It's pretty obvious that I love Game of Thrones, but it's not unqualified. It's kinda like the time your four year old got ahold of that flame thrower and burned the house down, scorched the cat, and blew up the Honda Odyssey. Of course, you still love him (because you know is a him), but you're still a little cranked about the carnage and destruction.
Who are they going to drop a building on next?
Like having to bury deep-fried Mittens the Kitten, you just don't get over having the series big bad numero uno Cersei I will f you the f up Lannister go out by having a building dropped on her. Well, at least, I can't. Gruntle. What could possibly go wrong?
Daenerys
It's up to Jon to take Daenerys out, and the question is how is he going to do it? The "right" way, IMO, is, after the defeat of her dragon and troops, for Jon to condemn her to death and chop her head off with Longclaw. The wrong way is for Jon to die with his aunt and lover by whatever means they cook up to kill them off. It was OK for Jaime and Cersei to go out together, but not reconciled and not by having a damn building fall on them. It will not be OK for Jon to take himself out taking out Daenerys.
Drogon
Now, it would be appropriate to have Drogon and Daenerys go out together, but it would be a little weird to have Jon Snow play Bard the Bowman with some Night King spearhead-material tipped arrow, since we've never seen him shoot a bow or have any archery competence implied as with Arya (first episode shooting bullseye, getting tips from Anguy from the Brotherhood Without Banners, etc.) and with Theon Greyjoy (shooting down Frey ravens, defending Bran from the Army of the Dead, etc.). Maybe — maybe — shooting Drogon with a Scorpion could work, but how they come up with the Scorpion will really matter. If it's part of an Avengers! Assemble! deal where Gendry makes the Scorpion, Sansa is the bait, and Jon fires the killing shot, OK. Oh! Look what I found! A Scorpion! isn't going to cut it, but it's quick and easy, so look out.
Sansa and the folks in Winterfell
Jon and Daenerys (and Drogon) — the key players — are in King's Landing, but Sansa, Samwell Tarley, et al., are a thousand miles away and more in Winterfell. It's one thing to just let Tormund and Ghost fade into the distant north, even if ultimately unsatisfying, but it would be something else to just have Sansa happily ever after rule Winterfell. They did a very good job of bringing all the characters together in Winterfell at the beginning of the season, but now they're spread out and we've got just eighty minutes to go.
Bronn and Tyrion
While it wasn't out of character for Bronn to try to get a better deal than he had from Cersei with Jaime and Tyrion, it did seem out of character for him to be so cold and humorless. He's spent some serious time with both Jaime and Tyrion. Wit and humor in the negotiation would have been far better than ruthlessness, but so it was written. Fortunately, this should be an easy one to wrap, presuming that Tyrion survives — just do the Bronn and Tyrion thing.
Scatman Crothers The Shining Deaths
The Shining was a really great book, and it was a pretty solid movie, too. But unlike the book, the movie made a WTF unforced error by killing off Scatman Crothers (Hallorann) just as he rolls up to the hotel. Um… what's the point of the whole Hallorann character, setting up the psychic vibe, and all of that screen time, etc., just to have him immediately whacked on arrival? Is Sansa going to send a raven to Yara Greyjoy to come help, just to have her fleet burned by Drogon just so we can up the body count? I'm sure there is going to be a big temptation to run the body count up to tear at heart strings, but just doing it to do it would be a waste of last precious moments.
Arya goes Frontal
I really think that Benioff and Weiss want to whack Arya because there is probably no other character more beloved, and breakin' hearts is what they do. OK, fine, but don't take her out of character to do it. While she probably could hold her own against a few Unsullied, the scene better not be her fighting her way through some number of Unsullied to ultimately face Grey Worm, who after a pitched battle kills her. Or, she pulls a Jaime Lannister and charges Daenerys on Drogon only to get torched. The fate of the TV may depend on how they choose to dispose of Arya Stark. I might have someone bind my hands, or better, hobble my feet (need hands to drink wine) until after the Arya death scene so I don't chuck the TV out the window.
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