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Was there something good about the GOT ending?

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GOT Recap: Iron Throne

Airdate:  5/19/19  Season 8, Episode 6 (Finale)

Well, here we are, everybody!  The Game of Thrones Finale has dropped and I for one was completely loving it.  It was so riveting and they were totally able to justify Dany’s mad queen arc,  plus, the way they tied up all the loose ends was truly spectacu ---oh for the love of god, I can’t do this anymore!  Here’s the truth:  The finale was GARBAGE!  It was disappointing and boring and, honestly, we all deserved better.  I know people say “You can’t please everybody.”  I get that.  But, dude, when the majority of people ain’t happy, you’ve done messed up.

That said, it’s dunzo and now we all can walk around dazed, like the survivors of King’s Landing, trying to make sense out of the madness.  I suppose, in a way, I’m grateful that the previous episode was so god awful, because it really helped me prepare for a let down.  So in that sense, expecations were met.  Let’s remind ourselves how this series, as a whole, was truly a special thing…most of the time.  It’s just too bad it had to end this way.   This is by far my least fave episode to recap, but I can’t just let the final notes of the Song of Ice and Fire go unplayed, so here ya have it:  My final GOT recap of “Iron Throne”:

Yo.  The massacre of King’s Landing is over – or is it? Tyrion Lannister -clearly not considering his own life or survival- has decided to stick around and take a long walk through the charred human remains and toppled buildings.  Jon Snow and Ser Davos follow him, equally stunned by the devastation.  White ash covers everything. We see a handful of shell shocked survivors as Tyrion passes through the streets to make his way to the Red Keep.  Jon tells him not to go in without backup, but Tyrion insits on going it alone. He gets into the castle and makes his way through the ruined map room and down the stairs to check on the secret passageway that he told his bro about.  It’s all moody and sad…but also confusing, because we saw the ceiling collapse last episode and it didn’t seem like there would even be a basement left to go to.  But maybe I’m just being a stickler for things that make actual sense.  Tyrion finds a giant pile of rubble blocking a passageway. A hint of light peeks from the top and he manages to climb and pick his way past the blockage.  Seems totally safe to me to disturb the unstable structure and debris.  

On the other side, there is another huge pile of rubble and Tyrion spies Jaime Lannister’s golden hand peeking out of the rocks.  Yeah, that’s right, the ceiling - and presumably entire structure - came crashing down on Jaime and Cersei Lannister last episode and yet here we are with body pieces barely covered.  Tyrion clears away a few bricks and voila! He has excavated Jaime and Cersei – nestled close together.  That whole thing is so…whatever.  I mean, Tyrion seems pretty upset, but when you look at the surrounding scene you’re just like “So…if Jaime and Cersei had simply stepped a few feet to the right, they would’ve been fine?”  It’s all kinda dumb, if I’m being honest.  But Tyrion’s feelings are real, and he’s devastated to see his siblings dead in each other’s arms.

As Jon and Davos make their way through the city to the Red Keep, they come across Grey Worm with a handful of Lannister soldiers on their knees, about to be executed.  Jon’s all “Whoa, man.  The fight’s over, these dudes should be prisoners!”  And Grey Worm is all “I’m following my queen’s orders to kill her enemies.” Jon wants to talk to his superior – aka Daenerys – and Grey Worm’s all “Cool, let me know how that works out.” He proceeds to cut the throats of each of the kneeling men.  Yowzers, that is cold!  

Meanwhile, Arya Stark walks up to the crowd of Dothraki who are hooting and celebrating outside the Red Keep.  It’s nice to know that the symbolic white horse at the end of last episode was able to carry her a full two blocks and then disappear for his next Lyft fare in King’s Landing – it’s surge pricing right now, people.

