#GOTS8e6

[rubyredwisp]

Queen Daenerys

[yelloowcars]

At least I know they breathed the same air for 9 fucking minutes

[cerseiofhouselannister]

RIP Lannister Twins. Born together and died together.

[filthyknife]

Jon snow heading back to the nights watch like

[highpriestessmagic]

Me on my death bed: Daenerys deserved so much better

[agalaxyexplorer]

My thoughts on Game of Thrones ending: (spoilers obvs)

Dany: that was always going to happen

Jon: I'm glad he didn't get the throne, that would have been predictable. He got to be a free man in the north with Tormund which I think is something he does actually want. But most importantly, he reunited with Ghost

Sansa: Yas Queen! She deserved it.

Arya: So glad she gets to go exploring. I'm sad we didn't see Nymeria's pack again

Tyrion: He was destined to be hand of the king/queen it would seem. Glad he survived, he's my fave. Iconic when he threw his hand of the queen badge at Dany's feet.

Bran: Unexpected but makes a lot of sense. I'm on board.

Brienne: Awwh she added to Jamie's section in the white book. Glad she finally gets to be a kingsguard again and knighted Pod. She deserves the world.

Bronn: Finally got that castle!

Sam: of course people were right about him ending up writing the series. I'm not surprised. He got to be grandmaester though so that's good.

Greyworm: I'm sad about how his character turned out. He just went off and left everyone too it. He should have been on the council after everything. Glad he's going to Narth but it would have been perfect if he could have gone with Missandei. I'm sad about how his character arc went.

Yara: is she Queen of the Iron Islands? Did she get to rule or not?I hope so.

Daario/Meera: where you been all season?

[ilikepipecleanerswitheyes]

anyone else pick up on this parallelism last night?

[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.

[bathtubjohnny]

I’m honestly disappointed Drogon didn’t try to burn Jon and reveal he’s unburnt like Dany so we could get a nude Jon Snow one last time

[rubyredwisp]

Ghost 1.07 | 8.06

[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

[cerseiofhouselannister]

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

[majorbullmoose]

I mean, same.

[nymeriaslady]

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

[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!

[bcisaidso]

Okay... For everyone who's complaining that bran should not be the king cuz he did nothing....

-If not for bran, they wouldn't have won battle of winterfell. He bait himself for the living. And there's no clue in the show that he can see future.

-Bran told everyone about the true heritage of Jon. If not for it, Tyrion would never be able to convince Jon to kill danaerys. Even Varys would have no choice but to follow Dany.

-every candidate for the throne was greedy or would not be able to rule all seven kingdoms, none of them was that strong except Tyrion. Though bran was the only one who was selfless.

-the council of lords and ladies wouldn't have agreed on making anybody else the king except bran.

-When Tyrion said bran has stories to tell, he was not talking about Bran's stories. He was talking about all the other stories, histories and presents that bran had witnessed.

-and to be honest, if anybody else sat on the throne, I would really be pissed with the ending.

And think about it.. Dany was to cruel to be a queen and Jon was so soft and had no interest in being a king. It would have gone so wrong they were to sit on iron throne. Sansa only ever wanted was the independence of winterfell. And bran knows what mistakes other rulers made, he would not repeat it... I'm a little disappointed with this season but the ending was perfect