Spoilers Game of Thrones: The Final Season

[Tarek71]

Ok. So that spoiler the day before was 100% on the money.

1. Multiple characters have come back from the dead. So not inconceivable that Dany is raise-able from the dead.

2. Bran has a good superpower for keeping tabs on plotters. I would have preferred he go to some mountain top and be a reclusive seer, but he'd be a good King, so why not?

3. Since the tectonic plates moved very differently on this alternate Earth, no telling what Arya finds to the West.

4. The new small council is awesome.

5. Like the choosing of Sovereigns by nascent Council/House of Lords. They aren't ready for a Council of Commons or democracy yet.

6. Queen in the North Sansa and Jon with the Free Folk were two of my preferred endings, so that's good.

This was as close to a happy ending as you could expect.

 

[thribs]

It was alright. Needed more nudity.

 

[LaxScrutiny]

No, he can't. As I said, that isn't how greenseeing has been shown to work.

Not Greenseeing. Warging. He will be the spider on the wall every time you are having dinner with your advisors.

Or maybe he IS one of your advisors.

 

[Captain Shaw]

Have you all seen the water bottle behind Sam's chair, when they decide who's going to be the new king.
Looks like he's trying to start a war with the iron born by killing off the fish with plastic.

 

[Miss Chicken]

One question that was answered was - who in control of The Twins? One of the Frey daughters? One of the male Frey children? Or has it/or will it be taken from the Freys?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

That finale was quite dull so the "oh shit" moment must have been Daenerys torching King's Landing.

Yawn...

 

[The Nth Doctor]

The actual title of the last episode was "The Iron Throne".

Well...that's disappointing as fuck. Why the hell wouldn't call it "A Dream of Spring," especially considering they named the season 7 finale "The Winds of Winter"?

I agree, but it is so ironic. Those viewers are essentially people like Jorah who never saw through her. Even Tyrion and Jon who were both besotted with her, *eventually* saw through her. It took the destruction of a city to get Tyrion to realize. That wasn't enough for Jon though, he needed the extra pep talk from Tyrion to be convince. Seeing the ruins of the city and dead kids wasn't enough!

Thus proving that Jon was a naive fool to the very end. As much as I enjoyed the conversation between Tyrion and Jon in Tyrion's makeshift cell, I wanted to throw things at Jon.

At first I thought his comment about finding Drogon meant he was going to look with the Ravens. But isn't it also a possibility that he has been warging into Drogon? I thought it was weird that Drogon would just choose to burn down the throne. What if the reason he spared Jon was not because he can't kill a Targaryan but it was a more conscious decision by Bran?

I thought the same thing when Bran said he would look for Drogon. The idea of Bran bring able to warg into a dragon has been raised by book readers for years and I bet we'll get to see it in the final two books if we ever get them.

As for Jon's end, I didn't see this as a punishment, and I didn't think we were meant to. Jon's heart is in the North with the Wildlings.

I agree it's not a punishment but I thought it was bizarre that Jon seemed to be treating it like a punishment.

Every time it faded to black, I was convinced we were getting a massive time jump.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

They actually foreshadowed this in Season 6, when she's being chased by the Waif. She asks Lady Crane "What is west of Westeros?"

That foreshadowing plus the look of sheer excitement on her face when she crossed the Narrow Sea for the first time. It wasn't just because she was going to Braavos.

Some cool and favorite scenes:

First time we see Dany Drogon spreads her wings behind her, it looks as if Dany has wings.

Jon is passing a pile of snow and gets startled when it moves, and turns out to be Drogon under the snow.

I loved both of those moments. There's something quite beautiful in the image of a dragon sleeping under a blanket of snow.

One question that was answered was - who in control of The Twins? One of the Frey daughters? One of the male Frey children? Or has it/or will it be taken from the Freys?

I'm not surprised it went unanswered considering there were no more familiar faces there. I imagine that'll get covered in the books.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I actually thought that Bronn might be given The Twins rather than Highgarden. That way he would get his two castles with the added bonus of all the Frey women.

 

[Charles Phipps]

One question that was answered was - who in control of The Twins? One of the Frey daughters? One of the male Frey children? Or has it/or will it be taken from the Freys?

I like to think Edmure will have a second child and give it to him or her.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I actually thought that Bronn might be given The Twins rather than Highgarden. That way he would get his two castles with the added bonus of all the Frey women.

While that makes some sense, Tyrion's argument about value in "The Last of the Starks" makes more sense for Bronn and his obsession with money.

