You're deliberately ignoring when I said that it would be for self-preservation. Pretty much every other ruler he's been fine with pays him to do evil shit and/or leaves him alone when he's not needed. Dany enters the picture with a dragon who's capable and willing to scorch hundreds or thousands of innocent people in order to rule and expresses that she's going to continue doing that. Especially when he wants his own place somewhere and clearly she's going to eventually come to his doorstep with said dragon and blow him away if he doesn't kneel. I think saying it's too far of a stretch for someone who is only concerned with his own self preservation to even mention to someone he's known personally for years who is that rulers' hand that he needs to step in or should do something is pretty unbelievable.
Bronn stayed true to himself throughout. But they could have done without his scenes this season and just had it show up at the small council and it wouldn’t have changed anything. We didn’t need the whole I’m coming for the Lannister brothers thing
Genuinely can’t tell if this is meant to be a joke or if someone out there actually has such a dumb takeaway from the finale lol
Well apparently she had to actually kill everyone first and then the world will be liberated and she would rule it justly. Someone should have asked exactly what she meant by "liberate" or breaking the wheel a while ago, but in everyone's defense her definition is way off from the general understanding of the term
One of my favorite things is the internet saying shit like "with the starbucks cup you'd think they'd have learned" as if they didnt film this a year ago
I’m honestly kind of shocked that they didn’t force some underpaid kid to go through every single scene with a fine-tooth comb after that mess. I still want to know if that second bottle by Gendry was legit.
Any insight into whether they had Jon not pet Ghost on purpose knowing people would go crazy only to come around at the end and make it a point for Jon to pet Ghost when he's frowning and ignoring everyone else? If so, A+ trolling.
I can't take the tweets seriously about how it's still all dudes ruling or that it should have been a democracy seriously like that would have at all been fitting for the story's "time" - predicting those reactions is partly why the democracy scene was p funny.
Brienne is on the Small Council and Sansa rules as Queen in the North. Arya's running her own sailing expedition. I don't think the women got ignored or kept from power
It was 100% just lazy storytelling — writing that whole scene in 804 as a clean send-off to Sam/Gilly/Tormund/Ghost, just to be like “yeah uh actually not really never mind” lol
Speaking of Sam, they just didn’t even bother with him lol. It would make sense for him to go back home or be Grand Maester if the Night’s Watch was abolished like it should have been, but he never actually quit them like Jon did
Sam being in that position so fast seemed very surprising to me as well. I also wish there had been a scene of Jim Broadbent having to take in all of the information from the season, would have made for some great acting from one of my favorites.
Honestly Dany being portrayed as a revolutionary never set well with me. I felt like, in large part, her moves to free slaves were transactional in that she got an army out of it. She’s still really just part of a royal lineage who feels entitled to the throne by birthright. The talk about “breaking the wheel” felt varying degrees of organic at times, I guess, but ultimately it would have just represented the Targaryens taking power again after, like, a 20 year break. I felt like the message of the show was anti-revolution, but the person pushing for said revolution was already part of the ruling class so it wasn’t even actually revolutionary! And what big reform do you get in the end? Instead of birthright, a small circle of noble Lords and Ladies of Westeros handpick the new king who is ....... part of one of those noble families.
I would have settled for a scene of the guy at the front lobby glaring at Sam saying "this is highly irregular."