now basically what the drinker said. Great drunken minds think alike i guess
@@lazyislander4605 18
Wow!!! That was intense! That's the ending I wanted!
Wow...that's actually incredibly well thought out, I love it!
I have one observation about Daenerys' madness: if I remember correctly, it has been foreshadowed throughout the entire show that her family line has a tendency of going mad and to me it did seem like that with every loss or betrayal she slipped further down the road towards a more unreasonable, darker version of herself.
Daenerys - driven by her desire for power to do good and change the world for the better - gradually going mad in the process would have been a fitting and tragic end for her.
The problem was the pacing. This should have been a gradual descent over an entire season (or rather, two). Instead, she basically went mad within like 3 episodes. That's what felt comically out of place and distinctly inorganic to her character to such an egregious degree it shattered all the nuance and development of her character into oblivion, leaving us with nothing more than a meme character.
I agree absolutely, it could have been done well if there were signs from at least a season before even. Having her randomly go mad in some two episodes made it seem like a rushed decision that made no sense, which it probably was anyway.
One theme through the books is that _everyone_ who seeks power falls to depravity and madness, and there was some additional foreshadowing of her madness too - for example, after defeating the slavers kingdoms in the old world Daenerys wanted to massacre them to the last child, but was talked out of it by her advisors. Or is that something I remember from the books that was edited out of the TV show?
So I'm certain her fall and death is what George R R Martin intended. But the in the TV adaptation it was rushed and thus failed.
@@Dennis-vh8tz yeah I believe that, imo i think the real ending would have been a broken kingdom where only jon could have united them all and he chose the watch instead as he believed he had committed horrible crimes and must be punished, with sansa becoming the queen in the north, arya walking away from it all after seeing her family squabble at the end and bran elected the throne as a puppet by everyone.
@@checker297 Or many lords refusing to support Jon because he was a bastard and Bran, or Sansa, elected as a political compromise.
Boy, I see this from person to person occasionally: Jon Snow should have been the king. That seems like the worst possible outcome for that character. He would have made for a terrible King, possibly an even worse King than Ned Stark if one could believe that. A job that he really would not have wanted, that neither shows nor books set him up as being capable of doing, and a job requiring a lot of subtlety and compromise, things that he was never very good at. Hell, look at Robert baratheon, a way better King than Jon Snow would have been. Look at the compromises and politicking that he had to do to keep the seven kingdoms together for 20 years, things Jon Snow would have been utterly uncapable of doing.
Remember when we used to recommend this show to everyone and their grandmother? Now that we are in a global pandemic and there is nothing to do besides sit and watch shows inside your home, no one is re-watching this show let alone recommend this to someone else. It’s like they really did kill it at the end.
Probably gonna re-watch Bab5 for the.. dunno, umpteenth time I guess, instead of watching GoT for the first time..
Crazy, huh? It was the show everyone was talking about, the anticipation for a new season was insane. Then in the space of a single season it went from 100-0 and now no one cares at all. Its like it never existed.
They fucked up the ending so badly that it ruined the rewatchability of the earlier seasons. All those subplots of dany and jon were a complete waste.
It also sucks cuz the first seasons were really good but there's no point in watching the first 5 seasons and stopping
Astute observation
The biggest mistake they made was making Cersei the final enemy. It made her seem like she was more dangerous than the night king, when the night king definitely was more dangerous . And they rushed the shit out of it.
I wouldn't say that making her the final enemy that they faced was a mistake. They could've had her seem like she was a lesser threat that they were going to deal with after the big bad or a knife waiting in the dark _if they weren't incompetent_ .
Exactly to me she was a medium villain on the way.
it was silly to make her seem more of a threat than the white walkers but they tried to do that in Episode 4 by miraculously killing off a dragon with a once in a lifetime shot then wrecking a good part of Danni's fleet. It made you think "hey, maybe Cersei is a big threat! Then Episode 5 her entire army is obliterated in less than 10 minutes
But she stared through the window intensely
Cersei was not the final enemy. Dany was. And she was the most dangerous enemy of them all.
