Think about it. This is the first Monday in years that we don’t wonder what will happen next on GOT, and the first Monday in which we will discuss everything as happening in the past
one of my coworkers said drogon didnt kill john snow because he was a targaryan but your post raises a question
not to mention people wont have to take mondays off from work or call out due to got partiesThink about it. This is the first Monday in years that we don’t wonder what will happen next on GOT, and the first Monday in which we will discuss everything as happening in the past
This sounds true, an example of a brilliant author writing himself into a corner, he is not smart enough to escape from. I won’t be holding my breath for the new books.
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Drogon was forced to kill thousands of innocents. He loved mama, but I am pretty sure he realized that mama was a bit of a bitch because of the throne.
That is what being an ****** in Westeros gets you. I mean, even Joffrey was poisoned; no fight, nothing, just poison.
Sansa had to be ruled out because her accepting the throne would've meant the end of Winterfell's independence.
Arya simply refused it; heck she didn't even want to stay in Westeros!
As for Bran, he is the wisest of them all, and they all know it.
Because he's wise and peaceful; that is, he's not corruptible by feelings. Can't even have sex. Doesn't get drunk. I mean he's stoic as stoicism can get
The crown as a tool is meaningless to Bran, it's pretty obvious by the way he handled the cabinet meeting. His concern is not day-to-day, his concern is humanity as a whole (although I do agree that this point is weak).
The more I think about this, the more it seems fitting for him to have been burned by Drogon alongside the throne. The Targaryen's made the throne, he's the last Targaryen heir to it. It's kinda hinted that to rule the kingdoms successfully from it, you need to be a bit ruthless and wield extreme personal power like Aegon - Jon showed himself to be quite soft and with Rheagal dead he didn't have access to the might of a Dragon (Drogon is and always was Dany's). It also has a sort of Romeo and Juliet tragedy fittingness about it.
With where ADWD leaves off, I find it inconceivable that it won't unfold very, very differently, even if it ends up landing in more or less the same place. There's just too many characters still around that the show either didn't include, merged with another, or killed off prematurely. Not to mention the artefacts which were missing from the show...
In the dance of the dragons in fire and blood there was a Targaryen civil war and the dragons and Targaryens killed each other.
It's an interesting question, and I don't think it's explicitly addressed in either the book or show - my personal impression was that the Dragons are meant to be somewhat smarter than just any old beast, but of course still not on a Human level of sentience. It seems odd he turned away at the last moment by chance, so I feel like it was a conscious decision not to kill him - the only thing I can think of is that he recognised Jon as Dany's lover and therefore had a certain amount of respect for him. But that also implies him being intelligent enough to probably also put 2 and 2 together that Jon killed her?Bottom line, being killed by Danny’s dragon seemed like the most realistic ending , and more appropriate to the narrative for the man who murdered the Dragon Queen. When I saw that fire building in Drogon’s open mouth, I thought, here it comes! Poor throne.
- Drogon, was he smart enough to realize Jon murdered her? Jon was cradling her tenderly. And Jon had dragon blood, so he had an infinity with Dragons, but I would not have been surprised if he had killed Jon in his rage, if he knew or did not know who murdered her.
- Grey Worm, killing Jon in a rage, I could have expected it, but we would have needed to see that. Locking Jon up seemed out of character, for this character.
- Drogon taking his wrath out on a throne that he probably had no clue that it was a symbol, or the history of the Targarians seems like that was an unlikely event, or did the throne just happen to be in that direction? Maybe this is a really smart dragon, but no story development time was used to explain dragon IQ.
- The ending we got was unexpected, but a little too sugar coated for this series imo.
There is some interesting Lore around where Arya is going and what she might expect to find, though I will leave that for you/ anyone else who reads this to look up as it's quite in depth!
Except for the previous sentence, it is inconsistent writing. Yes, she already sprang out of nowhere to finish the Night King, so that would have been repetitive. But with what we got in the words of Switch (Matrix ref): Not like this! I did like the Clegan Bowl though. Hilarious!
That’s the only explanation I could come up with too. Maybe Dragons aren’t as smart as everyone thought. Or, maybe just that particular dragon wasn’t. ...being the last of his kind & all. Not having parents to learn from, or a properly funded education system to provide a bare minimum of dragon reasoning, or human contextual comprehension 101.
GW always struck me as a good follower, who believed in Danny’s message unchaining the little people. Now while I can see him being really pissed about his girl friend being offed by Cersei, I have a hard time understanding how he would not be appalled by the indiscriminate killing of the little people, which was a complete 180, inconsistent with her past campaigns.
Instead he seemed to be just as mad and indiscriminate as his Queen when came to his vengeance. And yet, he lets Jon live, the guy who killed the Queen he was devoted too? And in the end, he just wipes his hands and says enough of this BS, I/we are out of here!
Real life frequently make no sense, and is not that exciting, but when we invest ourselves in a story like this we have standards and expectations. We demand to be thrilled. And although completely within the realm of realism, I never expected Cersei to go out hiding in the basement. Instead, something like in her moment of triumph, Ayra pulling off her Mountain disguise and putting Needle through Cercei’s heart.
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Hilarious!
I’m really disappointed to be honest. I watched the first season and then I went off and read all the books. I loved the books so much that I refused to watch the TV show and then around season 6 I decided I’d start watching again and I watched season 2-5 then carried on watching. I just knew the TV show couldn’t do it justice and now it’s panned out for me.
Well, I’m glad the finale brought a closing to all of the character arcs. In that sense, I’m satisfied.
I started thinking about why they made such a big deal of Jon’s lineage since last season (and really the whole series), and how disappointing it was that in the end it didn’t really lead to much. The R+L=J hints.. Bran’s visions.. Sam’s discovery.. Varys’s letters.. It all seems like such a waste, when Jon just ends up back at the Wall anyway.
And then it hit me.. Maybe Bran WANTED to be king all along. If he hadn’t insisted on telling Jon his lineage, it wouldn’t have set in motion the sequence of events that pushed Dany over the edge. Maybe he foresaw that it was the only way to get both Jon and Dany out of the picture and then he’d have a shot at the crown.. And his whole “I don’t want anymore” attitude was just an act. This was Bran playing and winning the game of thrones.
Or maybe I'm grasping at straws and just want it to make more sense.
