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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.

Well I generally hated it. God help Westeros. Bran the Broken and Tyrion the Incompetent. I’m glad Arya and Jon escaped. Who would have thunk that Tormund and his little crow would be the ship that sailed? Jon hugging Ghost was my high point. Glad Sansa was able to keep the North independent and I think she will rule well.

Our watch is indeed about to end. Thank you for all of the smart and funny commentary. Very best to all of you!

Rowling told Rickman what ‘always’ meant which is a pretty big detail that allowed him to put nuance into Snape. Surely something similar would have been possible with EC. I think keeping actors uninformed of the trajectory of their character arcs robs the audience.

Great! Then let’s screw them over on the prequels.

“Do they teach anti-writing?” rofl

Gonna be a lot of surprised people.

This is so true. The 3ER comes off like the thing that killed Bran, some Other that has gobbled up human consciousness and claims to be on the side of humanity but is essentially detached from actual living people. The character is off-putting to me and the actor’s performance is as well. Thank goodness JRR Tolkien didn’t take this route with Gandalf.

There is enough criticism of the writing amongst casuals, professionals, and online fans to catapult this to the worst series finale ever. That’s going to hurt D&D and the prequels. Since there was so much time and money spent on special effects and cinematography (hey we have a battle that looks like Helm’s Deep on the small screen and we firebomb a while city!) while the writing fell apart, its going to seem like a super cynical ploy to win Emmys and ratings while delivering a subpar product to loyal fans of both the show and the books. King Bran? Who is the audience for that? Tyrion as hand after all his mistakes that contributed to Dany’s downfall? Sidelined then exiled murderer Jon? Jaime back with Cersei after discarding Brienne? Crazy Dany? I guess the Sansa and Arya fan base gets the sweet? The rest of the fan base gets the bitter?

IHW speaks like the actor whose character wins the game of thrones. He’s pretty much delivered the worst acting performance of the actors playing the major characters too.

Melisandre didn’t drop dead. She took off her necklace (which was preserving her life) and let old age kill her. Beric was skewered and died from those wounds.