You had me on the edge with this audiobook adaptation- 100% this would have been better than what we got - not to mention they obviously missed an opportunity with Jaime killing Cerci - easy poetic slam dunk and they dropped the ball
Great Fixes!! I can't believe how perfectly Jamie's arc fits into place in your version. As soon as you hear it, you think, "Of course! They were laying the groundwork for this all along!" Brann's new storyline is incredibly inventive and surprising, but totally works. Arya's would've been painful to watch, but retains the tension for her character far better than "exploring the world." Well done. Thanks! I'll think of your fixes next time around.
Becoming both a king slayer and a queen slayer. Now that’s smooth, sir.
The queen layer becomes the queen slayer.
I'd still better see Jamie as slayer of Night King.
@@piotrd.4850 I had hoped for this all along. Totally subverting the menaing of King slayer.
@@piotrd.4850 He doesn't have the sword for it.
would have fullfilled that prophesy they made a thing about and then.. forgot as well
The ending of GOT was the greatest tragedy in modern television. How the showrunners could just give up and dump that phoned in crap on us will never be forgotten.
Same as STD and Star Trek Picard/Lower decks
@@fernandoqueirozpopovic7024 The difference is the level of letdown. GoT was the best fantasy TV show of all time for a few seasons, and have fallen to that level where ST:D and ST:P was at the get go (tbf I consider the final GoT episode worse than any NuTrek so far).
More to the point. Why were they allowed to do it? What were the studio thinking?
It took a load off those responsible for the completely suckful end of Dexter.
Oh wait, they still feel bad and are trying again.
@@SigmundJaehn They weren't, HBO wanted 3 more seasons, but Disney called and wanted another star wars trilogy which "thankfully" never happened... people won't forget their names now.
One thing i love about your version is how Jaime is the one to kill Cersei, from the moment Jaime confessed to Brienne about why he killed the Aerys. i always thought he will be the one to kill Cersei, it would've been so poetic, and i would also add that Jaime either kills himself or get killed by the mountain, since he told Tyrion he wants to die in the arms of the woman he loves
Let’s start a crowdfunding campaign to re-do season 8 (and maybe rewrite season 7 in the bargain ) exactly the way Drinker laid it out. Brilliant! The parallel story arcs of Jon and Jamie being forced to do the unthinkable is a great touch.
How to fix GOT: three more seasons and lock George in a room and don’t let him out until he finishes his damn books
then he just straight up dies in that room
The guy is loaded and HBO is going to make a pre-quil with their own writers. All he has to do is kick back and collect his paycheck, doubt he even gives a fuck.
Covid: I tried that, didn't do anything now did it?
@@yourmum69_420 right? We open the room in 2025 because of the awful smell...
The pandemic did that already and still not finished lol.
Queenslayer Jaime is the best way to finish his arc
Man your alternate ending is fantastic! I literally just felt the emotional roller coaster it took me on, and I’m genuinely happier about GOT now, just believing that’s how it really ends….thanks for the ride! Cheers!
Your ending is a million times better than what actually happened. Hopefully G.R.R Martin follows this line of thought with his final book.
It's adorable that you still have any faith in that hack of a writer. I'll genuinely be surprised if he ever does release it
I appreciate how, over the years, Drinker's persona has come to be less like the angry drunk you happen to meet in a bar and more like the drunk uncle that likes to regale you with his ideas and is, beneath it all, just glad to have someone listen to him. "Go away now" feels less like a dismissal and more like a firm farewell at this point.
How long have u been here then 😦
His character arc, basically
@@only1thatmakessense Drinker’s only been making videos for 2-3 years so not that long
Come visit my bar. This is just a small sample of the tales spun there. Too many writers are drunk. Not enough are typing. ;)
Even during quarantine, I haven't heard of a single person rewatching this show.
And what's funny here in my country they are selling all the seasons on blu ray at really low prices. You would think a very popular show like this would hold its value on blu ray and dvd.
Ironic!!
