Thanks. I mean, it wasn't a terrible episode, and nowhere near the WTF levels of the previous one. Everything got tied up, people who deserved a happy ending got one, most of the endings made some kind of sense... It just feels so damn perfunctory. Like I got to listen to someone sum up three seasons' worth of story in three episodes.
I kind of like Chuck Wendig's post: Endings are not stoppings. I don't agree with all of it, and I do have some other thoughts, but overall, it felt like they just... got bored, wrapped it up and walked away. So much that D&D themselves, not GRRM, set up and never paid off. So many characters that just got an express pass to The End. I mean, if we're going to drop pop culture references, Bran's election reminds me of that Simpsons episode where all the kids are trapped on a deserted island and the ending narration says "...and eventually they were all rescued by... oh, let's say Moe."
And from what I gather, in choosing Bran, it's sort of choosing the story of the land as the king? Which is lovely on a metaphorical level.
It is, and if they'd actually bothered setting that up rather than just telling us that, I might have loved it. But as with so many character developments over the last two mini-seasons, it feels like we just have to take their word for it. Honestly, if we're supposed to believe the sort of powers Bran claims to have, the whole thing feels like Bran is a supervillain who let everyone else take each other out and just surfed right through to the throne.
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Date: 2019-05-20 08:34 pm (UTC)I kind of like Chuck Wendig's post: Endings are not stoppings. I don't agree with all of it, and I do have some other thoughts, but overall, it felt like they just... got bored, wrapped it up and walked away. So much that D&D themselves, not GRRM, set up and never paid off. So many characters that just got an express pass to The End. I mean, if we're going to drop pop culture references, Bran's election reminds me of that Simpsons episode where all the kids are trapped on a deserted island and the ending narration says "...and eventually they were all rescued by... oh, let's say Moe."
And from what I gather, in choosing Bran, it's sort of choosing the story of the land as the king? Which is lovely on a metaphorical level.
It is, and if they'd actually bothered setting that up rather than just telling us that, I might have loved it. But as with so many character developments over the last two mini-seasons, it feels like we just have to take their word for it. Honestly, if we're supposed to believe the sort of powers Bran claims to have, the whole thing feels like Bran is a supervillain who let everyone else take each other out and just surfed right through to the throne.