Greg Bernhardt said:
I added "spoilers" to the thread title so we can talk plainly. They are certainly setting up for Dany vs Jon/Arya confrontation in the end. I think if Jon does survive he's beyond accepting the throne. Some say Arya will, but she is not a ruler and more a lone wolf. It does appear more and more that Tyrion is best suited.
Well, I have to give you props for that prediction; it's spot on about the direction and the uncertainty it left regarding who would be on the throne. The choice...
Greg Bernhardt said:
What's everyone take on the last episode and last season? I felt it was all very rushed and just about tying ends up. Very few real surprises. I thought the battle of winterfell was excellent and the rest very meh.
IMO, the entire season was rushed due to the decision for it to be only 6 episodes. A lot of fans and reviewers gave it bad marks mostly based on that reason. Setting that aside, I liked it for the most part. Sure it went where you expected (both the season and last episode), but I'm not sure it could have gone any other way, except of course for who got the throne -- that was out of left field and makes no sense.
I read a lot of criticisms about predictability, but here's the problem I see with that: you can only kill Ned Stark once. After that, everyone knows the gloves are off and even deaths/actions that aren't predicted aren't surprising anymore.
It also doesn't mean characters don't follow their personality. With Ned Stark's death, we all knew Joffrey was a sadistic bastard, we just didn't know where the line was (nonexistent). If that scene had happened in any other season, nobody would have been the least bit surprised that Joffrey had him killed.
BTW, you didn't happen to do a Death Pool before the season, did you? I did. For the most part, I over-estimated the number of deaths, but my big misses were predicting Bran to die and Dany to live.
