I'm not saying get rid of them completely, I'm saying less of them would have been more, their only use was to keep us interested in characters that are important for the endgame, the more we learned and less mysterious they became, the less cool they got, and the more the writers wrote themselves into a corner with how they had to killed, to the point where it was obviously never going to pay off in a way that satisfied a lot of the fans of the show.Kath wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 1:13 pmWithout the zombies, there's no story. The Wall was literally a main character in this story. No wall or zombies to worry about? Still a story, but far less interesting. No reason for Jon to exist; no reason for Samwell to exist. We don't get to meet Jorah's father, who is the reason Sam saves Jorah; all sorts of plot lines are less in-depth without the wall.StCapps wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 12:59 pmThe Ice Zombie ending was never going to big climax that a lot of the shows fans were expecting it to be, there is a reason they got the ice zombies out of the way, because if you make that the ending of the show, it's impossible to nail the landing, bullet dodged. Not seeing a better way to kill off the ice zombies in an episode, than what they came up with. The more we learned about the ice zombies, the less interesting they became, solving mysteries is a helluva drug, especially when the mystery was key to making the ice zombies cool in the first place, and the payoff usually isn't worth it in those circumstances, Lost knows.
Not dissimilar to the problems Lost had when solving too many mysteries that didn't need solving, and even attempting to solve them wrote them into a corner they couldn't write their way out of. The Leftovers fixed that issue and nailed it's fucking ending with a truly fantastic final season, but Lindelof had to learn that lesson by fucking up Lost's final season and ending.
