Okay. Another thing I just figured out: Why the ending felt almost....sterile to me. And lonely.
At the end of the series, other than Sam and Gilly, I don't think...a single major character is in a romantic relationship. No one even appears to have friends! Or have intimacy of any kind!
This is actually staggering to me – what happened to "the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives"? When Sansa is crowned, there isn't a SINGLE FAMILIAR FACE in the room. Theon is dead, Brienne is in King's Landing, Arya is launching her travel blog, Jon is up north. Who does she....eat breakfast with? Who sits with her when she's sad and exhausted? Every single major character at the end of the series except for Sam is basically alone. I can't get over this. The lack of human intimacy, the way the series ends....I don't know what to do with that!
(i also feel unbelievably bad for brienne, who in addition to mourning jaime is also gonna have to make an alliance with davos, invent feminism, AND put up with bronn and tyrion and sam "well, actually" tarly for the next decade, but that's neither here nor there.)
There is a non-zero chance that after about six months of lugging King Bran up and down the billion stairs of the Red Keep, Ser Podrick is gonna invent the ADA
I've already complained about this too much on Twitter, but the "Sorry, Tyrion, he didn't mention you at all!" joke really annoyed me. Not only is it a dumb, derivative joke but it makes NO SENSE. Like, if Tyrion was a character with an inflated sense of his own importance in the story, sure, good goof. But dude's been Hand three times! He invented the current political system! He went from condemned and exiled to running the kingdom! He murdered his dad, a very important figure in his own right, and was under suspicion of assassinating the king! I mean, I know Ebrose isn't a historian by trade, but that seems like A BIG OMISSION, my guy.
Here is the Google doc that I have prepped ready to share with my friends once they've watched the episode tonight. Apologies for the poor grammar and cussing:
Things I liked:
-Sansa
-Ghost
-When Danaerys had dragon wings
-That D died at the beginning of the episode
-The performances from all the actors
The worst things:
-Drogon's grasp of poetic justice and metaphor (also just realised that his name is only one letter from dragon wtf kind of lazy ass naming is that)
-Brothel bantz and that entire scene. We needed literally zero comedic levity in our final episode, all that was required was emotional pay off.
-The entire deciding jury scene but particularly the Sam/democracy L0l2
-Arya going on a gap yah instead and not fulfilling the green eyed prophecy and not using her faces once this entire fucking season. We had to sit through her whole damn apprenticeship for what?
-Tully rocks up from where???
-The transition between Jon killing D and ending up... Where was that actually?? How did they know he killed her? How could they skip over Jon being taken captive? If Greyworm is suddenly filled with this murderous rage that is vindicated and justified by his 😍😍queen then he sure as hell would've killed Jon on the spot. Literally moments before, they were building to that possibility
Other notes
-I don't have a problem with Bran as king in theory but it's not in his character arc and 'why do you think I came all this way' is the worst line in this GD script
-Jon is Targeryan for what??? He had the opportunity to comfort Drogon and ride on that bad boy to claim his rightful throne??? Like sure Jon had been meh the past two seasons and sure there's some resolution in him ending up at the Nights Watch and maybe itd be too easy an ending for him to be king but I'd prefer that over BRAN FLAKES. OK, maybe I do have a problem with Bran as king. We didn't need the perfect king, we needed the right one. Bran gets to be a good king cos he has a good story? Fuck your meta bullshit, give it to Arya if that's your logic.
-l feel like there could've been so much potential for great storylines within the Dothraki for the entirety of GoT actually. Glad that they weren't actually killed off but don't really understand how there are so many of them left
-Not one word from Gendry this episode. Not even a yearning glance at Arya
-Jamie and Cersei were killed by one layer of rocks and would've survived if they'd been a few steps away then?? Ok?? And Tyrion just found them like that?? Ok??
-So everyone's just ok with 6 kingdoms + the north? No questions about how that's going to work in practice and how that goes against their Great New Chosen Ruler deal?
Why do I feel like I'm being fussy to expect basic coherence and logic??? I keep swinging between anger at the sheer stupidity of the solution, (So the North just gets to say Thanks, no thanks? And everyone is cool? And Bran is just cracking jokes about being omniscient? And the Unsullied just leave? And the Dothraki evaporate? etc) and wondering if I'm just meant to let it go. But some basic logic matters! Surely! Even with great performances, amazing cinematography...is it not too much to ask that things just make sense??
Also wtf, Brienne should have been WRITING HER OWN DAMN PAGE.
