S08.E06: The Iron Throne

[Athena]

Episode Synopsis:

TBA

Reminder: 

This is for discussion of the TV show only, no book talk allowed - including saying "but it's different in the books". Any spoiler from outside the books (i.e. previews) should be in spoiler tags.

[raven]

Hate it? Love it?  Indifferent?

Keep your comments about the show, the story, the characters, the writers; NOT your fellow posters or other groups of fans.

Thank you.

[ticklemepink]

Burn it with fire.

thank you for the score, alfie allen, hardhome and battle of the bastards, and the queen in the north.

Dracarys to the rest of it.

Edited May 20, 2019 by ticklemepink

[Drogo]

They had to choose Bran because they needed a King who has his own chair. 

R.I.P. Iron Throne, you turned everyone to shit anyway. 

[AimingforYoko]

A big thank you to Tobias Menzies. Edmure making a play for the crown was exactly the laugh I needed this episode.

Edited May 20, 2019 by AimingforYoko

[Drogo]

The North won't kneel again... not even to Ned Stark's trueborn son and a lifelong Northerner? 

Shut the fuck up, Sansa.

[zibnchy]

Our new King is Bran the Broken. How's that for a name that will strike fear into the enemy. Maybe Bran the Creepy?

This scored a 10 on the Dexter scale of badness.

[scarynikki12]

I don’t care how lonely my island gets. I loved this and will miss this show. 

[nilyank]

This was the finale?

One death. No marriages. No babies. No happiness.

[Quickbeam]

Yawn. Glad to see Ghost again. So Jon was sentenced to the Nightswatch but got to go free to the North?

Edited May 20, 2019 by Quickbeam

[Neurochick]

I’m surprised that I liked it.  

[SallyAlbright]

I don't even know what to say. Bran. BRAN?! Dear God. Didn't think it was possible to be this disappointed by a show that was so great for seven seasons. 

Glad Brienne and Ghost are alive and seemingly happy. 

Edited May 20, 2019 by SallyAlbright

[Cheezwiz]

Drogon is the goodest boi!!!

[PWHCHCH]

Damn Robin Arryan had a major glow up. Wow. 

Everything happened at such a breakneck speed. This really needed to be a full season. 

Glad to see Ghost again. I’m happy they’re reunited. 

[Leroux]

Game of Thrones 

I have read the books, I have watched the show faithfully, more than once. 

I am going to miss this. I was so enthralled with this story and for me, it has been perfect. 

Thanks to GOT for providing this wonderful source of escapism. 

[kieyra]

It’s interesting that the spoilers for this episode were dead on, a week ago. I guess security at this level is impossible now. 

I felt like we got a lot of character interaction and dialogue that we really could have used earlier in the season. 

My only eye-rolling moment was when Arya says “I know a killer when I see one”, right after literally everyone left alive just watched Dany commit large-scale murder.

Jon somehow surviving after killing Dany seemed difficult to believe. (Also, no one else saw it happen ... did he confess?) Seems like between Dothraki and Unsullied he never would have made it to that boat alive. 

Convenient that all the brown people quietly agreed to go elsewhere.

Fuck Bronn. 

[I-Kare]

You know that phrase "it is what it is?" Well it was what it was. I'm just happy I'm someone who cares more about the journey and not the final episode of a show. I'll remember all of it except the final two episodes. Last week was a huge disappointment and this week was boring as hell and anticlimactic. That's all I got.

[AAEBoiler]

Well, that was unsatisfying.

[Drogo]

Daenerys sure didn't sound "mad" to me. 

Farewell, Mother of Dragons. You will always be my Queen.  

[apinknightmare]

My favorite part was when Tyrion - in shackles because of his treason, was allowed to nominate a king and - while IN SHACKLES BECAUSE OF HIS TREASON - was asked to be that king's hand. LOL

[Macbeth]

Ghost - Jon Snow doesn't deserve you. 

Yah! To original Jon Snow hair. No more man bun. 

