#game of thrones s8e6

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Sansa Stark, death of a girl, birth of a queen

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[raisab332012]

Answer to At the end of Game of Thrones, Sansa asked Jon if he could forgive her, and he never directly answers her question. Do you think in some way he holds her responsible? by Martin McEvoy https://www.quora.com/At-the-end-of-Game-of-Thrones-Sansa-asked-Jon-if-he-could-forgive-her-and-he-never-directly-answers-her-question-Do-you-think-in-some-way-he-holds-her-responsible/answer/Martin-McEvoy-1?ch=18&oid=185024276&share=aae547e2&srid=7KVRc&target_type=answer

[the-jedi-of-suburbia]

they both killed the (Targaryen) rulers they were meant to serve one killed the mad king, the other killed the mad king’s daughter he stabbed him in the back, he stabbed her in the front man i have feelings i’m not okay

[thatlgbtqfandom]

Kind of annoying how Tyrion’s “wisdom” is the be-all and end-all of Westeros while Sam’s “hey maybe we should be a democracy?” gets laughed at

[rouzmary]

Game of Thrones

So. 

Game of Thrones

The last season, the last episode - the end. I don't quite know how to feel about it. 

It's not like it was bad. But neither was it awesome. I don't know if I even wanted it to be awesome or amazing. Probably amazing? I guess it could be considered a good ending. But I'm not sure. 

No. Well. Yes. It is a good ending.

But I’m still feeling kind of numb. It has not settled down yet.

In addition, it’s difficult to wrap ones head around the fact, that it’s like an era has come to an end. You have to process that as well, because Game of Thrones most definitely can be considered as it’s own era.

It's not like I expected the final episode to be all wrapped up with a pink bow or for everything to go all doom & gloom. In a way it really does feel kind of realistic and that's what Game of Thrones is. Even with dragons, direwolves and magic. We learned that with Ned's death. This wont’ be like most of the stories we get. And even though I do read my epic books with these amazing worlds & characters like A Song of Ice and Fire...still. Even for me this set up the expectations & ladder much higher. It won't go the way you might have wanted but in the end, the way it goes does make more sense in it's own way and one can not control life. It is how it is and has it’s own story.

The finale really needs to settle down so I can wrap my head around it. A re-watch and time to figure out just how I feel and what exactly I think about it all. I did invest about 10 years watching the show, since I started from the moment it aired. 

Well, whatever I'll end up feeling/thinking of the finale later on, I do still love the show and do still believe they should not have crammed 2 season's worth of character development/changes into 6 episodes thus making it waaaaay too fast forward from one major point to the other without letting us see and get accustomed to the changes happening to the characters so that it would seem natural. Guess that's what books are for, heh. I could have waited few more years for the 9th and final season of GoT with this one doing it's job of moving the plot & characters to their finale & setting things up, since I am waiting for the books anyway. Though so far Game of Thrones had done wonderfully with adapting the books to tv. It really is too bad D&D didn't make the effort to flesh out the bridges between the big events on their own and just gave us the events themselves without proper context. Sigh.

Overall, yes, I am satisfied with the way the finale went down and how each of the character’s story ended. Could have done without some minor things like the A Song of Ice and Fire book, since...well, in the show it didn’t really play out. However, those are the little things easily overlooked.

But Daenerys...I did cry for Dany. Especially since her character changes were so abrupt, therefore, it felt all the more sad. And when Drogon nudged her as if couldn’t believing it, why won’t she move...I might have broken down a bit.

Well...at least Ghost finally got his overdue and long deserved pet from John.

It’s the small things that are worth living for.

All in all...even though I am somewhat conflicted, more like still in a mess, partly numb and need to digest it all... I suppose that is how I feel right now and probably down the road as well - all of the above. 

Game of Thrones and especially it’s finale can not simply be described with few sentences. I am disappointed that the creators/writers rushed the final season but satisfied with the show itself & it’s conclusion.

