Id82 said: It was better than the LOST finale.
Rhaegar said: Spoiler: Move your mouse over the container to reveal.The explanation Dany gave to Jon for why she burned King's Landing was completely illogical and lame. Because she tried to make peace with Cersei, she said? Because Cersei was using the KL children's innocence as a shield, she said? If Cersei was Dany's target in the previous episode (presumably after Missandei was decapitated), what was stopping Dany from simply flying to the Red Keep directly and burning it to take out Cersei before she could escape? Innocents and children sure weren't going to stop a dragon from reaching the Red Keep. I didn't much care for the way Jon's killing of Dany was set up, either. The show had never done a particularly good job of replicating the facets of Jon's character in the book. Book!Jon was certainly capable of duplicity, but Show!Jon was basically a clone of Ned Stark, which, again, made the way he killed Dany feel unearned. Bran ... what did he do the entire season besides just sit around? They could've had him do SOMETHING with his alleged powers besides warg into a few crows at Winterfell. The Tyrion stories monologue was pretty lame, too. There were several people at the gathering of nobles who had more interesting stories to tell than Show!Bran. Grey Worm being the driving force behind exiling Jon back to the Night's Watch was also pretty stupid, considering he left Westeros right after. Aside from all the dumb shit mentioned above, the finale was really just fucking boring. Too much walking in slow motion, and most of it added nothing of value dramatically.
Spoony said: Spoiler: Move your mouse over the container to reveal. Cersei wasn't Dany's only target. Dany knew she was going to make an example of King's Landing before she even went to bed the night before. "Let it be fear, then." Lords would know that they couldn't hide behind smallfolk, and I suppose in her twisted Targaryen head, the people would be free from being used as such. And I don't know if I'd go so far as to call the way Jon killed her duplicity. When Jon said he loved her, and that she would always be his queen, I honestly think he meant it.
Rhaegar said: Spoiler: Move your mouse over the container to reveal.Laying waste to the Golden Company, the Iron Fleet, much of the Lannister army, and destroying the scorpions (talk about a nerf from one episode to the next) wasn't fear-inspiring enough? Attacking the Red Keep directly and burning it in short order wouldn't have inspired fear? And then there's the detail that the people of KL would've needed to be alive to feel fear in the first place. Jon still used Dany's love for him (and maybe his for her) as his main weapon. That's pretty deceptive any way you slice it. Again, Book!Jon, I could eventually see doing that ... after much further development in the final two books. Show!Jon, not so much.
Spoony said: Spoiler: Move your mouse over the container to reveal. She wasn't trying to inspire fear in the people of King's Landing. She was trying to inspire fear in the people of Westeros. The story would spread, songs would be sung (a la Rains of Castamere) and the whole continent would know that Daenerys razed an entire city full of disloyal smallfolk to the ground. That and the Jon part will undoubtedly be built up more in the books, especially considering they're both main POV characters. Although I could see GRRM having the stabbing scene be Dany's POV just to fuck with us. Goddamn, I hope he gets these things done. I'm already dying to know how it's going to play out from inside these characters' heads.
