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Not only that, I think Davos genuinely likes Gendry and they share the connection of very humble beginnings. If he hadn't been offered a seat on the council, I imagine Storm's End is exactly where he'd be. Seeing as he was, I imagine he felt he had more to do for the whole six kingdoms. Head canon: Davos regularly sends ravens to Storm's End and has arranged for a tutor or two. After the episode council meeting he sends one saying, pay attention to your studies. You don't want to sound like Lord Prick of Many Titles when you come down to KL.

I should hope that's not the case on the show since Missandei was planning to retire there with Grey Worm.

That makes certain sense, but being on the council requires residing in King's Landing. I'm not sure Yara would want that.

Maybe he stuck to his guns about not wanting the position? But your point reminds me of something else. I do think both Jon and Gendry should have been brought up as options during the quasi trial. Maybe some other lords besides Edmure as well. It feels like it should have been a meatier scene. This was very paint by numbers. Edmure makes a fool of himself - Tyrion speechifies - Bran the Broken - Six Kingdoms. It should have been messier and longer. Most of the people there either didn't speak or got a single line. It feels like a waste. Also, I'm finding Arya as a ship captain odd on reflection. I was all for it when I assumed we were getting a flash forward, but this isn't earned. I called her going west of Westeros, I'm fine with that part. But she knows nothing about being the captain of a ship. Plus, Arya is definitely a character who is willing to put in the work to learn and earn something. Another shortcut.

He also swore to go to the Wall, but I don’t think that ending necessarily states he’s going to go back there after escorting the Free Folk home.

I just wish they'd done more with it. Which seems to be my main complaint about the way the show ended. Overall, the bones of it are fine, I just wish they'd done more and fleshed it out.

Whoever, really. There's a big world out there, the places the Westerosi know of and the places they don't. Personally, I don't think their continent is worth the effort, but both the Andals and the Targaryens conquered it in the past. So it doesn't seem impossible to me. On another note and unrelated to your post, I remember people bringing up the Night Watch and its function now the Army of the Dead is defeated. Basically, I think it reverted back to what it was seen as for centuries before the show began, this world's version of Australia. Everybody had stopped believing in any danger from beyond the wall aside from the Free Folk and you hardly need a magic continent-spanning wall to ward them off. It's a penal colony with some people (bastards and orphans) ending up there simply because they have no where else to go.

I'm not that bothered by the ships. The kingdoms are weakened and susceptible to foreign attacks and invasions. Building up their defenses makes sense to me.

This is an excellent point. Now that you bring it up, I'm not so much bothered by the point that Sam didn't raise the issue as I am by the lack of explanation for his inaction.

Davos was offering land in the Reach to Greyworm and the Unsullied. So I think the area was pretty much depleted. I'm not sure if Bronn was there as representative. One of the guys looked like him but maybe also not. I wasn't trying to say it was the wrong choice at all. It was fitting, but I found it depressing anyhow exactly because they're nowhere near any semblance of democracy.

Who could Tyrion talk into killing him since Bran is all seeing? Kinda sccrewed the pooch there, Imp.

Lord Commander of the Kingsguard traditionally is on the council. Barristan Selmy wasn't because he had served Aerys previously.

I liked the two moments of levity this episode offered. One, Edmure being Edmure. I was ready to laugh as soon as he stood up and then chortled at as a survivor of two wars. Two, Tyrion not being in The Song of Ice and Fire at all. After all his talk about stories being so important*, it felt apt. I actually thought he would move his chair to the side of the table or come up with the udea of the round table to make the Council more equal, but he was just being pedantic. And speaking of things being more equal, the reactions to Sam's suggestion of an open election was depressing. *The point about Bran's story is very good actually, it just came too late and was too on the nose in its execution. I also conditionally liked how they reframed Dany's actions not as the result of her parentage, but her conquests and getting reaffirmation through them, so kind of buying her own press. Again, makes sense, but much too late and not developed enough. On another note, is Gendry completely fucked? Davos would be his best ally, but he's in King's Landing as the Master of Grammar (yeah, he is!) and Gendry is in Storm's End without a clue on how to be a lord.

