Mixed Bag of Holding: The Boobs Review the Game of Thrones Finale

Whoa I’m just listening through naddpod in 2026 & I’m only 6 min into this mixed bag but holy it feels like a time capsule! And they are verbalizing my own beef w GOT! Yes! If they wanted to make Dany a villain, let her BE villainous! Her ending did not feel earned so I do not buy into evil dany. && the romantic angle sucked! No chemistry!!! Gosh it’s been 84 years and I’m still bitter

So weird and so funny to hear that cousin marrying is where they draw the line 29:29 (I know they aren’t literally cousins, don’t @ me) Also I have to disagree on one thing: I liked that Bronn survived. To me that makes perfect sense, and it totally tracks for the cutthroat opportunist to survive this show… but I agree the writers had no good ideas about how to use him at the end, to the point where he should’ve maybe sailed off into the sunset sometime before the finale

me rolling up to the mixed bag tier 6 years later: shockingly could’ve done with less apologizing for the snarkiness. your opinions are valid! And i say this as someone who hated the last two seasons of the show (and disliked the prior 2). the show had a bajillion dollar budget for the last two seasons and was squandered by two cocky white men who had had no experience as showrunners before. i welcome nuanced critique even as someone who loves the starks as much as she loves jaime lannister for those who still are interested in game of thrones discourse in the year of our lord 2025: i think emily was speaking wisdom when she said that whats always been so great about game of thrones is this inherit messiness of humanity. that you can see these characters do horrible things but still find it very effective when they try to be good and do better. the show’s insistence to unapologetically decree characters as good or bad guys rather than morally gray and complex individuals they were originally written as is a huge disservice to the books (not that they were perfect). my issue with the show is its reluctance to show when the good guys act selfishly—we got this a bit with catelyn and her treatment of jon in s1 but ultimately the show struggled to portray this with the lannisters especially in the last two seasons but it’s been apparent since s4. speaking as a jaime fan (not an apologist he’s obviously done tons of heinous shit), there’s a lot of gratuitous sexual violence against women in the show that is embellished/exaggerated from the page to the detriment of its more complex male and female characters. while i selfishly loved jaime and brienne together (i know i know) i can acknowledge the Crew made a good point that Brienne’s arc felt largely like it was just there to prop up Jaime and his legacy, which was utterly disappointing. but not something new for the show or the books even. anyways i’m tripping off my soapbox now. love to the naddpoles and the crew!

Emily got what she wanted, The Odyssey is Christopher Nolans next movie, with none other than Jason Bourne himself

Fantastic point by Emily, GRRM wrote better female roles than what was portrayed in the show.

5 years after this. Still no books and no sign of the books ever being finished

House of the Dragon Mixed Bag when?!?! ❤️

After years when I never felt I unpacked my GoT feelings, this was very therapeutic to listen to.

I know I’m commenting years late - but Brienne surviving Winterfell was so bad! Her character arc was completed when Jaime knighted her, she should have had a valiant last stand.

Lmao you can heard someone open a whiskey bottle at the end and pour

“That’s not a happy ending, that’s incest.”-Murph 2019

I've literally never watched a single episode of GoT so this was interesting to listen to

What I liked about Game of Thrones is what I like about DND. What makes the clutch Nat 20 so sweet is that you risk the devastation of a Nat 1. The stakes of the show were always clear and real. If you behave stupidly you will be killed, even if you are behaving nobly. The last season forgot that and thought that. It went for the subversion exclusively.

Im so with your take on this. So many people shit all over it complaining about the plot points. The plot was not the problem. The problem was the execution.

Very late to this, but I feel all of this so much. R.I.P GoT

Wait is Bran a generac crystal??

GoT was the greatest story never really finished

Recapped the series enough that I don't think I even need to watch it now.

