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Got finale time4/17/2023 ![]() It was sad to see the Starks go their separate ways again, but they each got fitting ends. The parting of Sansa, Arya and Jon inspired real emotion, intensified by the fact that just as they would never see this family together again, neither would we. Of course, the defining pack of the show was scattered yet again to the corners of the earth. The mix of highborn and low was meaningful, and combined with the depictions of the Targaryen Regime - the Nurembergish rally, the tyrannical doublespeak about “liberating” people who had just been butchered - it unsubtly hammered home the show’s main themes: Power corrupts. Edmure Tully made it out of Walder Frey’s cell, apparently, but he’s still the same goober he was when he went in. Randomly, so was the former Suckling Robin, Yohn Royce (I think?), and some other people I didn’t recognize. In a show that was once defined by a kind of gritty realism within a fantastical setting, Bran is the ultimate cheat. This all can sound like nit-picking, but internal logic is part of what gives a story power and resonance. One response might be, because that’s what needed to happen - this is Bran’s response to pretty much everything, which makes it essentially meaningless. This was reflected perfectly by his response to Tyrion’s pitch: “Why do you think I came all this way?” O.K., then why were you so hyped about telling Jon he’s supposed to be king a few weeks ago? He’s almost a man, as he told Jon back in the season premiere, but he’s mostly a tool of convenience designed to relay narrative information we couldn’t get otherwise - whether it’s scouting the White Walkers, revealing “Thrones” prehistory or dropping knowledge bombs.īran theoretically has access to all information but seems to access it only when and in which way the story needs him to. Who has a better story than that? (Rebuttal: Arya and Sansa, sitting on either side of him.)Īnd as a bonus, Bran can’t sire a lunatic like Joffrey because he can’t have kids at all!īut none of it changes the fact that Bran has long been one of the most unsatisfying characters on the show. Bran got shoved from a tower and then became the Three Eyed Raven, Tyrion said. Tyrion leaned hard into the humility argument and also into a cornier one about stories being the most powerful thing on earth. (And how did they know what had happened, without a body? Did he confess?) There was the eternally fungible size of the Unsullied and Dothraki forces. There was Jon killing Daenerys and then escaping the immediate wrath of both Drogon - maybe his Targaryen blood helped - and the Unsullied, who instead took him prisoner hours after cutting people’s throats just for supporting Cersei, much less murdering their queen. Weiss and David Benioff (who in the last few weeks have become the show’s biggest villains to a vocal fan segment), was also plagued by the same incoherence that has inspired abundant Twitter rage this season and at least one effigial petition. But the episode, directed by the creators D.B.
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