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True. At least he got to have a reaction to Beric and Thoros last season. No more of that for you, Gendry.

I’ve been curious about what went down with them to lead to that. The show alone has been in production for almost a decade, and who knows how long before it they had broken up. It just seems very extra.

Game Revealed. Yeah, I hoped this would substitute the regular videos and I liked that the people behind the scenes were highlighted, but I wish for the normal post-episode takes as well. If only to scoff at what they wanted to portray and what I actually saw happening on screen.

It seems like a lot of the people working on the show in smaller roles were thrilled with it. Like the security guard angling to get on screen. I know nuthin’.

She only baked one more person into a pie! 😂

I was surprised to see Sophie Ellis-Bextor on set, but I thought I simply missed her in the melee. Turns out she was cut from the broadcast version. But it seems she had a ball going from the pics in the article.

The opening credits with the tapestry and the new verion of the opening theme were wonderful. Good call on making the Stark bannerman extra sort of an emotional center of the doc, he was just so into this whole thing. I would have appreciated some more focus on the whole cast though. Best moments from the table reads: Conleth Hill just throwing his script after Varys’ last line, and Emilia’s reaction to Kit’s horror. Yeah, dude, we’re really doing that. Did he always read the script at the table reads for the first time? Also, cool shots of the first table read. Did not recognize blond Benjen.

Dany insisted on the North marching on King’s Landing with her because she helped defend them, i.e. part of the realm she planned to rule. I really don’t see why Gendry, an able bodied, capable and unharmed young dude, whose circumstances she had just improved greatly, would be excused and allowed to bow out before this fight. The time to go to Storm’s End would be after taking King’s Landing when Dany was the actual queen. Before that, that was still Cersei, and I imagine taking charge would be challenging enouh for Gendry even when recognized by the acting ruler, I can’t imagine him doing it while Cersei still held the South.

I was telling myself he was there, only off screen. Because it doesn't make one bit of sense to me that he wouldn't be after Dany legitimized him. He would feel grateful and obligated, and she would naturally expect it of him. Like, where else was he even supposed to go at that time? Pick out the new drapes and throw rugs for Storm's End? Of course, I based this on the assumption the show didn' t see the point in paying Joe Dempsie just to swing his hammer around. Then he was brought in to 806 to mutely sit on a chair, so I don't know what to think anymore. Swinging a hammer seems like an upgrade.

Why should they have accepted him as Khal? Agreed. Especially after them fighting the dead side by side.

Modern day middle school AU. Stannis is that dour, strict teacher most kids just hate and have to drag themselves to his class, but you know they'll be quoting him 20 years down the line when they are correcting some idiot. Sam is the star pupil, natch, but Stannis can't stand the sound of his voice. I have been thinking whether a sort of post scriptum would have worked or not. Tyrion semds out messangers to spread the news of the new king to the common folk and they are just not impressed. One asks if he sent supplies, they're starving. Another comments on Bran the Broken. What part of him is broken, who broke him, why isn't that person on the throne, who wants a weak, broken, pansy ass king? Just a clear demomstration that regular people don't give a fuck about this game, they just want to live their lives. Very glad the Sansa and Hound scene was cut and the show dialed that weirdness from the books waaay back.

I don’t know, I get why Jorah died when he did. As outlined in the video, his role was very much fulfilled by Jon and/or Tyrion. I don’t get the reasoning for him taking the black apart from the full circle aspect of it. Jon was sentenced to it for killing Dany, but why would Jorah be? God knows I like the idea of a more engaging Dragonpit council. Yara certainly should have called bullshit on the North gaining independece and the Iron Islands not. And I’m for the idea of other Dany supporters speaking up. It certainly explains Jon’s sentence better than Tyrion just presenting it to him. One thing I’m not so sold on is Gendry being that adamant. I just imagine him as being more conflicted, there’s the loyalty he feels to Dany on one hand, but then, he also went to the far North with Jon and they are at least friendly, and he sees the ashen remains of the place he grew up in. Still, giving him any lines would have been preferable to him just being a seat warmer.

