Game of Thrones - End Scene

I just finished watching Game of Thrones season 7.  It was mostly a disappointing season that seemed very rushed (especially the writing) and even silly at times.  One of the great things about the show is that each character gets the opportunity to fully develop, but Season 7 was about moving the plot along and putting the characters in the same location.  I guess it has to be done at some point, but the execution was just average.  

As I watched the last few episodes, it became clear how the show is going to end.  Games of Thrones is a tragedy in every sense of the word.  Beloved characters are tortured and killed (I think every character has been imprisoned at some point).  The last few seasons have provided hope in a world of diminishing returns, but it is false hope. The lesson of the show is not how people can work together to achieve great things, but how people will fight each other to destroy all things.  In the end, the nature of the living will result in their extermination.  The Night King will sit on the Iron Throne after destroying the scattered armies of the living.  One of one, each of the main characters will fall over the last season, and after the final battle there will be nobody left.

Game of Thrones is not about justice or grace, it is about deception and death.  The end will be the end of it all.

(Random Season 7 notes: Tyrion Lannister's character has become unwatchable.  He is no longer clever or amusing and it doesn't make any sense why he is still Hand of the Queen.  He is a Lannister who has been constantly wrong; he should have been fed to the dragons and replaced by Jorah Mormont.  Bram's character (the three eyed raven) is just silly and bad writing.  It is a way to hack the plot to move it along.  Little Finger is gone, which is fine, but I wanted to hear him try to talk his way out of trouble a bit longer (again lazy writing).  The un-dead Dragon is also very silly (and how exactly did the army of the dead find those chains to pull it out of the water, and how did they (who can't swim) get to the bottom of the water in the first place.  And what was the Night King's plan to get through The Wall before he had a dragon?  Season 7 saw too many characters and not enough time for each one (they could have killed off half of them and still had enough left to keep things compelling). 

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