That Game of Thrones Ending (with spoilers)

[EnviousDominous]

Personally, I didn't like the last 2 episodes as it seemed like character arcs were completely thrown out the window. It was almost as if the people you had been cheering for for the past 7 seasons got the villain sendoffs and vice versa. I mean, there were a few main characters that got the ending I felt they deserved; Sansa and Tyrion mostly, but I'm not going to lie and say that I was thrilled with the fate of Dany, Jon, Jamie, Cersei, and Arya. The Hound went out as he inevitably should have and I will admit that Bran was probably the best ruler for Westeros in the end, but that doesn't make seeing him as the king any more satisfying. Also, Bran's supposed to be the wisest man in the world, and he makes Bronn his master of coin? The fuck's up with that?

True all that. I was a bit miffed that Arya spent all that time learning to be a badass assassin who can do uncanny impersonations of literally anyone, and all we got out of that was when she killed off the Freys. She didn't technically put any of those skills to work when she shanked The Night King, we have to assume that maybe she used her powers of sneakiness to ease past the wights. Did she wear a wight mask? Who knows.

Meh, I like Bronn. He had the best one-liners of anyone else. I figure that Tyrion was all "I promised him all of this shit, and a Lannister always you know" to which Bran said "Whatever, I already saw this happening five days ago."

I don't know, I could go into this in detail but short version; Jamie had a great 4-5 season redemption arc that meant nothing. Dany's descent into madness was WAY too rushed as it seemed like she turned into a baddie literally overnight. What was the point of Cersei dying by a collapsed building? Jon getting exiled back to the Night's Watch was ok, but again, pretty lame for pretty much the penultimate character. And the guy who's been on a 3 season acid trip ends up on the throne.

I think we would have been a little more accepting of Dany's nuclear meltdown if she had chosen to do a few more evil things before hand. Killing Varys wasn't necessarily evil, that dude way overstepped and I don't think any fans had an emotional connection to him. I think that Dany should have done something like attack Winterfell, or something that would have more reasonably pushed Jon past the breaking point.

Cersei really should have had another ace up her sleeve. It just wasn't in line with her character development for her to be all "Wahh! I want to live!" before getting smushed by bricks. It was a pretty anti-climactic send-off.

I honestly really liked the Bran character. He spends all that time on his pilgrimage and practically turns into Professor X. The Lord of Light can be very hit-or-miss when it comes to the powers vested by him, Bran is the motherfucking Three Eyed Raven and he gives zero fucks about something as intense as The Night King strutting up to him. Nothing will get past him, he'll be nipping problems in the bud before they even get to the bud-phase. Team Bran all the way.

Call me a shitty fan if you want, but I can very much see why people are so disappointed with the ending. And this is coming from a guy who was completely fine with the way that Lost ended, so I wouldn't really call myself a nit-picker when it comes to this type of stuff.

Never got into Lost to be honest. I saw one episode and was like "90% of that was flashback, and the other 10% was a fat guy deciding to destroy a cache of food because he was afraid of how it would make people act".

I can also see why people would be disappointed, but to some it's as if the show's writers insulted their dead relatives. I have a few ideas of why they felt that they had to rush the show, but (like yourself) I also have a life. Unlike some of these superfans running around Twitter and Change.org, none of my problems in this world include "GAME OF THRONES ENDED WEIRD!"