I can kind of appreciate a lot of the scenes if I mentally sketch them onto a much larger timeline with more plot development in between (and Ghostie getting petpets was most of what I needed this episode to do). But two things I can't get over or retcon to my satisfaction: 1) How did anyone in that dragon pit council have any leverage over the Unsullied and Dothraki to tell them what they can and can't do with their prisoners?? 2) And the Iron Islands and Dorne are just totally cool with the North getting to go its own way, without making their own equally valid and historically justified bids for independence??
Let’s hear it for unappreciated Meera Reed, please, who never even got a thank you or a return appearance. (RIP tinfoil theories that made her Jon’s twin.)
So the political arrangement they end up with is massively unstable, right? Bran is completely checked out, Bronn is one of the most powerful people in the realm despite being massively unqualified and having no base of support, and if the North has seceded (and taken their armies with them), other kingdoms will want to do the same. But I guess the credits rolled before war breaks out again.
the inconsistent standards are what drove me nuts – who gets offered a chance for redemption and when and why. jon, tormund, tyrion, jaime, all of these white dudes did TERRIBLE things and committed awful crimes, and learned and were forgiven. and daenerys comparatively gets condemned – not even for the war crimes but for having the audacity to say she unambiguously stands by her own decision-making??
like, don't you get the sense that if when jon had confronted her in the throne room, she had cried, and said "yes, you're right, this was awful, what i've done just now is awful," he would have IMMEDIATELY forgiven her and....she would have gone on to rule????
a million and one things drove me crazy about this but the hypocrisy here is what i am currently stuck on. also can't believe "the scene where tyrion meticulously tucks in chairs" is a real thing that happened and not just something the internet made up as a joke.
Oh, and I never bought that Dany was Jon's true love. Obviously she's supposed to be, but they just had so little interaction. I could see her getting interested in him, but I never really believed he loved her as deeply as he loved Ygritte. And now, obviously, I was supposed to.
So Jon's true parentage as Aegon Targaryen was just a red herring? What?
Why did Tyrion have to work to convince Jon that something had gone wrong with Dany? Stupid.
I don't like having the Stark children separated forever.
I read a prediction that it would end with Bran on the throne and Jon in the North (based on Tolkien's influence on GRRM) and I can accept that, but the execution was terrible. The hero's arc should involve Jon gaining *something* of value at the end. He looked miserable.
Bran is an omniscient, long-lived, non-human who can invade people’s bodies, who pushed the Dany/Jon conflict leading to mass murder, hear death, and his kingship, and who has constantly-wrong Tyrion and BRONN on his council. This is actually a hellish dystopian nightmare!
I guess I appreciate that Robin Arryn kept his mom’s titty cut-out tradition alive, though.
So the two most out of place scenes this season—Bronn gets crossbow from Cersei; Bronn appears in winterfell and threatens Lannister bros—only existed so they’d have him on the small council...for some reason?
Also, if we're getting cheesy endings, if should have ended with Jon coming upon horse bound Benjen Stark in woods, who says "I've waited a long time for you, nephew." AND THEN THEY SAUNTER OFF TOGETHER!
I did really enjoy all the parallels at the end with the beginnings of other characters arcs - Jon's queenslaying of Dany mirroring Jamie's kingslaying of Aerys and how that's defining moment for them; Aemon being in the Night's Watch as one of the last Targaryans and now so is Jon - and the fact that basically we've returned to a softened version of the status quo from season 1 politically.
I'm very happy about the Queen in the North and the fact that Snow and Ghost are back together. I still feel incomplete, and always will, because Arya and Nymeria never reunited. Why couldn't Nymeria have been used instead of that inexplicable white horse that showed up in the penultimate episode (and then never got explained ever again)? I found out I'm not alone in my distress about Nymeria - there exists a great deal of fanfic about Nymeria Stark and her band of wolves. I will light a candle and pray that GRRM's version A) will come out and rectify these things and B) include a reunion. For real: when I first read the books back in the day, I got hooked thinking that this was a show about dogs. After all, getting the pups was like the first major Stark plot-point.
Also it is SO annoying that Brienne was looking through the book about Jaime rather than looking at a page about how she is a badass knight. Also she was the only one on that council who wasn’t Master of anything other than “chicks never want us to have fun brothels amirite lads”
ANOTHER THING: why did the Watch still exist. what the FUCK are they watching for. Why would the wildlings go back past the Wall anyway. Didnt the entire conflict there arise because they wanted to live on the land south of the Wall, and doesnt Sansa deliberately say thousands of Northern men die? UGH the incoherence of the plot drove me mad
What was with the weird cutaways this season? When Bran warged at the Battle of Blackwater, and we saw the raven flying -- that paid off into nothing. And when Tyrion was by the fire at Winterfell and asked Bran to tell him his story -- nothing was revealed that Tyriod could have used at some point. There were other times like this, I just can't think of them. The writing used to pay us back -- pat us on the shoulder for watching at paying attention to these things. It all felt useless and weird.