Lol, fun roast guys 😂

I think having a huge budget naddpod series with great cgi and tons of high magic big budget shit would be really cool. I actually think it would be better liveaction than it would be animated. I think Hardwon would be a good role for either Tom Hopper or Jensen Ackles, Bev is Owen Vaccaro or Aiden Arthur, Moonshine is harder to cast, but I'm thinking maybe Jessica Stroup, Alice Greczyn, or Lyndsy Fonseca, leaning towards Lyndsy Fonseca

I think what is missed by a lot of people is the Bran isn’t Bran anymore, he is Brynden Rivers aka Targaryen. So it all ended up with an all-knowing Targaryen back on the throne, who plotted it to end this way. Makes the ending much better. Granted, they still should’ve made the season 10 eps to explain everything better.

Spoilers! (just in case) Loved hearin the band of boobs weigh in! I think some of yal might like this guys video on episode 3 of season 8 https://youtu.be/GI7zy1PTMp0 Long and short of it being arya had nothing in her plotline that justifies her killing the night king, the battle tactics were silly, and the night king should have been the final boss. Terrible ending to an otherwise awesome show. Good on yal for looking for positives. Oh and I'm with Murph, jaime is awful.

The First Men (ancestors of modern northerners) and the Andals (everyone south of the neck) are different groups!

I hadn’t watched GoT at all before this season. Binged the whole series in three weeks and timed it so that I caught up to the last episode two days after it came out. I think having watched it all at once it’s really stark (pun intended) how much of a difference there is in the writing of the show between the earlier seasons and season 7/8. Honestly I enjoyed watching the whole thing, there’s no denying the last season was watchable. However after the credits rolled and I started processing what I watched, more and more questions popped up for me. Probably the biggest one for me is that Tyrian said “Bells mean the city has surrendered.” I thought for sure this was going to be twist since it was literally stated in an earlier season by one of the characters “I’ve never known bells tolling to mean surrender.” It could’ve been this whole thing where Tyrian made Danny think they’d surrendered but actually were preparing their counter attack. Cut to scene where Cerci’s talking to Tyrian after Danny and her army has been murdered “I under-estimated you, you really are your father’s son.” The other thing that bugged me was that Bran had flash of prophecy (somewhere around s5 I think) which included flashes of wildfire in Kings Landing. I thought for sure that was going to mean that the white walker army would make it to kings landing and the only thing that could help them prevail would be using the wildfire buried under the city. Instead we got a few bangs of wildfire as Danny torched the town. You guys pretty much touched on all my other gripes. It was such a good series and so enjoyable but there was just so many better ways to finish it off, even just using all the jigsaw pieces they already had in place.

It's strange that this has become such a divisive issue that this is almost like "The Boobs Review Current Politics" at this point. I, for one, liked the final season!

Thank you Emily. I’ve been wanting a good adaptation of the Odyssey for years. I honestly think it is the greatest story ever told, and it is insane how bad some of the adaptations have been.

I find I always become defensive when people are negative to a show I love even when it’s deserved but I definitely agree that some of the moments needed more time to be earned. However the melting of the throne was the dopest moment to me and I will fight anyone on it

I enjoyed the whole show. Fite me.

Also Murph I agree with you. Jaime is a irredeemable incest rapist. That rape also never comes up again, it has no affect on the story or his personal arc

Also intresting fact for the crew, game of thrones hasnt had a female writer since season 3

Can't listen cuz spoilers yet. Still have spoilers to go through. Hope it's great!

I made a post asking for this and I just realized I heard you were doing it, forgot about it, and then thought it was an original idea. I feel bad.

This was so on-topic for so long I don't know how to handle it

They're being pretty savage in their review, I wish i were in the room so bad so I could explain these plot points and character arcs. I still love them all though, no negative review will stop me loving Daddy Murph, Em, Calldwell, and jake. Going to have to rethink getting that "In NADDPOD I trust" tattoo now. Just kidding.

I'm one of the three people on Earth that loved this last season of Game of Thrones

luv u guys