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shapinglightJust watched this and :bawls like a baby:
Spoilers behind cut.
They killed Maester Luwin. The bastards! I've been dreading that all season and now it's finally happened. Also, if Sam's dead too I shall write and complain. I shall!
This finale was very grim indeed. Well, the previous one had some pretty grim moments, but at least it had some uplifting stuff too. Not so here. Instead, we have Tyrion treated like crap when he saved everyone in the previous episode, Robb still being mean to his mum (I really don't care about him at all now. Idiot!) and Sansa doomed to become Joffrey's abused f**ktoy unless she can be very clever indeed.
I don't know. She shows flashes of there being something going on underneath (in the previous episode, for instance, when she asked Joffrey, all faux innocence, if he would be fighting in the vanguard), but the rest of the time it really does seem as if she still believes that being sweet and pretty and never arguing is going to be enough to save her. Also, though I quite understand why she didn't trust Littlefinger, I have no idea why she didn't take up his offer. Or why she didn't go with the Hound, which is what I thought had happened last episode. I can't decide whether it's because she wants to stay and fight in her own way, or if she's just too afraid to take the chance.
So, all those things were big downers, as was everything at Winterfell (first time I've cried watching this show, I really did like Maester Luwin a lot), even Theon being dragged off to his grisly fate, though I'm glad we didn't have to see any more. I know he was an idiot, but I still hated seeing him betrayed like that. Also, it looks like Maester Luwin's advice to Osha to take the boys north is going to turn out to be very bad advice, given what's approaching the Wall from the other side (and please, please let Sam not be dead!) Also, what on earth was going on with Qhorin Halfhand? Am I missing something, because it seemed to me that he was trying to get Jon Snow to kill him.
So, what wasn't quite so much of a downer? The nature of this show being what it is, Stannis almost strangling Melisandre, if only because he seemed to be feeling some remorse for killing Renly. The look of relief on Sansa's face when she realises she won't have to marry Joffrey after all. Jaime Lannister's shocked expression when Brienne showed that she's not to be messed with. Lord Varys making Ros a better offer. Shae's loyalty. Arya's exchanges with Jaquen, and finally, Dany getting her dragons back, and the fact that whatever bad stuff is going to cause a rift between her and Jorah has been put off till next season. Also, the scene with Phantom!Khal Drogo and the baby was the first time I've ever felt 'shippy about those two.
Actually, that whole vision/dream scene was beautifully done.
Probably says something about this season, though, that, yet again the final Dany scene began with her ordering someone's horrible death (last season Mirri Maaz Duur, this season XXD and Doreah -who wasn't the lady in the mask after all), but that everything else about that scene was very downbeat compared to this year. In fact, you couldn't really have a more downbeat ending than an army of zombies marching towards the Wall.
Can only conclude with, I still love this show. It's cruel to make us wait a whole year to find out what happens next. And please don't let Sam be dead!
Spoilers behind cut.
They killed Maester Luwin. The bastards! I've been dreading that all season and now it's finally happened. Also, if Sam's dead too I shall write and complain. I shall!
This finale was very grim indeed. Well, the previous one had some pretty grim moments, but at least it had some uplifting stuff too. Not so here. Instead, we have Tyrion treated like crap when he saved everyone in the previous episode, Robb still being mean to his mum (I really don't care about him at all now. Idiot!) and Sansa doomed to become Joffrey's abused f**ktoy unless she can be very clever indeed.
I don't know. She shows flashes of there being something going on underneath (in the previous episode, for instance, when she asked Joffrey, all faux innocence, if he would be fighting in the vanguard), but the rest of the time it really does seem as if she still believes that being sweet and pretty and never arguing is going to be enough to save her. Also, though I quite understand why she didn't trust Littlefinger, I have no idea why she didn't take up his offer. Or why she didn't go with the Hound, which is what I thought had happened last episode. I can't decide whether it's because she wants to stay and fight in her own way, or if she's just too afraid to take the chance.
So, all those things were big downers, as was everything at Winterfell (first time I've cried watching this show, I really did like Maester Luwin a lot), even Theon being dragged off to his grisly fate, though I'm glad we didn't have to see any more. I know he was an idiot, but I still hated seeing him betrayed like that. Also, it looks like Maester Luwin's advice to Osha to take the boys north is going to turn out to be very bad advice, given what's approaching the Wall from the other side (and please, please let Sam not be dead!) Also, what on earth was going on with Qhorin Halfhand? Am I missing something, because it seemed to me that he was trying to get Jon Snow to kill him.
So, what wasn't quite so much of a downer? The nature of this show being what it is, Stannis almost strangling Melisandre, if only because he seemed to be feeling some remorse for killing Renly. The look of relief on Sansa's face when she realises she won't have to marry Joffrey after all. Jaime Lannister's shocked expression when Brienne showed that she's not to be messed with. Lord Varys making Ros a better offer. Shae's loyalty. Arya's exchanges with Jaquen, and finally, Dany getting her dragons back, and the fact that whatever bad stuff is going to cause a rift between her and Jorah has been put off till next season. Also, the scene with Phantom!Khal Drogo and the baby was the first time I've ever felt 'shippy about those two.
Actually, that whole vision/dream scene was beautifully done.
Probably says something about this season, though, that, yet again the final Dany scene began with her ordering someone's horrible death (last season Mirri Maaz Duur, this season XXD and Doreah -who wasn't the lady in the mask after all), but that everything else about that scene was very downbeat compared to this year. In fact, you couldn't really have a more downbeat ending than an army of zombies marching towards the Wall.
Can only conclude with, I still love this show. It's cruel to make us wait a whole year to find out what happens next. And please don't let Sam be dead!