It was awesome watching Game of Thrones these past 10 years and it was an amazing experience. All the waiting for new episodes & then seasons, the endless theories and events. We were lucky to experience it all now as it aired for it’s one of a kind.

Ah, fond memories.

Farewell, Game of Thrones, you were amazing and shall be remembered. And re-watched years & years from now. I doubt there will ever again be a show this fantastic.

Though I still need that re-watch for the finale to settle down my emotions completely.

[falkenscreen]

GAME OF THRONES SERIES FINALE

Spoiler warning: This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones and the series finale

“I imagined a mountain of swords too high to climb, so many fallen enemies who could only see the soles of Aegon’s feet.”

And so our watch has ended. There’s a striking moment that passes ever so quickly, as so much did, in the Game of Thrones series final. Daenerys, as close as she ever was, and ever will be to what her and the show have been building towards for nine years, remarks that she thought the Iron Throne would be bigger.

The biggest show of our generation has risen and fallen on the deliverance of that as grand as we have ever seen on television. Fulfilling the promise through so many battles and letting throngs of fans down under an unprecedented weight of expectation has been par for the course, these last two seasons no less.

Dany finding what she wanted, realising it’s not as grand or quite like she hoped it would be yet still so relishing the moment is a pretty apt analogy for the show’s farewell. We didn’t need another clanger of CGI spectacle, we wanted those epic moments not centred on the scale of the world but on its characters and for the most part this is what we got.

Series finales are generally intended to do two things, provide us with a memorable conclusion, usually through an epic moment or more, and give us some closure on our characters’ arcs or where they might go from here. Game of Thrones had to do something else and like How I Met Your Mother answer the question it’s title has teased for the better part of a decade.

That epic was foisted upon us in the first half, with the latter left for rounding up those storylines awaiting their conclusion. A surprisingly happy ending teased even for Jon, left to suffer an unenviable fate; the finale is of the kind Aaron Sorkin would have had in mind from the get-go had he pitched the show.

Famous (or infamous) for delivering straightforward, happy if unchallenging endings to series, everything concludes in it’s most widely predicted manner that the bookies too saw coming. The ending(s), drawing a few very similar parallels with Return of the King, are like so many moments in that concluding chapter never so memorable as earnestly trying to reassure you that not everything was in vain. If you are not shocked, you will be content. You won’t be jolted, but you will be satisfied.

Those hoping for democracy in Westeros will be disappointed, even if the realm has come just that bit closer.

Reneging on the no prisoners approach to Westerosi that has best served the series from the start, the ending is by no means bad; just a decent opportunity to spend some time with our favourites more characteristic of early-series character building than conclusory crescendos. The best thing this finale has going for it is that no one is likely to talk about it before long, perhaps encouraging a future fandom through generations who might not watch the show should the ending be a central spoiler-ridden talking point.

Letting it down in some respects is the expository focus on ‘stories’ and Tyrion’s blatant summary to that effect. Sam delivering ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ is perhaps the most needlessly reflexive “ah, I see what you did there” moment since one of the show’s most despised creative decisions; the gratuitous addition of Ed Sheeran. Brienne’s pencilling of Jaime’s achievements into the Kingsguard’s volume handles the theme with comparatively more elegance while coyly alluding back to a blink and you’ll miss it scene in season four so long ago.

It was too the final piece, satisfying in itself, of the distant narratives with which the show began now slotting into place. Daenerys coming so close nigh gracing the throne with her presence is a bitter moment which will even register with the majority of fans now bereft of sympathy for her; one in it’s exasperation to rival Oberyn’s death and the series’ many pivotal highs.

What this episode was about above and beyond all else however was Jon. Some may take issue with his actions or say killing Dany was out of character, yet it’s the most character-driven thing he’s done since admitting to Cersei that he’d pledged his allegiance to another Queen. Jon’s arc has always been about the conflict between ‘love and duty,’ seen masterfully on the two occasions when he forsook the former for the Watch.

