Great Council Was Not Great….

Published May 21, 2019 · Updated July 6, 2022

Hey Guys,

GOT will go down as one of the greatest series in tv history and any debate or disappointment on the last season/ending is as you have said, a built-up expectation of one’s own ideas of where the show should go or how we want the characters to act. But we are the viewers, not the writers, and we must let go and let the writers take us on their ride.

That said, in this last episode, the Great Council scene to me was just a mess.

1) It starts even before the Great Council. Although we didn’t see Jon get taken after killing Dany, why should we believe Grey Worm and the Dothraki would remain civil and not immediately kill him.

2). Why wouldn’t they then kill Tyrion and most like just run wild around Kings Landing with no decorum?

3) Who had the calm and resolve to then send ravens to all the lords and call them to Kings Landing?

4) in episode 1 season 1 when Robert, Cersei and all arrived at Winterfell and Robert wanted to immediately go to the crypt Cersi says something like “we have been on the road for a month the dead can wait”. How then in a weeks time did all the lords make it to Kings Landing?

5) If you want to believe Grey Worm has the honor to take orders from a King/Queen and took it upon himself to keep Jon prisoner until it was decided by someone greater then himself, his next actions then contradict this…

a) why did he only bring Tyrion out when the Lords asked to see both Tyrion and Jon? Grey Worm even makes mention and starts acting tough that he and the Dothraki are now in charge at Kings Landing.

b) then Greyworm flips back to letting the lords speak/rule and even gives Tyrion who is a prisoner the final Vote to choose who should rule! Why would all the lords listen to Tyrion?

c) then as the Lords and Bran specifically get to decide the fate, Jon, Grey Worm stands his ground the sentence isn’t good enough and Jon gets sent back to the Wall.

I can come to peace with the fate of each character devised by the writers but this scene seemed all over the place and a little cheesy with all the Lords sitting there. It just seemed like the writers wanted us, the viewers, to see them one last time and say goodbye. Felt like a bad ending to a sitcom.

If we can rework that scene, and make a different transition to Bran becoming King, everything else would have worked better for me. I guess we can’t have everything.

Man With No Name

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