Why Season 7 of Game of Thrones is SO BAD

An analysis on Game of Thrones season 7 where I critique the writing and show how bad it is in comparison to the earlier seasons of the show. Season review basically.

Thank you to my Patrons: Sean Clancy, k4nd17r33, Debbs, The_Henne, Luis Andino, Valarmorgulis, Florida Buqmeti, Jaywantsacat, and Subliminal Transformation.

Music Used:

The Witcher 3 Soundtrack

Game of Thrones - Medley (Piano & String Cover)

House Stark Theme x The Force Theme | Game of Thrones & Star Wars Mashup

King Of The North (Season 1)

Timestamps:
Intro: (0:00)
Rushed Writing: (0:31)
Contrived Writing: (6:44)
Butchering of Characters: (9:07)
Conclusion: (15:15)

[xili]

As the show went on, the writers became more and more obsessed with the word “cock”.

[JediJuniper]

I hate that D&D didn’t just hand the series over to someone else. The fact that their egos were so much bigger than caring about the quality of the show will never not disappoint me, mostly because it’s just so disrespectful towards the fans and the legacy of the series.

[Boobalopbop]

I couldn’t believe how indifferent she was to losing her dragon. I thought what was going to be kind of a big deal. She was more upset when My sundae died.

[gautamjuyal]

The show went from top tier drama to a fan service action movie. I personally feel, GOT was always about exceptional writing and buildup, never the guns and big action sequences. It still hurts me to see how terribly the show ended.

[HikariPrime]

Can’t Believe it’s already been 2 years since the show ended. If things went the way HBO wanted we would still be theorizing about the end. What a shame

[neoluthuli]

Season 7
JON SNOW: We need allies
Season 8
JON SNOW: She my queen

[jordanread]

Jaime leaving Cersei is probably the only good scene in this season (along with Olenna's death scene). Shame that they butchered it in season 8 along with his entire character arc with one line of dialogue.

[Romy-]

One thing that absolutely infuriated me about season 7 is that Jaime didn't immediately leave after Cersei blew up the sept with wildfire. Omg why? He killed a king for just the *intention* to do that. And then D&D have the nerve to write a scene where Cersei asks him if he is angry and Jaime answers "No, not angry." I'm sorry - but WTF?!
That was a major red flag for season 8 now that I think about it...
But noo, they had to force their stupid twincest storyline down our throats.

[moonharmonica]

I agree with everything. I can't believe how people only criticise season 8 when season 7 was absolute garbage as well.

[TheSwede]

The fact that this season holds a critic score of 93% on Rotten Tomatoes is insane to me, with the consensus reading: “After a year-long wait, Game of Thrones roars back with powerful storytelling and a focused interest in its central characters — particularly the female ones.”

[lonelycastle]

It's actually incredibly easy to track when each character stopped being interesting or well-written; literally every single character starts wearing only black from about season 5 through 7, and each time someone makes the switch from their old outfits they immediately become a brainless plot-advancer with no character motivation or logic

It happens in practically every show or movie made nowadays, because for some reason writers/costumers seem pathologically incapable of showing that a character is in SERIOUS MODE without turning their entire wardrobe black "because black is like, a badass colour for cool characters" in the eyes of apparently every showrunner going

[bebbization]

My least favorite episode of the whole show is always gonna be the one in season 7 when they go beyond the wall and trade a dragon of a wight. It's so incomprehensibly stupid on all levels. They think a small group of rangers can catch a wight from a giant army of dead without being killed. Check. Only two people in the group have ever been beyond the Wall before. Have the others even seen snow before? Btw, they aren't covering their ears either, they really do care more about looks than frostbite. They didn't use a dragon to get there, and Tyrion thought this would actually change Cersei's mind. You have already checked those two. Then after being attacked, they conveniently get to a safe island, and conveniently the wights are just standing there waiting for the water to freeze. Somehow Gendry, with no experience in winters, manage to escape and complete a super marathon back to Castle Black. Then they speed run Gendry sending a letter to Daenerys, and Daenerys flying all the way beyond the Wall, just in time before the water freezes. Check. How did Daenerys even find them so quickly? Then the famous "Jon Snow not getting on the freaking dragon", which gives the Night King enough time to kill Viserion, when he should instead have killed Drogon and all the people on him. Then the NUMBER ONE most HATED moment of GOT, imho: Jon being saved by Benjen in the most cliche Deus Ex Machina imaginably possible: "UNCLE BENJEN!!!! I THOUGHT YOU WERE "NO TIME TO EXPLAIN, YOU NEED TO GO!" **Then dies so he can avoid explaining wtf just happened.** We're still not done here. After they all escape, the wights manage to pull the dead dragon up from the water with chains. Where did they get so much chain, and with that thickness and quality too? Did they just find that conveniently or did they make it? How the f*ck would they make that? How did they attach the chain to the dragon? If they could swim, why did they wait for the water to freeze when they surrounded Jon and his friends? There was no point showing the dragon at the end of the episode at all, it would be a way better payoff to just surprise us with it at the season finale. Then they could have avoided the problems with the chain as well. Instead, we were all just waiting for the zombie dragon to show up, killing off all the cool revelation they could have given.

And why did this episode exist? It was only so the Night King could get a pet dragon. I mean, an ice dragon is freaking cool, but I'm speechless of how much they forced it. It's like they're trying to defend themselves, saying all this devoid of logic was necessary to achieve this. They could seriously not think of any other way to handle Viserion over to the Night King? Like, just have the Walkers attack the edge of the Wall, by getting around through the water. Then make Daenerys fight them and lose Viserion in the process.

I know season 8 is awful, but even that can't beat my hate for the Beyond the Wall episode. I can't think of a single good thing that episode gave.

[pierrelhommet]

Jon : "How many men do we have in the North to fight him?" "Ten thousand? Less?"
Ser Davos : "Fewer"

The best dialogue of season 7 because it's a reference to the Goddamn Mannis

[hakanflodin]

I hated how they made Casterly Rock look like a normal castle. It's supposed to be a impregnable stronghold inside a freakin mountain that's taller than the wall. Not even dragons is able to touch it.

[janebtar]

A German Youtuber brought it on the point.
"D&D were the masters over one of the best franchises ever made, they had the best artists, cast, visual effects and with HBO they had one of the very few companies to maximize the potential. They couldve went into history as the best showrunners of all time, the sky was the border, but they and only them threw it"

[thefilmadvocate]

The first 4 seasons had probably the best writing I've ever seen in any TV show or movie

[joseluki]

D&D bailed out on GoT to go write a Star Wars movie that was so bad Disney released them from their contract.

[TCthaCrisis]

It became increasingly difficult to see Arya as this amazingly gifted athletic assasin. Especially without the "faces"

[Rchd]

After Tyrion shot a crossbow bolt into his dad's bowels he never did anything as awesome or dramatically intense as that for the remainder of the entire show.

[Tnoir]

Crazy how a world wide phenomenon got absolutely shafted, now no one remember GOT unless they talk about how bad it ended