Now our watch has ended -- but did the finale of GameOfThrones live up to the show's epic promise? (Spoiler alert)
"When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die."After eight seasons, 73 episodes and a much-debated flurry of plot developments, that signature first-season line proved the key to unraveling the"Game of Thrones" finale, which, after a season that was at various times exhilarating, exhausting and aggravating, came as something of a relief. Given the passions ignited by the penultimate chapter, the finale couldn't possibly please everyone.
Peter Dinklage in 'Game of Thrones'At that point, with the Iron Throne rather poetically reduced to a molten heap, the finale shifted into another gear, one that featured some superb moments and callbacks but felt less impressive.In perhaps the most amusing flourish, the process of selecting a new leader saw someone propose trying democracy, a suggestion that was roundly laughed off by the nobles in attendance.
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