GOT (Game of Thrones) Finale: Here we go!

[hlthe2b]

[NightWatcher]

1. I hope Carrie and Mr Big end up together.

[hlthe2b]

3. and regretfully named their daughter Daenerys

[Solly Mack]

4. LOLOLOLOLOL

[shanny]

2. Jon Snow, Dragonslayer.

[muntrv]

5. Grey Worm has no mercy.

[Solly Mack]

6. Take the hand - it's gold. Money might be in short supply in the coming days.

Yeah. I'm not going to mourn Jaime or Cersei.

Nor do I feel sorry for Tyrion.

[muntrv]

7. Cersei an Jaime died in each other's arms.

[lark]

89. She got off way too easy, should have been more gruesome, it's what she deserved.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Tyrion has his brotherly moment.

Cersei and Jaime end as part of a tortured mosaic.

[Solly Mack]

9. Still too many Dothraki alive.

And Unsullied, for that matter.

[Solly Mack]

10. Arya got her kill-face on.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Wonderful shot with Drogon spreading its wings behind Dany.

[Solly Mack]

15. It was.

[highplainsdem]

21. Already a GIF on Twitter:

Link to tweet

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Doesn't that black and red flag have a symbol similar to the swirl

from the Night King?

[Solly Mack]

14. Yes. Lots of speculation on that for a while now.

[GemDigger]

13. whoa, I did expect a little remorse from her.. nt

[Solly Mack]

16. I hope she dies sooner rather than later.

But she might live - because good does not always prevail. Fair does not always prevail. Justice does not always prevail. What is right does not always prevail.

[Baitball Blogger]

19. I'm rooting for Targaryn blood in Tyrion.

Touching scene with Tyrion and Jon. Love it when Tyrion talks so frankly.

[Solly Mack]

20. The dragon's third head...maybe.

Probably not though.

[Baitball Blogger]

17. Arya: "I know a killer when I see one."

The verdict has been made.

[Solly Mack]

18. Tyrion....still with the jokes.

[Solly Mack]

22. Poor Jon. Damn Stark honor.

And I do love me some Starks - for their honor.

[Solly Mack]

23. Tyrion just gave Jon the Martin Niemoller speech

Basically, you take a stand now before she comes for you too.

[Solly Mack]

24. Oh, sneaky Drogon.

[Solly Mack]

25. Snow on the iron throne. Well, ashes...but do recall the visions.

[Baitball Blogger]

26. Dany's vision!

Where is Arya!

[muntrv]

27. John Snow did it!!!

[Solly Mack]

28. Oh, my.

[Solly Mack]

29. Goodness

[Solly Mack]

30. Drogon wins the Iron Throne! Levity.

[muntrv]

31. Drogon melts iron throne!

[Solly Mack]

32. Loves his momma. Hates the throne. Still can't kill a Targaryen.

[Solly Mack]

33. Grey Worm has to die now.

Oh, well.

Or not.

Best to kill him though.

[Solly Mack]

34. Golly. Sansa got there quickly.

[Solly Mack]

35. Weak Tully yammering away

[Solly Mack]

36. Sam :)

[Solly Mack]

37. Bran the RE-Builder?

[dixiegrrrrl]

79. Thing is.......

If Bran can see "everything,". why did he bother to protest being ruler?

[Solly Mack]

81. I dunno. Have to wait for the books, I guess.

He sees possible futures based on the past - the present has to lend itself to that future.

He told Jon that Jon was precisely where he needed to be. (in the past)

Daenerys had to seek her "destiny" in her way.

Every character arc along the way had to take a certain path....for turning away from a path changes your future or the future as a whole.

Arya is free from those concepts - she's going where the map stops...to the unknown. (a thought - not a declaration)

The 3 eyed raven beat the dragon with three heads. (a thought - not a declaration)

Ice won. (a thought - not a declaration)

Neither ice nor fire won. (a thought - not a declaration)

Something new was born in the time of Spring. (a thought - not a declaration...though evidence indicates that is so)

A conflict of fire and ice will forever exist inside one person only - until he dies. (Jon - a thought - not a declaration)

Death is a metaphor for ice in that the body grows cold.

