I was thinking they might show another white walker alive . I guess they still need the night’s watch to send guys who break laws and for other reasons.
Sam: We the people, of the six kingdoms, in order to form a more perfect Westeros…
The Free Folk ain’t bending no knee. So the only place for them to go is north of the wall.
I don’t think Jon is coming back…at least he isn’t in my head canon.
Anyone notice that Podrick got knighted? (Someone, I think Brienne, introduced him as Ser Podrick.) And can someone list everyone who sat at the meeting in which they selected Bran as king?
The season sucked, but at least Westeros is in good hands.
Very good!
Brian
Braaaaaaaaaan?
What a terrible choice when I have “Gendry” written near the top of the prediction sheet I filled out before this season started.
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Did Jon really join the Night Watch, or did he and Tormund go further North with the wildings and that is the ending?
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Who is Azor Ahai??? No one?
Yes, I think a couple 700+ pages books will make much of this seem better.
Did I miss it or did the Dothraki not get their own happy ending like all the other groups? Are they just roaming the Westeros countryside? (The unsullied apparently settled some remote island.)
my son said the others at the meeting were probably the grown up Lord of the vale and prince of Dorne.
The ones I recognized were Sansa, Bran, Arya, Davos, Brienne, Sam, Gendry, Edmure Tully, Robin Arryn, Yohn Royce, Yara Greyjoy, some dude clearly dressed like he came from Dorne and a couple randos.
My theory is that Martin realized a few years ago that publishing the books before the series ended would be equivalent to what Jon did to Dany. No possible force could keep the resolution a secret. The Battle of the Spoilers would decimate entire continents. He had no choice but to delay the books until after the last episode and then use them to fill in all the context and nuance that the show lacked. He now can work on them, publishing the finale to acclaim and another few million dollars.
That’s what Tyrion said. A place for bastards and ne’er-do-wells. But he didn’t say ‘ne’er-do-wells’. Someone will remember the quote better than I can.
unsullied went to Naath which is where Missandei is from , I guess to bury her
Meh.
I’m glad Jon was the one to kill Daernerys.
After 8 seasons of battling over who gets to be king, the actual decision was a 5 minute scene with an unexpected and basically unsupported ending. Ends up feeling kind of arbitrary.
The final scene with the night’s watch escorting (?) the wildlings back to their home seems arbitrary and not at all the sort of powerful final scene you’d expect.
What’s even the point of the Night’s Watch? Were the Wildling forced to settle back north of the wall, or did they choose to? Are the Night’s Watch going to treat them like hostile invaders again?
Did winter come? It’s unclear. There are hints that the Night King brought the winter, to a degree, and then it snowed in King’s landing, so we could have the visual of the snowy throne room from the prophecy, but then a few weeks later it looks warm again. No indication that we’re in for a big continent-wide superwinter, and if we are, it’s pretty dickish to force the wildlings back up north of the wall.
Bronn getting everything he wanted feels too fanservicey. In reality, he would’ve been murdered like 19 times by now, not given one of the most powerful kingdoms. Our favorite characters ending up on the small council, with Sam being grand maester, also feels a bit fanservicey. Although Davos and Brienne seem more plausible.
There wasn’t too much to like there. The whole thing after Dany’s death is very perfunctory. It ends up being like a half-hour epilogue to tell us what happened with the whole story. I feel like at the very least the epilogue could’ve been a whole episode, but story compression is the theme of this season.
I’m kinda glad it’s over, to be honest. I didn’t want it to sink much further.
Episode Title revealed:
The Iron Throne
Yes, I also half thought there would be another white walker or something (only this, time, I think the powers that be would believe)
Brian
Bastards and third sons.
I don’t think the Unsullied would have captured Jon, they would just have stabbed him repeatedly when they found out he killed Dany.
When Jon asks what about how will other people feel about her knowing the right way, and Dany says they will not get a choice, I knew it was then or never.
Indeed… you could tell, when she sees those two little paragraphs, and then she picks up the quill. She fills out his story to have it recorded with honor.
And then of course Tyrion gets told he’s nowhere in the book. Maybe that was worked out with Grey Worm as his “justice”.