I was just thinking the show would end with everyone standing at the lip of the crater where King's Landing used to be, a comically-dirty Dany smacking Tyrion for not telling her about the explosives, and then rolling credits to the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme.
Even with the whole "profuhcey" argument it seems bewildering the more you look back at that timeline of events and who participated in the mess. It makes sense when you consider how history typically works but even here it seems so odd that Ned and Jon Arryn are the only guys who weren't complete assholes in some manner.
When you put it all that way, Walder Frey did nothing wrong. Who wants to commit to either of the set of people involved in this clusterfuck.
And somehow, years later the all-seeing all-knowing three eyed raven and the supposedly intelligent dwarf (who was alive around Robert's Rebellion) comes to the conclusion that the entire debacle started because of Robert's unrequited love, with both of these individuals somehow forgetting multiple other factors such as Rhaegar and Lyanna running off, Rhaegar not telling shit to anybody, Aerys killing Ned's father and brother, Aerys demanding Ned and Robert, etc.. And yet its Bobby B's one-sided romance that sparked it all
To be fair Brandon storming into the throne room of the king already known for being batshit calling for the prince to come out and die was kind of asking for it.
And it's not as if it was just down the road, either, he had to travel all the way from the clucking north. This was the plan you came up with? Just run up to the king and demand his son's head? Try this shit with any king, even the "good" ones, hell try it with a democratically elected head of state! Guess what happens - you getting fucked.
Does the show really not address this? With the peace made by wildlings and "kneelers" and the threat of the White Walkers gone, there is no reason to keep the wall or the Nightswatch around at all. Especially since there's like what? 3 guys left and that's counting Samwell Tarly and Jon, too?
By season 8 the world outside of Winterfell and King's Landing may as well not exist. Nothing outside of the bare minimum plot beats to wrap the series up gets addressed, the fate of the Night's Watch included. My headcanon is the Wildlings went north again because that's the world they know (there are still natives living in Nunavut and Lapland, so this isn't unheard of), and Jon took the black only to forsake his vows, yet again, and go be King Beyond the Wall. The Wildlings think he's a god so it's not unreasonable they'd keep him as their king. What remaining builders for the Watch are going to spend the next few decades on the massive undertaking of repairing Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, and taking the black remains Westeros' jobs program for petty criminals and dishonored nobles, protecting the realm from grumpkins and snarks just as it was before the series began.
I dunno, real historical figures could be pretty politically retarded. See virtually every Scottish leader except Robert the Bruce.
He is the biggest asshole in the whole asoiaf. I have no idea why the show writers decided to make him look like a hero.
There's no Night's Watch anymore, it's a fake punishment. They just sent him North with his last few friends so he can live in peace away from the festering shit-pile that is Westeros.
I heard a theory that the White Walkers will return in the future, which is what the leak said before any of it was confirmed, and it was strengthened by D&D's reluctance to confirm whether or not the Night King is finally dead. I can't think of a bigger asspull if this was true.
To be fair, D&D just kinda forgot the political implications of all this. I mean it's not like the show was ever about politics and intrigue, right? Just tits and dragons and zombies and dick jokes.
