Game of Thrones rose to prominence just as online television criticism was evolving into its current state, creating a hyper-level of attention that both benefited the series, by making it inescapable television, and meant that every creative choice came under intense scrutiny. Tyrion presiding over the first meeting of his new small council, attempting to rebuild Westeros society for the better (even though his advisors can't agree on whether boats or brothels should be the priority) offers some level of hope that as one of the smartest men in the country, now granted enough power to make a difference, might actually make life better for the people of the land. The final humiliation of Edmure Tully ( Tobias Menzies), whose awkward plea to rule Westeros gets interrupted by Sansa's ( Sophie Turner) firm but kind, "Uncle, please sit," features just enough humor to penetrate the gloom. There are moments of "The Iron Throne" which are not totally lifeless. Dinklage does his best to sell that moment, but it's impossible to know how to feel about two of the show's most notorious characters being killed in this way, and no amount of rock-slamming on Dinklage's part can fix that. Instead, it both literally and figuratively drags the viewer through the clean-up, including Tyrion searching through the rubble of King's Landing to find the bodies of his brother and sister - Jaime ( Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and Cersei ( Lena Headey) as united in death as they were in life. Because so much death has preceded this final episode, it's a relatively action-free episode beyond Jon ( Kit Harington) confronting Daenerys ( Emilia Clarke) and ultimately stabbing her.
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