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Season 8 did make sense (spoilers)

posted 5 years ago by ATG6 (3000)
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Most of the complaining amounts to A) it didn't end like I wanted it to (boo-hoo), B) the characters' actions didn't fit the character (they did), C) character X should have killed character Y (instead of character Z doing it), or D) but the prophecy promised us a prince! (so what? prophecy is a crock.) Here are the main complaints I've heard:

1. "The Night King's motives were never explained." He's Death -- he wants to kill everyone. Not that hard to grasp.

2. "The Night King was supposed to be the Big Bad, but they finished him off in 1 episode." Not really, they fought him several times previously over multiple seasons. And just because he was a serious threat didn't mean he was the only Big Bad.

3. "Jaimie Lannister was a changed man! He had turned good and loved Ser Brienne! No way he would leave her to protect Cersei!" Really? He liked Brienne, but only slept with her when they were both drunk and he found out she was a virgin, and he wanted her first time to be with someone who cared about her and knew what he was doing. But he wasn't going to just let Daenerys kill his sister/only woman he ever loved.

4. "Daenerys wasn't a blood thirsty tyrant! She was good!" Except for the previous several seasons where she burned people alive, crucified people alive, and basically killed anyone in her path who didn't bend the knee. Were you not watching?

5. "Jon Snow should have killed the Night King! Arya should have killed Cersei!" Why? Did you not like the show when it was unpredictable? Wasn't that pretty much the main different thing about it?

6. "Arya wouldn't just give up on killing Cersei!" Really? Kings Landing was soon to be a smoldering ruin. Cersei was already a goner. Smart kid, leaving while she still could.

7. "Jon Snow was the Prince Who Was Promised! He should have ended up on the Iron Throne! He was a good man!" Yeah, and not very bright, and not interested in ruling. And because he was a good man, he did the right thing and offed a tyrant. After that, Dany's armies wouldn't accept him ruling Westeros. He's lucky they agreed to let him live in exile.

[–] SoCrates (868) 5 years ago

The only thing that didn't make sense to me was Grey Worm and the Unsullied's reaction to Jon Snow killing Daenerys. I think they would avenge their queen no matter what. Even if it meant all of them dying in a later war with the north. No way he would be taken prisoner, IMO.

[–] Atarimaster (442) 5 years ago

It *might* have made more sense if we had seen
– how Jon Snow got taken prisoner instead of being killed at once,
– how the council talked Grey Worm into accepting the "punishment" they proposed for Jon.

I admit that I couldn’t come up with a satisfying logical version of that scenes. I mean, a scene that makes the viewers think: "Alright, this makes sense", but then again I’m not a writer.
But who knows, maybe they couldn’t think of anything logical here, too, so they just left it out and thought that nobody would notice.