They literally killed their own show with season 8. It's absolutely baffling how they screwed it up. This was the Nr.1 tv-show in the world for several years, becoming bigger & bigger with every year and now nobody gives 2 shits about it anymore. That's how disappointing the final season was.
@@lamebubblesflysohigh yes of course. I'm sure if you go on sites like Amazon you get plenty of DVDs.
Bought all the season Blu Ray's when they came out... after season 8 I skipped buying that season and haven't watched a single episode since.
@@lamebubblesflysohigh epic
Then House of the Dragon comes along and just... absolutely blows us away. Game of Thrones is GOOD again...
Even if the other characters you didn’t mention were never seen or heard from in any way, this retelling would STILL be 10x better than what we got. I was actually enthralled listening to this! Once I even thought, “Damn, didn’t see that coming,” before realizing how ridiculous the thought was. Anyway, good job. If only, if only. Thanks.
I would pay to hear the 3 hour version.
Same here , very much so
YES
Me Too
Same!
Yup
I still can't believe we never got a Jon vs Night King boss battle. They'd literally been setting that up since season 5.
Consider your expectations subverted
More important to yell at zombie dragons
more like since season 1
@@nickentros Well that's never a bad thing...
@@nickentros i think that's what annoys me the most about it. These idiots literally sat in a room and decided what can we do that no one will see coming? Umm yeah no one would see it coming because you've had seasons of setting shit up just to completely ignore it all 🤦♂️ it so frustrating as it could of been fantastic and now it just leaves a sour taste in my mouth even after all this time!
I've actually watched this video quite a few times. Your version makes me feel like there are still some sane ppl out there in the world. And it feels so good to watch the images of your story playing out in my mind.
It just feels good, and takes away MOST of the pain of what really happened.
Thanks drinker!
Brilliant fix! Makes sense from a narrative sense, and the choices you've put in stay true to the character arcs developed over the course of the series . . . VERY nice!
They murdered their own show on purpose, this tragedy will never be forgotten. What is dead my never die..
Oh, it fuckin died alright.
Maybe it was contractual?
To give people a reason to buy the books?
Fire and blood for all of'm... and please. WE'LL BUY THE DAMN BOOKS. lol...if they every arrive.....argh.
This franchise broke my heart. It was such a cool story but the show was completely ruined. There’s the hope of the books but I don’t see George being able to finish them before his time comes. In the show we will always have a great story that became trash, while in the books it certainly looks like we will never have a conclusive narrative.
@Vincent H. They didn't care one way or the other, they were in a hurry to go elsewhere for a new writing job. They'd even been offered more seasons of GoT but turned it down, apparently. Also, as the Drinker said, they'd run out of source material, so you're kinda right too, they didn't know what to do either and deserted the sinking ship.
Bran didn’t even show up for a whole season, yet he becomes the new king of Westeros 😂
He might have been the most useless character.
It should've beem Jon. What do they say a lot very early in the show? The one who doesn't want to rule usually should. That's Jon. He doesn't want to be King, but he's good at it. Bran had potential, but his character arc was butchered and I hated how he just went emotionless all of a sudden.
Not "useless" necessarily. Without Bran, knowledge of R+L=J would have died with Ned in Season 1. I personally would nominate Rickon for Most Useless Character, hopefully he at least serves as a Stark rallying point in the books.
Yeah, the Bran story really should have ended with the revelation that his time travelling caused the Mad King to go crazy and stockpile wildfire, and that his time travelling caused him to become the Night King.
What makes even less sense is Sansa (terrible character anyway) deciding to secede from the Seven Kingdoms. Why? Bran is a Stark, you’d think the North more than any other kingdom would be fine with him as King of Westeros.
11:29 that arc for Jamie is spectacular!
Your revision truly fixed their mess - much much much better and satisfying ending!!!! 👍
"The Drinker Fixes... Game of Thrones"
"I can't"
* 10 minutes of circus music.
Mixed in with "fuck off show"
@@LimerickWarrior1 “Now go away!”
@@tjlevey378 *go away now
And Tyrion barfing
Good joke, Leeloo laughs, roll on snare drum, curtains....
