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Game of Thrones (HBO, Season 7)
Westeros continues to be a terrible place to live, especially now that winter has come.
Opening the season on “Arya poisons a roomfull of assholes” was an excellent move. Arya hasn’t killed enough people. I remain hopeful that she’ll stab Sersei.
Dorne and the awesome people who live there have been consistently under-used by the series. The early defeat of the Sand Snakes is just another example of that. The Tyrells did a bit better, but petered out just the same.
Jon Snow gets a number of chances to demonstrate “more honor than sense,” the ongoing problem of every male in House Stark. He’d make a terrible king, really just terrible. (And the plan to go north and retrieve a wight? My god, that was the worst plan.)
There seemed to be a backlash of people being unsatisfied by the end of this season...and I don’t really get it? Sansa and Arya get to be smart and Littlefinger dies. Jon and Dany might be incestuous, but at least one of them is the legitimate heir to the Iron Throne and we’ve had Sersei and Jamie this whole time, so who cares? The zombie dragon promises lots of cool battle scenes next time. Heck, virtually nobody died this season! Sersei and Arya both cleared away a bunch of loose ends, but we didn’t have a big Named Hero death. (Hell, even Yara is apparently still alive, so that Theon can either die redeeming himself or die like he lived: As an utter fuckup.)
For the record, I called the dragon’s death early on; and suspect that Jon will ride the second dragon before the series is out.
I’m actually kinda doubtful that the final season will be “Jon vs. Dany” given where we are now. I hadn’t expected the Lannisters to still be a going concern at the end of this season, and they (or Sersei’s reign, at least) very much are. At this point, Team Stark/Targaryn is the leading contender for big winner in the end. I think there’s even potential for them to shift to full Heroic Fantasy (like Fullmetal Alchemist did) and have most of the characters survive at the end. Additional theory on that front: I don’t think winter is going to last for a decade or whatever—I think it’s linked to the Night’s King, and when he dies, winter will end.
Overall: It’s not like Martin is ever going to finish his books, so I’ll have to watch the last season to find out how it all ends!
Opening the season on “Arya poisons a roomfull of assholes” was an excellent move. Arya hasn’t killed enough people. I remain hopeful that she’ll stab Sersei.
Dorne and the awesome people who live there have been consistently under-used by the series. The early defeat of the Sand Snakes is just another example of that. The Tyrells did a bit better, but petered out just the same.
Jon Snow gets a number of chances to demonstrate “more honor than sense,” the ongoing problem of every male in House Stark. He’d make a terrible king, really just terrible. (And the plan to go north and retrieve a wight? My god, that was the worst plan.)
There seemed to be a backlash of people being unsatisfied by the end of this season...and I don’t really get it? Sansa and Arya get to be smart and Littlefinger dies. Jon and Dany might be incestuous, but at least one of them is the legitimate heir to the Iron Throne and we’ve had Sersei and Jamie this whole time, so who cares? The zombie dragon promises lots of cool battle scenes next time. Heck, virtually nobody died this season! Sersei and Arya both cleared away a bunch of loose ends, but we didn’t have a big Named Hero death. (Hell, even Yara is apparently still alive, so that Theon can either die redeeming himself or die like he lived: As an utter fuckup.)
For the record, I called the dragon’s death early on; and suspect that Jon will ride the second dragon before the series is out.
I’m actually kinda doubtful that the final season will be “Jon vs. Dany” given where we are now. I hadn’t expected the Lannisters to still be a going concern at the end of this season, and they (or Sersei’s reign, at least) very much are. At this point, Team Stark/Targaryn is the leading contender for big winner in the end. I think there’s even potential for them to shift to full Heroic Fantasy (like Fullmetal Alchemist did) and have most of the characters survive at the end. Additional theory on that front: I don’t think winter is going to last for a decade or whatever—I think it’s linked to the Night’s King, and when he dies, winter will end.
Overall: It’s not like Martin is ever going to finish his books, so I’ll have to watch the last season to find out how it all ends!