I just finished GoT for the first time. I read the books over most of this year and watched the show starting a couple months ago. While the ending wasn’t good, I don’t think it was as bad as comments I’d seen made me think it would be.
Here’s my final questions/thoughts now that I’ve seen the finale:
1) Why is Brienne a member of Bran’s Kingsguard? Wouldn’t it make more sense for her be be part of Sansa’s Queensguard (assuming she has one)?
2) I think I get why Drogon didn’t kill Jon (he’s a Targaryen), but why did Drogon focus on destroying the Iron Throne? Did Drogon understand what the throne was?
3) How did Sam become a Maester, let alone Grand Maester, so quickly? He hasn’t even forged a single chain link before stealing the books from the Citadel, and at the very end, he doesn’t even have a real chain. He shouldn’t be qualified to be a Grand Maester. How does that affect his family with Gilly?
4) So is there still a Night’s Watch? If so, isn’t Sam still sworn to them? If not, then how was Jon sentenced to rejoin them? If it was a lie to appease the Unsullied and everyone else knew Jon was just being sentenced to live among the Free Folk, why not just lie anyways and have Jon return to Winterfell once the Unsullied leave?
5) Why would Bran/Tyrion ever actually trust Bronn as the new Lord of Highgarden, let alone make him the Master of Coin? Bronn has given no indication that he’s loyal to anything other than coin, no matter how friendly he seems with Tyrion.
6) Bran is still my least favorite character. By far.
7) I’m glad Pod got knighted and became a member of the Kingsguard.
8) Maybe I’m reading too much into this one. But when Beric Dondarion died, Melisandre said something like “the Lord kept bringing him back because he still had something to do. Now that he’s done it, it’s time for him to die.” If that logic is true across the board, Jon was brought back to life because he still had something to do, and the fact he hasn’t died yet means he still hasn’t done the “thing”.
7) Overall, I’m glad the show changed enough or left out stuff from the books that gives me hope the books will play out differently and have a better ending. Things like the Horn of Winter and Dragonbinder (Euron’s horn) and Lady Stoneheart and the Lord of Light being reborn could really change the ending of the books.
Thoughts? Discussion?
Submitted November 27, 2020 at 07:44PM by Time-to-go-home https://ift.tt/2JewG9G
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