S8 literally felt like a final project that was thrown together the night before. There was tons of fan lore and predictions, all the writers had to do was go on reddit to find a better ending.
It's a funny thing that most of the cringiest bits were indeed fan service.
@@ShanghaiRooster You know something is really bad when they can't even get fan service right (thinking of the Star Wars sequels here, also).
@@logicaldude3611 Thankfully I never saw any of those, so will have to take your word for it. 😂
After S7 I gave up on the show. The writing wasn’t great in 5 or 6, but 7 was straight fanfiction. And seeing what the public had to say about S8, I missed nothing
@@ShanghaiRooster Ok check it, the pre-quils are bad, but they are still Star Wars, they still feel like Star Wars.
The sequels are bad and they don't feel like Star Wars, its like they went up Bevis's bung hole in searching for the great corn holio but they never found him instead they got a turd.
This is the ending I wanted. Clever, action packed and satisfying. Thank you!
Anyone else get goosebumps hearing Will describing his fix on the ending??? Good show man!
This hypothetical ending is SO MUCH BETTER THAN WHAT WE GOT
All except the Danny gives up her claim bit. She should have died fighting the night king. Otherwise it just ignores her entire character. The whole burning down the city bit *could* have worked if they had just accepted the extra season they were offered.
But frankly, the ending we got set a pretty low bar.
For sure
"The show ends with thunderous silence as everyone desperately tries to understand what the f*ck they just saw" - That hits home perfectly, that's exactly what happened to me, my family, my friends, my neighbors and their dogs
what about the cats?
@@tiagomonteiro6470 cats be cats, they don't give a sh!t.
@Kenny McCormick 1. If you are organized and willing to make sacrifice then even if it's a three weeks retreat, it's not impossible. In fact this kind of event can make a lotta characters shine bright and become memorable. Hell, a lot of plot holes could be plugged.
2. You need to redo a lotta scenes to connect Bran to the Night King, a whole mini series even but it'd still be a lot better than the show's resolution.
3. The way of the show then it really makes no sense for Dany to do that, but again, this is a whole new branch of reality so she could have actually grown up to be a better person.
Drinker's fix is only as good as a drunken guy trying to make sense of smt as sh!tty as GoT SS8 so 2/10 score is reasonable. Still the show ending is definitely not 5/10, more like 0.5/10. Yes, it's harsh but that's because early seasons were so phenomenal.
Yea me and the dogs have been plotting to bury D&D alive, and put Drinker on the throne!
The actors too, standing on the docks "ok, now what" looks on their faces.
Your ending was incredible. It makes me sad that it truly ended the way that it did.
I watched this video when you first made it, and man, it is SO much better than what HBO did. What a shame we can't go back and put you in charge of this show.
Arya becoming a whitewalker is actually a good, ballsy move, she's tough, but not invicible.
Well said. It would have been a huge twist. She seemed near invincible by the end. It would have shocked everyone. Not to mention a huge threat. Arya Whitewalker would have been threatening as hell.
Arya deserverved to do something big. She was a strong female character and she did earn it through the tough work of character progression. So what they had her do was a slap in the face of her character as well. When winning is really losing.
Arya becoming a white walker? I don't know if that makes much sense, some earlier dead characters coming back as a white walker would be so much more exciting
@Kenny McCormick I love legit criticism. I'll ad my 2 cents.
1. Well they could have the dragons burn down the forest between them and the NightWalkers chasing them. Giving them the time to retreat there and also creating non battle scenes that were a badly needed buffer between all the action.
2. I'm not going to ponder that hard on this one, only say that this was a very intriguing idea(and of course magic is part of Bran's character history, so a magical explanation is plausible)
3. If Dany in the end actually wants to be Of the People, then she might want to respect their wishes and since there they didn't want her, her going back to the people she freed actually does make sense.
It would seem your hating at the end of your comment is more a reflection on you than it is Critical Drinking.
The most obvious arc would have her delivering the killing blow to Cersey (along with the two Cleganes duking it out), bringing her revenge arc to an end. And TBH, albeit predictable, this would have been perfectly satisfying. So, why couldn´t we have at least THAT?