The Unsullied stand at attention, lining the long stairway up to the Red Keep and Jon slowly walks up. Grey Worm is already there – dude, the Unsullied are FAST! Tyrion stands to the side.   Drogon swoops overhead and lands in the courtyard and a few seconds later, Queen Daenerys Targaryen walks out to the top of the stairs to address her loyal Dothraki and Unsullied troops.  

She speaks to the crowd in Dothraki and then High Valyrian and gives a super creepy Hitler-esque speech “Thanks for helping me liberate the city, y’all!  You guys have been so supportive and we are not going to rest until we have liberated the entire WORLD from the shackles of life!!!”  All of Dany’s supporters cheer. “Also, we are going to have a big potluck tomorrow to get to know our 27 surviving King’s Landing citizens! This is a reminder that I’m making my famous ambrosia salad flambée  and I really don’t want anybody one-upping me, so please steer clear from any and all other pineapple dishes with cool whip, m’kay?  It might just push me over the edge.  You guys are the best! See you tomorrow at 3pm near the charred moms and toddlers where the garden used to be!” Jon and Tyrion don’t understand a word she said, but they’re pretty sure it ain’t good.  Of course it’s not – ambrosia salad is not meant to be flambéed, it’s gonna be a disaster. But at this point, nothing Dany does would surprise me anymore.

Tyrion steps forward and stands next to Dany, who goes “You freed your brother, traitor.” And Tyrion goes “Yeah, but you just massacred a city, psycho, so there! Oh and btw, I don’t want to be your hand anymore.”  He removes his pin and tosses it down the stairs – y’all that is a bigger burn than what Dany just did to all of King’s Landing!    Daenerys’s guards escort him away.  Frankly, I thought she would just barbecue him right then and there, so things are going better than expected.

Jon stares warily at Dany who coolly gazes back at him and marches into the interior of the Red Keep. I don’t get how anybody can believe this is a sound structure, but then again all the building code enforcers are likely buried under a pile of rubble.  

Suddenly, Arya pops up next to Jon who is surprised to see her in King’s Landing.  She tells him of her plan to kill Cersei, “but your queen got there first.”  Jon is quick to remind her that Daenerys is everybody’s queen.  Arya retorts “Tell that to Sansa.” She also warns Jon that now that Daenerys knows his secret lineage, she’ll probably kill him one of these days.

Shortly after, Jon pays a visit to Tyrion, whose makeshift prison cell is a room filled with off-season Pier 1 decorative vases.  Talk about cruel and unusual punishment.  Tyrion attempts to turn Jon against Dany and gives him a whole spiel about how people with access to weapons of mass destruction and a penchant for mental instability somehow shouldn’t be allowed to be in power.  Jon’s all “Meh, it’s not really my decision to make. I’m gonna focus on the things I can control – like the tightness of my man bun and the number of steps I’m clocking on my fitbit.  Dude, this whole King’s Landing trip has got me up to 50K steps and it’s not even lunchtime!” ��O-kay…but Dany really needs to be stopped.”  There’s a bunch of bumbling convo about how Tyrion really did love and believe in Dany and how love clouds reason. Jon tells Tyrion “Love is the Death of Duty” and Tyrion is blown away by the poetic insight, then realizes it’s Jon saying it and goes “Did you just come up with that on your own?” “Nah, man.  Maester Aemon said it to me once.”  “Yeah, that makes more sense.  Well, let me just take that gem, flip it and reverse it:  Maybe sometimes Duty can be the Death of Love…just sayin’.”  This wordplay is way too much for Jon to handle and he has to take a seat.  Probably as a defense for the writers to take Dany down the path of crazyville, Tyrion points out all the cruel things Daenerys has done in her pursuit of the crown and he says she was cheered on and thus validated in feeling that she is right and good.  When Jon tells him none of it matters now that the war is over, Tyrion goes “Is it though? She won’t stop till she’s the queen to everybody in this world – how is your family going to react to that?  And do you really think that she won’t kill you, too, one day – the person with a better claim to the throne?” Finally, Tyrion tells Jon that he has to make a choice – and has to make it now. Visiting hours are over and Jon leaves, making no commitments either way. Just Jon being Jon, folks.

