[Spoilers] Just finished the series today

So I haven’t watched many series, mostly just Star Wars and a few anime. I love fantasy, and knew the show existed (further pressed by the season 8 = bad memes last year). So watching this series blew me away with the depth of characters and how complex the stories were. I didn’t know a story could be this realistic and good, it set a new bar for me honestly. I thought about writing my own story with my own world, but I don’t know if I could ever write something that touches this series.

Seasons 1-4 (and to a lesser degree 5) were fantastic, and they’re what I’m talking about above. Seasons 6-7 were still great but not on that level. I already knew season 8 was supposed to be the most disappointing thing ever, so I was prepared from the start (and being a Star Wars fan, having high expectations for the sequels prior to the Disney acquisition, I’m used to disappointment lol). And it was pretty bad, the Night King was completely wasted and it should’ve been multiple episodes of battle with him. But besides the Night King, it was just acceptable if you expect it from the start and don’t dive into speculation/theories. I also appreciated the relatively happy ending. I was on edge the entire season 8 hoping Tyrion wasn’t killed. I was depressed for a week when they killed my guy Ned, hopeless after the Red Wedding, and almost sick when Shireen was burnt alive. I don’t think I could take it seeing Tyrion die lol

Favorite characters: * Tyrion * The Hound * Robert (the realism of his backstory is crazy tho) * Sam * Jon Snow * Tormund (“have I ever told you why people call me Giantsbane??”) * Ned * Arya

And some questions I had:

• When the Night King was raising his hand in front of Bran, what was he going to do? Just grab his blade, or was he going to do something more interesting? I would’ve loved to see him talk to Bran as well, but Arya yeeted herself at him too early

• Why did Sansa “free” the North? Bran is a Northman and a Stark as well, as much as Sansa, so why wouldn’t the North be safer with Bran ruling them as a united Kingdom?

  • Are seasons 6-8 really canon? If the Winds of Winter hasn’t even been released, Martin may revise portions of it (since he doesn’t feel it’s ready yet). So the finished product may be quite different than the HBO version. Is that how it’s viewed?

• What could “A Dream of Spring” even be about? There’s no more enemies to fight is there? Unless it’s related to the red priestess’ or the land Arya goes off to?

• In Fire and Blood, if Orys Baratheon is Aegon’s half-brother, does that mean the Baratheon’s have the blood of the dragon as well? Or was he a half brother on the non-Targaryen side?

Submitted December 21, 2020 at 06:17PM by Kyber99 https://ift.tt/38u0p70