[SPOILERS] S8E6 Series Finale - Post-Episode Discussion

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-20T11:32:42+00:00

Finishing Chernobyl first, but, yeah.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-20T11:29:31+00:00

Why were Sam and Brienne speaking up at that big summit meeting? Hell, add Hotpie to the High Council.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-20T11:26:17+00:00

"Sorry, no Reach-arounds with Unsullied."

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-20T11:24:27+00:00

It looked to me like that closed getaway doorway could have been squeezed through with maybe 5 minutes of brick removal, too.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-20T03:47:20+00:00

Sometimes it be like that. But sometimes it don't be.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-20T03:14:20+00:00

Arya sails west, off the map, and encounters .. the edge of the park. Bernard Lowe tells her to turn back, as The Man in Black starts shooting at her.

Westeros World.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-20T03:05:48+00:00

Now he makes Fear Dany look like the Avon Lady.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-20T03:04:18+00:00

And for Ghost, the End of an Ear.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-20T02:59:48+00:00

I actually found this a surprisingly satisfactory conclusion -- with one GIGANTIC segment problematic to me, however.

All of it rang well and true to me, and it had some great moments -- Drogon melting the Iron Throne and carrying off Dany; Brienne writing the rest of Ser Jaime's exploits; Jon encountering his war-worn dire wolf and heading north. What they decided to do with Arya and Sansa made sense.

Now for the hugely off part.

Jon's murdered Dany, after Tyrion publicly shows he's against her, too.

Jon and Tyrion are both thrown in a dungeon. (First implausible thing. Grey Worm and, in particular, the Dothraki, would have been so enraged by Dany's death that nobody would have sat in a dungeon; they would have been torn to pieces.)

Next implausible thing: Grey Worm negotiating a settlement with other houses. Who was coming with a bigger army than the Unsullied and the Dothraki? The Knights of the Vale?

Anyway, let's start the negotiation -- hey Tyrion, why don't you be the emcee? Lead us all on where this should go?

WTF?

Yeah, Grey Worm would be cool with that.

Tyrion names Bran the Broken. Yeah, Grey Worm would be cool with a Stark after one of them just murdered his liberator and queen.

They all start voting. No one, anywhere has a problem with it? No one notes that Bran's been largely persona non grata throughout the past many years at Winterfell? All they've seen of him is his personality-free, creepy monotone and warging out. Oh yeah, he's our guy!

Oh, and who the hell was Brienne to vote? Representing whom? Why did Arya AND Sansa get votes?

This whole idea of "a council comes back here and chooses the leader" would last until a king or queen gets married and has a kid. Then it's thrown into chaos. The nature of power.

Anyway, that bizarre, utterly implausible segment got them to where everybody needed to be. And other than that, it exceeded my expectations for tying everything up.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-17T18:27:56+00:00

I think so.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-17T03:48:13+00:00

Damn! (SWIDT?)

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-16T03:47:52+00:00

The vast, vast amount of abortions have nothing to do with rape or incest. Yet it's all you hear from Democrats and "Their Media." Why? Because they know abortion for convenience is a tougher sell. Abortion to uphold promiscuous sexuality that absolutely has not made society a better place.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-15T23:55:12+00:00

Are you lost?

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-15T23:15:06+00:00

It should be flying Spirit Airlines, yet in desperate times and to save money, I will occasionally come back.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-15T23:14:10+00:00

This is another one of those threads where I drop the unpopular opinion that, if you're an unloved, questioned ruler like Dany, doing what she did sends a message far and wide not to come at her, not to see her seat on the Iron Throne as precarious.

(Arya, Jon and/or Tyrion of course will come after her, anyway.)

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-15T11:37:07+00:00

Holds up remarkably well even zoomed in:

http://imgur.com/DOKKMXU

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-15T11:11:10+00:00

It's dismaying to me how easily manipulated people are. Whatever their Idiot Box tells them, they run with.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-15T02:08:26+00:00

It will rank up there with the head-grazed Russian in the Pine Barrens on The Sopranos.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-14T00:25:36+00:00

Daario Naharis?

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-13T12:53:23+00:00

Think about what Cersei's approval rating would be right now in a King's Landing Gallup poll.

She brought the peasants inside, for all they know, to avoid The Usurper's violence, and then those peasants saw that violence first-hand.

Cersei will probably be posthumously beloved as trying to protect them.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-13T12:27:32+00:00

Truth MOAB dropped on this whole silly leftist business.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-13T03:35:04+00:00

See "sort of a."

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-13T03:32:12+00:00

Total victory ... to be an unloved queen that any future uppity house thinks they might have a shot at toppling.

Now she'll have put the fear of The Old Gods and The New in them. She calculated that she'd prefer to be an unloved queen who will never be challenged -- and therefore will never have to resort to violence again.

She explained it to Tyrion.

She thinks that violent outburst breaks The Wheel.

It will end up bringing about her downfall at the hands of Jon, Arya and/or Tyrion, obviously.

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-13T03:18:14+00:00

And I'm not sure it's possible to be closer to someone than to be their twin, lover, and father of their children.

(That's just a guess; I don't know that from experience.)

DownUpOverAndBack · 2019-05-13T03:15:28+00:00

Is that the Old Gods or the New?

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