I genuinely don’t mind what the show is doing with Dany - more on that in a second - but the Jon of it all feels like Benioff and Weiss got their hands on George R.R. Although he’s displayed little to no real leadership skills beyond being able to give a semi-rousing speech, Game of Thrones has gone all in on the idea that Daenerys would be a horrible queen and Jon would be a great king, and maybe the fact that he doesn’t want to be king is proof of how great he’d be. wasn’t getting the winner’s edit before (as I suggested a couple of weeks ago), he sure as hell is now. actually, do you mind if I keep calling him Jon? Force of habit.
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Here are four winners and six losers from “The Last of the Starks.” Winner: Aegon “Jon Snow” Targaryen People being drawn to Jon. Then again, maybe that’s the point! The fallout from all of these events would inevitably be messy and fractious and bloody perhaps Game of Thrones is trying to mirror that inevitability via structural storytelling choices. Weiss, was a mess, making for the weakest episode of the final season so far and an inauspicious preview of the show’s remaining few hours.
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But the script, by series creators David Benioff and D.B. The episode’s direction, by David Nutter (“The Last of the Starks” was the last of the nine episodes he’s directed since Game of Thrones began), was perhaps the best of the season. In practice, it felt like about five minutes.
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In theory, weeks passed between those moments, when Sansa truly had to agonize over the secret she now carried. Sansa would find out information in one scene and be sworn to secrecy, then immediately betray that trust the next time she appeared onscreen. It was nearly an hour and 20 minutes long - so, only about an episode and a third in total - but the overall effect was mildly chaotic, with a whole bunch of things happening and very few of them having the emotional weight that Game of Thrones clearly hoped they would. After a season that has largely avoided the time compression problems that felled Game of Thrones season seven, “The Last of the Starks,” the fourth episode of season eight, abruptly hit the gas and tried to shove what felt like three episodes’ worth of story into one episode of television.