The problem with DnD isn´t that they didn´t put enough "effort" into the story. The problem is that they put *too much* effort into "SuBvEArTiNG EXSpacTaciOns" until they flipped everything around and nothing made sense anymore.
- Arya killing Cersei? Nah, too obvious.
- Arya becoming a white walker (or suffering some other gruesome fate)? Sounds like a classic GoT shock moment. But aren´t fans expecting stuff like that as well?
- So, what if Arya, like, kills the ACTUAL NIGHT KING mid-season and like, ummm... does fuck nothing after that? OMG, that´s perfect! No one will ever expect that! Mission accomplished boys!
It’s not sad when professional fan fiction is more satisfying than the “real thing”…it’s sad that contemporary storytelling really makes that the case every time.
Well to be fair it is written with hindsight. Not saying the original ideas were good either
@@vandalcreed While that is true, season 8 made very basic mistakes that I believe could have been avoided, such as ending the threat of the White walkers with what was essentially a whimper after spending the previous seasons building them up. Having characters going completely against their established personalities and traits, especially with little to no forshadowing or in-universe reason is also a big no-no, and I believe that was at least part of the reason it fell apart so badly. And the characters going around doing nothing made me think of old martial arts movies, where the bad guys stand in line to get their butts kicked, and while I do understand why it's done it still looks stupid.
You should see the rwby fandom.
Season 8 of GoT and the Last Jedi are "shit the bed" bad. :D It's on par with bad fanfiction. It lacks any quality, and is transparently lazy and disrespectful, to the material and the fans.
Breaking Bad?
I am humbled by your thorough, well-thought-out, amazing reworking of the Game of Thrones ending. Simply epoch!
Hearing your plot lines gave me the same goosebumps that the earlier seasons did. In my mind, this is now the canon story.
it's incredible how literally no one is talking about this show anymore not even die hard fans, so much for once having been the biggest and most revered series on television...
Ironic that you post this on a new video about said show. 😉
Yes it is hahahah. I meant more like general pop culture discourse.
I speculate as to whether the show was some sort of psychological operation of some sort, based on the mass media promotion of it and the way it caught on with the public. Benioff's dad is Stephen Friedman, former Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve bank aka a member of the real world equivalent of the Iron Bank of Bravos.
Now all we need is for HBO to pony up $100m and roll with the Drinker’s version of season 8, and erase a
all records of the old one. Alas, no....
I’d consider myself a die hard fan; I grew up reading the books. I even have a large Lannister tattoo on my torso. I rewatched the first six seasons a few times... I don’t talk about the show anymore.
It's actually even more depressing having this concrete example of how much better it could have been.
Soooooooooooooo much better ending. Thank you for recalibrating my memory banks of that last season. Much respect 🤘🤘
What hurt the most besides watching the Night King being gutted by Aria who had absolutely no relation to that storyline rather than having Jon Snow and the Night King facing off in a 1-on-1 desperate final battle with the rest of Westeros being completely overrun by Wights, (As the Night King Invasion of Kings Landing is what the Final Two Episodes SHOULD have been about instead of a pointless squabble between Dany and Cersei) was seeing Jon, Tyrion, Varys and Jamie all being Jake Skywalker’d one by one within the span of a few episodes.
It would have fit if Theon arose an slayed the night king.
It was set up for him.
What's dead may never die.
Rises up an slays the beast.
Yet rises
Its like if stars remade old palpatine oringinal death and made it so Lando sneaked into Death Star and shot palpatine dead and ,Darth Vader and Luke are just standing there
Oh yeah. And how did you like Aria stating she was staying in Winterfell, only for her to leave during the very same episode towards King's Landing?
yeah it made no sense for her to be the one to kill the Night King. I wonder if that is really how it happens in the books.. it seems so dumb that I can't believe GRRM would write it that way.
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fix this
"I hope it was worth it you dicks." So cathartic, thank you Drinker.
i hope he fixes dexter too
That one sentence covers so much.