The night is colder.

Winter is cold.

The Night King was a living, so to speak, metaphor for ice.

Dragons, a metaphor for fire.

All kinds of examples of fire and ice.

Winter comes and then comes Spring. Rebirth, life - new.

The Archmaester wrote a history - a history that will become an official history one day - that does not even include a pivotal player to those events. (Tyrion)

Knowing that, who knows why anything happened since the writer gets the last word on whether it even happened or not?

[Solly Mack]

38. Yes! The North remains the North! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

[muntrv]

39. It's Bran!!!!!!

[Solly Mack]

40. So, Jon goes back to the wall.

Well, that sucks...mostly.

[catbyte]

41. Typical. The white kid who did nothing for 8 years gets the throne while smart, capable women

get short shrift yet again. The only character that elicited any emotion in me was Drogon.

Yuck.

[shanny]

55. Very pleased Drogon lives.

Wild creatures do not have our penchant for evil.

[yellowdogintexas]

74. And Ghost. One of my hopes was that Jon would end up riding

Northward across the wall with Tormund and Ghost.

[shanny]

82. Indeed.

[RandySF]

58. Sansa has her throne in the North and Arya has her ship.

[Loki Liesmith]

69. Lol at expecting a morality play

[TuxedoKat]

93. Yes

I'm with you. This article pretty much sums up how I felt about the end. But at least they didn't kill off Drogon.

http://time.com/5590729/game-of-thrones-finale-daenerys/

[Codeine]

98. Short shrift?

Sansa freed The North. She’s literally the only person who could have accomplished that.

[marylandblue]

104. Not bad, but she should have been Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.

He's too disengaged to be a King. Monarchs need personality and ambition. In keeping with the gritty realism of the book, the best we could have hoped for is a negotiation among ambitious lords wjo choose either the strongest claimant (Jon Snow, who wasn't trying) or Sansa, as the most politically savvy forms an alliance to back her.

Choosing someone who can't have children virtually guarantees a war for succession when he dies.

[Codeine]

107. The nobles would never have agreed with that.

She’s a house partisan. Everything she did would be to advance Stark interests. Bran transcends houses, which made him the only universal choice.

Of course there will be war. It’s primogeniture, a fucked-up system hat leads to inevitable strife.

[marylandblue]

109. That's not the way the medieval world worked.

In their eyes, Bran is a Stark and will always be a Stark. The entire series is based on that, unless you remove yourself from the game entirely. Bran did remove himself, but he came back, and that means he comes back as a Stark.

And if they couldn't agree, they either go to war again or break apart into the original seven kingdoms. Either one would have made sense.

Primogeniture actually does make some sensex which is why it was practiced so widely prior to modern times. It doesn't always produce the best leaders, but who are we to talk about bad leaders?

[Solly Mack]

42. The more things change...

[Baitball Blogger]

45. I'm guessing that Bran wants to warg with the dragon.

They mentioned that he was last seen flying east, so Bran is going to look for him the only way he knows how. Now, that would be wonderful since he can follow Arya on her quest out west.

I see Jon's and Sansa's arc closed. Wouldn't that be crazy if all this time George R.R. Martin was writing a sequel based on Arya's journey?

[Solly Mack]

48. He once said he was going to - write about Arya's adventure.

That's how you know she would live.

[regnaD kciN]

78. I would think it would be a good idea to keep tabs on Drogon...

...at least to make sure that dragons don't have their own magic to bring dead people back to life, too.

[Solly Mack]

43. I can live with this ending. Quite well.

And the Wildlings have a new King.

Damn phone. Saying quiet on the phone while typing - or trying to type quite - and got all fucked up.

[Baitball Blogger]

46. Amazing self-control from Grey-Worm.

But, yes, once Dany was put down, this was the only way that it could end.

[Solly Mack]

56. Jon was happy with the Wildlings. He can be happy again.

He can also marry and father children. What's Bran going to do? Invade the North?

