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My Take on the final episode
 

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I felt they dragged the scene's between Tyrion & Jon on too much in the final episode.

 

I suspected/predicted (I don't care if you believe me or not) that Jon would return to the Night's Watch,

and that Arya would go on exploring on her own, I thought maybe Jon would take the throne and then give it to Sansa.

I knew of course, I think we all did, that Dany would die, just didn't know how. I wondered how they were going to have all the other character's with the hour episode.

I thought Tyrion would be the Queen's hand with Sansa.

Anyhow the show ended the way it did, there's talk on some websites about a GoT sequel for Arya???, Don't know if HBO is thinking about it or not.

 

 

 

 

Edit: Just found out about a Prequel for GoT that HBO is considering.

https://screenrant.com/game-thrones-prequel-series-hbo/

[techbeck]

Disappointed in the last few episodes.   If they made the last season a few episodes longer, would have been much better.  Really nothing more to say.

[George P Global Moderator]

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Why does everyone think Bran knew what was going to happen?  The way I understand it, the 3 eyed raven knows the past and what is happening right now, not the future.   He's said many times he is "a record of the living" and that he "lives in the past".  Where does this future seeing stuff come from?

 

Maybe I missed an episode but I never once saw him see the future.

 

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8 minutes ago, George P said:

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Why does everyone think Bran knew what was going to happen?  The way I understand it, the 3 eyed raven knows the past and what is happening right now, not the future.   He's said many times he is "a record of the living" and that he "lives in the past".  Where does this future seeing stuff come from?

 

Maybe I missed an episode but I never once saw him see the future.

 

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Didn't he say something like 'That's why I'm here' after he was named King? 

 

My take

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I enjoyed the episode, but I can see the points that others have made. I liked that they kinda closed off the the characters and gave them something to do (is that the right phrasing?)

 

There's  many people here that analyse things and that's not a bad thing, but I just enjoyed watching it 😛 Probably explains why I loved the 'dumb action' episode 5. 

 

Peter Dinklage's acting in the last season, for me, has been outstanding. 

 

May be the wrong place for a discussion, but there are very few TV series that have had an ending that was satisfactory. To name a few

• Game of Thrones
• Breaking Bad
• Gotham 
• Oz

[George P Global Moderator]

Now that this is over I'm waiting and hoping Netflix can do a good job with the witcher series and that Amazon doesn't crap all over Wheel of Time.

[Nick H. Supervisor]

*Sigh* I guess that means it's time to play catch-up. I think I got to the end of season 5 before I drifted off, so I've got a nice chunk to get through. Although my understanding of the paths a couple of the characters go down doesn't exactly make me happy, but we'll see.

[+Zagadka Subscriber²]

One of the things I wish we had gotten an answer to...

 

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Is Jon flammable?

 

Really thought Drogon was going to answer that one for us for a second there. Could have been a really epic scene, maybe with him coming out of the flames in front of the melting throne and Drogon reacting to his Targaryan-ness, which makes more sense than Drogon just flying away to never be heard from again.

 

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

So, my reaction to the final is pretty much my reaction to Endgame:

 

Yeah, fair play.  A few things I'd have preferred to see tidied up but why bother when you now leave strands for future development.  Nothing of it really annoyed me, nothing of it really set me alight, but I enjoyed it for what it was.

 

There's this perception that a finale should be some bombastic, blow all the other episodes away thing.  I don't subscribe to that.  

[+Zagadka Subscriber²]

I think that a finale should at least provide conclusions to questions. This one wrapped things up... kinda. It also just completely dropped storylines...

 

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Like why the Lord of Light was so involved in Jon's life. All he ended up doing in the entire last season was stabbing Dany. Was that it? He just kinda stood around for 95% of it.

 

His actual identity as heir wasn't even a plot outside of Dany being jealous, and that is one of the most important revelations in the series.

 

It did a good enough job putting characters where they were going, but it left a lot of open questions about how and why things happened, had a lot of fan service, and just killed off characters nonsensically to wrap things up

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(like Euron and the entire Golden Company)

. Of course, it is a TV show, so it can't explain everything like a 700 page book can, but still, a lot of stuff went nowhere, suspiciously coinciding with the point where they ran out of book material and had to make things up on their own.

[George P Global Moderator]

20 hours ago, Zagadka said:

One of the things I wish we had gotten an answer to...

 

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Is Jon flammable?

 

Really thought Drogon was going to answer that one for us for a second there. Could have been a really epic scene, maybe with him coming out of the flames in front of the melting throne and Drogon reacting to his Targaryan-ness, which makes more sense than Drogon just flying away to never be heard from again.

 

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While that would have been cool to see, I think the fact drogan was ###### but instead of actually attacking Jon he just burned the place, and the throne in the process, shows he understands Jons bloodline.  He'd never attack him to begin with, which is why Jon was the only one really who could get close to kill Dany.    As far as other plot threads dropped of left hanging, eh, just pray the final books actually come out and maybe we'll get answers.  :P

 

[Jim K Global Moderator]

So, this was in a court ruling (Banks v Northern Trust)...

 

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Northern would like us to read Dabit without considering its clarification in Troice. But we will not render Troice meaningless the way that Game of Thrones rendered the entire Night King storyline meaningless in its final season. Troice directly supports our conclusion that a trustee’s misconduct – over which a beneficiary of an irrevocable trust has no control – cannot constitute misconduct “in connection with” the sale of covered securities where “the only party who decides to buy or sell a covered security as a result of a lie is the [trustee].” Troice, 571 U.S. at 388.

http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/07/05/17-56025.pdf

[George P Global Moderator]

11 hours ago, Jim K said:

So, this was in a court ruling (Banks v Northern Trust)...

 

http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/07/05/17-56025.pdf

Haha, nice.   The final season will live on in infamy!    I love how salty fans still are over this.  You know, you could always wait, and hope, the final books give you the ending you wanted.   But who am I kidding, I'd wager 90% of GoT series fans never touched one of the books.