![]() TLJ had Kylo Ren kill off Snoke, a compelling, interesting villain character, in an extraordinarily pathetic manner after building him up so much in The Force Awakens. Now what do Star Wars and Game of Thrones both have in common - apart from their efforts to subvert expectations? They did it badly. The Rise of Skywalker worked about as well as you’d expect - that’s to say, it didn’t. Instead of seeing the mess through to the end like they should’ve done, they scrambled to fix it by going right back to basics and outright retconning what was established in TLJ, combined with roping in old faces in what basically amounted to sticking duct tape on a collapsing building. Months later, still reeling from the hammering they took from fans recoiling from TLJ, the producers of Star Wars did the stupidest thing they could have done. The twists and subversions occurred with this enjoyment in mind - and if the reviews are any measure, that enjoyment certainly didn’t materialise. Again, without spoiling anything, the producers decided to change things up a bit - the intent being to play with the expectations of their audience and craft plot twists that they might enjoy. ![]() Two years later, the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones happened. And a sizeable part of the fanbase took these changes less than well. Without spoiling anything (yet: spoilers come in a moment - consider this your disclaimer), it changed certain aspects of the saga, took different tropes that had long been a staple and altered the formula in an effort to make it all better. In 2017, Star Wars: The Last Jedi was unveiled to the world. In popular media, the latter quarter of last decade was about subverting peoples’ expectations.
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