I actually was hoping seeing their backs as they were walking indicated a 10 year time jump Tyrion alluded to. Arya coming home, Sansa getting ready to marry a lord she deemed appropriate, Jon back to Lord Commander, and maybe all of them coming back together again. I was so invested in the pack reuniting in the books that them all dispersing again felt very sad. Drogon nudging Dany was the most gut wrenching moment of the episode. So very much Bambi. 😩 As for Bran, I actually half expected something of the sort after the way he was in the Dragonpit. Yeah, I'm baffled someone didn't at least raise an arm and ask, what about us. Or Yara didn't pull out a knife to ask the same. Even worse, it seemed like they were staying to me. Greyworm was the commander of Dany's entire armed forces (although I presumed he already had been, so I was surprised by her proclamation in the episode) but they were still on the shore when an Unsullied told Greyworm everyone was on board. So it seemed to me like they were staying. Good luck with that, Six Kingdoms. On the other hand, Naath has suffered enough. The island of butterflies did nothing to deserve a pillaging horde. You're right. The captain is the one who writes entries in the book. Maybe even further. Jon's last scene could be seen as leading the Free Folk as a member of the Night's Watch, but I could also see him staying there with them and becoming the King Beyond the Wall,be he called that or not.

This was actually from Jaime's conversation with Tyrion in the last episode. His conversation with Brienne actually worked for me as you describe at the time. I just felt the follow up didn't deliver.

The one thing I can't let go about Jaime is the 'I never cared about the people, innocent or not' bit. Said by the guy forever marked as Kingslayer his entire adult life because he didn't want to see King's Landing burn, and who, much more recently, went North to fight for the living. Unless there is some cut scene in which Jaime proclaims he just said and did all that for shits and giggles, it really makes no sense to me.

Veep ended last Sunday, so I wouldn't bet on it.

The only way I can make heads or tails of this is that Tyrion is and has always been Tywin writ small. Tywin's greatest concern was the family line and maybe Tyrion just accepted and internalized what his abuser was preaching. I have nothing beyond that.

I simultaneously believe this is in no way in the cards and would be so thrilled it happened.

Is it? The Sands' motivation has primarly been getting revenge for Oberyn and maybe Elia and her kids, and sticking it to Doran who they saw as weak and inefficient. I didn't see getting the throne as their goal.

The only reasoning I can see her is the more things change, the more they stay the same. Tywin was really the one in charge duuring most of Aerys' reign, Jon Arryn during Robert's. This is more of the same. They don't have a gender.

Now I'm hoping that if Gendry really is the lord of Dragonstone (still not 100% sure of that despite spoilers) that he goes back to that inn and hires Hot Pie as his cook. He needs a buddy. But what manhood if dragons are it, not he or she?

I don’t know which reaction option to chose because I want to laugh at the second paragraph and rage at the first. What the ever loving fuck? It’s not even the part about never loving her, it’s about making it all so simplistic. Like, I can absolutely believe Jaime would tell her that in that moment but you also need to contextualize it with self-loathing and him not seeing the point of dragging her down with him as he realizes he can never be free from Cersei. So the statement is actually motivated by his love for both women, one messed up, one pure. Jamie chooses the messed up one because that’s what he’s known for literally his entire life. There. It wasn’t even hard.

I hated the message from the book that the gang rape was okay when she was supposed to be a whore, but oh, noes when it was revealed she wasn’t. Shut the fuck up! (Not you, Martin) It was still vile and horrible even if she is a whore. Then again, I was still plenty mad at the show when Bronn made a comment about killing whoever did that to him. Not saying it wasn’t traumatizing for Tyrion, but he is not the biggest victim here. So just, shut up, Bronn, go jump over a cliff.

Cersei expressly wanted Ellaria to be kept alive and watch her daughter slowly die and rot. Seems perfectly Cersei to me.