Jon approaches the entrance to the throne room – Drogon is guarding it.  The dragon stirs from a pile of ashes, gives Jon a once-over and deems him worthy to pass.  Damn straight, ‘cause he’s a true Targaryen!

Meanwhile, Daenerys enters the throne room – or rather, what’s left of it.  The roof has been blown off with several of the exterior walls missing and the floor is covered with so much ash, it looks like a blanket of snow.  She stares at the Iron Throne - solitary in the open space -and walks toward it.  At last, she reaches it and touches one of the swords. This throne has always been so far from her grasp – even in her vision from the House of the Undying she never did manage to touch it - this moment has been a long time coming.

She turns to see Jon Snow at the doorway and she tells him a boring story about her childhood and how she assumed the Iron Throne was this gigantic behemoth of a throne.  Jon is just all “Hey, gurl…so…your soldiers are still slaughtering peeps in the street.  That’s pretty effed.”  Dany is all calm with crazy eyes saying things like “We can’t hide behind small mercies – sometimes you have to kill a whole bunch of innocent people to save an even bigger bunch of innocent people.” When Jon asks her if she’s actually seen all the children that she’s killed in the streets – children, women, men who had nothing to do with any of this, he insists that mercy has to be a part of the vision for a better world.  

Dany’s just all “I’m a visionary – I get that it’s really hard for you to see the grand scheme here, since you know nothing, but just trust that I know what is good and right.” It’s a callback to the convo Jon had with Tyrion just five minutes ago. Jon asks “Well, what about everybody else who thinks they know what’s good and right?” Dany replies, slightly flippantly “They don’t get to choose.”  She asks Jon to be a part of her awesome dream and of course he tells her “You’re my queen.  You always will be.”  They kiss and embrace.  

 Then, mid-hug, THWUMP! Jon plants a dagger into Daenerys’ chest. Dany didn’t see this coming and is flummoxed.  She collapses and dies in Jon’s arms, a trickle of blood spills from her mouth as he lays her on the ground.

Sensing a disturbance in the Force of the Mother of Dragons, Drogon flies up to investigate.  He sees him momma lifeless on the ground and gives her a few nudges with his nose “Wake up, mama!!!” It’s all kinda heartbreaking if you can forget the entire last half of the previous episode where Drogon and his mommy were burning up all of King’s Landing.

Drogon looks at the dagger in Dany’s chest and then at the Iron Throne and Jon.  He breathes in deeply and you can see the fire near the back of his throat.  Holy Moles, is he going to toast Jon and then we see Jon arise from the flames? Nope. He lets out a huge stream of fire…not on Jon, but on the throne.  What?!  Is Drogon a big dumdum for thinking the pointy throne killed his mom or is he such a genius that he understands the Iron Throne is a symbolism for power, the pursuit of which ultimately led to his mother’s demise?  We’ll never know, but either way, I think we can all agree it’s a weird reaction coming from the dragon.  But it looks cool, so I guess there’s that. Drogon melts the entire throne to the ground.  Then he picks Daenerys up gently in his talon and takes off.  Jon is completely unharmed and would ya look at that – no dead body!  Thanks Drogon!  Now Jon can be all “I dunno where Daenerys went…she said she was going out for some milk”, and nobody will be the wiser.  #PerfectCrime

We get a close up of Tyrion’s face – he wakes up from his prison cell floor and guards take him to the old dragon arena.  Judging by the length of his beard, several weeks have gone by.  Grey Worm leads him to a semi-circle of seated noblemen and women. It’s pretty much all the noble families left in Westeros - about a dozen or so peeps:  Yara Greyjoy, the new Dornish prince, Robin Arryn and his adviser, Ser Davos Seaworth, Ser Brienne of Tarth, Lord Gendry, Samwell Tarly, Edmure Tulley and a few faces we don’t recognize, plus the three Stark siblings: Bran, Arya and Sansa.

