Big Cat and Big Cat is Big Cat @melissasage@radical.town

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basically what i'm saying is

the American founding fathers are the most overrated batch of schmucks in all of human history

like i'm having fun trying to divine ADOS, but imagine trying to predict the ending of the fullmetal alchemist manga, by only watching the first fullmetal alchemist anime, but the anime also arbitrarily decided to cut half the cast from the manga and also excise major plots they didn't personally care for

- Lady Stoneheart
- Wyman Manderly
- Howland Reed
- Nymeria and her wolf pack
- Stannis Baratheon
- Patchface
- Euron Greyjoy
- Dragonbinder
- Vicarion Greyjoy
- Jon Connington
- Lord Varys
- Illyrio Mopatis
- Aegon Fucking Targaryen, Sixth Of His Name
- Arianne Martell
- Doran Martell
- Quentyn Martell
- The Tattered Prince
- Sarella Sand
- Bloodraven
- Pate, like the pig boy
- Marwyn the Mage
- Alys Karstark
- Mance Rayder

That said:

- Arya's finale feels fitting. I'm a bit shocked that she didn't kill Daenerys. In fact, except for the Night King- explicitly a creation of the show, with no parallel whatsoever in the books- she barely killed anyone at all in the series.
- How exactly Bran ends up Lord of the Seven- pardon, Six- kingdoms in the books would be... a sight. I actually doubt he'll leave the cave of the three-eyed raven in the books? The choice to make him king feels pretty forced imo. He might be taking the place of a character absent from the show entirely, or that the show killed earlier. I'm still puzzled by it.
- The kingsmoot solution is pretty funny honestly. i definitely expect that the North will be a separate kingdom at the end of ADOS, but... I'm just not sold that there will be even six kingdoms at the end of ADOS, sorry

So, I think that using this episode to divine the ending of ADOS is going to be a bit murky for a few reasons, not in the least that 1. we're forecasting TWO books here and 2. the timelines have diverged pretty sharply.

To pick up from a thing I noted last time: I strongly suspect that, in the book timeline, the destruction of King's Landing comes *before* the fall of the Wall, or at least around the same time. That alone means that ASOIAF will end on an entirely different note than GOT did!

And we have a title: "The Iron Throne"

bronn and davos is a good pair that we unfortunately did not see much of this... show.

how did sam manage to become grand maester tho

nice title drop cameo lmao

Lady Commander Brienne filling in Jaime's entry in the White Book is genuinely touching tho

my suspicion right now is that much of this finale is cobbled-together and made up from whole cloth, because the timeline of the books and of the show are so different at this point. But that said, I'll have to pick around it to figure out what actually corresponds to ADOS.

lmao @ sending jon back to the night's watch tho

i need to digest this bran thing a bit

bran the builder indeed!

that's a left turn, huh?

i'm glad we're dunking on edmure tully, one last time

at least we're ending the series by destroying this fucking chair. i feel vindicated

that is...... yeah, sure, why not. jon snow, noted lover of subterfuge and sneak attacks, noted fantastic liar