Wow. Where to start....
SPOILERS!!!!!!
Dany... While I loved the visual of her at the start, it was a bit on the nose. Oooo look, she has Dragon wings, banners, her armies lining up as she tells them about the glories she's going to pursue next in the name of whatever... Nazi overtones much? This has annoyed me for the whole series, her fall to villainy was just to fast. Only a couple of seasons ago she was the woman so ashamed of her dragons actions when they accidentally killed a young boy that she locked them away. Now she's a mass murderer committing war crime atrocities. I WISH they'd have extended these seasons and made her fall more gradual than a case of.... oh bugger they've beheaded my bestie and my boyfriends my nephew so now I must be evil. While her downfall had been foreshadowed, foreshadowing is NOT character development.
Jon killing Dany... Was always going to happen... but because their relationship was so brief it never landed with the impact it should have. If they'd had this love affair for a few seasons, then it would have hit home how hard a decision it was for Jon to do it. As it was the moment he kissed her we knew the knife was going in. I was more teared up by Drogon's reaction. But then we've seen the Dany/Drogon relationship for years now so of course that had more impact.
Bran the Broken... Really? Bran gets to be king because he has a better story... What about Arya's story? That's pretty damn compelling. More so than a boy who fell out of a window, got dragged around, sat in a tree, went missing for a WHOLE season and finally lost his humanity. I'm not sure what he did to deserve Kingship. And how on earth does it take the Kingsmoot just 5 mins to decide "Yeah Tyrion's got a point. Aye!". If you've read the books, then I DO think Bran is destined for the throne, only I'm sure George will make his case far better.
Arya... This was probably her season. She was definitely MVP. I liked her ending and would happily watch the inevitable 'Arya Goes West' spin off show.
Jon... Got shafted. At least he got Ghost back. But... since Greyworm has buggered off to his beach in Naath, why does Jon still have to go into Exile? I always expected him to Abdicate and go North, that's what I feel he wanted. But to have to leave in such dishonour after essentially being the man who saved mankind TWICE! (He was the man who brought the armies to fight the Night King, even if Arya did the final kill. And it was him that stopped the new Mad Queen!) He deserved to leave on his own terms, not someone elses.
Yara... Probably because Yara still thinks that what Dany did by slaying thousands of innocents was still okay. Put a pin in Yara because I'm coming back to her in a second...
Sansa... I still think SHE should have been on the throne. She's by far the most qualified ruler. Learned her lessons well. Quietly confident, firm, commanding and with empathy for her people. She'll make an excellent Queen of the North and will be beloved because she got them their independence...
Yara... Which brings me back to Yara. Didn't she, in an earlier episode, broker independence for the Iron Islands from Dany? So why when Sansa goes "Yeah the North is going Independent" didn't she chime in and say, "Yeah hold up, we're independent too!" ARGH! SO much doesn't make sense!
Tyrion... His conversation with Jon was the highpoint of the episode. Jon coming to try and talk him into seeing things correctly turns to Tyrion convincing Jon to do the right thing. This was a great scene. Loved it.
Brienne... We all know what Brienne REALLY wanted to write in that book. LOL
Sam... Which brings me to The Book. So this book is going to be called 'A Song of Ice and Fire'... bit on the nose but I'll roll with it. And it was written by... NOBODY WHO WAS INVOLVED?! Sam just comes up with the Title. Did he ghostwrite it? I'd have been happier if it had been Sam that wrote it. I always felt like this was his story to tell.
Jaime/Cersei... Poetic I guess that they went out as they did. But it was such a heel turn from Jaime to ditch Brienne. Again with a longer pair of seasons they could have let this breath and shown more of his dilemma. But no. And Cersei at Kings Landing was very disappointing. She was supposedly the ultimate schemer and yet when push came to shove she had nothing. Use the WildFire!!!! Anything! But no, she goes out just standing in a window drinking wine. :/
Anyway.... rant over. LOL
Such a shame the series went out like this. Disappointing but at least it wasn't Dexter.