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Game Of Thrones, Season 8, Episode 6

The Iron Throne

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Jonathan

The end of the series does not take away the greatness of what was a fantastic series and maybe the last one that was pretty universally watched across the country. This was my first full viewing of the finale since it aired and I’ve made peace with most of it. The Cersei and Jamie ending still stings but this isn’t the first great show that didn’t stick the landing and it won’t be the last. George RR Martin said he signed off on this finale so I guess it was ok with him. You have had to say goodbye to many of the best shows on tv the past couple weeks. Luckily there are still some out there to explore. And maybe at the 10 year mark we will finally get the John Snow series that has had many false starts.

Youtalkingtome

I would watch a Jon show. I really would. One of the best characters I've had the privilege of watching!

yann hollister

This episode was actually good until Dany's death, the second half is just terrible. Terrible writing.

Balazs Foldes

Thank you so much for your reactions for this awesome series. It was a real pleasure watching along, and I will miss it.

jimmy2k4o .

To quote the Joker “all it takes is one bad day for a perfectly normal person to go mad” Well Dany had a bunch of bad days in close succession. 1.Losing veserion 2.finding out she’s not the rightful heir and the man she loves is. 3.seeing that everyone loves Jon and doesn’t love her like they did in essos 4.losing Jorah 5.losing rhagal 6.losing missande 7.losing Jon because he can’t get over the aunt thing. 8. Seeing her court betray her by spreading the news about Jon, and she knows if the news gets out she’ll lose her claim to the throne. She dreamed about her homecoming to Westeros all her life and it was nothing like what she expected. Everything went wrong. Then when she’s finally taking revenge on cersi and winning, she surrenders. Robbing her of her emotional release. I bet she was thinking “you don’t get to surrender” And was so enraged she decided to devastate the city, to intimidate Cersi. To show Cersei what she was in for. Also she may have felt like the people betrayed her by not loving her and fighting for her like she was so used to in essos. Perhaps that made her think these people must be on Cersi’s side and that made them fair game. And she has a HUGE genetic predisposition to violent destructive insanity. The mad king was sane before he was kidnapped and tortured, it was his mistreatment that triggered his insanity.

George Samoila

In one of RR Martin's science fiction books that I read, he chose an open ending and I like to think that's what he would choose for this series, maybe ending it intentionally right before humanity had to go through the long winter. He has a nostalgic/melancholic tendency and I dont think he would deliver the ending this show did, which, while tragic, ties up a lot of loose ends as much as possible, as is expected of a blockbuster TV production. I highly recommend you check out the books when you feel like reading something massive, characters that are very minor or nonexistant or killed off in the show are alive and well and kicking ass. Even if the books never get finished, they're so much more expansive than the show, you will adore them. When I initially read them, the minor houses and knights and small heroes were always my favorite parts. And there's of course the Dunc and Egg books that are getting adapted for tv, which are also awesome and set like a century before GoT. Like the Harry Potter books and movies, I feel GoT and the books complement each other.

Yannick, from Montréal

You've summarized pretty much my view about this episode. Ok, let's accept what happened last episode. The 1st half of this episode is doing an actual great job of follow up to the devastation. Characters are acting accordingly to recent history, Dany sees the world as against her, Jon gets to act in regards to his higher values, Tyrion still uses his talk to get his point across, even Drogon gets rid of the Iron Throne that created all this mess... But then after Dany's death, it goes again into weird choices (Bran KNEW he was going to become King? Yeah, right!) Anyways, the quality of the show from the start won't stop you from watching it again, and again, and again... Like we all did here with you. It was a pleasure to accompany you in this endeavour, looking forward to have you both watch House of the Dragon (or Hot D for short ;-) soon!

Yannick, from Montréal

I was ABOUT to write something about Andor, but you've beat me to the punch ;-) We're not joking, this will completely change your view on what Star Wars can do... and how a good show can redeem (a bit) an IP that's half-a-century in the making. You'll thank us after for pushing it all this time...

Yannick, from Montréal

Sam has seen how a "democratic vote" looks like while in the Night's Watch. They let all the ones that will follow their leader choose him. I understand his point of view. But I also see why the others laughed it out of there...

Roland

I really enjoyed this final episode, worked so much better on a second viewing many years later. There were some clunky things in earlier episodes (probably in every season), but I think what underpinned people being thrown off of S8 was the (rushed?) mishandling of Varys' recognition of Danaerys future, and his plotting / failure. It was all perfectly laid out in Tyrion's fantastic speech to Jon after Varys' execution. But I'm not sure there's an easy solution to that. (OTOH that's why you have an army of Emmy-winning writers). Taken as a whole though, I think S7 and S8 hold up just as solidly as the rest of the show. But it's taken a rewatch after a very long break to help me get there.

Anjali Agarwal

Great series. For me, the show ended when Dany sailed off to Westeros. Garbage finale - Bran being King is just terrible writing.

Yannick, from Montréal

S1-S4 are outstanding. S5-S6 starts to have some clunkiness but very little. There are some memorable episodes (Hardhome, Battle of the Bastards to name some of them) and the plotline is still solid. Daenerys whole Westeros campaign was a bit of a fumble, even when I say that S7E3 is a must watch for the meeting of Jon and Dany, and the Dothraki/Daenerys on Drogon attack of the Lannister caravan is mesmerizing. S8 has E2 for getting us in tears. And that's where I will most probably stop my re-watches in the future.

Youtalkingtome

I was talking to Kevin about the Bran bit and it really doesn't make sense! In the moment I was like, "Okay I guess"