GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

Olebass said:

It was cool they did the flaming sword charge into darkness and got snuffed out but I am disappointed that is all it was. I loved me some horse Darthraki fighting.
The unsullied retreat stance was well done and effective considering the numbers and what they were fighting. They had multiple flanks and many pulled back but was overwhelmed. Doesn't look like many survive but I assume they use the NK tactic on King's Landing and kill the snake. That or Darios(sp) suddenly appears and he had paid the Golden Company more or something.

That is the real shame of the show overall. All these people left behind or just their story ended with no further involvement.
Is it even 7 Kingdoms in the end with most of them erased now?

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Tarrant said:

So...something else here....

My wife likes to watch with captions on. When the Night King is killed and all the undead fall....Jorah falls to the ground and simply says "I'm hurt".

Jorah Mormont, last of his house alive in the world.... his last words were "I'm hurt".

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Nex said:

Bran is the world's memory. He was obviously recording the battle with his ravens.

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jooka said:

I was disappoint no undead Hodor. I thought the NK not fighting Jon was good. The NK was after the three eyed raven and gave 2 shits about Jon

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“I haven’t written the ending yet, so I don’t know, but no. That’s certainly not my intent. I’ve said before that the tone of the ending that I’m going for is bittersweet. I mean, it’s no secret that Tolkien has been a huge influence on me, and I love the way he ended ’Lord of the Rings.’ It ends with victory, but it’s a bittersweet victory. Frodo is never whole again, and he goes away to the Undying Lands, and the other people live their lives. And the scouring of the Shire—brilliant piece of work, which I didn’t understand when I was 13 years old: ’Why is this here? The story’s over?’ But every time I read it I understand the brilliance of that segment more and more. All I can say is that’s the kind of tone I will be aiming for. Whether I achieve it or not, that will be up to people like you and my readers to judge.”

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Zapatta said:

. But how did she know to stab him where the Children of the Forest stabbed him when they created him?

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Drinsic said:

Don't know how I feel about the episode really. Was definitely an experience to watch, though.

Dothraki getting snuffed out one flame at a time was great, as was the initial undead horde rushing into view afterwards. There were a lot of visually awesome scenes, especially the dragon fight above the clouds and a fucked up Viserion spewing blue flame out the side of his face while Jon was trying to figure out how not to die.

Arya killing the NK... not sure what to say that hasn't already been said. Felt good to see him get rekt, but felt cheap how she just appeared out of nowhere, even if she's a super assassin. The godswood was PACKED on all sides with wights. Did she jump off the roof?

What the goddamn fuck was Bran doing? Warged and got to see the NK through the eyes of ravens. All right? So what? To what end or purpose? It's late so maybe I'm missing something but it sounds like his only reason to become the three eyed raven was to discover Jon's true heritage. Maybe that's enough, but it makes me wonder why bother with him now narratively. Hopefully he'll contribute somehow to whatever goes down in KL.

Speaking of which, if this was truly the end of the NK and the threat from the North, it feels like a giant weight has been lifted off our protagonists' backs and the fight for the Iron Throne is just a 3 episode epilogue that is nowhere near as dangerous. This was the fight for the fate of the world. The rest is just the fate of the Seven Kingdoms. It feels anticlimactic but maybe that's why so many of our favorites survived here. Guessing plenty will be killed to make the remaining conflict feel more important. Not sure where this goes other than Cleganebowl, Jaime killing Cersei, and whatever shenanigans happen between Jon and Dany.

I'd probably care more about the aftermath if Euron was even remotely as awesome and dangerous as he is in the books. Book Euron seems like he could almost be as threatening as the NK based on the preview chapters, what with him appearing to be some psychotic avatar of the Drowned God. They've never remotely hinted at his obsession with Valyria or occult shit in the show, so that aspect is obviously not happening. The actor just sucks anyway. Really wish they hadn't bungled that one for the final act.

I don't know how they could do it in a way that isn't retarded, but I almost hope that wasn't really the end of the white walker theat. Retarded writing has been par for the course since season 5 though, so who knows. I can't help but nitpick the shit out of this after the first 4 seasons though. Why didn't they show a 3 second clip of Ghost alive and killing shit? Why did the wights stabbing Beric while he was pulling a JC pose just collapse and let him catch up to Arya and Sandor? What were Sandor and Mel doing after Arya ran off? Why were Jaime, Grey Worm, Brienne, and Tormund all off doing their own separate "let's get surrounded by 50 wights and hope someone saves us somehow!" thing? Guess it didn't matter, but why the fuck was Dany just sitting there with Drogon letting a hundred wights climb up on him? Why did Mel walk so slowly to the trench? WHY DID NO ONE CONSIDER THE FACT THAT CRYPTS ARE FULL OF CORPSES? Why were those corpses able to bust through stone sarcophagi? Why is Sam still a bitch that got Edd killed? Whhhhhyyyyyyy?

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Lithose said:

Meh..Arya killing the nightking was okay from a logic perspective, she had the training, the dagger ect. (I know there is an issue with dragon fire not killing him vs steel forged from dragon fire...But Valaryian steel isn't just about dragon fire, other spells were woven into it.)...I think the reason it felt unfulfilling is because there is like zero emotional connection between Arya and the NK. John lost to that fucker multiple times, and watched as the NK took people he'd come to care about and could do nothing. There was a deep resonance there for a showdown. I get Martin likes to take away those emotional buildups (Like with Joffrey's death or the Red Wedding)...but in this case, to actually have the final showdown and then turn it sideways felt even more cheap because the NKs death was the ONLY thing we got in terms of resolution--no more insight into the 3E Raven's relationship with him, or his powers or his motivation. He may as well just have been a force of nature, and that's fine if he was, but it only makes more ride on how he's overcome...and ripping a lot of emotional buildup out of that probably isn't a good call.

Also, too much fucking dark. Damn.

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rad said:

I still think The Golden Company are the turncoats.

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Fight said:

One thing on the Arya death leap... I think she may have been hiding up in the Weirwood tree. After leaving Melisandre, she could have slipped out the window into the Godswood and into the Weirwood tree laying in wait for the Night King to make his move on Bran.

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