[Leroux]

OMG, the look of pure happiness when Jon hugged Ghost was everything.  

[Ottis]

After hating most of this season.... I think I liked it. Most of it. 

[Brn2bwild]

Wow, I'd hoped the spoilers were wrong. So bad on so many levels.

Rest in Power, Mother of Dragons. Sorry they murdered your character in spirit before they murdered it in fact this episode.  For King Fucking Bran.

[mojoween]

I’m so confused why Aegon Targaryen is not the king of the seven kingdoms but honestly this ep was almost worth it for the shot of Danerys walking towards the stairs and Drogon’s wings unfolding behind her.

[Drogo]

Just now, Leroux said:

OMG, the look of pure happiness when Jon hugged Ghost was everything.  

Are you still in my house?

[Ottis]

1 minute ago, Drogo said:

Daenerys sure didn't sound "mad" to me. 

Farewell, Mother of Dragons. You will always be my Queen.  

She was chillingly mad, in my opinion. 

[Clanstarling]

1 minute ago, scarynikki12 said:

I don’t care how lonely my island gets. I loved this and will miss this show. 

Joining you on the island. I was satisfied by the ending - and was surprised in most cases.

2 minutes ago, GSManiac said:

Damn Robin Arryan had a major glow up. Wow.

Oh, THAT's who that was. I had no idea. Thanks!

[zibnchy]

2 minutes ago, GSManiac said:

Damn Robin Arryan had a major glow up. Wow. 

It took me a long time to figure out who he was.

[Cheezwiz]

I have to say that I didn't hate it as much as I thought I would.

I'm bummed that Bran is King, but maybe now that he is ruler he will finally confer some useful information to people? However that bizarre small council meeting has me doubting though.

Was happy to see Ghost & Tormund again.

The rest turned out pretty much okay. Glad Brienne & The Onion Knight made it to the finish line.

[Lillith]

To paraphrase the late, great R. Lee Ermey:  Whatt the fuck was that happy horseshit???

Awful. The only twinge I felt was for Brienne writing in the book (that survived a massive conflagration may I add) for Jaime. The jokes weren't funny, the end was unsatisfying and nonsensical, and the plot was idiotic. 

Why? No wonder Emilia Clarke gagged and Kit Harrington said he found it disapponting. 

[Keely]

So Sansa and Bran successfully set their own rise to power into motion. I'm almost impressed by that. (Sansa through the betrayal, Bran through telling Jon about his lineage, knowing what it would set into motion.) Jon isn't my favorite, but I'm glad he escaped his nearest and dearest at the end.

Edited May 20, 2019 by Keely

[Growsonwalls]

Towards the end I felt like a Jets fan. Just End the Season.

But because I invested so much energy into this series, I'll just mention the (very) few good things I had to say about the finale:

1) Jon killing Dany was very well-done cinematically. It was like the nephew kiss of death. I've gone enough into my feelings about the character assassination of Dany so I won't spend more time on it. I also liked the glow Dany got when she saw the Iron Throne. 

2) Drogon grieving and then burning the Iron Throne was good.

3) At least Ghost was reunited with Jon.

4) Loved seeing Tormund show up, still looking freshly sexed.

5) Most of all, Brienne shows that she's the best person in Westeros by writing in Jaime's book and still treasuring his memory. That was one moment that really pulled on the heartstrings.

As for the rest I have nothing good to say. Absolutely the worst shit show of a finale I can remember. Of all the horrible things about the finale, I'll just point out one really shitty part: all the Stark siblings are again separated and never to see each other again. Fuck that.

[Bryce Lynch]

3 minutes ago, Neurochick said:

I’m surprised that I liked it.  

I'm surprised that anyone liked it.  

[ShellsandCheese]

Just now, Ottis said:

She was chillingly mad, in my opinion. 

Nope. She was an ambitious women and got sick of apologizing for it. You notice the only woman who got what she wanted was the one who said being raped and abused made her stronger. 