When Sansa asks where Jon is – he was supposed to be at this meeting - Grey Worm replies that he’s their prisoner and the Unsullied get to decide who earns a get out of jail pass to attend the Westerosi Nobles Summit.  Hold the door, people!! Wait a second.  First of all:  Jon’s milk cover story didn’t work???  Also, are we supposed to assume that Grey Worm has just been hanging out twiddling his thumbs waiting for somebody to tell him what to do?  Isn’t he second in command to Daenerys and thus the new person in charge?  Wouldn’t Tyrion and Jon be dead already for their crimes?  And who called everybody for this summit anyway?  Ok, none of these questions will be answered, so let’s get back to the action:

The gist of the gathering is that all the nobles have to decide what to do next, since there isn’t a monarch to make any decisions for the realm.  Tyrion, the prisoner, is the dude who gets to do all the talking and comes up with a plan where all the nobles should just get to vote on who should be king.  Sam suggests they try a democracy and everybody yucks it up. Lame.  Edmure Tulley tries to nominate himself and Sansa tells him to sit the eff down.  

Then Tyrion goes on to suggest that the person with the best stories should get to be the ruler – because, ya know, it’s stories that unite people.  And who has a better story than Bran Stark? Um…pretty much all the other perfectly qualified women in the half-circle.  Sansa objects that Bran doesn’t want to be king and besides, he can’t have kids.  But for Tyrion, this is a minor detail:  Who better to rule than somebody who doesn’t want the power?  And let’s just elect rulers rather than passing down the throne via birthright!  From now on, all the nobles will get to vote for their next king or queen.  When Tyrion asks Bran if he’s ok being the Big Kahuna, Bran with his super dead-in-the-eyes mug goes “Why do you think I came all this way.”  HOLD THE DOOOOOOOR, people!!!! Are you saying Bran knew this WHOLE time that he was going to be king?  Are you kidding me?  Is this the dumbest thing ever?  Do I now have to pick apart a gazillion instances that make this so messed up if Bran always knew where things were going?  No.  We’ll stop here.  

Everybody votes for Bran except for Sansa who goes “I love you little bro, you’re gonna be awesome as king but I can’t support you because the North is going independent baby. We’re ruling ourselves!!!” And Bran just nods.  Now everybody else feels like a total moron for not putting in any special requests for their regions when they voted “Aye” for Bran. Ha, suckers!

Finally, to conlude this extremely boring scene, Tyrion names Bran king and puts in a super offensive name in his official title:  Bran the Broken, first of his name…yadda, yadda.  Bran looks around at everybody super hurt and goes “You guys have been calling me that behind my back this whole time?!”  To get back at him, Bran tells Tyrion he has to be hand of the king. Grey Worm is all “You can’t do that! He’s our prisoner!”  And Bran’s all “I can do what I want cause I’m king! Nanny, nanny, boo, boo!  Also, Tyrion messed up big time and now he has to dedicate the rest of his existence to fixing his mistakes.”  Um, seems like a pretty cush job to me, frankly.  

They also throw in that the Unsullied can take The Reach as their own land, since pretty much nobody in Westeros lives there anymore.  It’s the equivalent of telling them they can have Nebraska, and guess what?  Nobody wants it.

Next, Tyrion visits Jon, whose beard is also looking cray from all the weeks of growing it out.  He gives him the news:  The Unsullied wanted Jon dead and the Stark sisters wanted him released, so Bran hit a compromise wherein Jon has to go back to the Wall and live out the rest of his days there, just like a regular Night’s Watchman:  No wifey, no kids, no lands.  Jon’s all “Why the hell is there even still a wall?” –“Duh, because.”

