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Game of Thrones: The Iron Throne (2019)
How can people be giving 10s?
Besides the acting and hard work from supporting staff,
plot-wise this was quite objectively a trainwreck.
Just because it's impossible to completely satisfy
all the fans doesn't magically make the last season good. I will give you just a couple examples of
how horrible the writing was.
1. No ties to previous foreshadowing.
Sure this does happen to a lot of shows that
just don't know where to end and prolong their
lives just a bit too long. That is why it is bad.
None of the major prophecies kept relevance.
Cersei's death, Azor Ahai and the Prince that was Promised, etc.
If you say Bran was the Prince that was Promised
you just haven't seen the show.
No, the show does not have to follow all foreshadows.
But there should be some explanation,
not complete abandonment. It is just sloppy.
2. Horrible Logic
Many of the scenes in the 8th season just don't make sense.
I'm talking about simple logic.
There is no reason for Tyrion to believe
Cersei would ever surrender.
In case of requesting for surrender,
you send a messanger or courier of some sort.
You do NOT expose the entire leadership
to a barrage of dragon killing scorpions.
And Cersei, or anyone with a functioning brain,
would have let them leave alive when
the opppsition has an army that could
ransack the city in less than a day.
Drogon or not, Cersei's army was decimated in 10 minutes.
The Ironbank would never have allowed a loan
enabling her to borrow the entire Golden Company.
Basic things just have no logic, no explanation,
and no common sense.
3. Nonexistant Character Development.
Dany went bad. Sure, that happens. But not like this.
You want to see a good example of how to portray
a good person falling to the "dark side,"
just watch "Breaking Bad."
Walter White going bad is a great example
of how to portray how the psyche of a man
changes while interacting with extremes in the environment.
Dany going berserk at the sight of the Red Keep,
after she's been flying around the city for at least an hour,
Missandei saying "Drakaris" as her last words,
Grey Worm obviously unleashing at innocent civilians,
Tyrion and Varis going stupid at the same time,
Jon Snow turning into a clueless fool,
Bran suddenly discarding all his values as the
Three-eyed Raven...
They could happen.
BUT
only with enough build-up that gives the characters
plausible cause to make such drastic changes.
If Batman suddenly started killing people
you can't just say "Oh, he changed his mind"
and expect people to be happy.
I could go all day long but my point is that
these and a plethora of other flaws in the writing
would make any movie, any TV show horrible.
Sure, GoT is getting it worse because of the high
expectations of fans, but that does NOT
automatically make season 8 an objectively solid show.
The Phantom (2009)
Sloppy plot
I don't really remember the Phantom comic strips so I'm mainly going on the movie itself and the sloppiness and lack of attention to detail.
Starting from the beginning... OK so the 5 year old Kit Walker was in the car with his mother when it plunged into the water, he somehow got out of the sinking car and scrambled onto a tire strapped on the wall so he didn't drown but dodged the assassins from the Singh brotherhood... but how come he isn't wet I mean obviously he didn't fly out of the car into the tire. OK I guess that can be considered a minor mistake...
The boy was found near by scavanging the trash, unable to remember anything. Obviously the Bpaa Thap(or whatever the name of the phantom's organization) knew his face, and with all their intel and high tech crap should've known that his mother was killed, and that police records probably showed no body of a kid. They should've been looking for him and anything about a kid about 5 years old, who had a concussion, looked exactly like Kit Walker, found alone in a location not too far from the crash site on the front paper should've caught their eye in the first place. I mean if they were checking every DNA record logged in all intelligence agencies to find a match for Kit Walker 19 years after his disappearance, and the Walker family was so important that they kept the organization running for 19 years prepping for the 22nd Kit Walker, they probably were looking for him a couple months after the accident. How would such a significant boy just slip through?
Fine, let's just say they were THAT incompetent. How about when Kit returns home to find his foster parents dead. When he enters the home he keeps calling for his parents and for some reason, the guys who are there specifically to kill him don't hear him. He calls them out pretty loud and there's just a normal door, not some high tech sound proof door between him and the killers but they don't even hear him yelling for his parents.
Now we go to the Bpaa Thap headquarters. The first Kit Walker was apparently from Swiss. and in the early 1500s he was on a boat when it was attacked by pirates and landed stranded on an Indonesian island. Well first of all to land up on an Indonesian island he had to be attacked in either the Pacific Ocean or the Indian Ocean. That was before anyone in Europe even really knew about the Pacific. Vasco da Gama was the first to sail around Africa to get to India and that was around 1500. With the technology back then, it was a huge task just to get to India by boat. Even in 1536 there were no stable merchant routes between India and Europe by sea, which means there were no pirates in the Indian Ocean because there'd be nobody to plunder. Another thing, it would take months and probably over a year to sail from Indonesia back to Europe even with the best crew and navigational equipment of that age. The operation would have to consist of dozens of men and a pretty large boat. Of course he would not be able to get that on the island so how the hell did he get back to Swiss and fight crime? FYI, the in original Phantom, the Bangella island is located somewhere in Africa which makes much more sense.
Oh another thing, if he was from Swiss he shouldn't use English to write his diaries. Most likely he would've used German, which is confirmed by the way they pronounced Kit Walker when they picked the 22nd up and took him to the car crash site. Again in the original Phantom, Kit Walker is of British descent.
Ummmmm and yeah at the last scene. So he's all trained up for months to fight mercenaries and ex-military guys working for a worldwide crime syndicate and the gets tossed around by some tribal men like a toy. Seems like he's not ready lol And he picks up a a red hot metal ring and puts it right on. That thing should melt his fricken flesh...
I'm just mentioning the big gaping holes leaving out the more subtle stuff...
over all I'm giving it a 2 because of the acting which was decent. The rest was just so bad I couldn't get into the movie. Sure, I'm one who likes mystery thrillers pieced together flawlessly but the thing to note is that even huge blockbuster movies with almost no plot make sure they don't leave any obvious holes. It is always better to have no plot or details to put holes in than make a lousy one with tons of holes.