They definitely leaned on that as the reason no one objected to him being charged, tried, and executed in the span of 4 minutes. It just wasn’t very satisfying or proportional to the role LF has played in the series as a whole. This revelation should’ve been at least as compelling as Ned finding the evidence that…

To be fair, Gilly needed to be in The Citadel to get that information and never would’ve gone without Samwell, and the marriage changes R+L=J from a thing that makes him a Targaryean to a thing that makes him the legitimate king of Westeros.

This was so obnoxious. When you compare how carefully they tried to arrange the backstabbing and little-bird-whispering in the earlier seasons to create such a tense atmosphere, it’s such a stark (ha) difference. It was a half-assed attempt to whip together a dramatic death for the most important character to the…