Alright, so I know everyone and their mother has an opinion about the final season of Game of Thrones, but after seeing the last episode, Iâd also like to share mine.
The thing is, if youâd told me a few years ago where the characters would end up in the finale, I would have thought it completely logical. Jon going to live with the Wildlings, Sansa becoming Queen in the North, Arya forsaking life as a lady and becoming an explorer, Tyrion serving as Hand of the King, Brienne and Podrick becoming knights of the Kingsguard, and really the final destination of most of the characters who are still alive â those are all lovely endpoints for those characters. Even the characters who ended more tragically, like the Hound dying to finally kill his brother, Jaime dying together with Cersei, and Daenerys becoming the Mad Queen; these were not illogical conclusions for them, with all the foreshadowing presented in previous seasons. And while I wasnât expecting Bran of all people to be crowned King, he is the most impartial person in Westeros and will likely make a decent ruler, so thatâs not too bad.
On paper, itâs not a bad way to end things. But in my opinion, they took entirely the wrong route to get to this ending. And the first staple of storytelling is that itâs not the endpoint that matters, itâs the journey you took to get there. For Game of Thrones, I feel as though the whole show was like climbing a long, winding staircase; they took the stairs one step at a time in the first four seasons, began skipping a step here and there in seasons five and six, ran up two steps at a time in season seven, and finally just said âfuck itâ and rode the elevator for season eight.
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