Like many, I have had...concerns about how Game of Thrones was wrapping up—up to & including the penultimate episode. But I have to say, I found the endings—for the overall story & for the surviving characters—very satisfying. That finale did a lot to redeem any missteps. Perfect? Nope. Best possible given how we…

These are all fair points. I would say though, that both season 7 & season 8 would have benefited from having the full 10 episodes to flesh things out. One of the chief criticisms that I keep seeing is how rushed the storytelling feels, especially now in season 8, & particularly Dany’s heel turn. The general consensus…

I even wondered whether they still ARE married. I mean, her marriage to Ramsay was more like a kidnapping, & unless her marriage to Tyrion was formally annulled by a Septon, seems like maybe it’s still intact, legally. But yeah, we can’t reasonably expect anything approaching a happy ending.

OK, one more harumph:
reining ≠ reigning ≠ raining
“rein in” is an equestrian metaphor about control
“reign” is what a monarch does
“rain” falls from the sky
Dany is “raining down fire”, not a “reigning down fire”.
Time to take my cranky ass to bed, methinks.

This may be a pedantic quibble, or just the Latin teacher in me harumphing, but “R.I.P., Sandor Clegane and your malevolent brother”?  I’m all for wishing that The Hound rest in peace, but no way in seven hells should we wish that for the fucking Mountain.  R.I.P. doesn’t just mean someone has died--it’s a wish:…

I have no problem with her using Drogon to win the war—other than she could have done exactly the same thing when she first got to Dragonstone, & then King’s Landing, but didn’t. Torching all the soldiers, all the ships, & all the ballistas makes sense. Going on, AFTER that, & torching most of the city itself &…

Gendry, too, presumably.

“And thus ends House Lannister.”
Well, there’s still Tyrion.  He & Sansa had some nice moments in the last few episodes, so....

Maybe keeping Gendry safe at Storm’s Landing means he & Arya can be together in the end. I don’t see her going full m’lady, but they could work something out so they’d both be content, I think. That “meaningful emotional fallout from Arya” could be her realization that there’s more to life than assassinating people.

The problem with seeing Drogon so easily obliterate the Iron Fleet & all the ballistas on the walls is it just highlights the pointlessness of not having Dany do it right off the bat. I mean, in the moment, when she just lost another of her babies, doesn’t THEN seem like the time she’d go apeshit on them? And it…

I know it’s reasonable for him to think that, I just never much cared for TV Euron.  As soon as they looked like they were gonna fight, all I could think was, “Would they actually let a shitweasel character like Euron Fucking Greyjoy kill one of the most important characters on the show?”  No way Jaime survives that…

So is Gendry, & he actually has a claim on the throne.

Even though WE know he really didn’t, it bothers me that Euron Fucking Greyjoy gets to die with a smile on his face, believing he slew the Kingslayer.

So, is this what “breaking the wheel” looks like for Dany? Why keep destroying the city after it’s clearly already fallen to you, if not to wipe the slate clean.  Is she planning to not be queen after all--erase King’s Landing & turn Westeros over to its people?  Otherwise, what is she thinking here?

I wonder. After a while, I started to think she’s really “breaking the wheel” like she said she wanted to. Burn King’s Landing to ash & start over. Or maybe abdicate & there just ARE no more kings/queens. Otherwise, I’m struggling with making sense of the unnecessary destruction. I mean, long after it was clear the…

Seems likely he’ll die trying, anyway, so maybe he kills her & is killed for it, or maybe a murder-suicide?

Did she “fall for it” though? They were both pretty drunk, both recently narrowly escaped death, & she’s clearly had feelings for Jaime for some time. I read it as more her just getting on board with it.

That little smile on Emilia Clarke’s face makes me wonder if maybe she put it there as a prank.

Re “winter has arrived”: I’m wondering whether the demise of the Night King changes anything with the magical seasons in this world.  Maybe the predicted über-severe winter will be milder?  Maybe the Night King & the White Walkers have been the sole reason the seasons have been so weird all these thousands of years?

I would call it maybe...suspicion? Slyness? He glanced over at her when Tyrion mentioned the baby, in a way I thought we were meant to notice. I could be wrong, though—I didn’t go back & re-watch.