We see a freshly groomed Jon walk through the docks of King’s Landing, accompanied by two dudes from the Night’s Watch.  Grey Worm gives him the stinkeye from his ship – the Unsullied are heading to Naath. Hey, maybe Grey Worm can find himself another nice girl from there!  

Jon says goodbye to his siblings/cousins.  Sansa is now queen of the North, which is pretty much what she always wanted.  She laments that they lost their king, though.  When Jon tells Arya she can still visit him she’s all, “Nah.” She wants to explore the seas west of Westeros where the maps end – so basically, our girl is gonna hang out in Hawaii for the rest of her life, hopefully doing more Eat Pray Loving than colonizing.

Brienne of Tarth is seated with the big Knight-o-pedia book in front of her.  She finds the entry for Jaime Lannister and adds on to it.  She is sure to mention that he had the best sex of his life with her, in spite of his tiny cock.  Or, ya know, she takes the high road and puts in something really nice about him dying while protecting his queen.  Ugh, Brienne, why you always gotta be so good?

In the Red Keep, it’s time for the very first small council to convene.  Tryion gets all the chairs ready just so, and then in walk Ser Davos, Samwell Tarly, and Lord Bronn of the Blackwater – he finally got Highgarden, btw. They exchange some banter which falls short.

Soon thereafter Ser Brienne of Tarth and Ser Podrick Payne (awww he got knighted, too) enter with King Bran.  Bran notes they are still missing a few positions: boring, boring, and dullsville. Then he goes “Does anybody know what Drogon is up to?” He was last seen flying east and Bran excuses himself to do some Professor X-ing to see if he can find him.  But of course, we don’t actually get to see Bran warg.  The small council continues with the boring business of figuring out how to spend money on rebuilding King’s Landing and it all ends with Bronn gunning hard for new brothels.  Ugh.  Seriously.

At the Wall, Jon arrives to be reuinited with his good pal Tormund Giantsbane and also:  the bestest direwolf of them all, Ghost!  This time, Jon gives Ghost an affectionate cuddle.

We get a cross-cut of a bunch of dull scenes of Jon, Arya, and Sansa getting dressed and walking. Sansa is crowned Queen in the North, Arya sets sail on a ship with the Stark sigil and Jon walks out to the Castle Black courtyard.  

In the final scene, Jon heads out on horseback with Ghost and Tormund and a slew of Wildlings returning to their home. Has he abandoned the Night’s Watch? Is he Lord Commander again and can do whatever the heck he wants?  Is he finally a ranger and is just going out on a temporary jaunt with his pal Tormund? Who knows.  But it’s worth noting that the series finishes in the exact same way as it started:  Men leaving the wall to head North into Wildling territory. The end.

And there we have it: 8 years of Game of Thrones came to a lackluster end with the Starks all on top.  I’m still processing the weirdness I feel about the show ending this way.  Truly, watching the episode was so dull at times that I just wanted it to be over already. While this could have been a much worse end to the series, it certainly wasn’t satisfying.  But after the bombshell they dropped in the penultimate episode with Daenerys going nuts, I guess this final episode of the series didn’t have anywhere else to go that would have made it much better.

There are gazillions of cool things that were introduced throughout the previous seasons which were rendered somewhat pointless in the end.  I would have loved more exploration and explanation of the mythology and its origins:  The Children of the Forest, the Three Eyed Raven, the Night King, the previous defeat of white walkers and how they came back, the Lord of Light, all the fire priestesses in Essos, where the dragon eggs came from, the faceless men, etc.  Also, I guess Varys’ letters about Jon being Aegon Targaryen were never delivered – or peeps just didn’t care?  [shrugs] Oh well?

