Topic: Game of Thrones (SPOILERS)

[Jaeger]

Jon riding off on the dragon would have been too fairy tale to me.

I did predict Jon would kill Dany, but I didn't predict much else.

It is a fairy tale ! 

Yeah but it's not a ponies and princesses fairy tale - it's dark and gritty.  A happy-happy-joy-joy ending would not have fit the tone of the series, IMO.  I'm just glad it wasn't all dragons dead and Cersei and Jamie ruling all.  This ending was a reasonable conclusion - not everything came up roses, but good did triumph over evil.

[Jaeger]

Bran is the anti-king. He looks like he's just going to let his management team do all the work and he's just going to sleep through the whole thing.

    Funny, but true.

[Niklasky]

Bran is the anti-king. He looks like he's just going to let his management team do all the work and he's just going to sleep through the whole thing.

    Funny, but true.

Yeah. I mean that scene where he comes into the council meeting, asks a couple of random questions, then figures he can locate Drogon by himself, then tells them to carry on and leaves... We couldn't have dreamed of a more "hands-off" king. He is obviously not the micro-managing type.

[Niklasky]

It is a great ending for the Starks. Sansa queen of the North and Bran king of the 6 kingdoms... Until they get voted out I suppose, or another tyrant comes to claim the crown.

To be honest, I still expected Bran's eyes to turn blue until the final credits, as if possessed by the Night King. That would have been a nice cliffhanger, not all fairy taley and rosy with ponies, care bears, hugs and kisses..

I guess not. We'll have to wait for the spin-off to hear more about the white walkers again.

[johngenx]

Jon is off to be a Wildling!  I didn’t see that coming.

[PJungnitsch]

OT - if anyone wants to see an exceptionally good representation of the use of a fortress as a weapon of defense against an enemy with overwhelming numerical advantage, check out the Netflix flic The Great Battle - Korean with English subtitles - depicting the historical siege of Ansi.  No, this isn't some dry documentary - it's a rocking action flic, but one in which the tactics of siege warfare have some grounding in historical precedent.  Some fanciful components, but not nearly so much as to invoke a chuckle, must less repeatedly scream WTF?? at the screen. 

Thanks! That was very entertaining. I remember watching 'The Admiral - Raging Currents' when it was on Netflix and being similarly impressed. Koreans seem to have medieval war movies down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PBIHkKi0wM