Fire and ice as Chinese Game of Thrones fans go online to voice disappointment over latest episode
- Final season of hit show begins to stretch credulity and its followers are not happy
- Plot twists and a continuity error involving Starbucks cup set tongues wagging
Chinese viewers disappointed with the latest episode of the fantasy TV show Game of Thrones joined fans from around the world to vent their anger on the internet.
The fourth episode of the eighth and final season of HBO’s adaptation of George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels, which was broadcast on Monday morning in China, stirred up heated discussions about plot lines and a continuity gaffe involving a cup of coffee.
Many fans criticised the sudden plot twists in The Last of the Starks, which they said did not make sense as it appeared that the screenwriters were in a rush to finish the story off with three episodes remaining.
Others said some characters’ personalities had changed too much, and the show had diverged too far from the conniving, infighting and sometimes merciless disposal of leading characters that viewers loved.
One focus of the criticism was the way Jon Snow – one of the protagonists in the show and believed to be the illegitimate son of Lord Eddard Stark – told his sisters Sansa and Arya Stark about his true identity as the heir to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms as a son of the rival Targaryen family. He had them swear an oath of secrecy, but almost immediately the secret began to spread.