I thought this past season would be bittersweet to watch, but it took such an unfortunate turn in storytelling that I just wanted the bad plotlines to end.  Season 8 never did live up to the hype of fan theories that were swirling about for two years.  Can we blame it for coming up short?  Kinda and kinda not.    All I know is that I feel oddly cheated by the final season.  Taken as a whole, though, I still love the show.  I was always blown away by the sweeping visuals, the epic battle scenes, the engaging complexity of the characters.  The acting, sets, costumes and music were all amazing.  And of course, there was the joy of ruminating over all the possibilities of what might come in the next episode, and discussing the show with my fellow fans. Very few series are as special and engaging as Game of Thrones and I’ll miss it for sure.  It’s nice to know there may be some amount of redemption for the story, when George R. R. Martin finally releases the last two books. So I’m holding onto hope for a slightly more satisfying end to this saga.  Thanks for joining me on my recap adventures each week!  It’s been a fun ride.  And now my ‘caps have ended.  Sorry, but I had to.

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Finale Thoughts

I was greatly disappointed in the finale. (Who wasn’t tho?)

Greyworm wanting to kill all that follow Cersei Lannister...uh...does he not realize Cersei is likely dead at this point? No one can follow her anymore. Jon trying and failing to reason with him was sad but predictable.

Tyrion finding his siblings corpses. Hands down the saddest part of the episode for me. Yes, even sadder then Daenerys death (sorry). I am glad that neither twin ended up being alive tho (I don’t think either would have been happy without the other surviving). However, it’s a bit sad that they didn’t get to make it out and to the boat. 

A few pet peeves about their whole death scene though:

1. Tyrion was just tossing those bricks away like they were nothing

2. The destruction around them wasn’t that bad. Like seriously, if they were just standing a few feet away it looks like they would have been fine. Wtf. Pisses me off. Plus, why didn’t they try to hide in the dragon skulls?

3. If bricks falling on them is what killed them, then there should have been way more blood. As it stands, they both look relatively unharmed and as if they might be sleeping. 

How are there so many Dothraki and unsullied still? I thought she lost the majority of both during the battle for Winterfell. 

Daenerys justifying her actions. This seemed so OOC. And Jon going from defending her to deciding to kill her happened way too quick. This season really needed another 4 or so more episodes to make something like that believable, hell to make all the stuff this season with Jonerys believable. Still, because of how cold he’s been to her, I wasn’t shocked when he killed her, I was more shocked that he defended her earlier in the episode.

Another point, why wasn’t Daenerys wearing the same clothes as she was in season 2 when she had her vision in the house of the undying?

Dany doesn’t even get to sit on the throne! (I didn’t think she would tho, given the vision from season 2 where she didn’t)

Jon killing Dany. I knew the leaks, so I wasn’t shocked, but honestly, once he was in that throne room I don’t think I’d have been shocked either way. Jon’s been cold to her ever since finding out his true parentage and Tyrion got into his head and made him worry that not only he, but his sisters as well, would not be safe so long as she lived. Still, he turned on her way too fast. I think all I’m left to assume now is that he never really loved her. ;( Which goes completely against what they showed us in late season 7 and early season 8.

Drogon burning the Iron Throne and not Jon...wtf. Did he not realize Jon was the one to kill her or something? Or did he just blame her quest for the iron throne for why she died? I didn’t realize dragons had that kind of intelligence.

The one good thing is that Drogon could be carrying Daenerys off to Meeran to be resurrected. So if she had to die, this is the best possible way to end it. We can all headcanon that she was resurrected and either lived a happy life in Meeran (perhaps getting back together with Daario even) or that she was able to reclaim the throne. There are so many possibilities with Drogon carrying her off!

Why didn’t Greyworm kill Tyrion or Jon? It’s so OOC from what they showed of him of these past few episodes. More importantly, why didn’t Daenerys dracarys Tyrion? She did it to Varys without hesitation. Another plothole, just so Tyrion can survive.

Tyrion asking who has a better story then Bran the broken...all I could think was...everyone! lol. Seriously he is the most boring character. And him being king is completely retarded. It’s never been foreshadowed or anything even. Unless you count the fact that the kingslayer tried to kill him like 8 years before he became king lmao. 

