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The show cut its own heart out when it killed Quentin and lost Jason Ralph. There was a lot of really great acting from this ensemble cast (esp for a genre show). But Jason Ralph playing Quentin had the magical effect of making every other character better. He had chemistry with every other actor. Was that bc Quentin was ultimately the least talented magician? The Everyman who made this world accessible to the audience? Or bc he was the one who cared the most viscerally and bound together this family? Or bc Jason could imbue every subtle look or gesture with a world of feeling? In particular, Jason Ralph + Hale Appleman was incandescent and I’m glad I got to see it. After making such a big deal about not needing Quentin to tell this story, the writers then seemed to phone in this season, content to rely on the talents of the actors without giving them much to use. A sad end to a series that was once really great.

Yep that is indeed the issue

Even a masterclass in acting delivered by HA can’t shake my feeling that I’m being manipulated by the EPs as SG serves up grief porn for a relationship she refused to put on screen for more than a few fleeting minutes.

that Davos is a smooth talker

Aren’t they either electing the next king like the Holy Roman Emperor or potentially introducing some type of broader elective republic?

duty is the death of love

I’m laughing so hard I’m gasping for air.

ITA and found it touching they were all there. They still are brother and sisters which we needed to see.

Varys already tried a secret assassination plan. The point was that it needed to be Jon bc no one else could get close enough to her as well as past Drogon. Arya would have been s’mored. OAS, one of the many things that annoys me about Bran is how he functions as a moral arbiter. Both Theon and Jon looked to him for personal forgiveness but Bran had to go the ‘everything you did brought you here where you needed to be’ route which is 🤢.

I guess we have Jaime to thank for Tyrion not growing up to be a sociopath which has turned out to be fortunate for Westeros. As for Brienne, presumably she found out from Tyrion and/or efforts to clean up the site of the Red Keep.

I thought it started as ash and ended as snow. So the fire burned to ash then it was snowing to herald the time for wolves. Drogon covered in snow letting Jon Snow in to kill mom.

That’s what I thought too. And of course it was the trigger for Dany’s downward mental spiral as well as the plotting against her.

I think we’re supposed to believe that the small council is going to be so awesome that everyone will be happy under Bran the Broken.

The finale confirms that Dorne has the hottest guys

Yep Jon saying bye bye bye.