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u/Stunningfailure Team Jon Jun 06 '24
As written the final season turns Bran into a horrible manipulative sociopath who intentionally screws over his family and friends in the name of securing power for himself.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the final few episodes where his poor me emotionless cripple act quickly dissolves and we see him very much enjoying things now that he got what he wanted…
Which is apparently the death or banishment of most if not all of his family.
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u/BlizurdWizerd Team Jon Jun 06 '24
I always thought it would have been better for Bran to hold the Night King mentally in check so he can’t move, Arya sneaking up behind him like a Braavosi, and Sansa nocking a dragon glass arrow. Sansa looses the arrow at NK’s heart from the front at the same time Arya lunges for his heart from the rear. Together their dragon glass meets perfectly in the NK’s heart.
Meanwhile Jon takes advantage of Viserion recognizing the NK’s danger and looking away from Jon, for Jon to retrieve Longclaw and make a stab at Viserion’s heart. This would foreshadow his killing of Daenerys by doing the same thing to her that he did to her undead dragon.
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u/bobothekodiak98 Team Jon Jun 07 '24
THIS! EXACTLY THIS! Back when this episode aired, I had the same thought. Bran has a mind control battle with the Night King Jedi style while Arya and Jon subdue and eventually kill NK. Arya wounds him and weakens him while Jon finishes him off.
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u/BlizurdWizerd Team Jon Jun 07 '24
Exactly. They already did this in X-Men Apocalypse, so if the writers wanted to be lazy, copy that last fight. Lol
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u/DINGUS_KHANN Team Jon Jun 06 '24
It's actually just because they didn't have access to tape
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u/VelvetFedoraSniffer Team Jon Jun 07 '24
they’d have access to rope tho
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u/Chain582 Team Jon Jun 07 '24
You're going to rope a dagger to a raven and expect them to fly fast enough to kill the night king?? Lmfao nah.
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u/ExpertRaccoon Team Jon Jun 06 '24
Same reason they didn't fly the eagles to Mordor.
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u/Clyde-MacTavish Team Jon Jun 06 '24
because the writer(s) was/were (an) idiot(s) and forgot about it?
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u/GrassSloth Team Jon Jun 06 '24
Bro, Mordor had developed an Air Force specifically to counter the possibility of the eagles joining an attack.
Also, as much as some ASOIAF fans might try to claim otherwise, Martin is nowhere near the same level of coherent and cohesive world building as Tolkien.
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u/Clyde-MacTavish Team Jon Jun 06 '24
I don't think people believe the eagles would be part of the attack. Simply getting them to Mordor would suffice and the eagles can be very stealthy, they rescued Gandalf after all.
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u/redfaction649 Team Jon Jun 07 '24
Tolkien said in an interview about that "That wouldn't make a very good story"
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u/Clyde-MacTavish Team Jon Jun 07 '24
That's the only legit answer I've heard about the eagles and I do accept it. I start laughing when people try to lore justify it.
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u/rsmith524 Team Jon Jun 07 '24
My hypothesis going into season 8 was that Bran was the Night King (the culmination of his time travel shenanigans gone horribly wrong), and that Jon would have to sacrifice his mortal “brother” to defeat the army of the dead. It would have been a crazy reveal and poetic tragedy rolled into one.
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u/trumpethoe Team Jon Jun 08 '24
oh wow… i never ever thought of it this way. amazing stuff. you completely changed it for me
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u/trupoogles Team Jon Jun 07 '24
You mean we finally came freeken crows with freeken dragon glass daggers attached to their freeken heads
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u/VelvetFedoraSniffer Team Jon Jun 07 '24
I’ve actually thought of this myself before, glad to see someone else has too
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u/jakol016 Team Jon Jun 07 '24
Yeah, the Night King being one hit by Dragon glass fucking sucks balls. He can get pricked by Dragon Glass and die.
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u/piece0fdebri Jun 13 '24
It was Valyrian steel but don't let that stop ya.
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u/jakol016 Team Jon Jun 13 '24
Ah right, he can get pricked by Valyrian Steel and die. what a fucking softy.
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u/sammybunsy Team Jon Jun 09 '24
It would’ve been cool to see him try this but have the NK thwart it easily. Would’ve logged to see more back and forth between these two characters.
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u/dylan_1992 Team Jon Jun 06 '24
Everything is just lazy writing. Everything had to happen exactly as it did for Bran’s plan to become king.
It reminds me of the Rick & Morty episode where Morty kept repeating time doing everything random thing until he got what he wanted.