#6667
by Thomas Eshuis » May 20, 2019 6:59 pm
purplerat wrote:willhud9 wrote:Thomas Eshuis wrote:Matthew Shute wrote:Such weird pacing this season. We start with 2 slow buildup episodes (which I thought were great, btw), then 10 episodes worth of story and action jammed into the next 3 episodes (with, erm, inevitably mixed results... to put it mildly), and we end with a slow resolution episode, which had some good moments, but for me didn't feel anything like sufficient payoff (and all sorts of mysteries and side plots are left hanging, with most of the relevant characters dead).
Well, at least
Jon got a proper reunion with his good doggy.The
sentencing Jon to the Night's Watch thing didn't make much sense to me. With the army of the dead defeated and peace with the free folk, why would there even still be a Night's Watch? What are they supposed to be guarding the realms of men from, now?
I also don't buy Greyworm, the Unsullied and the Dothraki agreeing with that sentence. Speaking of the Dothraki, where'd they go in the resolution?
I also don’t buy the fact that after
Jon kills Dany that he wouldn’t be executed immediately. Why was he arrested and several weeks pass by? Surely Grey Worm who had no issue butchering Lannister npcs would kill Jon?
The sentence might be a little hard to believe as justifiable from their POV but just straight up executing Jon immediately would have been pretty dumb on Grey Worm's part.
With Dany dead and Drogon gone her remaining forces aren't exactly in a superior position in a foreign land surrounded by people who probably aren't excited about their presence. Holding Jon, who I presume Grey Worm at that point knew was the rightful heir, is a huge bargaining chip. We don't exactly see what that bargain looks like aside from Jon going to the wall so it's hard to say whether Grey Worm used it wisely but I can't imagine just killing Jon would have worked out better for him.[/quote]
This begs the question that Greyworm would be in a rational state of mind when he'd find John having killed his queen.
I think his actions in the previous episode and the start of this one suggest otherwise.
"Respect for personal beliefs = "I am going to tell you all what I think of YOU, but don't dare retort and tell what you think of ME because...it's my personal belief". Hmm. A bully's charter and no mistake."