I think not.

I'm glad Jon is back with Ghost.

Brienne is Lord Commander of the King's Guard. And she gave Jaime a gift. Writing that he died protecting his queen.

I wouldn't marry Sansa but I'm sure someone will.

Arya - free to be. Can't beat that. No role to play. No norm to uphold. No one's expectations for her.

Why they need a lord of whispers is beyond me - Bran knows all already.

[Liberal Veteran]

44. And so our watch has ended.

[hlthe2b]

47. LOL.... You were waiting with that one, weren't you...?

[IADEMO2004]

57. +++

[mainstreetonce]

49. Happy endings

For Bran
Ayra
Sansa
Tyrion
Jon

Good set up for a sequel.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

54. And most importantly, Ghost!

[VOX]

92. That little reunion really touched me.

Even as I type this, I get a lump in my throat. I admit to being a complete sap for such moments. It also confirmed my liking animals more than people!

[RandySF]

50. Nobody should be surprised that Dany torched King's Landing

That's how most conquests have ended throughout human history. OT, I want an Arya spinoff.

[OriginalGeek]

106. As she was sailing away

I said out loud I would totally watch an Arya Stark exploring the west spin-off.

[highplainsdem]

51. Hmm. Apparently the Twitterverse HATED the finale, except for the final scene with Jon and Ghost.

More people wanting to sign that petition to have the entire final season redone.

[Codeine]

60. Most people are stupid

and have a toddler’s understanding of drama.

[nolabear]

62. Yeah, let's just rewrite everything that doesn't give us just what we want.

The Twitterverse is an unsatisfiable mob. Thank heaven they’ll be just as pissed about something else in 3...2...1...

I thought Bran was a weird choice but maybe that’s the only way to go. I’m terribly sad about Dany but it’s tragedy. The reduction of ruling to bureaucracy made me laugh. Arya in that ship made me choke up. I never liked Sansa but she got what she wanted.

And Ghost is a good, good boy.

[Solly Mack]

63. lololol Silly people.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

67. It's yelp/foodie culture.

Everyone is a critic.

I have friends who are like that. Can I just enjoy my food before you start in on the critique? Pretty please?

[Docreed2003]

71. Thoroughly enjoyed it

I'm really not sure what the outrage squad wanted or expected.

[Codeine]

99. They're looking for validation

but instead received a lesson. Some people don’t want to have their presuppositions undermined.

[Fresh_Start]

103. maybe twitterverse can get as worked up about the real world

as they go about their entertainment

[LiberalArkie]

52. To me: It ended as it should and everyone in the proper places.

[hlthe2b]

53. Yes. I am ok with it...

[Codeine]

61. Agreed. nt

[Solly Mack]

59. Now finish the books! Do it!

And no shortcuts either. Write like it was meant to be written.

In case he's surfing about.

[exboyfil]

64. GOT lesson - Send the foreigners back where they came from

Where they loading the boats to ship the Dothraki back. How many Unsullied took up the offer of lands. Wildlings also head back home. I can't see how Grey Worm was reserved on Danys murder. You would think they would go wild.

[MuseRider]

65. Had to watch late again but just finished.

I am very happy with this ending. I am not sure this is what GRRM would do, kinda happy mostly but I liked it. I was mostly happy that when we saw Robyn Arryn he was not with a wet nurse (never sure he would ever grow out of that).

I can live with this easily if we never get the rest of the books. I sure hope we do. I much preferred the books but the actors made the show so very pleasant and enjoyable.

Yup, good with this. Great story with some hiccups but wow was it beautifully done all around. I am glad I read and watched this show.

[tenderfoot]

66. Drogon's like...

F*** your Iron f%#@ing Throne!!!

[ansible]

68. What a trainwreck, all the leaks were real.

No wonder why all the actors were pissed.

