post-Dany: the Dothraki and Unsullied want to fight, but stop when Jon summons Drogon, gets on top of him and tells them who he truly is. Since Euron is already dead, he doesn't need to be injured when he dies and we can let that shitty fight scene not exist Jaime does to Cersei what Jon did to Dany, before letting the rubble kill them both. keep Rhaegal alive till ep 5 and have him killed by Euron's scorpion just after the bells to drive Dany over the edge. Also give her more cool scenes by wiping out the leader of the Golden Company instead of an OP dragon. Have Arya's cool scene by having her use some dead faces to wipe out the Kingsguard, before she reaches the Mountain with the Hound, and then Cleaganebowl. I don't mind cutting it down to 6 episodes, but they could have done so so much better with what they had by just tweaking a few things here and there. Of all the moments they needed to timeskip, the Jon reveal to the Starks and post-Dany were the worst.
Should have been 1 more season of Dany ruling and some Dany-Sansa strife before all this happened. Otherwise, pretty boring, but probably the best ending they could have achieved considering how rushed the show was. Always great to see Dinklage get more time, he's a class actor. Should have died actually.īest part of the episode was Tyrion getting more dialogue. Greyworm was reduced to looking pissed off and doing random shit by himself. I think her ending in the books won't be so happy, though I am only up to ACOK, so I don't know much yet. She and Jon clearly had some tension, and she had always been a bit haughty from the start. I think GRRM would have wished to highlight the fact that Sansa wasn't a perfect character until last season. No way the faces were so well preserved, they would have been crushed and mangled beyond recognition. Whereas, here they were just buried under a shallow layer of bricks. Tyrion finding Jaime and Cersei in the rubble was a nice bit of emotional heft, but last episode they showed the whole roof caving in. Yet, Jon walks up to her with 2 daggers clearly hanging from his waist and she doesn't suspect a thing while he stabs her.
By now, Dany has been established as unstable, delusional and paranoid. Tyrion informs him that Dany will be suspicious of Jon and will see him as a threat. Pretty boring episode, but atleast I called Jon murdering Dany and Drogon burning the iron throne.Īlso, Jon was forced to surrender his weapons before meeting Tyrion in his cell. It was just that no one could be bothered to actually write a semi-coherent story to get the characters into their respective positions. The Starks/Lannisters finally fully putting their animosity behind them and essentially ruling Westeros sort of worked too. Even Jon going back to Castle Black kinda makes sense even if the reasons for it are nonsensical: he's a broken man who's seen two women he loves die in his arms (one directly because of him) and he's someone who both never really wanted to rule and knows how ruling corrupts. Similarly the actual ending itself with the Starks fully restored and now more powerful than ever was good as well. Drogon melting down the Iron Throne was brilliant and seeing the thing they'd all been fighting for so long for being destroyed in an instant to show the supposed futility of it all worked. There were plenty of scenes in there which in isolation worked if you ignored the story around them.
The annoying thing about the bad parts of the episode is that they were, again, mostly down to lazy writing and writers who couldn't be arsed to tell the story properly.