Jon’s refusal to ride south to join Robb’s army nor follow Ygritte so he could go home resonated much stronger however, given we’d spent much more time on both Jon’s fealty to his family and the relationship with Ygritte. His professed love and relationship with Dany, buoyed little by two actors who have limited chemistry, like so much of these past seasons was rushed to fit in with a direction the plot ‘needed’ to go rather than any decisions these characters would likely make. When it comes down to that key moment, so many of the performers’ lines don’t strike nearly so loudly as they crucially should.  

There is some marvellous synergy regardless in Jon recalling Maester Aemon’s words (as it happens his great-great uncle) in one of the many excellent hark backs to the first season, the first episode and indeed the very first frames. They are marks of quality of a show which here reminds us just how far we have come.

Change happened inevitably to this series as the characters, actors and fans aged in tandem; no one is the same person when this show started and importantly the breadth of the story-strand spanning finale reckons with the time that has elapsed to tell this story. It too, thankfully, unlike these seasons past situates the episode in a relatively finite timeframe.

Game of Thrones is also perhaps the last show for a while that such a breadth of viewers will all watch together. There’s something profoundly bittersweet in saying goodbye to that and for all the finale’s highs and lows permitting us just a few more lighter minutes with the characters we’ve so come to know can’t and won’t ever be a bad thing.

[seistira]

Drogon: -sees sword in his momma-

Drogon: -sees iron throne made out of swords-

Drogon: idk which one of you did this but

Drogon: 🔥🔥🔥

[littlewolf651]

We can criticize the last episode all we like.

But we can’t deny how flipping good the cinematography was like goddamn.

Also who else was sobbing when Drogon was nudging Daenerys to wake up and then carried her body off. Like holy shit I was a mess.

[catsplushellhounds]

in memory of: Daenerys Targaryen

[hiparkjiminie]

Thank you Grey Worm and the Unsullied for being loyal to the end. Thank you Yara Greyjoy and the Ironborns for being loyal to the end. At least that gave me some kind of satisfaction. And OF COURSE THE DOTHRAKI ! SAN ATHCHOMARI YERAAN ! Without you, nothing would have been possible

All the others can fuck off.

[questioningconstellations]

Gendry: hey arya i know you’ve wanted to take things slow you know...

Arya: gendry? where are you going with this?

Gendry: ...and you didn’t want to put a label on what we have and all...

Arya: Gendry-

Gendry: i know you may not see yourself as my girlfriend right now but i really want us to be together properly and I-

Arya: gendry of course i’m your girlfriend we’ve been together for almost two years

Gendry:

Arya: in fact next week is our two year anniversary

Gendry: *choking back tears*

[thatlgbtqfandom]

There are some things about Bran being king that I don’t like, and it all basically comes down to him being the three-eyed raven. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong about him being the three-eyed raven; I think that makes him a very interesting character. But, as Bran has said many times before; he isn’t Bran anymore. He isn’t particularly interested in the goings-on of men. There are plenty of times where he probably could have used his powers to help during this season, but he didn’t because the three-eyed raven lets nature run its course without interfering. And that’s fine when he’s the three-eyed raven. But I don’t see how that’s a good quality for him to have when he’s a king. Every character is convinced that he’s going to be a good king and I’m guessing that he probably will be a good king and that he will use his powers to help the six kingdoms. But that’s not the impression that I’ve gotten from the three-eyed raven and its characterisation. Maybe I’ve completely misunderstood the three-eyed raven, or it’s another case of strange character development in Game of Thrones

[roseofithaca]

There was no reason for Theon to die.

He could have lived and been a mediator between the Iron Islands and the North, because I'm pretty sure Yara is tempted to raid the shit out of them after what Jon did and Arya's threat. Theon could have taken over Brienne's post as Queen Sansa's knight and protector. Sansa could have had at least one member of her family there with her at her damn coronation.

Basically I want recs for Theonsa s8 finale fics.

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[marzgaperez]

Theon Greyjoy would have made a damn good “first husband”

He’d be all, I got you, my Queen, and he’d make Sansa some soup

and paint her toenails and just love her.

And vice versa.

[mahesh-qalaxia]