You know who has successfully fixed stabbed Targaryens?
-The Red Priestesses of Essos.
Where was Drogon flying?
-East.
Would the Lord of Light be bothered by a city being unnecessarily put to the flames?
-Nope, that’s the kind of god that would eat that up with a spoon. R’hllor is dualistic, good and evil in a single package, which is exactly what they ended up making Dany.
If this wasn’t the series end, Dany would be coming back as a Red Pope Priestess that spontaneously combusted people that said “Don’t be mean to racists”.
And if they weren’t all killed then what the hell were they doing during the Battle of Winterfell?
The Dothraki are a little easier to explain away, after all they’re pretty mobile and probably bugged out when they discovered that you can’t pillage and rape the dead.
The Unsullied are a bigger question mark. These guys are supposed to stand to the last man and were positioned outside the walls of Winterfell behind the siege equipment for some reason. They should have been ground zero for zombie chow and yet a completely ridiculous number of them survived but completely failed to stop Winterfell from being overrun.
I get that D&D try not to sweat the details if they’re in danger of getting in the way of the dramatic tension of the story but you have to at least pay lip service to consistency or people will notice. Another example is the way Grey Worm can apparently teleport around the city at will. Or maybe the way Arya goes “I think I’ll explore the world like I’ve always talked about.” D&D had absolutely no idea what to do with her. It probably would have been better if she just had rocks fall on her like so many other main characters.
Just like in Hunger Games, it doesn’t seem to matter how depraved the existing leadership becomes… Any revolutionary challenge to that leadership is going to turn out to be corrupt as well. Both shows teach us that we really don’t deserve any better t h an what we are already getting.
Season eight succeeded in making me feel ‘nothing’ about the main characters by the end. That is an extraordinary accomplishment, but David Benioff and collaborator Daniel Weiss were apparently equal to the task. Tepidly done gentlemen.
But Arya has mentioned going west of Westerosi before. She’s also young and has no desire to be a “lady”. I thought her ending was perfectly reasonable. When it comes to the number of troops left, honestly I don’t think they ever showed anywhere the reported numbers on screen at once. Eight thousand unsullied did not die at the battle of Winterfell. Hell if half of them died she’d still have more than what were shown during her speech at the reichstag.
You know that in the Seven Kingdoms slavery didn’t exist as such. I even think there was a character who was sentenced to Die (but fled) for selling people into slavery.
The first significant death is the caught Wildling (North Wall deserter) beheaded by Ned Stark, whose crime was that he was too free for the standards of the Seven Kingdoms, pointedly including the supposedly more open system of the North.
I don’t think that was a series that showed anyone who felt free from their society’s strict and brutal mandates and bloody traditions.
It showed everyone finding the right way to behave to please those around them, at constant risk of their non-metaphorical necks. They didn’t call it slavery in Westeros, but it’s pretty clear what happened to people who decided to make any kind of choice we’d call “free”.
Though interesting connection between the last season of GoT and End Game: Daenerys and Thanos turned out to be similar sorts of crazy, with the “let’s wipe out everyone who holds on to the past so we can build a new future.”…
Most of the complaints are fan-boys whining that they didn’t see things they wanted to see, much like the fan-boy whining about Episodes VII, VIII, and will undoubtedly occur with Episode IX. They need to realise that it wasn’t their story to steer. I sat with someone, obviously contaminated by the internet, who started complaining about the finale as the opening credits rolled.
I can’t help but think the real issue is that the series is finishing, rather than continuing on for an indefinite time.
That would be Ser Friendzone himself, Jorah Mormont. He got into the slave racket to make more money to please his wife. He’s caught, flees into exile, and soon finds a new woman for whom he can sacrifice his reputation.
