That was as disappointing as expected. More boring really than anything. It kind of felt like two different episodes crammed into one. First thirty minutes was dark and foreboding, and then Jon killed Dany and the tone shifted to a lighthearted affair. Ah well, before we shit on D&D one last time I'll give them a little credit:
-Jon actually pet Ghost
-Throne scene with Dany and Jon
-Brienne writing about Jaime in the White Book
Now all the cringe moments:
-Jon killing Dany lacked the appropriate context to make the moment feel earned. Tyrion has a meta moment and basically explains to the audience why Jon needs to kill Dany (he even says "we" cheered for her lmao) and then Jon stabs her and she instantly dies without saying a word.
I can enjoy the schadenfreude of seeing all the feminists meltdown while also recognizing how much D&D shafted her arc. Episode 3 she saves the world>>>Episode 5 bells ring and she commits the greatest crime against humanity seen in the history of Westeros.
-The council of the Seven Kingdoms or whatever that was was laughably bad. They brought back Edmure after all this time just to have Sansa shit on him for a joke
-Nameless Prince of Dorne cast to sit there and say nothing
-Tyrion gives the most pitiful explanation for Bran to be King (he has the best story wut?) and after listening to this one speech everyone instantly agrees he should be King? Ten minutes to change the entire system of power in Westeros and that's it?
Tyrion: "Anyone else? No? Alright pizza and bowling on me after!"
-Sansa says the North should be independent after and once again no one even gives a shit? I guess D&D kind of forgot how recently the Iron Islands rebelled and how Dany promised Yara independence just last season. Or how Dorne was so fiercely independent that they were the only Kingdom not to bend the knee to Aegon I in the first Conquest. Fucking awful
-The logic of having a Godlike figure like Bran who has become so detached from humanity as King. Bonus points for having a Stark ruler whose own house isn't even part of the Six Kingdoms anymore. I guess we missed the scene beforehand where everyone agreed the Starks have suffered so much that they should rule all of Westeros.
-Arya just fucking off to nowhere. What is even the point of her arc? That she's a strong, independent wahman now who is gonna go out into the big unknown and kick ass? Whatever
-Bronn shows up out of nowhere with his completely nonsensical threats having worked. I wish we could have seen Tyrion explain that one to Bran.
Tyrion: "Oh hey Bran the Broken, before I forget, this cutthroat whoremonger threatened me with a crossbow a couple episodes back. Let's make him Lord of the Reach and Master of Coin."
Bran: "As it was always fated."
-Jon shafted as usual. Given no independent agency and then sent to the Wall to just chill with the Wildlings? We are supposed to believe that people are just gonna go to the wall to hangout for no reason?
-The ending feels incomplete. So after years of conflict and houses backstabbing one another in the fight for power and glory everyone is just gonna work together and peacefully elect a new King whenever needed? Get the fuck outta here D&D.
Anyways, it's all over. As for the thread, in the words of the greatest King to rule during the course of the show...