#lea says

[robertlewandwski]

i've finally figured it out

kanthony are my roman empire

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this win is a whole cathartic experience

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robert lewandowski deserves this so much

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so nik has a brienne doll have clearer words been spoken

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jaime lannister smiled a whole two (2) times but have you seen nikolaj’s actual ✲ﾟ｡. (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ☆.｡₀:*ﾟ✲ﾟ*:₀｡ smile we were robbed

[robertlewandwski]

my mom just asked me to spoil the end of game of thrones to her and i told her to just stop watching and she got mad but boy does she have a surprise coming 

[robertlewandwski]

my final input on 8.05 (and 8.04)

the story is made in the timing and the details.

they had it all there and they could have done it, even in two episodes. here’s how:

8.04

a scene with jaime after he realised that cersei is going to die and there is no way for her to win this that made it clear he wasn’t ready to make the choice he has to - a conversation with tyrion or, even more effectively, brienne (ncw is so phenomal he could have pulled this off in just a few minutes)

missandei remaining captured (creds to the clever anon in my inbox)

8.05

a final, cataclysmic moment that pushed dany over the edge when she was perched on those walls staring down the city - like missandei being executed, or an attack on her dragon, euron showing back up or something. not the damn bells.

the conversation between tyrion and jaime in that tent with a mention of brienne and how, in the end, it has always been family, and in some twisted way tywin lannister was right.

absolute deletion of the line “i never cared much about the innocents” or a valid contra by tyrion because no matter how his story ended this was never true, not even for season 1, actual prince charming lookalike, peak narcisstic, pre-brienne jaime lannister.

and it would still have been rushed, but made the choices in this episode less elusive and been enough for me.

some more personal thoughts, that i have to get off my chest. not important. 

i can get behind danaerys becoming the mad queen, because personally, i think this storyline had been laid out and they did it decently. but in the end the timing that really would have sold it was slightly amiss.

a downward spiral accelerates. within months or even weeks she lost jorah who was arguably her biggest stabilising force, he loved her fiercely and would have never ever seen this through like this - and westeros took him from her. westeros took also took viserion, her child, for a cause that she sacrificed herself and her armies to that wasn’t entirely in line with her own. then it took rhaegal. and i say westeros because that’s a deciding point here - the seven kingdoms fell spectacularly short of what she imagined, what she was promised and they cost her too much in a very short time.

and missandei, poor angel, was just the tip of the iceberg.

so much therefore.

as for jon, i do think kit harrington is being criminally underused he’s shown us how brilliant he can play stoic and fiercely loyal jon. but also jon is (literally) in a deep identity crisis and his so far passive actions are in line with that. he needed to be shown something to snap out of it, and i hope this is it. 

*big sigh* jaime dieing with cersei in his arms in the rubble of the red keep seems, in the end, inevitable and perfect.

jaime’s could have been a story of redemption - much like theon, or a that of a tragic hero, equally beautiful but heartbreaking.

both would have been valid and in line with the the way his story was set up until midway through 8.04, but then path they tried to take of the tragic hero was executed very poorly, unfortunately.

my whole heart beat for jaime and brienne and i wanted them to have a happy ending so badly and i would have said it was beautiful without a second thought. but, i think ultimately (and much to my chagrin) the way he went and the choice he made to die as he did is more in line with what we have seen of him on the show.

jaime only left cersei, truly, a mere four episodes ago when he told her “i don’t believe you” i believe he did stop loving her as he had before and kind of wholly gave in to who he wanted to be.

and brienne was so important in that. their love story and all it made them into was a symbol of hope, and change, and better days. jaime learned respect, and kindness and brienne learned patience, companionship and to occasionally, give the benefit of the doubt. it showed them what life could be like, maybe eventually. for - and hear me out - as long as cersei was alive.

and that’s not because you can’t escape your past, your abusers, your addiction. because you can and he did. in the keep he showed compassion that, imo, he learned from brienne of tarth that we would not have seen of him otherwise. for the first time ever on the show he stood by cersei as only her brother. not at all as a lover that came running back.

because being with brienne allowed him to see he had to be here with cersei, despite what he could have had. in a twisted way it made him aware that, had he let cersei die alone in that moment, the memory would have haunted him forever. because there had never been a day he had lived that she hadn’t too. and you can’t sever a connection that intense, it takes time.

i’m saying maybe one day he wouldn’t have gone back.

so he was redeemed, without a doubt. i think it was a final act of kindness. the tragic hero knows redemption but also faces death, making a sacrifice that allows a better life for someone. i think that someone, cruelly, is brienne. had he let cersei die alone, or even killed her (though i was 100% for this) it would have cast a shadow over the fragile happiness they had found, and brienne doesn’t deserve that.

who hasn’t been put in a position to make a decision we weren’t ready for?

jaime lannister’s arc wasn’t complete and he wasn’t ready. he died in kindness and i really wish it had been made clear.

[robertlewandwski]

Danaerys needed a reason to Snap. Anything would have worked, she’s already lost so much. What if Cersei hadn’t killed Misandei in E4 and instead was holding her in the keep? And then when Dany breached the gates and slaughtered the soldiers, and the bells rang, Cersei pushed Misandei out the window just to hurt Dany. I would have accepted anything.

this is one of the best things i’ve read regarding 8.05 because yes! it’s exactly what i mean - with a in her eyes final loss or betrayal while she and drogon were on the walls of kings landing, it would be entirely fitting that danaerys burned the city to the damn ground and crushed cersei in the red keep (which i’m actually entirely behind.) because she has lost everything, and has, markedly, always had it in her. 

that may have fixed, i think, something that so many people are unhappy with. they could, imo, certainly have executed dany’s descent in two episodes but the story is made in the timing and the details - and we know game of thrones is the best example for that. because thats where it failed recently (8.05/8.04) but succeeded for so long before that.

thank you, clever anon :*