But since the show never really committed to any of that (seriously, when was the last time Bran actually warged into anything or anyone and did something useful?), we have to just take what we got at face value. There's an alternate theory for why Bran winds up on the throne that involves things like the Three-Eyed Raven's true identity, both characters' skin-changing/warging abilities, and cryptic Bran statements about how he's not really Bran anymore. As with the rest of this, I think there's a version of this ending that lands better-one that follows a story in which Bran wasn't written out of an entire season and didn't return to the show as a soulless, dead-eyed husk of a character who did nothing for several years. And it's not completely incomprehensible that he winds up on the throne, since the show established that everyone just sort of accepts his Magic Powers of Knowing Everything as fact for some reason. Let's talk about King Bran the Broken, First of His Name (and here's a good joke about that very weird title). Sansa is Queen in the North, Arya leaves for her own adventure, and the Six-Plus-One Kingdoms are left in somewhat capable hands. Some combination of Bran, Sam, and Tyrion-the characters who are supposed to be smart-rewrote the rules of Westerosi politics, transforming the realm from the hereditary monarchy it's been for centuries into, essentially, something resembling a representative democracy. (I kept waiting all season for something to make me start thinking of him as Aegon Targaryen instead of Jon Snow, but it never happened, seemingly by design.) Dany wound up being her father's daughter after all, which is depressing, but not unrealistic. Look at where the show's biggest characters ended, in broad strokes: Jon never fully embraced his secret identity, which was disappointing, but fitting he'll die a Stark, in the North, as he lived. It just all felt a little tawdry thanks to the path we took to get here. ![]() Unlike the nonsensical Dothraki charge in Episode 3 or Euron's magic scorpion bolts in Episode 4, there was nothing particularly terrible in the Season 8 finale we got some surprises (Bran the Broken), while other plotlines concluded exactly as they needed to (Arya sailing West, and Brienne finishing Jaime's page in the Kingsguard book). Too many plot points were swept under the rug and too many endings came from seemingly out of nowhere for this to feel satisfying. It still would have been bittersweet, but it would have also felt earned, which this definitely did not. There's a parallel universe somewhere where this exact episode was preceded by two full seasons of the phenomenal storytelling that Game of Thrones was once capable of, and in that brighter timeline, the show went out on the right note. ![]() Given the smelly trash fire that the episodes leading up to it were, there was never any real chance of Game of Thrones ' finale, Season 8 Episode 6, "The Iron Throne," being anything other than a disappointment. Now Playing: Game Of Thrones Series Finale Breakdown And Recap - "The Iron Throne" By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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