[kimbutgar]

70. They ended the series like a pretty tied up bow

[47of74]

72. If Walter Sobchak delivered Dany's euology

Dany was a good bowler, and a good woman. She was one of us. She was a woman who loved the outdoors... bowling...and dragon riding, and as a dragon rider she explored the beaches of Southern Essos, from Astapor to Yunkai and up to Mereen. She died, like so many young women of her generation, she died before her time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took her, as you took so many bright flowering young women at Winterfell, at East Watch, at Braavos. These young women gave their lives. And so would Dany...Dany, who loved bowling. And so, Daenerys Stormborn Targaryen, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Sunset Sea, which you loved so well. Good night, sweet princess.

Yeah he'd make it a fucking travesty.

[mr_lebowski]

80. This has nothing to do with fucking BRAAVOS, man!

[Solly Mack]

73. Finished my second viewing.

As an always Team Stark person.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

76. What those dissatisfied wanted

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Solly Mack]

77. Thank you! Love it! Saw it a second ago and then it went away.

I had a sad.

But now - love it!

Thank you!!

[hlthe2b]

83. Best post finale tweets: #1 Ghost!

Link to tweet

[Solly Mack]

85. :)

So sweet.

and funny.

[hlthe2b]

84. Best post finale tweets: #2 Cinematography--hard to argue!

Link to tweet

[hlthe2b]

86. Best post finale tweets: #3 Jon Snow's Lines this season LOL

Link to tweet

[hlthe2b]

87. Best post finale tweets: #4 Arya, just Arya!

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[nocoincidences]

88. I'm pissed at the writing

because the whole thing ended with a whimper, no bang at all.

It was like a great speech that just ended with the speaker mumbling platitudes and wandering offstage because they can't think of an ending that is worthy of the quality of what they have been saying. They run out of steam before the game is over.

I found myself thinking the exact lines of dialog before people said them, they were so trite.

Love is the death of Duty....I mean REALLY?

We had a right to expect more, to expect better.

We got ho-hum.

Thank the Goddess Chernobyl is on tonight. Now that is worth watching, even if we know the ending.

[VOX]

94. Chernobyl is outstanding.

Although I was a bit disappointed to learn that Emily Watson’s bold, can-do character is fictitious, representing an amalgam of multiple scientists.

But it’s a small thing, and doesn’t detract from the impact of the narrative.

[nocoincidences]

96. I hope the world lasts long enough

that we learn the real truth about Fukushima.

I followed that closely as it was happening and not for a second do I believe the horseshit spouted by Tepco and the bought-off doctors claiming nobody died/got cancer/got sick.

EW is definitely a great character in the show, and I am sure there were heroic scientists trying to tell the truth who took a long holiday in beautiful Siberia.

[VOX]

97. It also captures the grim, drab, and fearful conditions of the Soviet Union.

It’s a sweeping generalization to say this, but the Russians have proven themselves, time and again, to be an incredibly brutal people. And they still are when it comes to human rights and personal freedom. Which is why 45’s bromance with Putin is so extremely foolhardy and naive.

With you on Fukushima, the real extent of that disaster needs some serious explanation.

[Codeine]

100. Chernobyl is scary good. nt

[Paladin]

90. I'm glad I gave up on GOT after the first season.

I'm just not that much of a Sword n' Sorcery kind of guy. And the widespread whining over the series ending has gotten beyond tiresome. We've got a destructive madman in the White House---how about we deal with the genuine terrors of real life? trump is a damned sight scarier than any computer-generated dragons you've been tuning in to watch on Sunday nights.

[hlthe2b]

91. Stop begruding others an outlet and accusing those who watch a few hours of any entertainment

of somehow not being engaged in the real world fights--especially Trump. That is just condescending as hell. I'm sure you have hobbies or family or SOMETHING that occupies your time BESIDES the ongoing political fights.

[Paladin]

113. Just (tried to) read the NYT's Ross Douthat's unintelligible trashing of GOT's finale.

I'm happier than ever that I gave up on the series, early-on.

And I'm not "begruding" anybody anything. I reserve the right to express my opinions as I damn well please, and I have no problem with you doing the same.

