Game of Thrones is gonna go down as the
most disappointing ending a show has ever had, huh? I’ve been expecting that,
but by Sunday every week I manage to to convince myself otherwise. And this
episode was no different. It also suffered from the same problems as the last
few episodes (And seasons as a whole): Pacing and poor writing.
Might as
well focus on the only thing of import that happened this week: Daenerys
finally went all Mad Queen. It’s been obvious for a while and set up throughout
the show. So that’s nice. It also happened so quickly that I’m not really sure
why it happened. She saw the Red Keep and freaked out, but didn’t destroy it
for like 45 minutes. How does that make any sense? Also, have dragons on this
show always had this much concussive force behind their fire? Have I just not
noticed or is this like Cyclops’ eye lasers/not-lasers? Either way, why did she
need the largest army ever assembled? Who cares if she lost two dragons when
one is this powerful? I get they were her “children” but still. Also also, Dany
needs to amend her title to Mother of A Dragon.
Cleganebowl
also happened this week, but I honestly don’t care. I like the Hound and think
he’s an interesting character so its nice that he got some resolution with his
brother. It was a neat fight that looked cool (As does almost everything on
this show), but who cares at this point? There’s so much shit to get down and
we’re wasting time on these tertiary characters? Why not show something relevant
to anything?
Jaime
came back to King’s Landing to be with Cersei and they both die like chumps,
crushed by a rock. My girl Arya survived a bunch of rocks so what was their
issue? Varys got dracarys’d because Tyrion couldn’t keep his mouth shut. He
probably got himself and Jon killed next episode too (Except I think Jon is
gonna go live with the wildlings).
This was
a visually awesome episode, just like every other episode (except “The Long
Night”). Drogon is cool and everything it did (i.e. mass slaughter) looked
really cool. Cleganebowl had cool visuals and I really liked the choice to show
the city burning from the street level. The “siege” (Do they even know what
that means?) wasn’t much of a battle. The Lannister army literally surrendered.
I really liked that and thought expectations were about to be subverted and the
rest of the episode was going to be a chill resolution of the Cersei plot. It
was not.
Overall,
I didn’t hate this episode. I could see this battle so that was nice. It just
suffers from what so much of late period Thrones
does. Also, this is an 80-minute episode with virtually nothing of consequence
outside of the fact that Dany is now EVIL and Cersei is dead occurring.
Hopefully the final episode can at least have something important happen. This
episode did lead to a pretty good meme though:
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