[SPOILERS] debate with my bf about s7e4

Kind of buzzed on wine. This is also my first watchthrough I am very late to this party.

So in this episode as I understand, Meera has just after a very long journey successfully delivered Brann back to safety and is now entering his room to say goodbye as she wants to leave to return to be with her family when / if the white walkers come.

So Meera says goodbye and brann basically just says like “thank you” or a very simple and monotone response. (He’s clearly a bit different from the version of him she had previously met.)

She takes offense to this and is emotional and says her brother died and she almost died and that’s all he has to say?

He then says something like “I’m not really brann anymore I’m the 3 eyed raven.”

Then she says you died in that cave!!!! And cries and exits abruptly.

So I paused here and I said her response was kinda unnecessarily emotional because

1. From day one the known collective goal was to deliver brann to the other 3 eyed raven guy / it was known that brann was a special character who was to be protected

2. He said thank you??? Yeah he was monotone but he thanked you. What else are you expecting? Did you and your brother do what you did for praise and thanks and interpersonal relations or was it for reason number 1 that I wrote above?

3. He is clearly becoming less like brann and more the 3 eyed raven (which was always the goal refer to number 1,) and he even admits to this yet she still just walks out emotionally.

My boyfriend on the other hand thinks she is deserving of more of a response than thank you. He also is of the mindset that she was only along on the initial quest because her brother was and that she was not necessarily aware of the main objective nor was she aware of Brann’s importance as the three eyed raven.

Now my boyfriend is going to take my phone and write out his argument for himself.

1. From day one Meera was trying to talk her brother out of helping him
2. During the journey people she loved died
3. When saying goodbye she got a thank you… I believe she grew emotional attachment to her journey and Brandon stark. So she left feeling hurt that it seemingly meant nothing to him.

OKAY now it’s me again and not my boyfriend.

I can acknowledge the inevitable humanlike emotions that she felt but my whole point is that the purpose was larger than that and she knew it from day one.

Okay now my boyfriend wants to get in one last word since I got in one last word…

She can acknowledge the fact she acted with emotion…. Hmmm that’s what I’m saying

Ok now it’s me again not my boyfriend. Anyways. What do YOU ALL think?

Submitted August 31, 2021 at 01:40AM by hanleybelnats https://ift.tt/3jst2bB