[Codeine]

101. Most people are fully capable

of holding multiple thoughts in their heads. If you find yourself limited to one that’s not our problem.

[NewJeffCT]

95. I liked the finale a lot more than I thought I would

I had expected either Jon or Daenerys to die. When it was Dany, I figured Jon might end up in the Night's Watch.

Didn't think Bran would end up King.

Got emotional when the Starks were all saying good bye to each other at the end and then when Jon reunited with Ghost.

Bran is still young, so should have decades to rule as king - maybe he becomes the new Brandon the Builder?

Liked the small council at the end with Sam, Brienne, Bronn, Davos and Tyrion. Davos and Ser Barristan were maybe my two favorite overall characters from the books.

Does Sansa end up marrying a northern Lord or will she marry somebody from the 6 Kingdoms? I can't see her with Bronn, and Gendry is probably still pining for Arya... Robin Arryn is probably still a little boy to Sansa. Edmure Tully is her uncle.

[Moostache]

102. Sansa marries Tormound!

Unites the free-folk and the northmen and has some kickass ginger children to rule them all!!!
Then decides to free Jon and names him Warden of the Lands of Always Winter, where he finds Ygritte's long lost twin sister, who also knows nothing...match made in heaven...

See? All of you complaining about the writing...just LOOK how much worse it COULD have been if a real hack like me was given control!!! LOL!!!

[Yavin4]

105. Bitterly disappointed in the ending.

I feel like I was taken advantage of. The end was an insult to the people working on the project as well as its many fans. D&D were in a rush to finish so that they could turn their attention to their new Stars Wars trilogy. Fuck them. I will personally boycott any new venture that they do.

[hlthe2b]

108. After almost a day to digest it, I still have to say, Daenerys was a great character...

and whoever created her costumes, especially the past two seasons, did right by her in creating such a strong imposing figure from someone so small of stature. Costuming and cinematography have always been exceptional for GOT, but has only gotten better.

Ditto with Arya and her costumes, who remains my favorite female character and an overall favorite all around.

[Goodheart]

110. A big giant MEH to the entire series, not just the final episode

I mean... what was the point of all the political intrigue when a DRAGON with unlimited firepower can destroy everything? Or when a vapor can come out of somebody's vagina and kill a king?

White Walkers? LOL. Gimme a break. Tolkien >>>> Martin.

[hlthe2b]

111. Feel better?

[Goodheart]

112. Not really. I want a sequel so I can bash that one, too.

[hlthe2b]

114. Some fans just can't let it go: "Daenerys' fate is the biggest 'GOT' plothole" (NYPOST)

https://nypost.com/2019/05/21/daenerys-fate-is-the-biggest-game-of-thrones-plot-hole/

Daenerys’ fate is the biggest ‘Game of Thrones’ plot hole

Game of Thrones” is over, and Daenerys Targaryen is dead. But is she?
Before you roll your eyes, fans of the show love conspiracy theories about characters not truly being dead. Plenty thought Jaime and Cersei Lannister somehow managed to escape a castle falling on them in Season 8’s “The Bells,” until we saw their bodies in the series finale. --snip--

But whether or not the writers intended this, the ending of the story is ambiguous. Sure, Jon stabbed her. She’s definitely dead. Still, there’s a major plot hole, and that’s the existence of Red Priests. It’s been established that they have the power to resurrect people — see Jon Snow and Beric Dondarrion. It’s also been established that they’re just as interested in Daenerys as they were in Jon. Remember in Season 6, when Red Priestess Kinvara (Ania Bukstein) showed up to establish that she’s all in on Team Dany?
That scene was never revisited, and Kinvara has not shown up again. It’s also never been mentioned that she’s dead — so she’s still out there somewhere in Essos. --snip--

If “Game of Thrones” wanted us to stop considering resurrection, it needed to kill the Red Priests. And it didn’t do that. It also didn’t destroy Dany’s body, but rather had her dragon fly her away.

What’s to stop him from taking her to Kinvara?

So there ya go... For some, "hope" springs eternal.