All the Bran hate is intellectually dishonest

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It is a case of projecting on to a character the frustration of the overall climax of the series

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OR it's acknowledgement that Bran being king is laughably stupid.

Bran becoming king makes sense. He's the 3ER. He should\would be the best king.

The only issue is they didn't develop his character at all. He was missing for an entire season. Then after he finally got his abilities the only powerful scene he had was when he, in a sense, went into the past and turned Hodor into a potato and therefore killed Hodor by "holding the door".

Ever since then he has done nothing besides act creepy and say weird shite. He Wargs into Ravens\crows randomly. Get's no information. Shares nothing with anyone.

He should be basically a god figure full of knowledge but instead he just chills in his wheel chair and reaps all the rewards at the end.

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How many times through the show did we hear "I am not Bran" or "I cannot be Lord of anything for I am the Three Eyed Raven".

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This damn it. I wouldn't care if he hadn't turned into a cyborg with no emotions.

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All the Bran hate is intellectually dishonest

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Who’s being intellectually dishonest?



This is what frustrates me about those defending the ending by trying to shrug it off as just not getting what we “wanted”.

I don’t know that I’ve ever been more angry in reading or watching a work of fiction than I was when I read the books. On multiple occasions.


Ned’s death upset me for days.

The Red Wedding was another gut punch that made me put the book down and take s break.

Even Oberyn or Drogo’s deaths were infuriating in the execution.

Not to mention Jon’s death, which is where the last book left off.


But all of those rejections of what we “want” to happen as readers or viewers is what made the series so compelling and ultimately satisfying.

Because all of those felt real and true to the world we are immersed in.


The final few episodes simply didn’t deliver that kind of logical progression that we can understand and respect, even if it isn’t what we necessarily “want”.

Getting what we “want” had never been the draw to this series. But logic and executing a vision that was plotted out genuinely has been.


I don’t even doubt that this is the ending GRRM outlined for the show runners. I also have no doubt that this same ending will be much more satisfying if he ever finishes the books because it will be set up and executed over dozens of chapters and thousands of pages in multiple books.

These seeds should have been planted seasons ago with much more clarity to a long term vision by the showrunners and it simply wasn’t.


That is what is so frustrating.



ETA: And ti give credit where it’s due, the showrunners have the capacity to do it properly. We’ve seen it with the destruction of the Sept.

That was a perfectly executed and set up moment that no one saw coming or “wanted”, but it was one of the best episodes of television ever filmed imo.

And that wasn’t from source material, as it is beyond where the books have reached at this point.

They can do it. For whatever reason they simply didn’t earn this ending, pretty much since that episode.

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The absolute worst series finale

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Bran is the worst. End of season 7 he tells Sam that they MUST tell Jon who his parents are. He knew damn well that it would eventually turn Danny into the Mad Queen killing thousands of innocents, force Jon to kill her, and then be sentenced to live north of the wall. All of this so that he could be King.

If Bran never tells Jon who his parents are, Jon and Danny get married and most likely have a happy ending.

He had no claim to the throne.

In the last 15 minutes of an 8-season series, the writers decided to change the rules that had governed that world, on a whim, so the king could be voted in, and then still chose a poor candidate.

I see the downvotes, and maybe those people don't understand that everything that happened in the entire 8-season run until the meeting of the heads of the houses in the last episode, was in response to challenges to the rules of succession. All the wars and loss of life. So in response everybody involved just agreed to drop the rules of succession? No.

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And that he is really the villian allowing millions to die so he could rule.

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Yep. Only problem is they did a terrible job fleshing that out. I agree with your take on it, it is mine as well. They just wrote it so poorly.

It really adds even more weight to what he did to Hodor. Truly cold blooded.

All they had to do was show him with glowing blue eyes at the very end and it is a much better ending.

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All they had to do was show him with glowing blue eyes at the very end and it is a much better ending.

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As someone else said, it would've been a better ending to see Jon walk out beyond the wall and see an army of the undead. They surround and kill him and everyone he's with.

Cut to Bran in his wheelchair in the iron throne room with his eyes blue. Cut to black. Credits roll.