anyway i’m still in genuine disbelief that two episodes running we had the ‘evidence’ of dany being evil being that SHE KILLED SLAVERS AND CRUCIFIED PEOPLE WHO HAD ENSLAVED CHILDREN. and zero mention of how she stood up and FOUGHT FOR THE NORTH, FOUGHT TO SAVE THE PEOPLE FROM THE ARMY OF THE DEAD.
like i’m sorry, but if your evidence of someone being dark is ‘they kill slavers’, you are running low on evidence
also tyrion, u-turn and a half, bitching about her killing slavers, in s7 he literally said “SHE PROTECTS PEOPLE FROM MONSTERS” but what’s consistency when you need to take a female character down eh
Alright, so I know everyone and their mother has an opinion
about the final season of Game of Thrones, but after seeing the last episode,
I’d also like to share mine.
The thing is, if you’d told me a few years ago where the
characters would end up in the finale, I would have thought it completely
logical. Jon going to live with the Wildlings, Sansa becoming Queen in the
North, Arya forsaking life as a lady and becoming an explorer, Tyrion serving as Hand of the King, Brienne and
Podrick becoming knights of the Kingsguard, and really the final destination of most of the characters who are still alive – those are all lovely endpoints for
those characters. Even the characters who ended more tragically, like the Hound
dying to finally kill his brother, Jaime dying together with Cersei, and Daenerys
becoming the Mad Queen; these were not illogical conclusions for them, with all
the foreshadowing presented in previous seasons. And while I wasn’t expecting Bran of
all people to be crowned King, he is the most impartial person in Westeros and will
likely make a decent ruler, so that’s not too bad.
On paper, it’s not a bad way to end things. But in my opinion, they took entirely the
wrong route to get to this ending. And the first staple of storytelling is that it’s not
the endpoint that matters, it’s the journey you took to get there. For Game of
Thrones, I feel as though the whole show was like climbing a long, winding
staircase; they took the stairs one step at a time in the first four seasons,
began skipping a step here and there in seasons five and six, ran up two steps
at a time in season seven, and finally just said ‘fuck it’ and rode the elevator
for season eight.
