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

[OneInAMillionYou]

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 like that Dany did break the wheel just not in the way she thought she would.

Bran can only see the past and present is that right? I agree that Tyrion is the real ruler and Bran is the figurehead.

I did love Ser Brienne writing Jamie's contribution and how Tyrion was written out. I assumed Brienne is now head of the Kings Guard?

Excellent choice of Pod to care for the King as a knight.

Wonder if Drogon will eventually go find Jon.

The Nights Watch doesn't exist anymore. Do you think the Starks/Tyrion knew that they were setting Jon free?

I spent most of the episode saying,

"Well, who made that banner?"

"Who has done her hair?"

"Where are all of these soldiers sleeping? What are they eating?"

I bloody well fell asleep didn’t I!?!?

The Nights Watch will probably carry on as a sort of North Queendom/True North border checkpoint.

Omg Jaynepoole the first thing I said to DH after missandei died was 'dunno who's gonna do her hair now'

Who is doing her hair? And where are all those new outfits coming from? Also, where are they all sleeping, given that KL is rubble?

And are we ignoring Bran saying he can't be Lord of Winterfell (or anything) because he's the 3ER, but king is fine, thank you muchly?

I wondered about the big Targ banner - I assumed it was the last of one of the ships

*mast

Well I think the Dothraki are good at plaits?

I remember reading Dany gets more braids as she wins & in that stair shot she had loads.

Dany has always been 'bad'. The storytelling was geared for the audience to sympathise with her character and admire her resilience but she was never truly good.

I watched a scene from season 1 today where Khal Drogo is making a speech to the Dothraki saying that he will claim the throne and the seven kingdoms for his son. He will burn cities, kill men in armour, rape women and enslave children. Dany is looking at him adoringly during this. She was always prepared to do what it took to get her throne, no matter how much blood was spilled.

I also said, out loud, 'who the hell did her hair for her??' No way could you do that on your own...

I feel a bit bereft now..
I bloody loved that show whatever bum notes there have been along the way...
What to watch now?
I've also just fully caught up with Viking's-should have saved that to watch after this as at least it's a saga in a slightly similar vein-highly recommended if anyone needs something to wean them off ' Thrones and hasn't seen it...

And are we ignoring Bran saying he can't be Lord of Winterfell (or anything) because he's the 3ER

He just failed to say that the 3ER was destined go be the new king. Details.

It was just all a bit predictable wasn't it

My guess is that Drogon ‘recognised’ Jon as being a dragon lord. The telepathic connection between dragons and riders hasn’t been explored in the show but it’s a very un-subtle hint that it was there

There's the moment in season whatever 7? where Jon touches the dragon's snout the first time he encounters it close up. It's clear that Danaerys is not forbidding or permitting it by any gesture and the dragon snuffles Jon's hand and is briefly quiet. Close up of eye and placid blink. It knows he is a Targaryen.

Oops posted too soon
I can't tell if I'm disappointed or not
It feels like especially over the last season this was how it was always going to end but it's meant I feel quite underwhelmed now that it has

But at least Tyrion didn't manage to dig Jamie out and he survived somehow because that would have been truly ludicrous

I missed the grass!!! And I was looking for signs of any winter remnants or spring arriving.

Good excuse to watch again.

She was always prepared to do what it took to get her throne

Exactly. I liked the conversation with Jon when she talked about her conversations with Viserys as a child. Fundamentally at her core she still totally bought into the idea that the kingdom was her family’s birthright and she should have it back whatever the cost. We were distracted on the way because her ‘Fire and Blood’ methods were mostly used against people we were supposed to see as baddies, until they suddenly weren’t.

She hasn’t changed. Our perception of her has.

I watched a scene from season 1 today where Khal Drogo is making a speech to the Dothraki saying that he will claim the throne and the seven kingdoms for his son. He will burn cities, kill men in armour, rape women and enslave children. Dany is looking at him adoringly during this. She was always prepared to do what it took to get her throne, no matter how much blood was spilled.

Well, this! Which is also why I don't buy into that one part of the internet that is screaming misogyny about her story line. See also: S1, woman gets brutally raped, Dany tries to show compassion to her (but ultimately utterly fails to grasp on a very fundamental level that white princess handing out charity means fuck all under the circumstances). Trusts woman. Woman promptly takes the opportunity to off the head honcho of the band of savages that pillaged her village and raped her. Dany feels betrayed and burns her.

She's always been desperstely out of touch and incredibly entitled - even in her Mhysa personality.

All the people complaining - you do know that GRRM made it a condition of letting HBO have the TV rights that they had to end it the way he's going to end the books, if he ever gets round to it? For all we know, Weiss and Benioff would have done something different, given a free hand, but they had to get to that end point.

I was happy with it. The key thing was to put an end to Daenerys and the age of dynasties. Also, I was so pleased to see Ghost at the end!

For all we know, Weiss and Benioff would have done something different, given a free hand, but they had to get to that end point.

100% agree. Benioff and Weiss are TV producers and not writers. They would not have written this end for Dany. This is 100% GRRM.

Episode was called ‘The Iron Throne’

Jaime and Cersei were incredibly clean and uncrushed/unbloodied looking for two people squashed to death by falling masonry

Speaking of Dothraki, what's up with them. I guess they won't be up for revenge as such - in their culture you're great until you die and once someone has beaten you, you are worthless. So dead Danni is no longer relevant. However you do have an armyload of testosterone-fuelled warriors whose main plan when they win a battle is to rape, pillage and enslave. And they are on westeros and hate being on boats so won't be easily persuaded to go home. What's the plan?

Drogon definitely recognised Jon having done the right thing hence he didn't kill him. He loved his Mother but recognised with his dragony intelligence that she had gone the full crazy.

Isn't it because he's a Targaryen as dragons can't/won't kill a Targ?

Yeah, or that-but it all amounts to the same thing-dragons know stuff...