Season 7 Finale Lost Me

Published August 28, 2017 · Updated July 6, 2022

Hi Guys,

Love the podcast, thanks for all your hard work each week. I listen to all 3 shows and love your insights. Generally speaking, your thoughts on the shorter seasons, the much maligned jet-packing, suspension of disbelief, the Double D’s having to make up for GRRM’s lack of providing new source material, etc are right in line with my own. I also agree that with such gripes fans should either accept it or stop watching. I have always been in the accept it camp. Despite flaws, it is by far the best show on TV.

But this week I need saving. The finale seems to have saved the season for you guys and alleviated or excused some of the sloppiness we’ve observed in the show throughout the last 7 episodes. This week, I totally went the other direction I loved the reunions and the great dialogue in this episode. It really made it feel like a throwback episode, great character engagement and storytelling in those scenes. After that is where they lose me.

When we get to Winterfell, after Sansa’a conversation with Littlefinger, we have a pretty transparent set-up trying to make us believe that Sansa is going to turn on Arya, then she turns the tables on Littlefinger in front of the Lords in the Great Hall. All season we’ve been speculating that maybe they know what Littlefinger is up to, hoping Sansa isn’t too stupid to fall for his gambit, hoping Arya is a clever as we think she is. Here is my question.

What made Sansa decide to turn on him? Did she hand Arya have a secret conversation we didn’t get to see? Was this some Oceans 11 kind of scheme they hatched early on on in the season? Why did Sansa just decide suddenly, after all the evil he’s done, that now is the time to execute him without a trial? It just seems so arbitrary, like the Double D’s needed a big death in the finale so they drew straws and Littlefinger came up short. For all the complaining about the Winterfell story arc this season, this rang hollow for me.

OK, fast forward to the Wallthe BIG finish. Who built the fucking set for Eastwatch? It looked like the set of a soap opera. Did they miss that scene in editing? Were the GC guys out that day? Am I the only one who thinks this? For God’s sake, the Night King looked like the kids in Honey I Shrunk the Kids bouncing on the back of that bumble bee, and Viserion was flying around like he had a jet engine up his ass!

Am I wrong? Please, convince me that I’m being overly critical.

Love the show. Thanks for all the great work you guys do.

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