[nilyank]

1 minute ago, mojoween said:

I’m so confused why Aegon Targaryen is not the king of the seven kingdoms but honestly this ep was almost worth it for the shot of Danerys walking towards the stairs and Drogon’s wings unfolding behind her.

That was probably the best visual that this show ever gave us.

[Lemuria]

Well, at least we know about Aragorn's tax plan now.  And it was as boring as I thought it would be.

[Popples]

Just now, Cheezwiz said:

Was happy to see Ghost & Tormund again.

The rest turned out pretty much okay. Glad Brienne & The Onion Knight made it to the finish line.

This and Ser Podrick were the things I liked about the episode.

[Leroux]

I was sort of hoping for some remorse on Daenerys' part, some acknowledgment that what she did was horrible on all levels, but not one ounce of it, none. Her grandiose discourse was scary as shit.

She believed her own delusions and thought she was the only one who knew better what was right for the people of the whole world. 

She was dangerous and needed to die. I am glad Jon had the courage to do it. 

Edited May 20, 2019 by Leroux
Change to the correct pronoun

[Francie]

Yara: Aye. [To Bran being king]

Sansa: Tens of thousands fell in the Great War defending all of Westeros. And those who survived fought too hard to ever kneel again. The North will remain an independent kingdom as it was for thousands of years. 

Yara:  Wait, on second thought, the Iron Islands were an independent kingdom for thousand of years. In fact, Edmure’s lands belonged to us. Iron Islands will remain ....

Bran and Tyrion: You said “aye.”  No take backs!!

[Drogo]

Just now, Bryce Lynch said:

I'm surprised that anyone liked it.  

I loved it.  

[UNOSEZ]

I'm satisfied... We started with the Starks.. We ended with them kinda controlling the 75% of the known world... In my head cannon epilogue.. Arya conquers west of Westeros... So that's the North with Sansa.. The True North with Jon ( cuz he's not going back to the NW is he?)  And Bran everywhere else... I liked Brienne finishing Jaime's entry... Loved the new small council meeting.. Edmure was exactly as you'd expect him to be... Grey Worm gets to ride off and probably take naath... And really anything he wants on that side of the globe

[TigerLynx]

Huh?  That was it?  When is Drogon going to return and fry all these people.

[Minneapple]

1 minute ago, Bryce Lynch said:

I'm surprised that anyone liked it.  

I'm surprised that art is subjective and people have different opinions about it!

[Cheezwiz]

2 minutes ago, mojoween said:

I’m so confused why Aegon Targaryen is not the king of the seven kingdoms but honestly this ep was almost worth it for the shot of Danerys walking towards the stairs and Drogon’s wings unfolding behind her.

That shot was totally bitchin'!!!

I have to say that the things that consistently entertained me the most throughout the entire show were the dragons and the dire wolves!

[Sakura12]

I didn't hate it, it was just boring and predictable. Who knew one of the most exciting shows of the generation could go out with such a whimper. 

[Popples]

So Grey Worm left to go to Naath (aww), but did the Dothraki leave? Because Dany was the only one who could keep them in check.

[Francie]

Here’s my main take away:

Old Nan seriously oversold the Long Night. 

[TaurusRose]

That was the end I wanted for Jon. I wanted him to be alive and back in the North, reunited with Ghost. I'm glad he said fuck the wall and went off with the Wildlings.  Drogon’s grief was awesome. Sansa got what she wanted. I hope she finds as little joy in being QiTN as her brothers did. She has no one watching her back, so she’d better hope the fair weather Northerners never get bugs up their butts where she’s concerned. I can’t believe Bronn got all that wealth. Glad to see Arya on her way. Bran the Broken? Tyrion, you still suck as Hand.

Edited May 20, 2019 by taurusrose

[Scarlett45]

6 minutes ago, Quickbeam said:

Yawn. Glad to see Ghost again. So Jon was sentenced to the Nightswatch but got to go free to the North?

I don’t think he’s going free. I think he’s helping the Free Folk get settled. At this point the Nightswatch will likely be a long term penal colony and a diplomatic point of contact with the freefolk.