I'd happily watch an hour long drinker fixes GOT to tie up all the loose ends starting from the end of season 5/6 and give me the closure I didn't know I needed!
I quite liked the idea of Jaime dying protecting Bran, maybe even killing the Night King himself in the process, and Arya taking his face to kill Cersei.
Well, that and she's about a foot and half shorter than Jaime...but she's sneaky.
This version is now canon in my eyes
Same here 😂
The show had been foreshadowing a showdown between Jon and the Night King for 7 years. They even cast a sword fighter as the Night King, obviously in anticipation of a climatic final sword fight between he and Jon Snow. The fact that they didn't do this so that they could instead give us a woke Deus-Ex-Aria ending is an unforgiveable sin.
That was my big issue. Totally ignored 7 seasons of buildup and literally ALL the lore just for a girl power moment.
@@XShadowAngel a girl power moment that totally undermines her entire arc, by the way. Absolutely moronic decision.
Fucking for real!!!!!!!
One unforgivable sin among many. May the show runners be plagued with chronic diarrhea for 7 years and 7 more.
Imagine how much more impactful Game of Thrones could of been if the Night King won? The North falls, Jon is struck down by the Night King, and all the while there is no great army to take on the slow march of death. There is no resistance. The Game of Thrones is played one last time to decide who will sit on the Iron Throne when the Night King inevitably arrives to sack King's Landing. The last episode ending on the visual spectacle of the Night King sitting on the Iron Throne.
I enjoyed this narration more than the actual finale. Great work+
Thank you for this. I know it's just your rendition, but I genuinely wish it was the way the show actually ended.
Every single fan fix I've seen or read has been better than what we got.
Agreed. I've seen many videos on YT rewriting the ending, and most of them were really creative and more importantly, satisfying.
The showrunners didn't give a damn because they were hungry for Disney's Star Wars money.
@@pilouuuu the only solace we get is that D&D’s failure here cost them the money they lusted after
Damm, Dany dodging the bolt in the last second killing the undead dragon and Euron with the same blow is pretty fucking brilliant
That was brilliant! I hope someone would volunteer and animate this ending to give us what we deserve.
Just found this, years later. I could cry. It's so much better. I only wish I could see this filmed. Thank you thank you thank you.
It's funny how GOT was everywhere, then the last season came and ended everything. Now it's rare to see a poster or GOT merchandise in stores.
HBO are still trying to milk it with like 5 spin offs in the works.
@@vortigern7021 oh god no...
@@vortigern7021 yeah that's not going to go well...
"Hey guys... remember that show we got you invested in for years then fucked you over in the last few weeks?...
Well we have more of that coming for years if you're interested in wasting more time"
@@vortigern7021 A spinoff I might watch. A prequel? Hell no
@@vortigern7021 They sure as fudge seem to enjoy losing money
Jaime pushing Bran out the window in Season 1 was actually an act of public service.
You know what?? Just hit me that Bran survived the fall BECAUSE JAMIE USED HIS LEFT HAND!! It was foreshadowing his losing his right & how ineffective he was with the left--too bad he didn't turn more & do the job properly
@@Sure0Foot a big run up also wouldnt of hurt😂😂
Dave from 2024 here.
I am now re-watching this show for the first time since it originally aired.
Knowing what’s coming does make me sad, but nobody can take away that we have 7 seasons of the best tv that ever tv’d.
It’s just astonishing that they fucked this up so badly at the end. All the pieces were set to make this show an ever green much loved thing.
We should get a season 8 do-over.
It’s the right thing to do.
Mfer says “it wasn’t perfect” but proceeded to come up with an absolute banger of a pitch, Jamie becoming the “queen slayer” while also fulfilling Cersei’s prophecy was just a goddamn chef’s kiss! Bravo Drinker
"becoming both a King & Queen Slayer" Yow, that would be a wild twist
Not to mention kin slayer.
It seemed like the most likely outcome
That would be very Game of Thrones.
Jamie Lannister The Crown Breaker
that's how I actually predicted jaime would be after his redemption.
