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RSS FeedsGame Of Thrones Season 8 Ending Review: A Fitting Finale, A Botched Journey
(GameSpot DS News)

 
 

20 may 2019 14:40:07

 
Game Of Thrones Season 8 Ending Review: A Fitting Finale, A Botched Journey
(GameSpot DS News)
 


Given the smelly trash fire that the episodes leading up to it were, there was never any real chance of Game of Thrones` finale, Season 8 Episode 6, `The Iron Throne,` being anything other than a disappointment. But at least they tried.There`s a parallel universe somewhere where this exact episode was preceded by two full episodes of the phenomenal storytelling that Game of Thrones was once capable of, and in that brighter timeline, the show went out on the right note. It still would have been bittersweet, but it would have also felt earned, which this definitely did not. Too many plot points were swept under the rug and too many endings came from seemingly out of nowhere for this to feel satisfying.Unlike the nonsensical Dothraki charge in Episode 3 or Euron`s magic scorpion bolts in Episode 4, there was nothing particularly terrible in the Season 8 finale; we got some surprises (Bran the Broken), while other plotlines concluded exactly as they needed to (Arya sailing West, and Brienne finishing Jaime`s page in the Kingsguard book). It just all felt a little tawdry thanks to the path we took to get here.Look at where the show`s biggest characters ended, in broad strokes: Jon never fully embraced his secret identity, which was disappointing, but fitting; he`ll die a Stark, in the North, as he lived. (I kept waiting all season for something to make me start thinking of him as Aegon Targaryen instead of Jon Snow, but it never happened, seemingly by design.) Dany wound up being her father`s daughter after all, which is depressing, but not unrealistic. Some combination of Bran, Sam, and Tyrion--the characters who are supposed to be smart--rewrote the rules of Westerosi politics, transforming the realm from the hereditary monarchy it`s been for centuries into, essentially, something resembling a representative democracy. Sansa is Queen in the North, Arya leaves for her own adventure, and the Six-Plus-One Kingdoms are left in somewhat capable hands.Let`s talk about Ki ...


 
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