GAME OF THRONES: THE FINAL EPISODE. Monday 20th May. Spoilers after 2am.

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It's here.

Eight seasons of love, hate, family, battles, history, mystery, myth and legend.

After laying waste to Kings' Landing, what next for Daenerys? Does destiny feel good when you kill thousands of innocents to reach it?

I will really miss these characters and their stories. Epic, must-watch television is rare. Will we ever see its like again?

And now our watch is ended.

I think the sending him to the ‘nights watch’ was abit of a ruse to keep the unsullied happy and what they really gave him was freedom beyond the wall with his good boy Ghost

Did Drogon think the Throne had killed Danni? It did though imo, her pursuit of it.

I think the sending him to the ‘nights watch’ was abit of a ruse to keep the unsullied happy and what they really gave him was freedom beyond the wall with his good boy Ghost

Good point although I’m wondering what would of happened if he just stood by Danys side as she ruled.

Is Jon not immune to fire since he's a Targaryen?

Dany reminded me of leaders like Lenin leading the Russian Revolution that began supposedly to help the people but whose mission became warped and millions ended up dying.

I agree @birdandroses - like 'Animal Farm'

Is Jon not immune to fire since he's a Targaryen?

Targaryens aren't immune to fire though are they that's a Danny thing. Lots of past Targaryens have been injured by fire if not killed.

The impression I got was that a Targaryen fit to rule would not burn and this was the defining moment in Dany deciding to go for the iron throne. Jon was considered fit to rule but didn't want to.

Daenerys was killed in the same way as her father...

I liked how my emotions at Dany’s death were not straightforward. I had just gone from feeling Dany needed to be stopped to prevent further slaughter to nonetheless only a few minutes on being moved by her death and sad her choices had come to losing her life and at the hands of the man she loved.

Yes, @MoominMantra, exactly like Animal Farm!

Good point although I’m wondering what would of happened if he just stood by Danys side as she ruled.

A lot more death in the name of liberation.

The moment with Drogons wings behind Dany was beautiful. I wish they hadn't killed her so quickly and there had been an aftermath episode before this one.

Why did Brienne stay in KL? Why isn't she Sansa's Queensguard?

See I’m being naive & thinking Jon could have talked her down.
I do/did feel sorry for Dany & how she ended up.

See I’m being naive & thinking Jon could have talked her down.

Politically savvier players and much better orators than Jon have been trying that since Mereen, to be fair. And got nowhere, mostly.

I know, i’m just sad he was banished.

Good point although I’m wondering what would of happened if he just stood by Danys side as she ruled.

See I think that would have been the worst ending for me Jon and Danny ruling side by side him tempering her worst impulses. Possibly even with a baby on the way. It just wouldn't have been GOT's.

It just wouldn't have been GOT's Completely agree. I did find it odd that Jon wasn’t killed straight away though.

Besides the fact that he saw she was a brutal murderer, I think Jon was heavily influenced by something Tyrion said to him about Sansa refusing to kneel. He knew Dany would then likely kill her (and everyone else in Winterfell), so he really then had to choose between her and his family, and made the "easy" decision.

It just wouldn't have been GOT's
I don't feel like this was GoT either though. Dani's death was sad because her story is tragic, but it was also happy because of her being a delusional mass murderer. It seemed to be over very quickly and I didn't really feel much about it which was sad.

Apart from that, everyone has a happy ending, which isn't GoT at all. Even Jon seemed happy, when his ending could have been really, really sad and unfair and bitter.

I think the unsullied are the only ones left unhappy.

Bran would make a better advisor than a King. He is basically a history book which is great, but has no compassion, lives in the past and isn't really 'here' or himself anymore.

Think I need time to process this so I'm going to get some sleep and hope I wake up with a fresh perspective.

I can't believe I lost an hour and a half sleeping time for that. Dull dull and I thought it was meant to be a bitter sweet ending? That was a millimetre off 'and they all lived happily ever after'.

Couldn’t sleep so just watched it on NowTV.

I enjoyed it. Bran’s script and performance haven’t really merited the crown but Tyrion’s reasoning makes sense. Once you dismiss Sam’s ludicrous suggestion of letting the people decide, then abandoning hereditary rule is the best progress we could hope for, and would indeed have prevented a lot of the worst calamities of the previous twenty/one thousand years. Of course it’s still all based on the Houses, which are still hereditary, but having a leader chosen on merit, and in the knowledge that your House might possibly have a chance next time around makes sense.

Loved Sansa getting exactly what she wanted after playing a pretty flawless game for the last two series. Squealed at Prince Philip Edmure turning up, still as useless as ever. Didn’t work out who Robin was at the time, but in the absence of evidence to the contrary I’m going to hope he’s improved with age. Laughed at Ghost getting a big cuddle after all the outrage last time.

Loved Brienne’s ending. I know a lot of people didn’t like her weakness for Jaime but I thought it worked. He was the love of her life, but she never let that get in the way of her duty, and she’ll be a fantastic head of the Kingsguard, doing the job of her dreams.

I thought the last ten minutes suffered a bit from LOTR syndrome - they could easily have cut it in half and only showed us fifty shots of each of the Starks getting on with their lives instead of (what felt like) one hundred.

Oh, and Tyrion’s use of Sansa and Arya to persuade Jon in the prison cell was a mirror of Littlefinger’s (or was at Varys’?) chat to Ned. But rather more helpful.

So many mixed feelings after watching the whole season back to back.

The leaked spoiler someone had imparted was that Jon would stab Dany, and that Bran would end up on the throne.

From that, I had decided in my head that this would be a very clever ending whereby the 3ER/Lord of Light had been manipulating people and events to reach this end point of the 3ER being in power.

This in turn would have had something to do with the Children of the Forest/similar wanting to regain power and land back from people (and might have then explained the Night King a bit better).

Ahem.

The early parts with Dany were great (and suitably terrifying). The sad whine that Drogon made when she wouldn't move was the same one he made when Jorah died which set me off.

Very happy to see that Ghost got a fuss, and definitely took it as Jon going off to do a Mance Rayder and live beyond the wall. Also loked that he could be another nameless Targaryen living in Castle Black as an alternative.

Loved the sleeves of Sansa's dress, with the red weirwood tree leaves.

Shed a tear for poor Tyrion digging his siblings out from the rubble.

Everything else is undecided at this point, and I am a good 85% caffeine.

Now heading over to Reddit to see just how outraged people are...

I loved it!!!

Seriously, I loved absolutely every single second of it.

I now understand why Bran said he couldn't be Lord of Winterfell. It wasn't because he was the 3-eyed Raven. It's because he knew he would be king. Makes total sense.

I loved Tyrion walking past the broken bell in the beginning and him crying over Jaime and Cersei's corpses. I loved the way they had the dragon fly up behind Dany giving her wings. I loved Jon stabbing Dany in the heart and Drogon destroying the iron throne. I loved Brienne being the new captain of the Kingsguard and writing Jaime's entry. I loved Jon and Ghost being reunited. I loved that he had his old hair back for it. I loved the choral version of the theme song at the end.

Actually, I just loved everything. Yeah, I'm a dork.

What on earth am I going to watch now???

Arya becoming an explorer? That seemed out of left field I wonder if Arya the explorer is one of the spin off because it seems like that was a set up to me.

Nah, she'd definitely said that before.. "What is west of westeros?" Can't remember which season, I think it was when she was still a child but to me this ending made sense.

And if Westeros is Britain and Europe, then west of Westeros is America which I think is quite a nice ending for her.