People On Twitter Are Attempting To Summarize All Of ‘Game Of Thrones’ In A Single Tweet

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Look, not everyone watches Game of Thrones. Just because its grand finale outperformed even the much-better-liked closing of The Sopranos, or that it’s pretty much all anyone can talk about on Twitter, doesn’t mean absolutely everyone is a follower. Cast in point: Someone took to social media to ask if someone, anyone, could summarize the entire eight-season, 71-episode run in a single tweet. Some fans took that as a challenge.

— Amy Cuddy (@amyjccuddy) May 20, 2019

That person was Amy Cuddy, a psychologist and bestselling author. It’s not clear whether she had never seen Game of Thrones, or if she was just throwing down an impossible challenge to see if there would be anyone foolish enough to try. Well, there were.

— Ryan Lowy (@AJustConspiracy) May 20, 2019

The worst leaders believe they are good and right. The best know they are flawed and despite having imperfections visible to everyone, they persist. https://t.co/kFbhnrjHUj

— Cameron Sadler (@RulesByCam) May 20, 2019

Doomed love and incest leads to multi generation conflict for power across seven kingdoms, starts/ends with mad rulers burning down people, and finally, the least interested guy becomes king in a pseudo show of democracy where only whites vote. Oh, and zombies. https://t.co/q3bTO8MSLY

— Amit Das (@not_ghalib) May 20, 2019

Pursuit of a murder mystery unravels a massive conspiracy about the true heir to the throne of 7 kingdoms.

Civil war ensues as an apocalyptic threat from the North and an exile from the East seeking to claim the throne for herself all clash leaving a new order when Spring begins. https://t.co/N7IhM9whrt

— Stephen Limbaugh (@StephenLimbaugh) May 20, 2019

Honor, ambition, and love clash as 3 great houses battle for control of their own destinies and a seat on the Iron Throne. In the end, the battles are for nothing as the throne itself is nothing but a symbol of pettiness and the pride. Also, snow zombies. https://t.co/ErOp0R5qJX

— Brad Wells (@BradWellsNFL) May 20, 2019

The above were serious and ambitious, taking full advantage of the 280-character space. Others were succinct.

— Eric Friesen (@leadfreely) May 20, 2019

Some were Ian McShane-level snarky.

— Half Eaten Chicken Sandwich (@ChickenHalf) May 20, 2019

HBO invites you to play Dungeons and Dragons with an especially horny and sadistic 13 year old Dungeon Master. And if you think it's not a kid running the game just remember there's a reason all the parents die.

— Mr. Cappadocia (@MrCappadocia) May 20, 2019

"Shakespeare, but with zombies, dragons, and an odd fixation with castration." https://t.co/BrKkf43ppD

— Peter Wang (@pwang) May 20, 2019

Seven years of winter is coming finally came in the 8th year and lasted an hour and then we were tortured for a few more hours to see a king and a queen rule.

— de❌ocrats are useless (@craner72) May 20, 2019

There wasn’t one. It was a Game; a series of challenges with no plot or ending unless a death occurs. https://t.co/2OD9oHiLU6

— ocmonalisa (@ocmonalisa) May 20, 2019

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— # (@DoomlordVek) May 20, 2019

And some were by William Shatner, whose most famous show famously never got a spectacular send-off that aggravates longtime fans.

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) May 20, 2019

Anyway, what will we do when without Game of Thrones At what point will the discourse around it even slow down, let alone disappear What show could ever fill the Drogon-sized void in our souls Perhaps it will be that forthcoming program based on books that inspired a failed franchise with fighting polar bears and a flying Eva Green.