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Jamie's turn right back to Cersei at the end was a huge thing that needed to be stretched out as well. While it makes sense on paper, his character had come so far from that point just to be like...nah, back to my lady.

 

Yeah, this too. Narrative mirroring was something they’d been decent at until recently, too

 

This was the only part of the episode I didn't like. Way too corny for them to even suggest democracy as an option, and to have Sam do it, and how timid he was in suggesting it, was brutal. "I mean, I've been thinking, and you can all say no if you want to, but I think it could work - and maybe it won't! - but maybe, just maybe, we could start to consider this idea"

 

Euron being proud of killing a one handed Jamie, and not really killing him, after just one episode earlier killing a dragon is just the dumbest way for his mind-numbingly awful presence on the show to end. I don't even know how to feel about it other than its great to see him die and not be mentioned for the last episode.

 

Such an eye-roll moment. At that point, again, the tonal shift was too much for me to handle in seemingly one of the most important set pieces of the entire series.

 

Once Bran was elected king, and Tyrion as his hand, I was expecting Tyrion, Sansa, Arya, and even bran to start defending Jon for what he did. Tyrion maybe telling everyone he convinced Jon to do it.

 

Honestly thank god the other 2 dragons got killed huh? Could you imagine that psycho with all 3?

 

Why not have creepy kid just tell everyone what really actually happened through his all knowing visions lol and then ultimately decide to save Jon and just arrest tf out of Greyworm for war crimes? Or they all just gang up on that mf and kill him? Weird flex.

 

One thing that would've been cool to see in the extended version is Bran proving his superpowers to skeptical Lords by telling them where they stashed their money or how to fix their std or whatever

 

It’s a good thing he didn’t decide to tell Royce and Robin that Sansa knows the truth of Lysa and the moon door.

 

These last two seasons really could've benefited from more episodes, and I would've happily waited another six+ months to get them. Seeing things like Sansa and Arya's reaction when Jon told them about his true parentage, or the immediate aftermath of Jon's regicide would've been great. Lena Headey gave Cersei such an incredible portrayal for 7 seasons, but this season she was reduced to little more than a plot point. I also wasn't crazy about how the majority of the dialogue regarding Dany's turn came from other characters who didn't seem to have any more real insight into it than us viewers did. When she finally gave her own rationale, it didn't really line up with what we all kind of assumed regarding the string of great losses she suffered. And of course there were the inconsistencies from scene to scene, like the number of Dany's soldiers who survived Winterfell and the state of King's Landing and the Red Keep this week compared to last. There have been similar issues in years past, but those were likely just errors, whereas these ones were obviously there to advance the plot to certain points. Also, what happened to winter?! W&B seem to have latched onto the idea that winter coming was merely a byproduct of the Night King's approach, and not the actual season. Except that there have been countless winters in the past, all without him...

Having said that, I ultimately still liked the ending, especially given what they had to work with after last week. I honestly expected a higher body count (of main characters) given the "bittersweet" descriptor so many people used about the ending for so long. That so many of the Starks were still living at the end (and two of them on thrones!) is something I'd have bet against. A lot of characters got nice closures to their arcs (Robin Arryn's silent appearance notwithstanding!), and it was a beautifully shot episode. It's going to take a little while to process the fact that it's over.

 

I guess "winter is coming" really just meant that the starks would rule over all of them in the end

 

Agreed. Season 7 was garbage tbh. This was a large step up. Not as good as the best seasons. But some of the highs (and the filmmaking) were top tier.

 

I find it hard to believe all those soldiers at the bottom of that huge fucking staircase could hear Dany giving her speech.

 

I like the ambiguity of it. The Starks, the white walkers, the ash of a burning city. Winter indeed.

 

oh lol when drogon ended up being the pile of ashes and woke up like a sleeping dog made me laugh

 

Thoughts:

-How did anyone find out Jon killed Dany? Her body flew away.... just throw something on the blood to cover it up....

-If Greyworm and crew are leaving, why does Jon still have to go to the wall?

-Why does everyone keep calling him Bran the Broken now that he is king? Doesn't get any respect?

The finale would have been better received if it was structured better to be included in the same episode with Dany attacking the city. Start the ep with the Attack on Kings Landing, save 30 mins for 15 mins of aftermath with Jon stabbing Dany and another 15 for closure. I bet everyone leaves much happier. Having a whole ep where it's resolved in the first 15 mins and then just characters bull shitting around for the rest is a strange structure for a finale of any kind.

 

I actually think it was another dope ass shot

 

For a minute I thought for sure that after Jon killed Dany that Jon would pull his face off and it would be Arya under there the whole time. Which would explain why Drogon kind of looked at him funny on his way up to the throne room. I thought he could sense it was actually Arya.

 

I could be wrong, but i don't think it has as much to do with grey worm as it does Bran appeasing those on the council who were/are still loyal to Dany (ie Yara). Grey Worm literally has no claim to anything and has no say in what happens to Jon, but I think Bran in all his Bran-ness assumed it would be a bad look to just pardon his brother who did just slay a Queen however justified he may have been.

 

That would have been insanely cool.

 

That would mean Arya would have to kill her brother, no? She would never.

 

Doesn't that mean Jon would have had to be dead? I always forget how the face swapping worked.

 

Thank god they didn't have Arya as Jon be the one to kill Dany, that would have been awful.

 

It just seemed like him and his army were the ones keeping Jon prisoner and without them there, he would have just been welcomed back. But they kind of rushed it so bad, we didn't get the reaction to Dany burning down a whole city or people finding out Jon is the true king...I figured people overall weren't happy about it.