After all, why even bother with the charade if they could just accuse him at any time? If they knew he had betrayed Ned and Catelyn, why go to all this trouble to trick him? Why not just accuse him and execute him right away? What a relief that that's all done with.Įxcept, I can't help but feel like it was all done for our sake, rather than for Littelfinger's. Littlefinger cries like a baby and Arya slashes his throat.
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Bran throws Littlefinger's own words to their father at him. It was great and satisfying, or at least a huge relief, to discover that it was all Arya's plot to unveil Littlefinger as a traitor. She even had Arya brought before her and Bran (that Bran was there was the first giveaway that it was, indeed, a trap for Baelish.) It was enormously frustrating to watch as Sansa was apparently manipulated even more by Littlefinger. I maintain that both these things remain true, even after tonight's reveal. I've also discussed the possibility that it was all a ruse, that the Starks were playing Littlefinger at his own game. I've had many unkind words about the Winterfell storyline. Let's fly back to Winterfell, but not to spy on Bran and Sam. We'll leave the fancy marching to the armies and take to the cloudy skies. So the dead are marching, and now it's just a matter of who has the best fast travel devices. I can't wash that taste out of my mouth no matter how much I enjoyed the season finale.
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So it's all well and good that the Night King had his tricks and got his dragon and toppled the Wall, but the whole series of events leading up to that remain preposterous and silly. Neither of these possible outcomes make up for a lost dragon or even a lost Jon Snow (had Dany not gone to rescue him.) More likely, however, they'd just not fight each other for a while.which would be the outcome of not making a truce also. I mean, stop and think about this for a second: What good would a truce or an alliance with Cersei actually do for Jon and Dany? At the very best, an army of Lannisters would go fight alongside them. And compared to the value of a flying, fire-breathing dragon nothing Dany and Jon and Tyrion hoped to gain from Cersei even compared. Cersei tells Jaime they can "retake all the lands they lost." But those lands are of little to no significance, at least strategically. Even worse, it still baffles me what they hoped to gain out of this in the first place. She was always going to betray them, and it's no surprise that she did. Anyone with half a brain could see that capturing a wight and showing it to Cersei was a waste of time. I'm sure I'll have many readers telling me how I was fooled by the cleverness of this twist, how all my gripes about last week's episode have been undone (both in terms of this plot and the Winterfell storyline, which we'll get to soon.) I maintain that the events leading up to this very cool finale were all preposterous and poorly executed. On the other hand, they only got a dragon because of a convoluted, stupid plan devised by Tyrion. On the one hand, we can see clearly that the reason the undead hadn't marched on the Wall yet was because they lacked the means to tear it down and move south. The dragon cutting through the Wall like a blowtorch the massive army of the dead sprawled out below the hulking giants lumbering through the wreckage.Īt the same time, it's kind of frustrating how the Night King actually came by his dragon. This entire segment was riveting and glorious. I don't think Tormund and Beric are dead if only because we didn't see them die, but it's anyone's guess until Season 8.
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Credit: HBOĪs we all predicted, the Wall has finally come crashing down, thanks to the Night King's clever (if inexplicable) plot to kill and turn a dragon and then use its blue fire to destroy it. I love how we're given this reveal at the exact same time as Jon and Dany finally start doing this:Īnd the wall comes tumbling down. A bigger question, of course, is how the name "Targaryen" will sit with him. In any case, he'll always be Jon Snow to us, and I doubt the name "Aegon" will sit well with him.
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Rhaegar also had an older son with Elia Martell named Aegon, so that's odd. He's named after the first Targaryen king, Aegon the Conqueror. While many of us saw this coming.having had the books and the show both hint at (in subtle and not-so-subtle ways) Jon's true identity, it's still nice to hear it said explicitly. This means that Jon isn't a 'Snow' or a 'Sand' or a bastard at all, but the rightful heir to Iron Throne. But Sam, bless him, one-ups our oracular Stark, telling him that no.Jon's parents were married in secret after Rhaegar annulled his previous marriage. He's not Ned Stark's son after all, he's the bastard of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. Ages ago, Sam helped Bran make his way beyond the Wall where he could become the Three-Eyed Raven.īran tells Sam that Jon needs to know the truth about himself. Sam shows up at Winterfell and goes to speak with Bran.