re: Observations on GOT final season and ending (having watched it this weekend).

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First half of seven was ok. Second half is the joker.

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I’m speaking more about the second half actually. I don’t remember where I started watching, but it was basically around halfway through. And it was really good.

Littlefinger’s demise was maybe a little too choreographed, but it was still good. Dany attacking the KL army. Jorah returning to Dany. Tyrion with his brother and sister. All the stuff north of the wall, especially the Night King resurrecting the dragon. Finding out about Jon’s true heritage. Olenna/Jaime poison scene. Sansa’s rise. Multiple Starks finally being back in Winterfell. The meeting with Cersei to show her the wight walker. Etc. There’s tons of good shite in that season. shite, it ends with the blue-eyed dragon blowing a giant hole in the wall and “winter” finally befalling main lands.

Say what you want about the show, but there are still a ton of great things that happened in S7. Plus it was the main time when various storylines FINALLY converted and characters we wanted to see together for so long finally got together in the same scenes.

I was surprised with how much I enjoyed watching it the other day and was pleased with how good it was. Now, I haven’t gone back and watched S8 again yet, so I can’t speak for that. But I remember there being some really good parts of S8 too (battle at Winterfell, Hound/Mountain, etc).

It just ends so weirdly and several things just felt either way too forced or way too silly (like Dany mad queen, Brand as king, Jaime’s turn back to Cersei, etc).