I'm just glad the show is done now, mostly? It is my secret hope that GRRM announces the publishing of the next book today. Everything that happened this season and last feels like a rough outline or someone who was maybe a little drunk when they watched the good version of the show telling you how it happened.
Still peeved that not only does Jon kill Dany, but that it's sneaky betrayal intimate partner murder, instead of some semblance of justice, even a show trial would be better than true love's murder/kiss.
I initially wasn't sure what I thought about fans saying the end of Daenerys' arc (7.5 seasons of a flawed but no-more-awful-than-anyone-else-in-GoT human followed by thirty minutes of 'INSTANT DRAGON HITLER who must get stabbinated by the heroic white dude For The Good of the Realm') was inescapably misogynistic. Then certain parts of Twitter lit up with 'lolilol1 this is exactly like all SJWs ever dude awesome' and I was just done. So done. I wasn't ever a huge Dany stan during the run of the show but I sure am now.
Also what this show did to the dragons was atrocious and I hope Drogon flew away and found some nice people in Essos to bring him goats occasionally :'(
I enjoyed the scene with King Bran ditching the counsel to warg out, implying that peacetime governing is super-boring to everyone except a handful of responsible weirdos who actually like it.
I have very practical questions, like who exactly there is left to rule who wasn’t slaughtered at Winterfell or Kings Landing (since both Cersei and Jon called their banners, presumably leaving nothing but women and children behind... who were also slaughtered if they sought refuge at the strongholds which we’ve established most did). They decided to keep ruling from the ruins of King’s Landing as the capital? Ok, but who cleared the streets of the MILLION burned bodies? Who exactly is rebuilding the fleet/ city, let alone using the brothels? (Again, all fighting age men in the realm were pretty much conscripted to these two battles). If life has been continuing as normal outside the two locations, then how do they feel about their fates being decided by a Council of POV characters? Where are the food stocks coming from? Why on earth would a vengeful Grey Worm take the entire army and just... sail away instead of pursuing his ‘justice’ when again, he has most of the remaining military might around at his disposal? Sigh...
Y’know, having a character who hates Cersei Lannister and the Lannister family SO MUCH that they want something more than simple defeat and move on to vengeance and general destruction would make a lot more sense if it was Arya, or really any of the Starks. But instead, it’s Daenarys, who… basically never interacted with Cersei? The Lannisters weren’t even responsible for overthrowing the Targaryens, that was Robert Baratheon and THE STARKS, who she was (basically) fine with.
At this point Westeros is so hilariously small that Jon got tried by a jury of his siblings, siblings' uncle and cousin, various people who had sworn loyalty to him or Sansa, his best friend, a pirate who hates him but is also his foster brother's sister, and some extras, and it's like yeah those are the surviving registered voters, what are you gonna do
who were the unnamed lords at the council? Are they supposed to be like the only remaining living lords? Why didn’t Dorne also claim independence? Have the maesters not discovered the earth is round? No one has sailed west?!
“Bran has the best story” did make me lol. Like, the show runners themselves didn’t agree, guys. They’ve clearly had no interest in Bran from the beginning, although now we at least know why they kept him around.
EDMURE HAS NO REASON TO BE ALIVE BUT HE COULD STILL GET IT
Okay. Another thing I just figured out: Why the ending felt almost....sterile to me. And lonely.
At the end of the series, other than Sam and Gilly, I don't think...a single major character is in a romantic relationship. No one even appears to have friends! Or have intimacy of any kind!
This is actually staggering to me – what happened to "the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives"? When Sansa is crowned, there isn't a SINGLE FAMILIAR FACE in the room. Theon is dead, Brienne is in King's Landing, Arya is launching her travel blog, Jon is up north. Who does she....eat breakfast with? Who sits with her when she's sad and exhausted? Every single major character at the end of the series except for Sam is basically alone. I can't get over this. The lack of human intimacy, the way the series ends....I don't know what to do with that!
(i also feel unbelievably bad for brienne, who in addition to mourning jaime is also gonna have to make an alliance with davos, invent feminism, AND put up with bronn and tyrion and sam "well, actually" tarly for the next decade, but that's neither here nor there.)
