The argument of the show is that it doesn’t matter. We have no idea whether Bran will rule with wisdom or spend his entire kingship warging. I found that choice endearing, and also perfectly fitting. They survived to give us, the viewers, one more gift of the characters we like shooting the shit around a table. This is why, in the end, Davos and Brienne and Sam didn’t die at the Battle of Winterfell. Who can gripe too much about a finale given over to Peter Dinklage to illustrate everything that Tyrion Lannister can do?īran bails from that meeting early the episode’s focus is on the men and the woman who sit around that table, who by no accident at all are minor characters we’ve grown to like quite a bit. Yet I find that I like the idea of Bran on the throne, suggesting as it does at least a slightly new direction for Westeros. Even Bran’s! Bran was probably the character most poorly served by this final season, considering what the show was going to ask us to think of him by the end. The Starks’ paths were satisfying and made me glad I’d followed them around all these years. Arya re-embracing humanity and becoming an adventurer Jon trudging into grim Castle Black Sansa treated, at long last, like a queen. It’s no accident that the show’s final montage portrayed the remaining Stark kids, each with his or her own new destiny. I like it.Īnd, perhaps most importantly, the finale took the characters we cared about the most and gave them real endings.
If you had told me two seasons ago that Game of Thrones would end with noble Jon Snow lying to, then knifing the chosen queen Daenerys Targaryen in the throne room, I would’ve thought, Wow, that’s kinda dark. Just because that surprise-Jon killing Dany-was one of the many possible surprises we’d all discussed ad nauseum for the past year-plus doesn’t mean it’s not a pretty solid plot twist, one that definitely cuts against the grain of high fantasy the way the show (and the books) endeavored to do all along. Benioff and Weiss (who directed, as well as wrote the episode) went all in on cinematic grandeur.
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