Sam is the head of House Tarly.
Predictably bad. There’s missing the landing and then there is nose diving upside down on a different continent.
At least Daenery’s “break the wheel” inclinations for mass murder were internally consistent and the only way the narrative could make sense. Just poorly executed for bullshit dramatic effect with the bells. Same with the dragon. “Jon is toast, I can’t watch! Wait he missed? Oh right, he just wants to melt the throne because reasons.” Noble and loyal Jon takes an extended holiday at the Wall after committing murder and treason against his heartthrob with a five second moral dilemma. “Did I do the right thing? Doesn’t feel like it. Let’s ride bikes and break stuff.” They had to go with the hug-kiss-thud glassy eyes and stream of blood on the cheek cliché too? And Dany make up your mind, is Jon a threat or a teenager’s crush?
I won’t even bother to deconstruct the whole conclusion because of embarassment by proxy. RoboBran as king is a joke and even the intentional humor was clunkly.
I wonder if that redo petition is gonna have a million more names on it tomorrow…
Imagine this…
Game of Thrones, Season 8 Redux, Episode 1:
Fade into Jon, asleep on a bed. He awakens to the sound of running water in the next room. He follows the sound and opens a shower door. Dany, naked and wet, turns around, smiles, and says* “Good morning!”
Cue theme song.
*I know they didn’t have showers in Westeros–just go with it.
I can’t get over how bad the Westeros council scene was.
Tyrion, a prisoner (as was Jon), is brought out and put in front of a mishmash of characters we’ve seen (and not seen) throughout the show with no rhyme or reason to why who was there and who was not.
Tyrion proceeds to declare they must appoint someone there as the King. And Grey Worm, who is holding him prisoner, nods along. WHAT? And then, because no one except Edmure has the balls to try to claim the throne, Tyrion give a big speech and says Bran, a paralyzed kid who hasn’t made any decision since becoming a three-eyed raven, should be King. And everyone agrees, except for Sansa, she wants an independent kingdom. But Bran, not appointed King yet of course, nods to her, and all the other feckless lords and accessory characters approve. WTF? Can you imagine this scene in season 1 - 6? Such a disappointment.
It wasn’t the greatest episode but I liked where all the characters ended up. All the surviving Starks ended up okay. Some thoughts:
I actually forgot to include in my prediction thread post that they would show an in universe chronicle of current events called “A Song of Ice and Fire”. My only mistake was I thought Sam and Tyrion would start writing it.
Liked most of post book episodes. This felt like it was written by TV writers. The laughter when Sam suggested democracy was a very TV scene.
Yay Ghost!
I knew, and was happy to see, the North split from the South. It made political sense.
Gendry looked like he really took to being a Lord.
Bronn is still Bronn and I think he will be bored by Highgarden within three months.
It wasn’t clear to me why Tyrion was allowed to lead that meeting but I am glad Grey Work didn’t just kill him there.
Really not all that bad an ending.
It’s unclear whether he is. But in any case, the house Tarly is a vassal (of Highgarden). He’s not one of the seven great lords of Westeros. But indeed I had forgotten this when I watched the show, and wondered why on Earth he felt entitled to vote (and in fact why he was there to begin with).
I get the sense he will mostly rule in absentia, spending a lot of time in KL, rebuilding the brothels
If there is one constant over these 8 seasons, it is that people tell Tyrion to be quiet and he keeps talking anyway.
He was a representative of the Maesters ?
When the council ridiculed Sam’s suggestion that the people choose their king, I told my wife “I didn’t know they were all Republicans.”
I thought the reaction to Sam’s call for a people’s vote was disappointing too. It would have been nice if we could see the likes of Tyrion & Sansa laugh the idea off. Instead, we only saw secondary characters laugh. We simply cannot have medieval type characters we sympathize with disagree with the idea of democracy!
That was a teaser for the third season of Westworld.
I believe someone addressed him as “Grand Maester.”
I see that people (here, at least) are less dissapointed by this episode than they were with the previous one. Honestly, I’m wondering why.
