Is it me, or is it a huge let down that Cersei just died with her brother under the city. No one got to watch her burn or die or agonize or nothing. What a waste...
Now what happens? Dany and Jon fight for the throne? Who cares...there is nothing left. What about Winterfell?
This last Season has been disappointing to say the least...
The death of the Night King and Cersei are both extremely disappointing.
One could make the case that what happened mirrors reality more so than the dramatic ending we expected. Hitler shot himself in a bunker. Sadaam hid in a hole and looked like a bum. Pol Pot, Stalin, Genghis, Idi Amin, Nero, Gadaffi, Mussolini... none of them died dramatic and deserved deaths. Well, maybe Mussolini did.
There are so many things I hate about these last episodes:
1) The Jamie turn. Eight seasons of character development trashed because he decided banging a big woman wasn't worth the effort. What's the lesson there? A leopard is always a leopard? People can't learn honor?
2) Samwell's arc. All that crap about him being a maester and learning stuff and every single bit of it was apparently so Gilly could figure out who Jon's mother was. His story is over and it seems pointless now.
3) The Dany turn. Okay, this one we should have seen coming. She burned anybody who crossed her, she was full of herself and had this wrong-headed belief that she 'deserved' to be the ruler. She's always been cruel -- remember the crucifixions? This season has been about her finally coming to understand that the ONLY thing she had was her dragons. Without them she's a big zero. Burning King's Landing to prove her might was a far shrewder move than being the merciful savior -- because most people didn't realize they needed saving anyway. But the way it was handled just seemed abrupt.
4) Convenience. It's been a long-time problem with the show. People just pop up across continents out of story necessity. Dany can't see a fleet of boats from her vantage point in the clear sky. The fleet magically transports itself like people do.
5) Dangling threads. I get it. Sometimes you just have them. Nobody knows where the Russian went in Pine Barrens and that doesn't really matter in the long run. But this? So much left hanging. Like... Where is Yara? What did the Night King want? Where does Bran go? Who's running Dorne? Who's running Highgarden? Who's running The Riverlands? What happened to the Iron Bank? What's going on at the Citadel or whatever it was called? What about the Stone People and the scale? Who's running the Dothraki lands now that they jumped on boats to follow Dany? Is that it for Tormund? Do we still need the Wall?
6) WTF with Bran? All that eye rolling and warging and three-eyed ravens and tree people and crying white trees. What does any of that really matter? There was always a 'magical' aspect to the show, something that was under the surface. All that's really been sort of discarded now.
7) A Girl Has No Name. Wasted nearly two seasons on that and apparently the only point of it was for Arya to kill Walder Frey and then kill all his people. That entire storyline has been abandoned. So much potential there for her to take things over by killing and becoming Cersei or Jamie or practially anybody. But let's just forget all that now.
8) Forgotten prophecies. For the show's entire run, it's been good about revealing the prophecies as they come to fruition. All of Cersei's came true until they didn't. And the savior Azor prophecy has now been trashed.
9) Red herrings. Three people have petted dragons on the nose. Dany, who we know is a Targaryen, Jon who we discovered is from that family and.... Tyrion. Is there a point to that?
10) The protected class. This show hooked me when Ned lost his head. I was stunned. It kept me enthralled when the Red Wedding turned red. It tugged at me when Hodor's true nature was revealed. But that's been a long time and as the seasons turned it lost that ability to surprise because like any other series you knew that certain characters were protected to the end. Even the Jon Snow is dead fake out was empty.
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