Desire for more regional power and opposition to central control has been a recurring theme throughout the series, so it's unclear why all the lords are apparently now eager to submit to the shell that is King's Landing. Not only that, avid fans know from the lore that the North is far from the only kingdom to desire independence. The Iron Islands just attempted to secede, made a previous attempt just 20 years ago, and there's no obvious reason they suddenly are eager to submit. And how about Dorne? Dorne only joined the Seven Kingdoms about 150 years ago, as part of a marriage alliance to the Targaryens. They really have no interest in breaking off? Seriously, why is everybody so eager to stick around?

But it gets even worse. Both the Riverlands and the Vale seceded and JOINED the Northern Kingdom during the events of the show. The Vale was directly sworn to Jon as King in the North until he submitted to Daenerys. No explanation at all is given for them suddenly changing course and re-submitting to King's Landing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38262615)

Sansa did absolutely nothing to earn this title, and actually seems to behave stupidly and impulsively all the time. In fact, Arya has directly suffered from Sansa's stupidity. Her friend Mycah was killed, and Arya had to drive away her direwolf, largely because Sansa lied about what happened due to her personal infatuation with Joffrey.

All of Sansa's subsequent accomplishments are due to other people helping her (with Sansa exercising little to no agency). She does kill Petyr Baelish which is a good move, but even that seems to be entirely due to Bran's DVR magic powers rather than excellent deduction on her part.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38262656)

If you are using an inverse scale, it's the rough equivalent of a 178. If not, a 146. Please don't clarify.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38262682)

This makes absolutely zero sense, except as the writers not having the balls to piss off fans by killing them off. The show has well established that the Dothraki and Unsullied are extremely committed to Dany; they've literally marched across entire continents and fought multiple wars on her behalf. Furthermore, Grey Worm is their commander and has demonstrated that he can engage in impulsive violence even against civilians when he is enraged. Does anybody believe for a single moment that Grey Worm would keep Tyrion and Jon alive after finding they've betrayed and murdered the queen he dedicated his entire life to? Fuck no. At a minimum, Jon should have suffered a hideous death immediately after his murder was discovered, and Tyrion likely would have died as a man previously condemned as well.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38262747)

That would have made sense and would have been a much better ending.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38262788)

In any case, Grey Worm is impulsive so I don’t see him making this calculation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38263619)

The main reason Dany would want Jaime dead is that he is literally the man who murdered her father by stabbing him in the back. But Dany doesn't interrogate Jaime about this, he never defends himself, and the whole things is just completely forgotten after a single mention. Instead, Jaime's trial revolves around Cersei's failure to send troops, and his far more minor offense of attacking Eddard Stark in the streets of King's Landing. Even then, the focus is on him attacking Eddard, NOT his massacre of Eddard's entire personal guard.

Also, Jaime defends his attack on Eddard by saying that the Lannisters and Starks were at war. But in fact, they weren't. Catelyn had simply abducted Tyrion; Gregor Clegane doesn't start ravaging the Riverlands until the following episode, and Robb doesn't even call the Stark banners until episode 8.

Not only that, but Brienne defends Jaime by saying he lost a hand protecting her from rapers. But that didn't happen; Jaime protected Brienne by saying her dad was rich. Jaime's hand gets cut off because the mercenary captain Locke thinks Jaime is an obnoxious spoiled punk who thinks he can use his father's wealth and power to get out of any problem. Here's the scene:

https://youtu.be/-5BhmyNn_iY?t=162

But wait, there's even more! When Catelyn released Jaime, he swore to return Sansa to the North and to never take up arms against House Stark or Tully again. But he broke BOTH those oaths in the show; he doesn't do SHIT about Sansa when he gets back to King's Landing, and he attacks Riverrun while it's still held by the Tullys.

And in addition to all THAT, nobody ever bothers to ask Bran if he has any input, even though by now several characters (including Sansa) know he can have visions of past events.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38262994)

It’s also a subtle call back to tywin’s conversation with Arya about westerosi military history. Tywin asks how she knows the old battles in such detail as a little girl, she says most girls are idiots and he cracks up (obviously thinking of Cersei)

It also reminded me of Cersei laughing at Tyrion for not knowing anything about warfare just before the Blackwater battle. He tries to learn and she just tries to improvise without knowing shit (again because she’s a moron)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38268180)

-Tyrion is the literal CAUSE of the wars in Westeros. His abduction by Catelyn Stark is what initiated fighting between the Starks and Lannisters

-Tyrion was Hand of the King during the Battle of the Blackwater. Maybe the Maester gave Tywin credit for everything and missed Tyrion’s role. But even if that happened, Tyrion MURDERED Tywin, AND he was the one publicly blamed for the murder of King Joffrey

-Tyrion was married to Sansa Stark in an effort to seize the North through marriage

-Tyrion was Dany’s hand for her entire campaign in Westeros

-Tyrion is the one who proposed naming Bran king and was the first hand following the restoration of peace to the realm.

It’s a pretty thick book. Tyrion doesn’t get mentioned at all? Fucking flame.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38263599)

You'd think with a massive battle that everything depends on coming up, people would be more up-front with information instead of delivering spoooooky lines that sounds so spoooooky on TV.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38267024)

Apologize to D&D motherfucker.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38267409)

Season 8 was hardly perfect but I doubt any writers could've neatly tied up every loose end within the span of 6 episodes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38267522)

But nope instead none of those questions were answered and the key to stopping the entire zombie invasion was simply poking the Night King in his weak point for massive damage.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38267543)

(Arguable)

http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38267409

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38269425)

Luckily none of this mattered at all and was never mentioned again!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265646&forum_id=2#38285366)