Soldato
Season did end on a high? All the best characters ended up doing what they wanted.
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Soldato
By ending on a high i mean I wanted to have watched it and come away thinking it was an amazing episode, like I did after the red wedding and certain other episodes. Not 'meh, it was ok I guess', like I and a lot of others felt it seems reading around on the net.
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Soldato
There was no need to react instanty to the Dany threat. He could have married her, ruled by her side and seen how things went, used his inflence on her to turn her right. If it wasnt working kill her later. Killing her at that moment makes no sense to me.
by half way through that episode i was hoping Dany would kill Jon tbh he was that woeful.
Soldato
It ended beautifully for me. After the dark start, with Tyrion walking through the ruins, and then the death of Danny, the episode started to unfurl in an almost poetic character.
It actually surprised me a bit, for the first time in a long time there was relief which was transient throughout every character in the episode. There was also a lightheartedness and humour about it I cannot remember seeing before in any ep prior.
The scene with the audition for the king, the "that will improve" and Bran's smile as he left, the way the characters looked at each other as good friends and that feeling of a better world on the horizon.
The brothel's needing renovation and master of coin willing to rebuild them haha. The way Brienne wrote in the book. All of it was deft and executed perfectly, the pacing, the writing, direction, the lighting as well, there was a real air of peacefulness about the episode at the end.
Soldato
Given the scene before was Tyrion saying how long do you think it would be before she saw Jon as a threat then yeah I guess that focuses your mind a bit
She just cooked a city of people. Jon would never forgive her, the only thing he could do was stop her doing it again.
Commissario
He already knows she'll kill anyone she thinks is a threat without any delay or warning, and she's already shown she isn't likely or willing to listen to reason.
Do you:
A: bet the lives of hundreds of thousands, including your family, and yourself that she'll change (and not change back).
B: Take action.
He was trying right up to that last moment to get an indication that she would show remorse or understanding that she went too far, and he was aware it might be the last time he, or anyone else got a chance to stop her before she did it again.
Soldato
Actually dont see what all the fuss is about with the petition, seen lot worse endings to well loved series, Lost anyone ? No reason why this could not be picked up at a later date to continue where the characters were left!
Man of Honour
LOL...
Did you watch the same show as everyone else or do you work for HBO? I am loving some of the hilarious posts in this thread.
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Soldato
Heh, I just liked the show.
I remember reading the book the Beach and then watching the film in the Cinema years later. I loved that book, one of my favourites ever, so I was a bit disappointed by the film in some respects. I learned then not to try and compare a film to a book or vice versa otherwise you'll annoy yourself. So with anything now, whether it's a book or a film or a tv show I just focus on what it is, not what it should be/should have been/could have been. If I like it all the better.
I remember reading the book the Beach and then watching the film in the Cinema years later. I loved that book, one of my favourites ever, so I was a bit disappointed by the film in some respects. I learned then not to try and compare a film to a book or vice versa otherwise you'll annoy yourself. So with anything now, whether it's a book or a film or a tv show I just focus on what it is, not what it should be/should have been/could have been. If I like it all the better.
Soldato
But when she says "We've 'freed' Kings Landing, next we'll 'free' Winterfell" I would say that's pretty clear she's just going to **** them up! In mu opinion.
Soldato
The way she said she just freed KL, that told us what she meant by it... in my opinion
Soldato
Did she definitely say Winterfell? I didnt hear that (will watch it again). She already controlled the 7 kingdoms at that point - Jon had already pledged aliegance. I thought she said the other lands outside of westeros.
Commissario
YupThe way she said she just freed KL, that told us what she meant by it... in my opinion
"it became necessary to destroy the town to save it"
She couldn't see that there is a difference between freeing somewhere, and burning it and it's inhabitants to the ground.
At that point any talk of "freeing" other towns/cities had to be taken in that context, as she had done it once (and a whole history of other lesser atrocities in the name of freedom), and wasn't willing to entertain the idea that her idea of "freeing" people was basically to slaughter anyone who was associated with her enemies, and ignore the normal rules and attempts to reign in the worst aspects of war (IE not killing those who have surrendered, not wilfully killing civilians).
She was already acting like Cersei, and heading towards Aerys levels of insanity and willingness to kill the general population if her will wasn't accepted.
Man of Honour
Yeah not to mention that she said to Jon that other people won’t get a choice in what’s considered “good” or not
Soldato
[QUOTE="Werewolf]She couldn't see that there is a difference between freeing somewhere, and burning it and it's inhabitants to the ground."[/QUOTE]
She never could which is why I'm surprised some people say she all of a sudden went mad, she's always been mad, it just slowly manifested itself the total carnage type of mad that was bubbling underneath her tyrannic character.