'There are dozens of other stories and characters that I didnt have time to deal with, otherwise this video would be Three Hours long'
// Mauler has entered the Chat
Mauler's video on this would be 20 hours.
Besides he still needs to finish his 7 part deep analysis of TFA.
@@magic8340 I'll still watch it. His 2hr takedown of captain marvel, aka "Plank", was about a million times better than the movie itself.
WE need a full rewrite and reshoot of the final season using this arc. Damn. Nicely
done.
Dude, seriously. I’ve listened to most your fixes and holy shit. Please 🙏 let a season 8 remake happen with this exact recommendation.
Drinker's Daenerys: Maybe the real kingdom is the friends we made along the way
Indeed, but then again, Daenarys always was a modern woman very much focused on what she felt she was entitled to...
An entitled, self-righteous woman who demands a land she has never been too is hers, under a culture she has never been part of. And who enjoys burning people in her constant search for "justice." That kind of person would never change her desire for what she believes is hers.
@@als3022 Exactly. While I appreciate the Drinker trying to revise it, this is ultimately how the character was going to end up. It was just rushed and done so poorly, so it left a bad taste in people's mouths, making some people wish none of it ever happened. There are however those people who did mistakenly idolize the character and see her as some female Jesus girl boss, thinking she was the kind of person who would end up being everyone's hero.
The skeleton of the end of Daenerys' story is I think how Martin intended it to be. Her actions in the end weren't bad writing, it was all foreshadowed. It's just that the events building up to it were terrible writing.
@@4u5t Pretty much my thoughts. Everyone saying "Oh this isn't where her arc was going." Haven't been paying attention. The road to it got full of rocks and feces, but it's the direction it was going. I was predicting it around Season 5. And so were alot of others.
Never understood the Dany fans. "OH she is good?" Yeah no one that self-righteous and bloodthirsty is going to be the hero. To be honest most "corrections" are giving Dany a happy ending.
@@als3022 She does not enjoy burning people. Her empathy with the common folk is real. Burning the commoners of Kings Landing is not in her character. Thems the facts. A misplaced sense of rightiousness and stubborness are her flaws.
Season 7 set everything up for a redemption arc for Daenerys. Everything felt forced in the other direction in season 8. It would be a much shorter leap if all that had happened to her lead her to the conclusion that she is the one who dUn wAn iT.
Daenerys: “I am going to break the wheel.”
“Let’s wheel in Bran the Broken for this one.”
Yeah, what "story"? Considering his arc was the one I usually skipped through to go to the more interesting parts, him being King was a major let down, especially for that reason.
Wow, that was awesome. Almost brought tears to my eyes! Well done, Drinker!
wow the Brand/ nightking twist was so brilliant! got goosebumps, glad the excess characters were thinned out and that the Nightking was the main Antagonist in your version
Now I accept that's canon ending for GoT.
It's canon if the video gets hit with a copyright claim.
Jon Repeating: "She's my Queen!" the whole season, might have just been well be repeating: "Hodor, Hodor." the whole season!
That and "I don't want it"
8 Seasons of blunt Trash
and Sex;
to make the Fans believe its 7 Good Seasons.
And the worst thing: It f-ing worked.
God, i hate modern times.
GOT is a true example for bad quality being
viewed in all legit Truthness as Good.
Wow.
@@slevinchannel7589 why is it bad? if there are tities it means a show is "8 seasons of blunt trash and sex"?
Best description of Jon in 8 season is a simp. I'm sorry, I just can't ignore the parallel.
@@slevinchannel7589 The first 4 or so seasons were pretty good though. It started dropping in quality when the Dorne plot was introduced and it was mostly downhill from there, though there were still some good moments until the end of season 7. Season 8 was trash. So the show wasn't all bad.
I want to cry because your ending was far more satisfying than what we had, but sadly (and this is why I feel like crying) it will only exist in my imagination. We simply can't have anything nice these days
from the bottom of my heart - THANK YOU! thank you so much, so much! You filled a hole in me and I deeply appreciate that...