SANSA HIVE ROLL CALL
There is a non-zero chance that after about six months of lugging King Bran up and down the billion stairs of the Red Keep, Ser Podrick is gonna invent the ADA
I've already complained about this too much on Twitter, but the "Sorry, Tyrion, he didn't mention you at all!" joke really annoyed me. Not only is it a dumb, derivative joke but it makes NO SENSE. Like, if Tyrion was a character with an inflated sense of his own importance in the story, sure, good goof. But dude's been Hand three times! He invented the current political system! He went from condemned and exiled to running the kingdom! He murdered his dad, a very important figure in his own right, and was under suspicion of assassinating the king! I mean, I know Ebrose isn't a historian by trade, but that seems like A BIG OMISSION, my guy.
Loose ends: I'll start. Why did Arya never get to use her bag o' faces? Checkov would not have approved. Bag o' faces should have gone off.
Drogon took the body and presumably no one saw, so did Jon rat himself out about killing Dany? He’s forever the worst.
Here is the Google doc that I have prepped ready to share with my friends once they've watched the episode tonight. Apologies for the poor grammar and cussing:
Things I liked:
-Sansa
-Ghost
-When Danaerys had dragon wings
-That D died at the beginning of the episode
-The performances from all the actors
The worst things:
-Drogon's grasp of poetic justice and metaphor (also just realised that his name is only one letter from dragon wtf kind of lazy ass naming is that)
-Brothel bantz and that entire scene. We needed literally zero comedic levity in our final episode, all that was required was emotional pay off.
-The entire deciding jury scene but particularly the Sam/democracy L0l2
-Arya going on a gap yah instead and not fulfilling the green eyed prophecy and not using her faces once this entire fucking season. We had to sit through her whole damn apprenticeship for what?
-Tully rocks up from where???
-The transition between Jon killing D and ending up... Where was that actually?? How did they know he killed her? How could they skip over Jon being taken captive? If Greyworm is suddenly filled with this murderous rage that is vindicated and justified by his 😍😍queen then he sure as hell would've killed Jon on the spot. Literally moments before, they were building to that possibility
Other notes
-I don't have a problem with Bran as king in theory but it's not in his character arc and 'why do you think I came all this way' is the worst line in this GD script
-Jon is Targeryan for what??? He had the opportunity to comfort Drogon and ride on that bad boy to claim his rightful throne??? Like sure Jon had been meh the past two seasons and sure there's some resolution in him ending up at the Nights Watch and maybe itd be too easy an ending for him to be king but I'd prefer that over BRAN FLAKES. OK, maybe I do have a problem with Bran as king. We didn't need the perfect king, we needed the right one. Bran gets to be a good king cos he has a good story? Fuck your meta bullshit, give it to Arya if that's your logic.
-l feel like there could've been so much potential for great storylines within the Dothraki for the entirety of GoT actually. Glad that they weren't actually killed off but don't really understand how there are so many of them left
-Not one word from Gendry this episode. Not even a yearning glance at Arya
-Jamie and Cersei were killed by one layer of rocks and would've survived if they'd been a few steps away then?? Ok?? And Tyrion just found them like that?? Ok??
-So everyone's just ok with 6 kingdoms + the north? No questions about how that's going to work in practice and how that goes against their Great New Chosen Ruler deal?
Why do I feel like I'm being fussy to expect basic coherence and logic??? I keep swinging between anger at the sheer stupidity of the solution, (So the North just gets to say Thanks, no thanks? And everyone is cool? And Bran is just cracking jokes about being omniscient? And the Unsullied just leave? And the Dothraki evaporate? etc) and wondering if I'm just meant to let it go. But some basic logic matters! Surely! Even with great performances, amazing cinematography...is it not too much to ask that things just make sense??
Also wtf, Brienne should have been WRITING HER OWN DAMN PAGE.
Arya Stark has become Reepicheep
I can kind of appreciate a lot of the scenes if I mentally sketch them onto a much larger timeline with more plot development in between (and Ghostie getting petpets was most of what I needed this episode to do). But two things I can't get over or retcon to my satisfaction: 1) How did anyone in that dragon pit council have any leverage over the Unsullied and Dothraki to tell them what they can and can't do with their prisoners?? 2) And the Iron Islands and Dorne are just totally cool with the North getting to go its own way, without making their own equally valid and historically justified bids for independence??
Y'all, I really don't think the vellum would have dried as fast as they showed.
