Drogon was a child grieving for his mother and what the quest for the throne ended up doing for her so I don’t blame him at all. I feel bad for him. It’s interesting that Bran is so interested in finding him
With the ending in stone, the protection of Bran from the Night King gains a lot of significance in hindsight. “I am the memory of men,” and whatnot.
Thought the convo between them was great. Dany trying to convince him to help her rule and saying all the wrong things to a person like Jon in that moment...some things I might have changed about the execution of it (literally) but otherwise I thought they did that last scene of them well
It was just so....simple. She just gave a really good speech to her armies and then the best she could come with for John is I couldnt count to 20 and I know good, trust me. Like that could have been such a better scene and it felt like it was over so quick and really nothing profound or ground breaking was said. John didn’t hardly plead with her, dany didn’t hardly make a case for trusting her. There was hardly any tension in what they were saying.
I'm not sure what to think about the episode. The cinematography was pretty solid and we more or less knew Jon would kill Dany. Glad he gave Ghost some pets--finally. Cool to see Tormund again, even if he doesn't say anything. The Unsullied army just kept growing somehow. Like that part was always really confusing to me; each episode there seemed to be more. Jon ending back up at the Nights Watch: not sure how I feel about it. The show definitely needed at least a couple more episodes to properly handle everything that happened, from Dany's heel turn (though it was built up and not a surprise) to sorting everything out. Showrunners just wanted to peace out and that caused a lot of the problems with the show. Oh well. It was a pretty good series with a lot of issues, but I will miss having that series everyone likes to talk about when it airs.
John didn’t need to plead with her - he already knew who she was. When she refused to pardon Tyrion and her speech, it reaffirmed and made it clear that there was no point in pleading.
I thought her acknowledging that Jon was “born for this” as a targaryen was a good touch, and thinking that she’s convincing him without realizing that she’s confirming everything Tyrion just said about her and etc and watching Jon know he’s about to kill the woman he loves and etc. was done well.
I was in a room filled with people who hated it. I literally felt like Twitter from the last week was in the living room and it really sucked the life out of the ending for me. It was literally fine.
I don’t have time to right now but some time in the next day or two I’ll find the excerpt from Fire & Blood about one of the Targs (I think) who went exploring west. It’s interestign and scary
At least Sheldon in the end realized he was a self-centered, obnoxious person, and used his speech to tell his friends he was sorry and they’re great friends for tolerating him. That is more tolerable than this.
I got some Narnia vibes at a few points, with Arya especially. It’s been so long since I’ve read those that I’m not sure I can pinpoint why, but it felt very familiar.
So is the lesson of this show that everything would have basically been fine if Cersei and Dany had been killed halfway through season 1? Once they were gone everyone seemed pretty chill
I can't believe Dany wouldn't have any guards around her. I get that the Dragon was outside of the traditional entrance but the room you're in has been blown open from multiple sides and you've killed a lot of people in this city for really no reason. (this is one of my nitpicks)
I feel like them moving on from Dany so quickly is very in keeping with the characters. They ignored and dismissed her until she arrived on their shores and then still left her to be Cersei's problem. Plus, lack of time (again this issue crops up) probably also led to it. I'll probably watch the finale again next weekend and see how I feel about it after that. I have to travel this week, starting early tomorrow so I'm all anxious about that, which kind of made it difficult to truly focus and understand how I felt about the show ending.
Nah, I think half of the reason why the nobles were prepared to accept the ending was that the years of fighting and destruction and dragons and walking dead and white walkers have them to the point where they’re literally just done with the madness and just want shit to be okay again. Without all that, I think the power hungry feeling is still there and etc. Except for Edmure. He didn’t get the memo. Lol poor Edmure.
The shot of Dany with dragon wings was probably the coolest thing in the show ever. That was really beautiful