Why didn’t Dorne and especially the Iron Islands ask for independence after Sansa got it for the North? Yara had asked Daenerys for independence before, so it makes no sense that she wouldn’t ask Bran.

The council they have are really bad choices. Bronn as master of coin most of all. He will bankrupt the crown in no time. I suppose we can all headcanon a season 9 where the small folk rise up and revolt from this monarchy. Tyrion as hand when he failed all the other monarchs is just stupid. But I guess him being hand is supposed to be his punishment? Wtf.

Brienne writing in the white book...wow! If I were her I would not have done that after how he treated me. I lol’d though at the end bits of “Rode South in an attempt to save the capital from destruction” Poor girl, either lying to herself, or intentionally lying in the white book to make him look better. 

Arya's ending was about the only ending that felt to me both like a fitting ending and a happy ending. But, no more Gendrya interaction? And they were both at the dragonpit and didn’t interact at all! That’s so cold! All the ships were pretty much done dirty this season. Even Cersei and Jaime, though they died together, there was not a satisfying amount of dialogue between them. 

Sansa as Queen in the North. Is this supposed to be a happy ending for her? She has not one family member or friend with her.

I’m extremely disappointed in Jon’s end. It looked like he would end up living happily amongst the wildlings, and I feel he doesn’t deserve that after killing Daenerys like that.

The final scenes....I was disappointed. I was hoping for a time jump to show them all 5 or maybe even 10 or more years down the line. To show Arya happily traveling...maybe visiting Jon and telling him about her adventures. Show Sansa happy in the north and show it prospering under her rule. Show how the hell things are holding up with Bran and his oddly chosen council. Show how Tyrion is coping with everything. If he ever finds happiness.  I would have loved to see these things so much more. 

[nymeriaslady]

So it turns out that Draco in Dragonheart is really an older Drogon. Last of his kind.

[darealgem]

Lol I said I was going to stop but this got me... Couldnt we just let the season conclude in peace without picking out the flaws? Lol. Ser Samwell Tarly certainly had to quench his water thirst in the hot KingsLanding heat... @johnbradleywest #ForTheThrone #GOTS8E6 @hbo @gameofthrones (at Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxsalcPBoGF/?igshid=1cpoek70p26l7

[theladyregret]

Game of Thrones season 8 is like when you’re DMing a dungeons and dragons game and have this huge prophecy driven plot to fix all the evils of the world then right at the fruition the players fuck it all up by turning into murder hobos and you’re just like

[padmesgreene]

am i the only one who thought that the new prince of dorne was played by oscar isaac?

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[bcisaidso]

Jon killed Dany to save his sisters.

Jon knew Sansa would never let Dany rule winterfell. And ofcourse Arya would defy Dany too. She would always support her sister. Dany would have killed them for treason. Jon killed Dany when she refused to show mercy to Tyrion. He knew his sisters would face the same faith.

[hobbitandnains]

Game of Thrones 8x06 - "Daenerys death" and "The Iron Throne" [FRENCH R...

[cerseiofhouselannister]

NIk’s Entertainment Weekly interview that they held off on releasing until after the finale 

[agalaxyexplorer]

Come George R. R. Martin. I need the detailed ending now

[facelessfrey]

I am not as filled with rage as I expected to be from this Game of Thrones finale and for that I am pleased. After last week, I had such low expectations and still expected to be disappointed. So I’m happy that is not the case.

As a Stark fan, I was fairly happy with their endings. I like Jon going back North and I like Sansa being Queen in the North. Arya channeling Elissa Farman and going exploring works reasonably well for her as an ending. And Bran...well I didn’t expect that at all but I don’t hate it.

My major issue with this season and the last remains that it was far too rushed and even if I didn’t hate all of the big plot points and endings (spoiler alert, I still hate some), I still think every one of them is lacking due to time constraints that frankly did not need to be because they could have made two ten episode seasons.