Let’s hear it for unappreciated Meera Reed, please, who never even got a thank you or a return appearance. (RIP tinfoil theories that made her Jon’s twin.)
So the political arrangement they end up with is massively unstable, right? Bran is completely checked out, Bronn is one of the most powerful people in the realm despite being massively unqualified and having no base of support, and if the North has seceded (and taken their armies with them), other kingdoms will want to do the same. But I guess the credits rolled before war breaks out again.
the inconsistent standards are what drove me nuts – who gets offered a chance for redemption and when and why. jon, tormund, tyrion, jaime, all of these white dudes did TERRIBLE things and committed awful crimes, and learned and were forgiven. and daenerys comparatively gets condemned – not even for the war crimes but for having the audacity to say she unambiguously stands by her own decision-making??
like, don't you get the sense that if when jon had confronted her in the throne room, she had cried, and said "yes, you're right, this was awful, what i've done just now is awful," he would have IMMEDIATELY forgiven her and....she would have gone on to rule????
a million and one things drove me crazy about this but the hypocrisy here is what i am currently stuck on. also can't believe "the scene where tyrion meticulously tucks in chairs" is a real thing that happened and not just something the internet made up as a joke.
To add something that’s not a complaint: Edmure showing up again just so Sansa could smack him with a rolled-up newspaper was *kisses fingers*
Oh, and I never bought that Dany was Jon's true love. Obviously she's supposed to be, but they just had so little interaction. I could see her getting interested in him, but I never really believed he loved her as deeply as he loved Ygritte. And now, obviously, I was supposed to.
I must say I did actually like the parallels between Jon and Maester Aemon. Both foregoing family and the crown for what is right for the realm.
Things that were good:
Brienne as Lady Commander of the Kingsguard
QUEEN. IN. THE NORTH.
Ghost got pets
Ser Podrick
That’s it, that’s everything that didn’t suck
The sheer level of corniness of that book Sam gave Tyrion
HOW DID NO ONE GET CRUSHED BY FALLING RUBBLE WHILE EXPLORING THE WRECKAGE??There should be no floors for you to walk on, Tyrion!
Characters in medieval-set fiction love inventing two things: democracy and crossbows that basically work like guns.
Those ravens Varys was sending to try to drum up support for Jon? No payoff.
So Jon's true parentage as Aegon Targaryen was just a red herring? What?
Why did Tyrion have to work to convince Jon that something had gone wrong with Dany? Stupid.
I don't like having the Stark children separated forever.
I read a prediction that it would end with Bran on the throne and Jon in the North (based on Tolkien's influence on GRRM) and I can accept that, but the execution was terrible. The hero's arc should involve Jon gaining *something* of value at the end. He looked miserable.
Bran is an omniscient, long-lived, non-human who can invade people’s bodies, who pushed the Dany/Jon conflict leading to mass murder, hear death, and his kingship, and who has constantly-wrong Tyrion and BRONN on his council. This is actually a hellish dystopian nightmare!
I guess I appreciate that Robin Arryn kept his mom’s titty cut-out tradition alive, though.
So the two most out of place scenes this season—Bronn gets crossbow from Cersei; Bronn appears in winterfell and threatens Lannister bros—only existed so they’d have him on the small council...for some reason?
Also, if we're getting cheesy endings, if should have ended with Jon coming upon horse bound Benjen Stark in woods, who says "I've waited a long time for you, nephew." AND THEN THEY SAUNTER OFF TOGETHER!
I did really enjoy all the parallels at the end with the beginnings of other characters arcs - Jon's queenslaying of Dany mirroring Jamie's kingslaying of Aerys and how that's defining moment for them; Aemon being in the Night's Watch as one of the last Targaryans and now so is Jon - and the fact that basically we've returned to a softened version of the status quo from season 1 politically.
I'm very happy about the Queen in the North and the fact that Snow and Ghost are back together. I still feel incomplete, and always will, because Arya and Nymeria never reunited. Why couldn't Nymeria have been used instead of that inexplicable white horse that showed up in the penultimate episode (and then never got explained ever again)? I found out I'm not alone in my distress about Nymeria - there exists a great deal of fanfic about Nymeria Stark and her band of wolves. I will light a candle and pray that GRRM's version A) will come out and rectify these things and B) include a reunion. For real: when I first read the books back in the day, I got hooked thinking that this was a show about dogs. After all, getting the pups was like the first major Stark plot-point.
