Game of Thrones Season 8 Ep 5
Came back from the wedding on Monday night, but only got around to watching this last night.
Spoilers behind cut.
Not that I think I have anything to say that
beer_good_foamy hasn't already said, and better (and way more amusingly).
In fact, I don't have a whole lot to say at all. It was the most beautifully filmed piece of character trashing I've ever had the dubious privilege to watch.
Okay, I know that Dany isn't a 'nice' person. She does not, as Jorah several times said, have a 'gentle heart.' In fact, she's pretty implacable when it comes to her enemies, as showrunners Benioff and Weiss pointed out in the Self Justification After the Episode bit. However, it's a step up that seems to me a step too far from not batting an eyelid as her horrible brother is killed in a horrible way to destroying a whole city and all the people in it because she's pissed off with one person (ie. Cersei). It's also really stupid. How is she going to sit on the Iron Throne if it's a pile of molten slag?.
Then there's Cersei. She was pretty horrible actually-always has been- and the whole thing is in many ways her fault, given that she chose to execute Missandei. But come on! She deserved a better death than being weepy all over Jaime. Just as Brienne deserved better last week (though at least she didn't die).
It feels like the show built these two up - Dany and Cersei, I mean - to be these scary leaders, only for both of them to succumb to some form of brain-slagging PMS when the crunch finally came. And in Dany's case in particular, it seems like everyone has forgotten that many of the things that have happened to her since coming to Westeros happened because she tried to do the right thing.
And I still don't get why she was treated so badly after the battle of Winterfell.
Anyway, at the moment, it looks likely that Mr Mopey will end up king, unless Dany kills him, which she might (probably to get killed by Arya afterwards). On the other hand, he might well kill her, then sit down under a tree somewhere and look even sadder (if that's possible).
My (no doubt completely wrong) predictions for the finale are that Dany will kill Jon, Arya will kill Dany, then Sansa will become queen, and everyone will realise she's just as bad as the rest of them.
Since I like Dany more than Jon this pisses me off somewhat, but really the only character I genuinely care about now is Drogon the dragon. I hope he suddenly realises that following these Targaryans around is stupid and flies off somewhere sunnier.
Trivial stuff: Jaime's death was pretty rubbish too, wasn't it? As was his main contribution to the episode being to have a big fight with Uncle Urine. Not that I miss him, of course (Uncle Urine, I mean). The Clegane smackdown (though unwatchable for me due to excessive violence) was a much more satisfying way to see a character go out, and it even had a funny moment, when Ser Gregor disposed of Qyburn as casually as someone swatting a fly.
Was that snow falling at the end, or ash? Do we actually care?
:Crosses fingers that the scene in whichever season it was when the Night King turned a baby into a White Walker will have some relevance, as in the White Walkers aren't all gone at all and will arrive to save the day by killing everyone and everything - except the dragon, 'cos I like him:
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Spoilers behind cut.
Not that I think I have anything to say that
beer_good_foamy hasn't already said, and better (and way more amusingly).
In fact, I don't have a whole lot to say at all. It was the most beautifully filmed piece of character trashing I've ever had the dubious privilege to watch.
Okay, I know that Dany isn't a 'nice' person. She does not, as Jorah several times said, have a 'gentle heart.' In fact, she's pretty implacable when it comes to her enemies, as showrunners Benioff and Weiss pointed out in the Self Justification After the Episode bit. However, it's a step up that seems to me a step too far from not batting an eyelid as her horrible brother is killed in a horrible way to destroying a whole city and all the people in it because she's pissed off with one person (ie. Cersei). It's also really stupid. How is she going to sit on the Iron Throne if it's a pile of molten slag?.
Then there's Cersei. She was pretty horrible actually-always has been- and the whole thing is in many ways her fault, given that she chose to execute Missandei. But come on! She deserved a better death than being weepy all over Jaime. Just as Brienne deserved better last week (though at least she didn't die).
It feels like the show built these two up - Dany and Cersei, I mean - to be these scary leaders, only for both of them to succumb to some form of brain-slagging PMS when the crunch finally came. And in Dany's case in particular, it seems like everyone has forgotten that many of the things that have happened to her since coming to Westeros happened because she tried to do the right thing.
And I still don't get why she was treated so badly after the battle of Winterfell.
Anyway, at the moment, it looks likely that Mr Mopey will end up king, unless Dany kills him, which she might (probably to get killed by Arya afterwards). On the other hand, he might well kill her, then sit down under a tree somewhere and look even sadder (if that's possible).
My (no doubt completely wrong) predictions for the finale are that Dany will kill Jon, Arya will kill Dany, then Sansa will become queen, and everyone will realise she's just as bad as the rest of them.
Since I like Dany more than Jon this pisses me off somewhat, but really the only character I genuinely care about now is Drogon the dragon. I hope he suddenly realises that following these Targaryans around is stupid and flies off somewhere sunnier.
Trivial stuff: Jaime's death was pretty rubbish too, wasn't it? As was his main contribution to the episode being to have a big fight with Uncle Urine. Not that I miss him, of course (Uncle Urine, I mean). The Clegane smackdown (though unwatchable for me due to excessive violence) was a much more satisfying way to see a character go out, and it even had a funny moment, when Ser Gregor disposed of Qyburn as casually as someone swatting a fly.
Was that snow falling at the end, or ash? Do we actually care?
:Crosses fingers that the scene in whichever season it was when the Night King turned a baby into a White Walker will have some relevance, as in the White Walkers aren't all gone at all and will arrive to save the day by killing everyone and everything - except the dragon, 'cos I like him:
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