Comments | wren_kt7oz: Game of Thrones final season

wren_kt7oz

Game of Thrones final season

May 22, 2019 22:40

Since just about everyone else seems to have had their say about this final season, I thought I'd give my thoughts. Why not?

( Don't read this if you don't like GoT or don't want to be spoiled for final )

got, personal

Comments 6

kitkatbyte May 23 2019, 01:19:27 UTC

I felt exactly the same way! I was actually glad for the happy ending and the way things turned out. I also have heard other people saying they were disappointed, but I don't understand why. It was a good ending.

If there was anything less than ideal, I think things happened a bit too quickly and easily in the last 2 episodes. They could have fleshed out the story a bit more and added another episode worth of content. Maybe created a few more moments of doubt about where things were going.

wren_kt7oz May 23 2019, 02:12:06 UTC

I don't understand the disappointment either.

As for the unanimity at the end, I think that needs to be seen in the context of the aftermath of, not just the decimation of Kings Landing (including the melting of the throne, wasn't that cool?) but the decimation of the Great War.

Most of those present at that meeting had been involved in that horror. They were there when Bran sat helplessly as bait to draw the Night King to himself. They saw, not just the horrors of that fight, but Bran's courage at that point.

So, in that context, they settled for a solution that not just avoided war when they and their peoples were exhausted and desperate for respite, and also provided a King who is smart and who has demonstrated as much courage as any of their fighters.

I think it just felt rushed because we didn't want it to end. But as it had to end, I felt that the ending worked perfectly.

severina2001 May 27 2019, 22:18:08 UTC

I think this is beautifully said and I agree with almost all of it. The only ending I felt was inconsistent was Jaime's. I recently started a rewatch and I'd forgotten how truly loathsome Jaime was at the beginning. He grew so much and to see him regress and run back to Cersei felt completely out of character to me. I thought that the ending we got with Jon and Dany was going to be what happened with Jaime and Cersei -- that he was returning only to kill her. I do see what the writers were trying to do with him in his final speech to Brienne, but it was just too abrupt of a shift imo.

But. Jon got to cuddle Ghost. So all is well. :D

wren_kt7oz May 28 2019, 02:23:23 UTC

As far as Jaime is concerned ... I think that if Cersei had been likely to win her war against Dany he would have been able to stay away, maybe even fight against her. But when she was under threat ... no ... to me, the fact that she personally was under threat made it almost inevitable that he would have to go back to try to rescue her.

Ironically, I think it was the true chivalry he'd learned from Brienne and even Jon that made it imperative to him to try to save the woman who really had destroyed him but whom he still loved.

But yes, at least Jon did get to cuddle Ghost. *g*

calliesky January 6 2022, 03:34:28 UTC

Completely agree with you.

wren_kt7oz January 6 2022, 06:36:46 UTC

Thank you. I wrote this so long ago that I had to go back and re-read it to find out what I'd said. :D

I have to admit that I saw it in early May 2019 and then at the end of the month Good Omens came out and now it's kind of Game of What?

(Not that there are really any parallels between the two for me. Never read the GoT books, GO has been my constant companion for 30 years.)