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Davos Seaworth also making it out of this still a shining beacon of hope. Bless that man.
 
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Also outside of the prologue guys that get killed by white walkers, Bran is ththe first character we see in the show, first chapter in the books and also the last person we see at the nd of the first episode, it makes more sense now
 
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Welp I just finished the Season Finale of Game of Thrones and boy I had some fuck yeah moments, and some why do that moments, and some why tease us like that moments. I thought Jon making the decision to kill Dany and him struggling with the idea was beautifully executed I felt. Tyrion almost like The Emperor in a sense telling him do it, and Jon stabbing her was like a Jedi going from the light to the dark side, but it was needed knowing that she would destroy everything. He wanted just to hear one ounce of positivity from his Mouth, but he got nothing of it and just did the job. I'm still wondering why didn't Drogon blow his ass away, and instead destroyed the Iron Throne? I mean I get it he's Targaryen and thus might not be killed by fire, but why the Throne? Maybe he turns his fury instead on the object that represents Dany's downfall: the Iron Throne itself? He took Dany's body to go where exactly? He literally killed his Mother and stormed off that didn't sit well with me, rather of seen him join Jon rather than wreck havoc across the other side of the World or be sad for the rest of it's life.

I figured their would be some kind of Council to decide the fate of Tyrion and Jon, and I loved the moment when Arya, Bran, and Sansa tried to put himself over, and Sansa gave him the look a Parent gives a Child who is about to get the Belt if they don't shut up.

I can't forget either Arya telling Yara to mind your Tongue about Jon or I'll carve your face up and kill you, because God knows if thiers someone that Yara doesn't want to fuck with it's Arya. It's pretty crazy that of all people Bran would be King..LIKE FOR REAL?? I guess that is the Wheel that is broken, and their was a line in there as Tyrion put over Bran as King, it almost he went into Dr.Strange in Infinity War territory. When Tyrion is talking to him, and he says to the effect why do you think I came all this way? For sure that almost feels like he knew this outcome, and he saw multiple realities of what could happen and this is what we got.

Oh and when Sansa says The North will be independent of all of this, I was like girl please till some revolt happens and you'll be pulling hey we fought at Winterfell vs Zombies together and make sure Dany wasn't Queen help me..remember me. I did like the moments we saw later like when Brienne is writing Jamie's story that was great. Imagine someone respecting you so much that they write your story for the people to remember you always. Even the little moment where Tyrion is fixing the Chairs for a King's Meeting and see's the members just give no fucks, while talking about Brothels moments later. It kinda sucks that for all Jon did, he was regulated to The Night's Watch, with the inability to have no lands, marry, or have children. Granted what he became started with The Night's Watch, but damn does this guy at least get one break? Well he did come back to life, to live out his days at The Night's Watch, yeah Jon is gonna break all those rules they put in front of him.

Dug the moment at the end showing Arya, Jon, and Sansa making me want to see where this goes especially Arya and Jon. Damn you Game of Thrones we'll never to see where their new lives takes them unless it gets written in the Books.
 
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The only thing that comforts me about Bran ruling the council is his name is Brandon.

Make us look good, kid.
 

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Bran been practicing to sit this entire show :proud
 
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Holy shit, I didn't even knew about the Lady Stoneheart character until right now, since I'm reading the Westeros Wiki after I just finished the second episode (again).

A resurrected, cold-hearted Zombie-Catelyn Stark would've been an amazing, intriguing character for the series. A shame they omitted it.
 

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Holy shit, I didn't even knew about the Lady Stoneheart character until right now, since I'm reading the Westeros Wiki after I just finished the second episode (again).

A resurrected, cold-hearted Zombie-Catelyn Stark would've been an amazing, intriguing character for the series. A shame they omitted it.

I think the problem is with the books released, she was more of an unused character, had a big reveal at the end of one and has been a bit of a mystery since.

So I'm guessing GRRM hadn't completely worked out how the character would work going forward and the show people couldn't figure it out themselves as they definitely struggled outside of book material
 
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I think the problem is with the books released, she was more of an unused character, had a big reveal at the end of one and has been a bit of a mystery since.

So I'm guessing GRRM hadn't completely worked out how the character would work going forward and the show people couldn't figure it out themselves as they definitely struggled outside of book material
That's fair overall. I simply don't know and go from whatever I've read.

  • Like many other characters and storylines, Lady Stoneheart has been omitted from the TV series adaptation of Game of Thrones, which disappointed many fans. George R.R. Martin even argued against the decision of directors David Benioff and D. B. Weiss to remove the character, as he considered it "the first major diversion of the show from the books".
For example.

When it comes to diversions it's a big mess anyways. With some things they did know where Martin wanted to go with (due to talking with each other) and with other things it's just the TV people doing their own thing.
 

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That's fair overall. I simply don't know and go from whatever I've read.


For example.

When it comes to diversions it's a big mess anyways. With some things they did know where Martin wanted to go with (due to talking with each other) and with other things it's just the TV people doing their own thing.

Yeah the best parts of the later seasons were things GRRM had completely had set in stone. The biggest issues were characters introduced later that didn't have a lot of book time yet but seemed really cool. It was hard to keep them cool when they weren't sure where they'd be going after their intro. Euron Greyjoy was one example of that. They also cut out a character from book 5 who seemed important at first but was a red Herring bc he got killed by a dragon when he thought he needed to tame it to marry Daenerys. I really liked that little one book arc, he was a POV character and everything which was very rare to have them introduced and killed in one book that way
 
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Yeah the best parts of the later seasons were things GRRM had completely had set in stone. The biggest issues were characters introduced later that didn't have a lot of book time yet but seemed really cool.
Plus the storylines they compressed into so little, that it's pretty much pointless to even have them still in there... I guess. At least that's what I'm also getting from reading stuff on it.

Either way... rewatching this season and reading more in-depth about the differences between the show and books make me at least want to read them now. So at least there's something positive to take from it. :lol
 

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I love the books, the first 3 are very close to the show for the most part and then it starts diverging. But sadly the books will never be done so they end with like Jon Snow being killed lol
 
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I love the books, the first 3 are very close to the show for the most part and then it starts diverging. But sadly the books will never be done so they end with like Jon Snow being killed lol
tbf, at least it's some kind of ending :lol
 

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Daenerys never even made it out of Mereen in the books lol I'm pretty satisfied with the major developments of the ending with the show and can see how they're probably the plans, but GRRM isn't sure how to get there and the show runners couldn't figure out a way to do it either (and bc they got lazy and disinterested)
 
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