In my mind he's already instated as baker at Storm's End. Gendry needs a buddy, I don't know what everyone was thinking just sending him off on his own. He's going to be eaten alive. I honestly counted on Davos being there to help with the transition. Hot Pie can't do that, but he can provide a friendly face and delicious animal shaped pastries. That's not a bad deal.

Come on, now, he 23andme-d the shit out of bastards and incest babies. I always found that shit hilarious. Yup, definitive proof right there. All Cersei could have done was say, Yeah, and all the Lannisters are blonde, so effing what? I guess my genes trump thosemof your potbellied friend. To be fair though, I think Ned was perfectly fine up in the North, he just didn't have a clue about living in King's Landing. I used to think he was an idiot not to tell Cat about Jon, but he turned out to be right in the end IMO.

I was actually thinking about something else in regards to them. Sansa is supposed to have won the North's independence because of everything she learned from Cersei and Littlefinger. Except there has really been nothing that shows those skills at least since Dany showed up in Winterfell. She just basically kept repeating she wants independence. You know who I think would have gone about it that way had he wanted it? Ned. No subtlety, just very much cards laid on the table. She only deviated in the end by divulging Jon's secret to Tyrion. You know Ned would have gone and tell Dany he was going to talk first. I don't know what to think of this really, be disappointed that the supposed learning wasn't showcased at all, or be kind of impressed by them showing Sansa's northern roots. Subtlety really isn't their strength. I wouldn't have minded Arya sticking around, as my chief hope for the Starks has been effectively dashed, the pack is no more and is doubtful ever to be again, but I'm not sure her skillset is all that useful to restoration. In the long run, Westeros might profit from her discoveries.

Joffrey was crowned at 12 or 13. Tommen was 9 or so. Westeros isn't unfamiliar with the concept of child rulers. I think the two hour documentary on Sunday is in lieu of Inside the Episode and Game Revealed for the finale.

If the disease were applicable to the show, this would be the only explanation. Nothing about Missandei makes me believe she would knowingly invite Grey Worm to his death.

Why is it AC for the books, AL for the show? I completely forgot about some of these. Like Brienne still being only a teenager in the books. Is Yara really supposed to be about a decade older than Theon on the show? I know she's the older sibling, but I never thought the age difference was so big.

Can anyone explain the point of that comment to me? I never saw Tyrion as being in love with Dany before. There was the weirdness of him staring at her cabin door during boatsex, but he bounced back to debate the benefits of her marrying Jon. Did they tell Dinklage he was supposed to play in love before? I'm fairly certain he could have pulled it off.

The fact that Bran was off screen for a whole season seems to be used as an argument against the show, but wasn't he also missing from one of the books? Is this just something that's my personal impression because I found his story beyond the Wall sort of a snooze when reading the books?

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Love this! Thank you. This is more what the Dragonpit scene should have been like.

One could argue that Davos and Bronn wouldn't have been raised up if it hadn't been for Stannis and the Lannisters. Nobody can make it completely independently of others. Of course Selwyn's funds helped, but they were hardly enough. Brienne was ridiculed for years (frankly, just because she's the Lord Commander, I don't think it will stop) but she forged on through adversity, on her own and facing danger. No, she didn't come from a humble background. I'm not arguing that. But her own background wasn't something that predetermined the path she took. Just the opposite. I mean, I've been completely whelmed with Tyrion for the last few seasons, but not even he was supposed to be there. He's the embarrasment to the House of Lannister who both his father and sister wished dead more than a few times. Basically, if I look at it logically, I can see it being a meeting of cripples, bastards and broken things. Sadly, it feels hollow because of the lackluster lead up.

Brienne may have come from a good house but she sure made it to the King's Guard on her own. Her father may have given her the opportunity to train early on but it's really her own determination and stamina that got her to where she was. She was no more viable to sit on the council than Davos and Bronn just because of her birth.

I love this guy.

I agree. It's not so much the endings themselves, it's that the path towards them wasn't fleshed out enough. In that it feels very much like MG. There was an end point they wanted, but didn't put in the work to get there. I have plenty of complaints, but have also been fine with the season. It's just that it could have been considerably better.