So, if you are new to this source of my ire, you may want to start here-
I’ll wait.
And throw in this random meme to help give spoiler space. Cause I’m nice like that.
Sigh.
OK, I’ve been nice enough, time to let the hate flow.
- This entire season has been fan service, I submit for your consideration the following:
- Brienne and Jaime hook up
- Random Ghost sightings
- Jon on a dragon (that isn’t Daenerys)
- Ice King Kill (but only at the very last moment after it seems like our heroes are all screwed)
- Clegane Bowl
- Cersei Dies (but not with enough pain, suffering, and humiliation)
- So. Much. Rushing!
- Tolkien Ripoffs- after one, it’s no longer an homage, assholes.
- The Iron Throne = The One Ring- melt that bitch, everyone goes home.
- In universe book, detailing the outcome of the recent war/upheaval
- Beloved character sails randomly off into the West, never to return
- Fucking All Hail King Bran the Broken- I’m going to take a little time here, cause this one is suuuuuper off pissing. In every other fantasy iteration, the cost of bearing great power is that you aren’t allowed to do anything you damn well please with it for fuck’s sake! Bran knows the past, the present, and the future! Do you think that might make him a little problematic on the goddam throne, wielding that knowledge? Just a little? You think?
- Sansa refusing to bend the knee- for what fucking reason? Like the North wouldn’t bow to a Stark king, you uppity cow!
- Jon taking off into exile beyond the Wall.
In conclusion, everything that fucking happened in the end didn’t do anything to break the wheel or establish some semblance of peace.. it just visibly and pointedly sowed the seeds of more discontent scheduled to land in a Westeros near you in a generation or two after the North decides to get territorial or the Six Kingdoms picks someone Sansa’s grandson doesn’t like or Jon’s granddaughter decides to push her claim to either throne.
And sure, to an extent, that’s the point, to say that stories, like history keep going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I fucking get it, you smug, arrogant bastards. Do you ever notice who likes to tell you about fucking important stories are and how much they matter in the grand scheme of things?
FUCKING STORYTELLERS, THAT’S WHO!!!!!
And do you know what happens when your audience is so thoroughly betrayed by what you’ve done with all the love they had for those characters and that world?
They stop listening and they stop caring. Your legacy as a storyteller lives or dies by your honesty within your characters and with yourself.
Congrats D&D, way to go. /golf clap
Curiouser and Curiouser 