There was a great scene : Danaerys adressing her soldiers as the evil queen (clad in black in the middle of the ruins, with ash falling, the wings of Drogon in the background, and announcing that she intend to conquer the world and " rule them all". The other scenes, in my opinion, ranged from bad to nonsentical to laughable.
I’m perfectly fine with the fate of Danaerys, turning to the dark side and ultimately killed by John. Perfect ending for me. If only they had build the story better to bring us to this point. 
And her explanations wrt to her actions weren’t consistent. The whole thing should have flown more naturally and make sense.
Another who doesn’t make sense is Jon. He looks like a complete idiot, is on the verge of following Dany just because she’s the queen, and needed a lot of convincing. Wasn’t he supposed to be aleader of men with a strong moral character? He doesn’t appear like this at all. Also, it’s too bad that they didn’t manage to depict him as deeply in love with Danaerys. He supposedly was, but it really never seemed so. If he had appeared to be torn between the horror of what Danny had done and his love for her, it would have been more dramatic. I assume that what we have been shown is supposed to be something like that, but it seemed more like “You really think that it’s that bad? But, but…shouldn’t we obey her anyway? Well, if you say so, maybe I should kill her. Or maybe not. Is it really right?” He seemed to have an IQ of 80, the moral sense of a turnip, and to be ready to follow whoever spoke last.
Bran becoming king. Done well, well prepared, I guess it could have been a good ending. But the way it was presented, it’s the sudden crowning of one of the dullest characters of the show for no sensible reason whatsoever (because stories are really important? How does this make any sense?). As it was, it’s a terrible ending
By the way, Bran seems to see the future too. And to be totally fatalist, saying to a couple people that they were exactly at the place they were supposed to be.
Sansa was absolutely laughing, they even focused on her.
That was there, but before that was a long promo for multiple series.
Amidst all the tying-up of loose threads and controversial goings-on, I could help but notice that Arya apparently has a collapsible telescope.
A TELESCOPE!
Forgive me for fixating on this, but Optics in Pop Culture is one of my interests, and the telescope seems out of place in this quasi-Medieval milieu. I hadn’t recalled seeing anything like it in previous episodes. Looking into it, I find in the Wiki of Ice and Fire multiple references in the books to the “Far Eye”:
It still seems out of place because, even granting that in George R.R. Martin’s mad-up world things might get invented at different times, you don’t have technology like that existing in a vacuum. Nobody in the books or the TV series, for instance, has eyeglasses, or uses a magnifier, or anyone of the other precursors to telescopes we’ve seen in real history.
Don’t tell me about supposed Medieval or Classical telescopes – I’ve seen and heard the arguments, and the evidence is woefully lacking. Ancient telescopes could have been invented. But (Azeem’s leather-bound telescope in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and the fevered possibilities suggested in “The Crystal Lens” notwithstanding) there’s not really any evidence for them
I’m just going to fanwank that as she left Drogon guarding the entrance to the throneroom (who’s getting past a dragon?), and Jon Snow passed the “worthiness” test.
Jon Snow didn’t appear to be joining the Night’s Watch, but heading north with the freefolk to live as a sort of Mance Rayder character. Do, I have that right?
Jon killing Danaerys does not make sense in any shape or form imo.
It would be so out of character and we have not seen anything extraordinary that would break a character like Jon to decide to kill "his queen’.
He is a loyal person and theres no way he would turn on her just because she razed a city… Is it me or didnt Jon also hated Kings landing for what they did to his family (The starks)?
He loved her, without any other evidence of cruelty shown by her at that point what motive would he have to kill her?
Plus he is no angel, he killed people too, did we forget when he behaded the kid back a few seasons?
Plus he knew he could control her as he wanted because she was so in love with him. Wouldnt it been better if he stayed at her side and keep her in check?
Bad bad writing, it makes no sense, and at point I lost interest in the episode and just waited for it to be over because the show jumped the shark… and it didnt disapointed… what happened after was laughable.
They ended this show being a joke. The resolution was mediocre. Extremely disapointed with it.