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Back to back great posts!

 

Is this the Rick and Morty thread now?

 

I can only assume Dany built several barracks and stables to replenish the Unsullied and Dothraki forces like that.

 

that ending would have been awful. sheesh. for all the D&D complaints about writing (some fair, some not) a lot of people are showing their whole ass on the internet and how much worse of writers they would be.

 

lol just realized w all the talk of dany's utopia and breaking chains and "i know whats good" they were really trying to make her stalin lmao god damn that SUCKS

 

I would've loved it!

Prob why they show ran one of the most successful shows in HBO history and I've never written anything that's gotten published or filmed in my life though.

 

Remembering Arya and the NK and how him touching her did nothing has me thinking, do the books go into walkers being created or are they more of a truly separate race instead of zombie things? I’m assuming there isn’t any lore about being touched to become one since the NK isn’t in the story, right?

 

Or Drogon saw that she was stabbed with a sword and thought the chair did it so it burned it.

 

the baby being touched was the first instance of the show going beyond the books.

 

Oooooooh I didn’t know it was that specific moment!

 

my biggest takeaway is that I wasn't emotionally moved by the ending episodes and the character arc resolutions.

Jamies arc with the Brienne stuff in the middle, felt off. To put it nicely.
The night king, with no motive, besides death, felt safe.
Cersei not having a strategy in the final battle, was surprising.
Dany & Jon's relationship was hard to believe, and his relationship with Tyrion wasn't fleshed out.
The counsel being formed, and coming to agreement in the end, was what I expected to happen but without seeing the machinations, or understanding more about what Bran is capable of, seemed hollow.
Not seeing the fallout from Dany's death, after so much time building up her importance, was a bummer.

Was incredibly entertaining, but the emotional pay off wasn't there for me.

 

This is cool

 

Did they show the Dothraki leave? Did they stay?

 

lol whoops

 

The Dothraki are going to go hang out with Daario

 

THey showed some of them walking around down on the docks

 

Now that it's over, who would y'all say is the "winner" of the Game of Thrones? I don't think it's any one clear-cut answer, to be clear.

I'm leaning towards Tyrion, but I'm curious what y'all are thinking.

 

Bronn had a pretty strong come up ha.

Tyrion lost his whole family over the course of the show. The whole thing with Shae and losing Jaime makes it hard to feel like he "won"

 

My thoughts on Tyrion being the winner is that yes, he's lost a lot of people but pretty much everyone has so I don't think his losses were any more or less "important" to him than other. Plus, most of them were openly assholes to him. He outright said that Jaime was the only one who didn't treat him like a monster.

In the end he gets to be the hand to the person he thought would be the best king going forward which, for the most part, he was good at.

 

Sansa became a queen and Bran became a king, but you could say the trauma they endured on the way might not make them the winners.

Bronn definitely rose the most.

Brienne went from a joke to lord commander of the kingsguard

A case could maybe be made for Archmaester Samwell as well

 

There’s a quote from this interview with Emilia that seems to suggest that there was a bit more nuance to Dany’s turn than there appeared to be in season 8. My wife and I plan to start rewatching from season 1 soon with the knowledge of how it all ends.

Emilia Clarke on the 'Game of Thrones' finale's shock twist: 'I stand by Daenerys'

“In previous seasons, producers would sometimes ask Clarke to play a scene a bit different than what she expected for a seemingly heroic character. “There’s a number of times I’ve been like: ‘Why are you giving me that note?’” Clarke says. “So yes, this has made me look back at all the notes I’ve ever had.””

 

DAVOS. Come on.

 

He also probably feels a lot of responsibility for everything that happened with Dany. He sold out his best friend to be executed because he believed in her, and he ended up being so wrong. Sure, it looks like he'll end up with a lot power as hand of the king, but the show frames it as a commitment to atoning for all the mistakes he made.