I did like how Drogon can destroy walls with one blast of Dragonfire, but the Iron Throne takes sustained blasts.
The election of Kings seemed a decent compromise (I did how they laughed out loud at Sam’s democracy).
Bran as King would have been literally no one’s guess at the start of this season. It looked like Bronn, Sam, and Brienne (and Pod!) got happy endings. Tyrion not being in the Song of Ice and Fire was hilarious.
It also seems like “Bran the Broken” would be a historic nickname, not what you fucking call him to his face!
Can we get a do-over for season 8 before the actors get too old? And without Benioff and Weiss. Please? And while we’re at it, can we get those two fired from the Star Wars franchise? Pretty please?
No season has sucked so bad since Lost’s final season.
A few weeks back on the radio 3 people who comment a lot on GOT said the throne would be destroyed. But they added that there would no longer be 1 king/queen to rule so they got that part wrong.
Bran has been among the favorites among bookies since at least December 2017. And I’ve seen him frequently mentioned this season as being one of the favorite theories for the final ruler.
Grey Worm was a really shitty Commander of Security given that his Queen was stabbed to death within 24 hours of him being appointed.
How the hell did they know what happened to Dany? The dragon made off with her body. Or are we to believe that the honorable Ned, er, Jon Snow ‘fessed up…and her cut throat army suddenly decided to play like gentlemen?
I hate, hated that the whole show was about the struggle to conquer while not morphing into your enemy …and in the end, the only people they showed in Westeros were the leaders. Guess it was too expensive to hire extras. I realize that having a democratic election was too jarring a change, but how about having a People’s representative on the small council?
So did Jon abandon the Nights Watch and join the Wildings so that he could be free? Or are the Wildings the Nights Watch? In which case, are they protecting the North and 6 Kingdoms from themselves?
I hated that they gave Jaime this incredible growth, only to have him go back to Cersei. Her death was so anticlimactic. I so wanted Jaime to kill her.
I also thought that they’d end with a Night Walker. Ah well.
I thought it was fucking hilarious that Edmure Tully appeared in this episode, after several seasons of wondering “what the hell ever happened to him?” and doubly hilarious that his pronouncement was shot down in mid-sentence.
I wasn’t expecting Bran to get picked as king…I mean, I wasn’t expecting the whole “we’ll pick the next king” thing at all, but once it was clear they were going that route, I thought maybe they’d choose Gendry, as he seems to be the most level headed dude around. Bran…I don’t see him as a ruler. The fact that he cannot produce an heir is be setting them up for a succession crisis, so that seems short-sighted.
This was by far the worst season, but I think they at least cleaned it up nicely. I still say that the first 4 seasons were the best tv I’ve ever watched. 5 and 6 were decent, but not to the level of the prior ones. The last 2 were just entertainment and story completion. I suspect that the future of Westeros involves more wars for thrones. I think the show writers should have put in some ambiguity about the future, like showing Drogon laying 3 eggs, Brienne revealing she is pregnant with Jaime’s kid, etc.
And there will be a problem with that because there isn’t anyone else like Bran. They chose him because he is “the memory” and all that. Whoever follows will just be a regular person who is not going to be “all seeing” and will bring to the throne just as many problems as they had before.
I think we’re supposed to infer that the Unsullied took the Dothraki with them? That all Daenerys’s forces just up and left after she died? Including her dragon with her body?
Anybody else get the feeling Westeros is now easy pickings for an invasion? Especially as it’s now divided, and the Wildling army went back north of the Wall. Though an omniscient god-king should mitigate that, some.
I kept waiting for them to show Arya turn and kiss the captain of the ship, Yara Greyjoy. I mean, who else has a hope of sailing into the ocean with no idea what’s on the other side? Arya was trained as an assassin, not a sailor, as I recall. She’d need expert help, I’d think.
It was definitely snowing in King’s Landing. It wasn’t just ashes. And I guess King Bran doesn’t have to make a choice between mobility and sitting on the throne since it is now a pile of slag. He has his own wheeled throne.
Good to see Edmure Tully is still just as much of a clumsy blowhard as always. Though the thought of him being the Gerald Ford of Westeros cracks me up.
I thought it was a much better episode than the general tone of this thread seems to imply. Too rushed, of course. The last three seasons should have been at least twice that many, and full, ten hour seasons too. But with the time constrains they gave themselves this last season was way better than most people are saying. It’s season 7 I was most disappointed by, and to a lesser extent 5 and 6. But 8, despite breezing through tons of material in a few short hours, was almost a return to seasons 1-4 form in my opinion.
Well yeah, because they were shooting the finale and rumors were leaking out. Among people who were just discussing the show (and books) on their own merits, no one ever would’ve pegged Bran as the king.
I guess chaos was a ramp.
Also…unless Bran gets a bug up his butt…Tyrion is the real king…right?
Others have mentioned, and i agree…why would Dorne and to some extent The Iron Islands, fall in line with all this? I suppppossse on the good will of their leaders. And the general dispostion that everyone is dog tired of war.
They apparently didn’t know they could just leave the 7 kingdoms.
So they go around the council and everyone agrees that Bran is king. Then Sansa says “nah the North is gonna just be its own kingdom” and the rest of them should’ve been like “wait… that’s an option? shit! I take back my aye! I’m now King of Dorne/Riverlands/etc.”
Turned out Sansa’s savviest move during the whole story was to just sit there quietly until everyone else had already voted on king so she could spring the “haha! independent kingdom! gotcha! you all fucked up!” trap.
I also wondered when the North was like, we’re leaving, why Dorne didn’t also jump. They were the last to join the 7 Kingdoms and seem to be one foot out the door anyways.
I did love that Bran said he was going to try to find out where Drogon was before Pod wheeled him out of the council meeting. Although, I thought he was just going to roll his eyes right there.
And at least we got to see Ghost reunited with Jon in an actual scene. I guess that’s what they saved up their direwolf budget for.