Jaime, Brienne, and Pod are all seen standing alive together at a wall at the end.

To be fair, a narrative excuse to prune Jon and Dany’s army to make the Cersei fight have drama is, I think, Martin’s outline (though he’ll hopefully gussy it up so that’s not obvious). But if the showrunners wanted Jon and Dany to have an appropriately sized army to make drama with Cersei, they would just have them…

Asshole.

Oh fuck off. Some of us have three month old kids and want to see it desperately with our partners but have to find a three hour window where neither of us has to work and someone can watch the kid but doesn’t have to feed them because they’re too young for that. To name one of a thousand reasons that people who might…

The whole Azor Ahai, Prince that was Promised stuff cannot be undone by Arya with a dagger.

If he ever finishes the books, maybe they’ll explain, but I think it will still be all oblique and suggestive, the way the books indicate things without saying them. The show has never seemed to be interested in fleshing that stuff out. It seems like “they exist because the show needs an apocalyptic environmental…

I’m not sure what you mean that he can’t give a truthful answer. He said voters will support Bernie “based on policy.” But the whole point of this article he’s commenting on is that Bernie kept getting asked for policies on race specific issues, and he kept answering with shit that had nothing to do with anti-racist…

Just screams either: “I don’t have any actual substantial policies” << Bingo.

Then he shouldn’t run in the Democratic primary.

What is it with Sandernistas and this knee-jerk “look at the policy” response to any criticism of his clumsiness on race? He was asked what he would do to curb rising white supremacist violence, and he answered with DACA, M4A, and $15/hr. The problem isn’t whether he or the voters in that crowd do or don’t care about…

...oh god.....Maybe I am the zombie?!?!

That’s the Silicon Valley brochure version, yes. I’m saying that’s generally a lot of hype. Uber and Lyft aren’t serving an unserved or underserved market, they’re serving the same people who would be getting cabs but they’re charging less. Their margins are certainly thinner—there’s a lot of indication that neither…

Sure, no one will pay for that many. So then some of the bigger services like Disney’s will be doing really well and they’ll buy up the rights of the smaller ones, until we get to a couple services sharing a functional monopoly, and then they’ll just all collude to jack their rates back up to what we would have been…

And then Jaime kills Cersei and orders the gates to King’s Landing opened, before killing himself.

It would be a perfect ending for him to die following Brienne, The Superior Knight, for sure. But he has to die killing Cersei, partly because we’ve got the prophecy he will, but also partly because this last season really clearly loves its full-circle moments, so him killing Cersei to stop her from blowing up the…

Hmm, well it seems like someone needs to be the Three-Eyed Raven for the world to be okay, so if he dies he’d have to. It seems pretty heavily implied to me though that the Stark’s latent warging ability is what makes him able to do that, so I wonder who he can pass it to.

In King’s Landing, though. Arya tries to kill Mountain (he’s on the list), Hound takes care of it, dies in process.

Defending Bran is 100% how Theon dies. This last season is fully about full-circle plot moments. So the guy who took the castle from Bran and chased him out into the wilderness will now die saving Bran, now changed by the wilderness.

Jaime has to die finishing his business in King’s landing, so yeah, he makes it. Ditto for the Hound.

A list of people definitely on the way out next episode:
Grey Worm
Jorah
Theon
Pod
Tormund
Just look for the narratively unnecessary characters who are either lovable fan favorites or Formerly Despicable People Who Found Redemption, and then ask which ones got tear-jerking or backslapping solo moments this episode. Because…