I’m not sure what Littlefinger’s ultimate purpose to the story was. I expected him to have some part to play, since he was still alive. All season I was thinking “They can’t kill Littlefinger yet, he hasn’t DONE anything.” But I guess his actual role in the story ended ages ago and he’s just been waiting around to die.

The theme song will only ever be this for me:

It was what I expected to happen all season because it fit thematically, but man is it unearned from a story or character perspective. The writers (and directors) went out of their way to try and stupidly mislead the viewers. 90% of the time. Twists are fine if even if they’ve been predicted as long as they fit the…

Littlefinger should have known that siblings can despise each-other but still cooperate effectively against elements which threaten their family. And he should have remembered that the Starks are foolishly sentimental at their core, not selfishly ruthless like him. Having no strong familial relationships became a…

AMEN.

More than anything, my sense is that the season would have been an order of magnitudes better if the writing team had just taken a step back from everything after the scripts were all finished, and then a few days later take one more editorial pass before committing to filming. There was a lot of sloppy writing, but th…

There’s one brief part of the scene last week (two weeks ago?) when Arya is stalking Littlefinger where she observes him talking to a blond servant girl. It seems like she’s been spying for him (Varys had his little birds, so did Cersei, so did he). They wouldn’t put that in for no reason, so Arya & Sansa’s weird…

I cannot wait until Sam has to have an awkwardly diplomatic chat with Jon about the latter’s new lady friend....

My partner equated it to long divorced parents talking about their unruly teen daughter, which I thought was spot on.

I LOVED seeing the Hound and Bre talk fondly about Arya. I guess that’s the “here’s what’s up with Arya” convo we were going to get.

That was fantastic! Sophie Turner was killing it. She put so much conviction and feeling into each charge against Littlefinger.

“I’m Rhaenys Targaryen, this is my brother Aegon, and this is... my other brother Aegon.”

Jon is kind of shitty King of the North. He just surrenders his sovereignity on a whim without consulting with any nobles or family members.

I made a disqus discussion....https://disqus.com/home/channel/theavclubafterdark/discussion/channel-theavclubafterdark/tv_got_season_7_finale/

BRAN: Dames, who needs ‘em? But you and me, pal, we get each other. Just two bros, hangin’ out, shootin’ the shit, doin’ man stuff. Like, um... um... scratchin’ our balls and... sports? And? ...er... my omniscience power is leaving me hanging here...

I still hate seeing Viserion like that, will never get used to it. And I hate that Smug Popsicle (I’m calling him that now) is riding him now!

So good.

There is more sexual tension between Dany and Cersei than between Dany and Jon.

Finally, all those dickless Theon jokes paid off. 

“Oh hey guy I met briefly years ago. I’m gonna tell you Jon’s parentage, but I’m not going to tell my sisters, for no reason.”