Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 6 Review: The Sun Sets On The Saga Of Westeros Amid Colossal Disappointment

The day we have been dreading is finally here. Game of Thrones has ended and we are overwhelmed and underwhelmed in equal measure and this will take some time to sink in perhaps.

In the last episode, we left the characters reeling under the magnitude of the devastation that Daenerys brought upon King’s Landing. Cersei and Jaime are dead and so is the purpose that had almost the entire Westeros rallying behind her.

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The episode opens with Tyrion taking a walk in the ravaged city of King’s Landing on his way to meet the queen. He finds Cersei and Jaime’s dead bodies under the rubble and breaks down giving us a heart-wrenching moment. Torgo Nudo, on the orders of her queen, is slaughtering the captured prisoners and Jon and Ser Davos makes one last attempt to bring sanity but the deed is done anyway.

Things start going downhill from there and in a spine-chilling moment, just when Daenerys is holding the dream of Iron Thrones in her hands, Jon puts the dagger through her and ends the possibility of Daenerys becoming a tyrant to the future generation. Drogon grieves her death as a dragon would and carries her lifeless body away from the land that she ruled over for five minutes. The scene of the Iron Throne melting away is as powerful as it can get.

It is from this moment on that everything starts going downhill and the show gives us an ending that is going to give the fans nightmares for years to come. Tyrion, who was held a prisoner by Torgo Nudo for treason just assumes power in the most illogical fashion ever and all the major lords and ladies of Westeros, on the recommendation of Tyrion, chooses Bran to be the new king. Sansa demands a North to be a free country and is granted the same. Bran, surprisingly enough, agrees to be the king and chooses Tyrion to be his hand. Torgo Nudo decides to sail to the Island of Naath, as he promised to Missandei.

We then see Tyrion and Jon meeting in a prisoners cell where he is being held captive for murdering the queen. Tyrion informs him that he has negotiated for him to be sent back to Castle Black to serve in the Night’s Watch. As the most underwhelming finale of the biggest phenomenon on TV draws to a close, we see Arya sailing for whatever is there west to Westeros, Sansa assuming the title of Queen in The North and Jon leading men and women, beyond the Wall from the Castle Black, perhaps to a new civilization.

When the makers and the cast talked about a bittersweet ending to the series, none of us expected it to turn out this way. Although beautifully shot, the ending just leaves too many loose threads. What happened to the prophecy of Azhor Ahai, The Prince That Was Promised? Why did Arya ride off at the end of the last episode so dramatically when she basically does nothing after that? What happened to Mellisandre’s prophecy that she would shut all the eyes, brown eyes, blue eyes, green eyes? If Jon was arguing on behalf of Daenerys a minute earlier, what drove him to kill her the very next moment? When did all the lords and ladies of Westeros accumulate in King’s Landing? Did Bran know that he was going to be the king and still let all the devastation take place? Why did Jon Snow lead people beyond the North? Is he going to become the King Beyond The Wall? Why was everything so shoddily written and after loving the show for ten years did we really deserve such an ending as fans? Did the characters really deserve the ending they got?

Makers and fan theories might attempt to answer these questions, but it will never redeem the show from disappointing a fan base that has been fiercely loyal to the show. Perhaps, things deteriorating so catastrophically in the final season made it a little easier to accept that Game of Thrones has finally ended and we will never get a new episode around which we planned our entire schedules. As the sun sets on the saga of Westeros, it is not only the end of an era, but it is also the end of something we so dearly loved and held in such high esteem. At this point, we do not know what to mourn, the end or the way it ended. Somehow, both feels equally painful.