Television Game of Thrones S08E06 Discussion Thread: Burn them all! (the writing staff) | Our Watch has ended

[xMaxPower]

Terrible. I was laughing and cringing throughout the whole episode. This show became a joke near the end. Worse than Dexter for me.

agreed, got went form the greatest thing in TV to a comedy. I have no doubt that its the goof directors though. The actual author will come out with the actual plot.

lol jon basically became a lumberjack just like dexter
in a sense, they both free'd themselves from society.

 

[ImNotSurpisedDonks!]

When you do nothing in a group project and still get an A


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"The thing matters most is stories and story telling"

Yah, OK, GRRM. Can you stroke yourself a little harder?

 

[Ares Black]

Never watched never will. Vikings tho that is a good one

Game of Thrones is so much better than Vikings. Like miles better.

 

[xxxfrankb]

At Least Ghost had a Happy Ending

 

[Makani]

So, how long does Bran live? Does being the Three Eyed Raven give him extra life? I assume there's just gonna be a massive Civil War when he dies. Way to break the Wheel.

 

[xxxfrankb]

Everyone Rushing to Sign that New Writers Petition

 

[Fluffernutter]

Bran is appointed King with a promise for elections later on..

Bran can't have kids.

George Washington was first elected president.

Some historians have suggested that the rest of the Founding Fathers wanted him to be president because he was sterile.

Because Washington could not have children, his contemporaries knew that there would never be a monarchy within the USA.

Was the appointment of Bran and nod to the appointment/election of George Washington?

 

[lsa]

It was fine. It wasn't great by any means, but it did the job.

Sounds like a blow job I got.

 

[Hitman81]

Considering how bad the last episode was they did about as good a job as they could with this one. Still an extremely disappointing final season to an amazing show.

 

[supnmunm]

agreed, got went form the greatest thing in TV to a comedy. I have no doubt that its the goof directors though. The actual author will come out with the actual plot.

lol jon basically became a lumberjack just like dexter
in a sense, they both free'd themselves from society.

That's funny cause I was thinking to myself how the second half of the episode felt like a fucking sitcom lol.

 

[Hogey]

You’d think dorne or the vale would have something to say about being long as one is being ruled by a little bitch of a kid and the other still has an intact army

 

[Lights Out 101]

The “leaks” that came out waaay before this season even aired felt 100% more satisfying and coherent than this bullshit we received.

 

[Fzubek]

Yup

 

[xxxfrankb]

Definitely Makes no Sense

 

[MikeMcMann]

If he has any balls left, he'll just fuck off up north and make some babies with a wildling firecrotch.

Ya there is no reason for hostilities with the Wildlings now. In fact it makes sense for the Wildlings and the people at the Wall to live in harmony and share information in case there is any signs of new Night King activity rising again. You cannot have a quiet Craster feeding the armies with no eyes on him.

No reason for the watchers on the Wall to be celibate either. You get more volunteers and more willing to stay if you let then have families. Some people genuinely like the NOrth and would populate all those other abandoned Castles that were under manned for so long. You can fix that if you allow families.

 

[Midnighter]

Sure, whatever.

 

[xMaxPower]

That's funny cause I was thinking to myself how the second half of the episode felt like a fucking sitcom lol.

haha they might aswell had added a laugh track

 

[SalvadorAllende]

I`m cool with Bran being king.

But the episode was utter shit.

 

[ralphc1]

And bran the boy responsible for everything gets to be king?

Sansa was more responsible for it than Bran. She wanted to be a queen. Ned might not have left Winterfell. What's the bullshit about the North being an independent Kingdom. Ned was Warden of the North not a king.

I was actually thinking about how much Frank Herbert's Dune series influenced this series, actually. Also, Le Morte d'Arthur. I could still GRRM's hand in some of the characters, even if the way things played out weren't exactly the same.

Bran very much reminded me of Leto II and his Golden Path. Superpowered being in touch with nature in a mystical way with an expected lifespan of thousands of years.

Forgetting the Dragon= Nukes metaphor, I was very much struck by the similarities of the Dragons to the Worms of Dune. Red priestesess= Bene Gesserit, Mentats=Maestars (with an influence from Herman Hesse's Glass Bead Game I am sure), the Faceless men= Face Dancers. et. al.

I have not worked it all out, but I am sure there are other similarities.

I am not sure GRRM would do a 15 years in the future, but I could so see Jon slaying/being slain by his son via Dani similar to Arthur and Mordred (Mordred birthed by his sister Morgana). Bran also has some of the Merlin influence as well; the affinity to nature, the alien affect, etc..

I am sure I will think of more, but those are the things that struck me immediately.

GRRM "borrowed" heavily from many sources to put this travesty together.

And Jon is Okay with that. If he could get a redo he would have stayed in that Cave forever.

Stayed in the cave or stayed in that valley with Dany before he found out who his parents were.

Benefit of having your dullard brother as king and your useless uncle, close buddy Lord Royce, ex-husband, and who the fook is that guy Dornish prince as the other power brokers. Sansa could say whatever she wanted and they would have conceded.

How did Sansa have such a large Northern army. After the Battle of the Bastards and the battle with the Night King where they hardly had any Northmen before the battle, they should have been pretty thin after it. Do they breed fast. Same with the Unsullied and Dothraki although it could be that some Unsullied and Dothraki were left at Dragonstone.

Why wouldn't Grey Worm have killed Jon immediately? Why did Dany wait to kill Tyrion? She had Drogon right there and she never waited before.

I went into this episode with low expectations and it managed to be even worse than I could have imagined. This makes the Lost finale look like a masterpiece in comparison. Now that our watch is ended, let me focus on the positives of this episode.

Performance of the night goes to Drogon. Best acting in the ep by far. Next is uhhh, I guess that's it. Literally nothing else good about this episode. Wow.

That was the only good part.

Really, she seems dead as hell, and still confused with Drogon. Where he took her? East/Old Valirya? For what purpose? Drogon spin off on the way?

I thought that too. Maybe, as the mother of dragons, she was carrying eggs.

Bran's line that he will find Drogon was probably the most interesting line tonight. What's the flying nuke gonna do? Take her to Asshai for some dark magic? Baby dragons in Old Valirya/Essos? Her dead seemed so cryptic in a way.

I really liked the image of Jon, Ghost, Tormund, and the Free Folk going north of the wall. In the end, I think Jon's resolution there embodies the "bittersweet" adjective they kept applying about the ending. He gets no acknowledgement of his birthright and he is not given credit for all that he did, but he gets to live the free life in the "true North" which is probably what most appealed to him anyway.

Drogon burning the Iron Throne was one of the cooler images of the episode. I guess they wanted to be symbolic that he was devastated Dany had been killed and he blamed her quest for the throne as having been the death of her.

Jon has to stay at Castle Black to fufill his vows.

Worst thing that happend in this finale and what makes me pissed is Tyrion in chains suggest anything and have word? This is bullshit , if they put him in chains that already mercy for death of thier queen. Jon and Tyrion should have been dead already , not even giving them chance to say anything. Big Bs is that they cut scene when "good crew" with new king came in Kings landing.
So dissapointing

That was my thought also. Jon would have been executed on the spot.

he was sworn when he was fuckin ygritte in that beautiful cave

He had to fuck her to maintain his cover. It was all in the line of duty.

 

[Makani]

Definitely Makes no Sense

I think they call them "shoehorned plot devices".