Also it is SO annoying that Brienne was looking through the book about Jaime rather than looking at a page about how she is a badass knight. Also she was the only one on that council who wasn’t Master of anything other than “chicks never want us to have fun brothels amirite lads”
ANOTHER THING: why did the Watch still exist. what the FUCK are they watching for. Why would the wildlings go back past the Wall anyway. Didnt the entire conflict there arise because they wanted to live on the land south of the Wall, and doesnt Sansa deliberately say thousands of Northern men die? UGH the incoherence of the plot drove me mad
What was with the weird cutaways this season? When Bran warged at the Battle of Blackwater, and we saw the raven flying -- that paid off into nothing. And when Tyrion was by the fire at Winterfell and asked Bran to tell him his story -- nothing was revealed that Tyriod could have used at some point. There were other times like this, I just can't think of them. The writing used to pay us back -- pat us on the shoulder for watching at paying attention to these things. It all felt useless and weird.
I'm just glad the show is done now, mostly? It is my secret hope that GRRM announces the publishing of the next book today. Everything that happened this season and last feels like a rough outline or someone who was maybe a little drunk when they watched the good version of the show telling you how it happened.
They did Brienne dirty
Am I the only one who didn't like the dragon wings shot? It looked great but when it happened I just groaned "UGH, we GET IT."
Still peeved that not only does Jon kill Dany, but that it's sneaky betrayal intimate partner murder, instead of some semblance of justice, even a show trial would be better than true love's murder/kiss.
I now badly need fic about Sansa's reign, someone provide
I initially wasn't sure what I thought about fans saying the end of Daenerys' arc (7.5 seasons of a flawed but no-more-awful-than-anyone-else-in-GoT human followed by thirty minutes of 'INSTANT DRAGON HITLER who must get stabbinated by the heroic white dude For The Good of the Realm') was inescapably misogynistic. Then certain parts of Twitter lit up with 'lolilol1 this is exactly like all SJWs ever dude awesome' and I was just done. So done. I wasn't ever a huge Dany stan during the run of the show but I sure am now.
Also what this show did to the dragons was atrocious and I hope Drogon flew away and found some nice people in Essos to bring him goats occasionally :'(
I enjoyed the scene with King Bran ditching the counsel to warg out, implying that peacetime governing is super-boring to everyone except a handful of responsible weirdos who actually like it.
D-did Bran seriously just get named prom king at a school he doesn't even go to anymore!?
I have very practical questions, like who exactly there is left to rule who wasn’t slaughtered at Winterfell or Kings Landing (since both Cersei and Jon called their banners, presumably leaving nothing but women and children behind... who were also slaughtered if they sought refuge at the strongholds which we’ve established most did). They decided to keep ruling from the ruins of King’s Landing as the capital? Ok, but who cleared the streets of the MILLION burned bodies? Who exactly is rebuilding the fleet/ city, let alone using the brothels? (Again, all fighting age men in the realm were pretty much conscripted to these two battles). If life has been continuing as normal outside the two locations, then how do they feel about their fates being decided by a Council of POV characters? Where are the food stocks coming from? Why on earth would a vengeful Grey Worm take the entire army and just... sail away instead of pursuing his ‘justice’ when again, he has most of the remaining military might around at his disposal? Sigh...
Y’know, having a character who hates Cersei Lannister and the Lannister family SO MUCH that they want something more than simple defeat and move on to vengeance and general destruction would make a lot more sense if it was Arya, or really any of the Starks. But instead, it’s Daenarys, who… basically never interacted with Cersei? The Lannisters weren’t even responsible for overthrowing the Targaryens, that was Robert Baratheon and THE STARKS, who she was (basically) fine with.
At this point Westeros is so hilariously small that Jon got tried by a jury of his siblings, siblings' uncle and cousin, various people who had sworn loyalty to him or Sansa, his best friend, a pirate who hates him but is also his foster brother's sister, and some extras, and it's like yeah those are the surviving registered voters, what are you gonna do
the headline is clickbaity but this got at how I've been watching the show for a few seasons https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/
i thought it was low key atrocious (the show whiffed it with cat in s1-2...A Sign) but when edmure rocked up i full on lol'd
who were the unnamed lords at the council? Are they supposed to be like the only remaining living lords? Why didn’t Dorne also claim independence? Have the maesters not discovered the earth is round? No one has sailed west?!
“Bran has the best story” did make me lol. Like, the show runners themselves didn’t agree, guys. They’ve clearly had no interest in Bran from the beginning, although now we at least know why they kept him around.
Go home, show, you're drunk.
Robin Arryn got tall and cute.