But if you thought this story would end with comfort food, you weren’t paying attention. Haunting work from series leads Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington and Peter Dinklage, alongside some seriously haunting imagery (basically all things Drogon), leave Game of Thrones on a melancholy note sure to stick to the skull for sometime, if not quite stick to the ribs. In the immediate aftermath, however, there’s this: The finale was a slow and steady walk through the pain caused by endless quests for power, the way in which heroes quickly become villains if such things ever existed at all, and a dream of spring for the human race. By my calculations, it takes 70 hours and 14 minutes to complete every Game of Thrones episode from start to finish. “Ask me again in 10 years,” as Tyrion would reply. Where will “The Iron Throne” rank in the pantheon of series finales? Too soon to say. Your mileage may vary, but the episode scores points for astonishing imagery (when visible) and risky storytelling. Few people expected the White Walkers to take a loss, or for Jon Snow to get pinned down by an ice dragon while Arya (Maisie Williams) stepped in to save the day. Everyone expected the White Walkers to win, or at least for Jon Snow to save the day. But if glimpsed on an adjusted monitor or otherwise brighter conditions, it’s hard to look past the true majesty of some of the final White Walker war’s biggest moments: dragons soaring through the night sky, Dothraki riding off into the great unknown with flaming swords, Melisandre (Carice van Houten) collapsing into a heap in the cold light of day. Hard to see? Absolutely, no matter what anyone on the Game of Thrones crew says. Perhaps there’s some merit to those complains on the other hand, given the final trajectory of Thrones, perhaps it’s best to forgive an Aladdin-esque dragon ride through the North, as it was one of the series’ final moments of true happiness. Some viewers felt the series wasn’t moving along speedily enough, way too caught up in all the various reunions and homecomings. Was the final season too fast, or too slow? You would be hard-pressed to find an answer after going through “Winterfell,” in which Jon Snow (Kit Harington) leads the Targaryen army back to his home in the North. It’s easily the low point of the final season, and among the entire series’ clumsiest episodes ever. Outside of crossbows that can apparently shoot around mountains, “The Last of the Starks” managed to offer up the single worst scene featuring Bronn (Jerome Flynn) in the entire series, and this is a man who has been to Dorne. But the controversy was only getting started, thanks to some significant whiffs in “The Last of the Starks,” from the needlessly sloppy executions of Rhaegal and Missandei (Nathalie Emmanuel) to the cringe-inducing commentary from Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) toward Brienne (Gwendoline Christie). ![]() The final season was already rubbing people wrong through the midpoint, thanks in no small part to the incredibly dark “Long Night” and its relatively clean White Walker resolution.
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