 

[Cyrus]

Well...that's disappointing as fuck. Why the hell wouldn't call it "A Dream of Spring," especially considering they named the season 7 finale "The Winds of Winter"?

I agree. "A Dream of Spring" would have been a better title but maybe GRRM didn't want them using it. According to a CNN article another title that was considered was "A Time for Wolves". The Wolves (Starks) all had good endings.

 

[EmoBorg]

I basically dislike what the writers did to Dany in the last two episodes. It was character assassination. She deserve a better ending than this. Her character development over the seasons was good until this one.

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[The Nth Doctor]

I agree. "A Dream of Spring" would have been a better title but maybe GRRM didn't want them using it. According to a CNN article another title that was considered was "A Time for Wolves". The Wolves (Starks) all had good endings.

Really? Huh. That's surprising.

 

[PsychoPere]

If you read the other GRRM books (they deal with House Targaryen and the dragons more in depth) it makes sense and it also makes sense in context of the connections the Houses have to their animals/totems that's laid out in the main books. A dragon would no more harm a Targaryen than a Direwolf would harm a Stark and Jon is both.

There are several Targaryens in the books that likely wish this were true, such as Queen Rhaenyra. Or Princes Aemond and Daemon, Princess Rhaenys, etc.

 

[KennyB]

I basically dislike what the writers did to Dany in the last two episodes. It was character assassination. She deserve a better ending than this. Her character development over the seasons was good until this one.

The writing has been on the wall all along, many just didn't want to see it. I agree the change was too abrupt.........the final 2 seasons should have been 10 episodes and they should have foreshadowed it more and earlier....IMHO. But, it's easy to backseat produce.....I enjoyed it for 10 years.

 

[Charles Phipps]

My opinion on the sum total of Game of Thrones. I hope everyone will stop and read my incredibly long and irreverent thoughts on the show.

https://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/2019/05/what-did-i-think-of-game-of-thrones.html

In short....I felt the ending suffered from being conventional.

 

[Booji]

I agree it's not a punishment but I thought it was bizarre that Jon seemed to be treating it like a punishment.

I think that was because he would likely never see any of his family again. He figured Arya would visit, but she's taking off. Bran will never make it to the Wall unless he's warging into something. Sansa doesn't like the idea of the ruler of Winterfell straying too far away, so without Arya telling her to visit she probably would not head north either.

 

[Booji]

I'm thinking Drogon was in on the Dany hit with Jon. He knew mom was a loon and let Jon do the deed. That's a good boy.

I'm not sure the Unsullied would have allowed a new King so easily. I figure they would have gone on a rampage or something.

And speaking of the new King..... Why would Westerosis accept a king from a region that is no longer part of the kingdom? That kinda baffled me.

With the exception of Greyworm living, I'm very happy with the outcome for everyone else. The episode felt rushed, but it was still a decent finale.

 

[Seven of Five]

That was quite a nice, understated finale. It reminded me a little bit how Breaking Bad ended. Not a best episode ever, but a nice finale. And probably the closest thing to a happy ending we'll get with the show.

Deanerys' death so early on was a wonderful surprise of timing. I knew it was coming, but it just happened. Jon actually doing it was a good thing. I'm also glad Jon didn't end up as the King.

Poor enraged Drogon! I was wondering if Jon was going to meet a fiery end there and then, but the destruction of the throne was a nice moment. It was sad seeing him take away his mother in his hands. It's clear she had to die because she was planning to 'liberate' the whole of Westeros by the sound of it. But I still felt sad.

Tyrion surviving surprised me. Actually Deany being the only one to die was very surprising itself. The rest of the show was a fascinating look at who would rule, and how the council would operate. I never though about Bran as King, but it makes sense. He was such a focus of the first episode and season, and he was one of the driving forces of the need to knowing about the Night King. It's also good that, after everything they've been through, that a Stark is one the throne.

Sansa being in charge of an independent North was the perfect end for her, as was Arya going off and having her own adventures in unexplained lands. Even Jon ended up back where he began, at the wall with Ghost and Tormund.

The small council is full of awesome characters, so King Bran should, hopefully, last longer than most of the his predecessors!

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I think that was because he would likely never see any of his family again. He figured Arya would visit, but she's taking off. Bran will never make it to the Wall unless he's warging into something. Sansa doesn't like the idea of the ruler of Winterfell straying too far away, so without Arya telling her to visit she probably would not head north either.

Hm, I suppose that was the case...but that certainly wasn't clear to me. Maybe it will when I rewatch the episode.