Not to sound like a book ponce, but those of us who read the books were more or less certain the series would end in her going nuts. It's foreshadowed loads
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Not to sound like a book ponce, but those of us who read the books were more or less certain the series would end in her going nuts. It's foreshadowed loads
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full credit to bluejock, brilliant all the same
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Yeah Arya was underused but tbh, everyone was expecting her to kill cersei so I'm fairly happy with the ending. I think I'd have preferred her to kill her, but Got is supposed to be unpredictable.
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Nothing wrong with expecting something to happen and then it happens, everything doesn't have to be a surprise when you are ending an 8 year series, you need satisfying conclusions, not disney endings all over the place.
There was enough unpredictability around Dany and Snow in that final episode.
Arya's whole journey through the series was to get old enough and acquire the abilities to avenge her father, they should have spiced up Cersei's and Jamie's death's with Arya in the mix.
Cersei, massive massive character in the whole saga, pitiful ending to just bury her alive, how crap was that.
Didn't mind the Cersei ending. Abandoned and alone before her twin arrives and they die together as they came into the world together. Seeing her armies, her fleet, Pycelle and then The Mountain all taken from her, or opting to abandon her, before then seeing even the security of The Red Keep collapse around her before the one constant in her life returns.
I thought it was an excellent slow death played out over several scenes.
Arya's whole journey was also about the consuming futility of revenge and being able to let go of the past...The Hound couldn't so he perished, Arya could and survived. Also reflected when Nymeria opts to leave her in the forest rather than return with her to Winterfell and going the same way as the rest of the Stark direwolves.
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To me it just felt too easy and boring at the end. It didn’t in any way meet the expectations it had set itself around Arya, Dany or Jon Snow.
The jump to the council in the dragon pit was just ridiculous and lazy, as was the conclusion of making Bran the broken the king.
Enjoyed the series, but not felt as let down with a last episode since Dexter.
The jump to the council in the dragon pit was just ridiculous and lazy, as was the conclusion of making Bran the broken the king.
Enjoyed the series, but not felt as let down with a last episode since Dexter.
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It was Meh!, I'd rather Arya shape shift disguise as Cersei's hand and kill Jamie and Her in a bloody ending.
Ages spent on Arya's backstory, episode after episode for her to train as the ultimate assassin and be on the path to avenge her father, and it all comes to nothing.
It was nowhere near the travesty that was the Dexter finale...or indeed the last season of Dexter.
But she didn't kill Cersei's hand and never had the chance to so couldn't take his face. I think that would have been a dreadful ending just repeating old tricks. Plus we wouldn't have had the quite funny Qyburn death given by The Mountain.
I read the books myself and still didnt have a scooby in all honesty, that said i read the books before the series so a good number of years ago!!
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It might be because I was neck deep in the forums and theories quite a bit when I was really obsessed. I remember watching a youtube video years and years ago, it was a guy who predicted the ending based on what we knew of Martin's political beliefs. I can't find it anywhere now, but he pretty much hit the nail on the head as far as I can see, going to try and find the video
Fair play, the one thing i could never reconcile was Danny being much younger in the books and older in the series, that probably put me off the scent of her going bananas.
Thats if you say did she really go bananas, i mean it could be argued she just had a different political point of view ultimately that led to atrocities, you could say she went a bit totalitarian rather then crazy really. In the end they just all had different moral and political beliefs. In a world were morality and political beliefs and concepts of right and wrong are loose and questionable anyway. Argueably they used the excuse of her going crazy becuase they just didnt agree with her.
For Tyron and the gang it was grand when she was mincing up communities far away, it was only when she bbqed their home town their was a bit of a worry.
Thinking back, i think Dannys character development was really awesome, i personally didnt see it coming, ultimately she going facisit and a clear subtle pathway got us there on reflection. The fun piece was was growing threat throughout the series in hindsight, while the white walkers and John story line were the diversion in the magic trick and how that interplayed with all the main characters. Ultimately John killed his last remaining family member on that side and the woman he loved as well.
It had to end in unpredictability tragedy for everyone really, thats what Thrones was really. moral is power corrupts and all that.
Still think its not the end of it, its all set up to be revived in a couple of years, while i think the surviving cast were kept alive, to be young enough to do it.
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