My Thoughts on Thrones (no one asked)
OkAY OKAY OKAY where do I start.
If I’m being honest, I knew from the get-go that six episodes wasn’t going to be enough to wrap up the show like I wanted. But I still had hoped the writers would do it somehow, and they halfway did.
Episodes one and two of the season were fine, and episode three was probably the best episode of the entire show. It was done SO well. I hate fight scenes and get bored with them in two seconds, and this episode was not boring in the slightest. Did I expect Arya to kill the night king? Never in my wildest dreams (kind of thought Bran would have to be the one somehow) but I’m not mad about it.
Episode four was the first time we see Dany going a little Mad Queen , I’m not mad at her character’s turn of events, but I don’t think the show executed as wel l as they could have. I mean look at how well they have done Cersei. Who doesn’t love Cersei’s character?! But we all know she deserves to die. I don’t think Dany’s character arc really got this satisfaction. I wish we could have seen more of her in the last episode rather than just have other people talking about how crazy she was going behind her back. They took her from liberator to tyrant in two episodes, and they want me to believe that her killing slave owners and her oppressors led to her burning all of Kings Landing’s civilians and should have shown she was mad all along?!? Hmmm. I think you could justify her loss of everyone she cared about in this season, led to her madness, but not that she was mad all along. Although, EMILIA CLARKE HAS GIVEN US EVERYTHING SHE COULD. And I’m sure the books will do a better job of connecting the dots and I’m excited to read that. Because I actually loved Dany’s turn of events just not how the show carried it out, I mean I HATED IT and her story is so tragic, but that’s GAME OF THRONES. Idk why I thought Dany and Jon would be exempt from a bad ending, bc that’s not what this show does. And she basically talked Jon into killing her which was perfect, I mean when she says “They won’t get to choose”. Chills. And that’s when Jon knows what he has to do. (I would have liked Cersei to die at the hands of Jamie like this BUT NO ONE ASKED ME)
Drogon melting the Iron Throne was iconic and if there was one point in the last episode where I was going to cry (I was too in shock to cry) it was when he is nudging her (okay wow im going to cry now) and then he picks her up and flies away...alone :(.
I read one article that said if the show had ending there it would have been a satisfying ending and I agree! B/C everything that happens afterword minus Sansa’s story, I’m still trying to justify.
When Jon gets sent to the wall I almost laughed, what was the point of him being a Targaryen?!?! Just to be the last straw for Dany to go mad? A reach. However, I’ve had more time to think about it and Jon really never wanted to be a king, even though he would have made a great one (I guess he didn’t care what I wanted). He also loved and belonged in the North, and I loved the symmetry of the first shot and the last. Also there’s no way I’m believing he is going to join the Night’s Watch. Maybe for a little while but then Sansa can pardon him real quick and he can find a nice wilding wife with his best man Tormund and live out a nice peaceful life. I just want him to be happy and not have another lover die in his arms. 😊
Speaking of Tormund, I’M MAD ABOUT BRIENNE WRITING JAMIE’S BIOGRAPHY. Actually no, I’m mad about the sex scene between him and Brienne. If that had never happened, that scene of her writing about him would have been beautiful, but instead I’m mad at Jamie for being a fuckboy and don’t think he deserves Brienne’s forgiveness. He always loved Cersei in my mind, not that he didn’t love Brienne in his own way too, but I didn’t need them to take it further than friendship, especially just for him to go back to Cersei like that.
Okay now on to Bran……THIS BOY HAS BEEN KNOWING WHAT’S UP SINCE THE BEGINNING RIGHT?! I MEAN THERE’S NO WAY HE COULDN’T HAVE KNOWN DANY WOULD DIE, JON WOULD KILL HER, ETC. And now Mr. “I can’t be king, I’m the three-eyed raven” is the king of the SIX KINGDOMS. It’s just not doing it for me. And then at the King meeting all he does is say okay guys you got this imma bounce *rolls eyes*. I mean I don’t know who I would have wanted to be king at that point (Sansa, Arya) but I digress.
SANSA STARK MOTHER FUCKING QUEEN OF THE NORTH!!!!! CAN I GET AN AMEN. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! The best moment of the whole EPISODE!!! So satisfying.
There are a few other points I wish had more explanation. The Night King being one, I mean this dude was hyped up since episode one and just ended so quickly. I was a great episode, don’t get me wrong, but Cersei and the south didn’t even have to witness it?! I guess I wanted more talk about it in the aftermath. Or maybe a scene at the end where you find out he’s not dead oooooh. Also Bran being the three-eyed raven, what exactly does he do now with this power?? I need more information. And Dany literally brought dragons back from extinction for what reason??? Where is Drogon going? Hopefully the books can wrap up these questions for me, and I do think if they were already finished the show could have had a more complete ending.
All that being said, GAME OF THRONES IS THE BEST SHOW OF ALL TIME, YOU CAN’T TELL ME OTHERWISE. I don’t regret watching it at all and would watch it again in a heartbeat. And if you haven’t watched it, you still should.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk. And thank you GRRM for not killing Tyrion or Sam.
