“Hey, you know who might be a great king? Bran Stark. (Alternative explanation: He warg’ed into Tyrion’s brain over and over while the imp was captive and kept dropping hints.
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Why would Grey Worm, who wanted to kill Tyrion and Jon Snow (and in a realistic world, would surely have done both within minutes of discovering the death of their queen), just meekly accept it when Tyrion-a prisoner!-was like, “I know you want to kill us, but actually you have to wait until the king or queen tell you what to do, and we’re going to decide that right now, and you don’t get a vote”? Why is Arya sailing west? I mean, I’m glad she is, I guess, but why? I understand Bran becoming king, sort of-even though he’s apparently going to spend his entire reign in a morphine dream searching for a lost dragon-but how much has he known, and for how long? Again, the way he seems to know exactly what’s going to happen all times gives me the sense that we’re just witnessing a world entirely without free will, and I’d just like to remind you and everyone else that the appeal of this show, at the start, was how the fate of the major characters was inextricably tied to the choices they made. And what a terrific closing line: “Died protecting his queen.” After an imperfect story arc, I’m so glad Jaime and Brienne at least got their perfect ending.Įlsewhere, well…it felt like the first half of this episode was defined by long, deafening silences, and then Jon sic-semper-tyrannus’ed Dany, and the rest was just a kind of nonsensical montage of things that made sense only as long as you viewed them from the periphery, upside down, while wearing a pair of those solar eclipse glasses. The singular, unforgettable scene in the baths of Harrenhal brought this point home, and there could be no greater act of love for Brienne than to write out the rest of his history, which looks pretty damn heroic now that the story is closed. Jaime never wanted to admit it, but he very much cared what people thought of him, and he was very much haunted by his one-dimensional image: Kingslayer. Just like the scene before the Battle of Winterfell when he knighted her, and very much unlike the awkward whirlwind romance that never should have made it to screen, this was a wonderful, moving, and ultimately well-earned depiction of their relationship. Let’s start with a small moment that I completely loved-Brienne writing out the rest of Jaime’s history in the White Book of the Kingsguard. We’ve been on the same page for most of the season in terms of our disappointment, and after finishing the episode and talking some smack about it with my friend tonight, my wife asked a salient question: “What would have made you happy?” I think the honest answer is “at this point, probably nothing.” But as a frank assessment of what I just witnessed, I’d say that the finale was a little cliche, a little predictable, a lot scatterbrained, and, yes, even a little poignant. This is the ultimate bittersweet moment-I know this is not about us, but we’ve spent the last few years reviewing this show together, and it’s been one of the most fun assignments of my writing life, and I would be remiss if I didn’t tip my knight’s helm to you here at the top, decorum be damned! To you, Ser Josh, and to our long watch that just ended. I guess it’s my way of saying that, deep down, I don’t really know what to say.
That’s right, my friend, I started off our VERY LAST GAME OF THRONES CORRESPONDENCE with a cheap Trump joke. Kinda like being ruled by Targaryens…they both end with a Mad King. Take it from a dude in the future-yeah, it seems fine for two hundred years or so, and then it gets really terrible.
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Shane Ryan and Josh Jackson review Game of Thrones each week in a series of letters.įirst off, congratulations to the lords and ladies of Westeros for laughing that radical leftist Samwell Tarly out of the room when he almost invented democracy.
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