Definitely the best underrated moment in 8x03 for me is Davos after the battle ends going to find Melisandre WITH HIS SWORD OUT AT THE READY! Like literally the FIRST thing he does after the Night King gets iced is go “well, if that Red Bitch isn’t dead yet, no worries, I can fix that!” The Onion Knight came to SQUARE UP for his little dragonscale daughter and I’m here for it 💯
Me @ GoT Ending: No worries, I'll just write a fic where Daenerys is resurrected and she lives out the rest of her amnesiac life as a lesbian in the far east of Essos with Drogon and some random all-female tribe.
Just saw a thing on Tumblr and I wanted to say, can we please not ship Ramsay and Theon?
*Spoilers*
Ramsay literally tortures, shames, and abuses Theon into a totally different person that can’t even summon enough self confidence and bravery to save his sister. This ship is 100% an abuser/abuser ship and not good.
Another thought about Arya saying no is that Daenerys lorded him, she doesn't trust her one tiny bit so she wants Gendry to not be under her power. Also it was explicit that Daenerys lorded Gendry so he would never rebel to her
Red Dead Remption 2 succeeded where Game of Thrones failed
Red Dead Redemption 2 pulled off a more compelling and succinct condemnation of blindly following power-mad leaders than Game of Thrones. Yes, it occasionally belabours its point but it compensates with a genuinely heartfelt story about the possibility of redemptive change. Additionally, by putting the player in the shoes of a gun-toting bandit, the game makes players feel culpable for the moral decline its protagonist, Arthur Morgan, strives to atone for in the game’s final act.
As much as I admired GoT’s 11th-hour concept - Dany becoming a stand-in for American exceptionalism - the show didn’t really earn this moment, nor did it have much to say about human potential. With more time we could’ve seen Dany reckon with her genocidal actions. Instead, Emilia Clarke does the heavy lifting of selling Dany’s transition with a commendable performance.
Dany’s motivations during the now infamous penultimate episode are complicated by the show’s fantasy lore. Did she destroy King’s Landing because of her “crazy” genes or because she was driven by a problematic saviour complex; one she shares with Western leaders spreading democracy with drone strikes and proxy wars. Whatever the case, most viewers seem confused as to what the show was trying to say with its most interesting character and final season.
I’m sure to be in the minority here but ... I’m totally fine with Arya being Azhor Ahai and also NOT fitting the prophecy at all. I’d also be fine with the prophecy meaning defeating Cersei or whatever, and I get that Melisandre noped out so we’ll probably not get a straight answer but like ... I like the idea of the prophecy itself being bullshit?
There’s this great tragic irony to the idea that all of these people (including Aerys and even maybe Rhagear (though way more so book-Rhagear than show-Rhaegar)) did all this awful shit to find Azhor Ahai as the prophecy described them (born under a bleeding star, wielding Lightbringer, etc) ... but that the prophecy was always a red herring. Chosen One narratives are somewhat cheap and tired stories. I’d be totally fine if GoT’s big statement about the prophecy was “yeah, being the Chosen One doesn’t mean shit and instead if you work and train and hone your skills you can succeed anyways.”
Arya feels like the right one to kill the Night King because Arya put in the damn WORK. We get to see her learn every skill she used to kill the Night King; she was fast, resourceful, deadly, refused to let the odds get to her, and singleminded in her goal that she was going to meet death and kill it. And I really like the idea that that’s all it takes to be the saviour; putting in the work, not being the “Chosen One” because of mercury being in retrograde when you were born or whatever.