(Hated Trope) TV endings so awful it completely ruins rewatchability of the entire show.

[u/hiiloovethis]

Game of Thrones - Entire season 8 and finale completely ruins the entire narrative and show ends in the worst way possible. It kills desire to rewatch the show.

How I Met Your Mother - Show ends such awful they kill the... the mother. After spending years growing into a loyal partner and father, he instantly reverted to his old womanizing behavior after his divorce. Also he ends up with robin randomly.

The Boys - While not as bad as GOT but the worst aspect is the cheap Vought Rising spin-off tease, pointless storylines and rushed ending which leaves a sour taste. Despite hitting the right points... it feels cheap and not satisfying.

[u/Zakal74]

Nothing could save what they were doing in The Battle of Winterfell. The deployment could not have been any more nonsensical than that.

You have these huge walls that have been talked up for their incredible defensive potential for seasons. So put all of your troops outside the wall. Got it.

You have long range artillery that can smash enemy formations from a distance. Let's go ahead and put that right up front to absorb the charge. Sure.

You have a massive mounted force with weapons that literally do nothing against the enemy. I sure hope some fire witch shows up and makes their blades have flames. Oh, that was lucky. Okay, lets just send them off into the darkness rather than waiting for the battle to start and then using them as a flanking force. Neat.

You have a great defensive flaming pit that will be perfect for holding back the enemy while The Unsullied fight with their long spears. Let's go ahead and deploy The Unsillied, (typo, but I'm keeping it in,) right in front of the flaming pit so it's almost impossible to retreat. Perfect!

Oh, I almost forgot, let's make sure the brightness is set to 5% the whole time so no one can tell what's going on. Perfection.

The only thing they could have done to make it any stupider was have everyone face away from the enemy.

Edit: Oh, forgot one. The most intelligent man in the world is in charge of the safety of the women and children. The enemy can raise the dead. Let's go ahead and have him shelter in place with them in crypts full of armed and armored corpses. Genius.

[u/Beginning_Turnip8716 → u/Zakal74]

As someone whose gaming history is limited to plants vs zombies, even I know not to put my pea shooters in front of my walnuts

[u/schenk_max → u/Zakal74]

Jon Snow was learning from Cailan & battle at Ostagar.

Take a stand against overwhelming force as early as possible ✔️

Throw away a chunk of the army just charging at the enemy without anyone covering them (Mabari in DAO, Dothraki in GoT) ✔️

Don't use fortifications to create chokepoints to stande a chance against overwhelming numbers, instead fight borderline in an open field ✔️

Underestimate the enemy and get fucked from the rear ✔️

[u/powderjunkie11 → u/Zakal74]

https://giphy.com/gifs/lHG3hUhmrvTwI
Facing away at least has comedic potential

[u/Zakal74 → u/powderjunkie11]

Lol, perfect strat!

[u/k_GOBL1N → u/Zakal74]

The only way to see the final battle is HDR TVs according to my older brother.

[u/BlazedBoylan → u/Zakal74]

I’m gonna go ahead and assume most people that didn’t like the Battle of Winterfell didn’t like the lighting issues and had no clue what a deployment should look like lol

[u/GuyKopski → u/BlazedBoylan]

A big part of it is how it's portrayed within the context of the show itself. Like the Ride of the Rohirrim for instance, is nonsensical from a perspective of real life tactics and would have resulted in Theoden's army being obliterated. But that's not how it's portrayed in the actual movie. He gives a speech, leads the charge, the orcs all panic and get trampled, cool hero moment. Nobody cares about the realism of it.

Whereas the Dothraki, it's repeatedly said that they can't overpower the army of the dead in a straight fight and their only chance is to kill the Night King before they're overrun. But then they have their army charge straight at the enemy, and are shocked when it's slaughtered down to the last man. Like, what was the expected result? And then they're all fine in the next episode. The only reason it happens is because they wanted that (admittedly cool) shot of the flaming swords slowly going out, and they didn't bother to explain it in a way that made sense beyond that.

[u/Zeal0tElite → u/GuyKopski]

Ride of the Rohirrim is also thematic, it's the races of men uniting to take down the army of Sauron. Things are allowed to be unrealistic if they serve the story in a meaningful way that outweighs your disbelief.

With the Dothraki you get the idea they were killed off because the writers didn't really know what else to do with them. You might as well have had them all accidentally ride off a cliff for it mattered.

[u/Zakal74 → u/GuyKopski]

That's the part that makes it all so painful. Everything looked awesome. Just don't make everyone braindead for no reason.

[u/ItsBoughtnotBrought → u/GuyKopski]

The Ride of the Rohirrim was a suicide mission, they knew they were going to be obliterated.