Dany and Jaime I think suffered the most from this, as well as Cersei.

I don’t completely hate Dany’s trajectory in the show but I still just don’t buy it in the time that they gave to it and the way they chose to tell that story. I still just have a real problem believing that she would just willfully and methodically burn all of those innocent people and just not see the problem with it. I wish at least she had gotten some final words in her death scene or somewhere where she finally understood and had some regret. Or that she knew what she did was wrong but it was done now and she had to make the best of it. Something. They just turned her into the villain at the end so that Jon could kill her and the Starks could triumph. And while, yay Starks, it just seems a bit unfair to Dany. I don’t hate the idea of her heading in this direction but I just think her being sad about losing people she loved doesn’t transition very well into burning the innocent and becoming a dictator basically who thought she was going to save the world. I also think that her and Jon’s relationship was never built up properly for him killing her to be as poignant as it was probably meant to be. But hey, thanks Drogon for melting the Iron Throne.

With Jaime, I still just flat out don’t like that he just went back to Cersei. Though with Brienne writing his entry in the White Book, it made me a bit less angry since she put in the ‘died protecting his queen’ line rather than my preferred Valonqar moment of him killing her. I don’t know. Mostly, I just wish they’d put more time into that internal conflict inside him of whether or not he was going to go back. I also wish he got to reflect more on what Brienne meant to him afterwards. I just needed more to make be believe it all. Also, the fact that he could have just stood anywhere else in that room and survived the falling debris will always piss me off.

With Cersei, I can understand a death that humanizes her. That I can buy into. I just wish they’d given her more screentime this season to build up to that. And I wish they would have given her a few good moments of battle strategy before she died. I still wish she had had something to do with wildfire. It just makes me sad that she got so sidelined this season.

I was thrilled with Brienne being Lord Commander of the Kingsguard though. And Pod being Ser Podrick and being on the Kingsguard as well.

I hate that Bronn survived and actually did become Lord of Highgarden and Master of Coin. Ugh. Go away.

I was glad they burned the iron throne but I wish Sam had been able to push that democracy idea more. That would have made me happy. But baby steps.

I loved that they got Edmure back. And that Robin Arryn survived and was all grown up. Haha.

I don’t really think they did a great job building up Bran being king and that whole transition from Jon killing Dany to everyone suddenly being in King’s Landing was super weird. I mean the reasons for Bran being King were a bit weird. I feel like they were almost trying to justify the Long Night Episode with the Night King. Bran had to survive so that he could be king. That was their attempt at long term repercussions. Still, I don’t hate it.

I do wish that the show had cared more about the long seasons and what that all meant. I don’t know if that’s something that will get answered or mean something in the book but I just feel like there had to be more of a reason behind the long seasons. And apparently it was spring already at the end?! That was a really short winter for them. Are the seasons regular again now that the night king is dead?! Is that a thing?! Probably not.

I liked Sansa getting the North but also, I hope Yara is currently planning the next Greyjoy rebellion because I feel like her and the Nameless Prince of Dorne were both like ‘hold up, we didn’t know this was an option. We’d like to take back our ‘ayes’’

Arya going exploring was interesting. She’s done being a murderer but she can’t just settle and be happy and go marry Gendry so her making it her mission to go discover what else is out there works okay for me. I like that she’s got command of a ship. I hope the ship’s name is ‘Nymeria’.

With Jon, he kind of ended up right back where he started much like Jaime which doesn’t totally thrill me as a message but I do think he belongs in the North and Black was alway his color. And I liked that he got to reunite with Tormund and of course we got our Ghost petting moment finally!! I just wish I knew what they were doing when they rode out beyond the Wall.

Overall I’m more satisfied than I thought I would be and this show has been such a major part of my life for the past decade. It’s basically the reason I have the friends I do and I will be forever thankful for that no matter what.

Also...Sam! Hit me up with a copy of that A Song of Ice and Fire book!