Well I finally caved against my best wishes and did a re-watch of the final season and now Im pissed off all over again. Dexters final season looks like a masterpiece in comparison. I just can't wrap my head around the fact that D&D completely shit the bed, its almost like they trolled all of us on purpose. I need to vent some steam and I have the flu so here is my updated gripe on each characters ending, with a 1-10 score on how satisfied I am.
Arya: Spent several seasons trekking around trying to get back to her family, then finds a new purpose and seeks out the faceless men. Great arc. Single handily destroys the big bad of the entire series randomly, ok cool she's a badass assassin now...then in the series finale decides nah I don't want to finish my list now. Then says nah I don't want to kick it with my family, Im going to go play Christopher Columbus. But hey, at least she got laid right? 3/10
Cersei: I can't really complain about her actual ending, we all knew she was destined to die but we also figured it would be alone, not the writers retconning Jaimes prior 4 season arc out of nowhere. She didn't really have much to do in the final season anyways. 7/10
Hound: If only the writers had given any of the characters the same treatment as the Hound. Probably the most complete arc of everyone besides one person and he went out like we all knew he would, CleganeBowl. 10/10
Jorah: The man with the most complete arc. Died protecting the woman he loved like a G. 10/10
Jon Snow: What was the point of bringing him back to life again? And the prophecy? So he could win the battle of the bastards? Because he sure didn't do shit against the white walkers. Dany going full evil at 11:59 of the series aside, I suppose it was good they at least made Jon the one who took her out. He's pretty much been a wilding in crows clothing since season 3 anyways so I was ok with him going back to the wall in the end. Still a lot wasted with the whole revival from death, and we didn't get enough Ghost action either. 5/10
Jaime: His story (besides Dorne) was one of my favorites. I love arcs where a character goes from bad to good or good to bad and for most of the series, they nailed it. Somehow completely redeemed himself by the end of the WW battle....only to randomly decide he wants to go back to his evil sister? And then dies from a ceiling caving in on them? And then somehow Tyrion finds their bodies in a giant destroyed castle? OK. 1/10
Tyrion: Another wasted character. Went from the smartest and wittiest character to suddenly being the biggest fool, fuck up after fuck up. Him ending up back on the small council was about as good of an ending as he could have but the build up to get him there was awful to watch. 6/10
Dany: If Dumbass and Dumbass had listened to HBO and had full seasons for 7/8, they could have hashed out her heel turn properly. But nope, lets just make one of the most central characters who's been a champion of the people for 7 full seasons to turn on a dime and murder an entire city of innocent people. I could have drawn out an idea out of a hat randomly that would have made more sense. When she died, that's the writers killing its fans for good. 0/10
Bran: What was the point in introducing us to him being able to control past events again? The Hodor reveal may be my favorite moment of the entire series, and it opened up so many possibilities of him going back and fucking things up trying to fix things. The idea of him basically creating the mad king and setting the events of the series into motion himself would have been one of the most epic moments in television...but nope, lets just have him stare at people randomly the entire final season and do nothing during the WW battle besides sit in the garden with his eyes rolled back. Oh and then lets make him king. -10/10
Sansa: The only main character they got right. Started off a naive spoiled little princess, went through her trauma with Ramsey and emerged in the end as the queen of the north. She was annoying for much of the series, but they nailed her end. 10/10
Theon: His actual death was pretty cheesy but it was cool to see him be a man again in the end. 9/10
Tormund: Didnt get to nail Brienne wtf! Just for that....5/10. Glad he survived though for the inevitable sequel series someday.
Sam: I could never really get into his character but I guess his ending was as good as it could get. 8/10
Greyworm: Why didn't they kill Jon again? They literally had no adversaries, he could have stepped up and squashed anybody at this point. Loyal to the queen to a fault and doesn't kill the guy who murdered her? Weak ass shit. 3/10
And finally the white walkers. The big bads of the entire series. A dramatically slow build up for a final epic battle....only for a child to jump out of nowhere and end them all out of nowhere. Worst writing ever. The idea of them using Winterfell as a decoy while they instead destroy Kings Landing was 1000000000000000000000000% a better plan. But nope, lets hype up the biggest fight scene in television history and not even have Jon and the NK actually duke it out and botch the dragons as well. Also nothing was ever said as to why the NK was so obsessed with Bran either, the symbols they always left behind, etc. A complete waste and disaster. -1000/10
Anyone who died before the final season....pretty much nailed their arcs. I know a lot of you did not like the 6/7 seasons as much because the pacing picked up so much but I enjoyed the wheels moving a little faster personally.
Hopefully I don't convince myself to watch this series ever again unless the sequel series comes out someday to fix this nonsense. I also hate this thread and wish it would die, we have all suffered enough!
