| haxxiy said: Several finishing thoughts to this series and the thread. 1) The Good - Jons pets his direwolf, which turns out to have been a normal-sized White Shepherd dog all along. 2) The Bad - Dany dressed in black and giving Nazi-style speeches in case someone, perhaps in Alpha Centauri, didn't get the message hammered home. - Jon being a lovestriken sadboi most of the episode. - Apparently the cave-in that killed Jaime and Cersei was just some of stones plastered to the ceiling that fell loosely to the floor. - The Iron Islands and Dorne OK with the North being independent and not them, contrary to hundreds of years of history and rebellion. 3) The Ugly - Tyrion being allowed to speak and his suggestion for a crippled sorcerous boy from the North as king being accepted instantly. - Bronn as lord of Highgarden and master of the coin. Also, apparently the Reach was empty. - Arya finding ship and crew to navigate to the west for some reason. - Grey Worm didn't immediately murder Tyrion and Jon. The Unsullied and dothraki being like "Eh, that's it, then. Thanks, bye." - In the end, nothing beyond the Wall or about Essos, including Jon and Dany, had any lasting impact. Both storylines could have been excluded from the show. - "A Song of Fire and Ice." Tee hee! This is just like Frodo and the Lord of the Rings, see? - Drogon's Simba moment. Apparently its instincts involve doing things for plot symbolism. - Everything that comes out of Sansa and Arya's mouth. Edmure came back to the at the end of a joke. |
I 100% agree in each point you made and i will add as awful the absolute lack of tension and drama in the first half of the episode. It didn't feel as if the stakes were high. The scene with Daenerys and Jon just went and gone without feeling anything, it just happened because it seemed it needed to happen because the plot demanded it.... and then that stupid tonal shift at the council scene with Edmure being a clown and Arya and Sansa acting smug (uggh) followed by that reunion at the table with more bad jokes and Bran basically no giving any fucks about ruling Westeros...It made everything underwhelming and small.
