"Why do you think I came all this way?" Bran (aka the Three-Eyed Raven) says. Everyone agrees, including Bran, and Bran The Broken is named king. They decide, at Tyrion's urging, that Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright) is made king and that from now on kings are chosen by the noble Houses rather than by birth, because kings' sons are monsters more often than not.I suppose the power vacuum is to blame-and the fact that these types of details, once so important to the show, no longer matter much. After all, some of them are representatives of Great Houses, but others are not, merely vassals to greater powers. I'm not sure why this specific crowd gets to decide the fate of the Seven Kingdoms. Tyrion comes before a smattering of nobles- the Starks, of course, plus Davos (Liam Cunningham) because he's always around despite being a very minor knight, and Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) and a grown Robin Arryn, plus Edmure Tully (Tobias Menzies) and Sam Tarly (John Bradley) and various others, including a new Dornish prince whose name is never uttered.What happens when the final boss is dead, when the show has to wrap up its many threads? Well, let's see. This is the beginning of the denouement we've all been wondering about. In any case, weeks go by and the fate of the Seven Kingdoms must be decided, as well as the fate of Tyrion and Jon Snow. It's astonishing they both weren't executed immediately to the point where I find it almost unbelievable. Grey Worm (Jacob Anderson) and the Unsullied have kept the Imp and Jon Snow in chains ever since Daenerys was killed and taken away by Drogon, perhaps to Valyria. Weeks later- the time jump is quite jarring-Tyrion is taken from his cell to face the gathered nobles of Westeros. In the end, because he's Jon Snow, he does the right thing and kills Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons, Breaker of Chains and "Liberator" of King's Landing (or at least mass murderer of that city) before she can liberate another population. Instead I wanted to slap Jon in the face and shake him and tell him to stop being so bloody stupid! (To be fair, this is not the first time I've felt that way about Jon. If the show had convinced me that he truly loved her with an undying passion, that his love would truly overshadow his reason, his duty, then I'd believe Jon's brief break with reality. He clearly believed that what she did was wrong, that what she described in her speech to the Unsullied and Dothraki was abhorrent, the words of a self-deluded megalomaniac. But there's nothing about Jon Snow's character that would defend Daenerys in this situation. If Jon and Dany's love had been more fleshed out and convincing, I could understand his unwillingness to hear Tyrion's words. Jon's resistance to Tyrion's hard truths about Daenerys and the threat she posed to the world might have made sense if Jon and Dany's relationship had been even half as convincing as Jon and Ygritte's, or if this had been a conversation between Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) and Jorah. So much in this episode would have been truly great if we'd just gotten here more naturally.
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