Game of Thrones final season [spoilers]

[pocaracas]

Okay, Bran as king.

I already opined about how Jon has at least as good, if not a better, story than Bran's as to why he should be king - the better case being he actually did stuff to defend Westeros from the Night King rather than uselessly worging ravens and flying around aimlessly.

So if this whole time he's been the 3-eyed raven and he could see the future, he knew the whole time that the living would defeat the Night King? Why didn't he just tell them that? He knew the whole time that Dany wouldn't be long for the throne? Why not tell her that? He knew he would be named king? Well, I totally understand why he didn't tell people that.

Prescience is a terrible thing. Clearly, you are yet to read God Emperor of Dune.
Imagine knowing the future, the whole future and it being as real and set in stone as the past. You know everything that you will do and cannot escape it. You even know who you will tell, if anyone. You are doomed to play out your life as if it was already scripted.

And the whole Small Council thing.  : sigh:

I don't have a problem with Sam as Grand Maester, I have a problem with not showing how it happened.

I have a problem with how he never even became a Maester and suddenly he's Grand Maester and lord of house Tarly... That was silly, but oh well... it's a tv show.

Brienne as head of the King's Guard? Superficially I'm totally fine with it.  Think about it for 5 seconds and you wonder WTF? Why isn't she Sansa's Queen's guard? She took a vow to protect Catlyn Stark's daughters, she should have stayed with Sansa.  Unless, off screen, Sansa asked her to stay in King's Landing to protect Bran, in which case why didn't we get that scene?  Having Brienne leave Sansa's side needed a scene to explain that proposition and decision. Also, Brienne's last major scene was closing out Jaime's story, not getting her own ending. Boo.  I love Brienne, and I don't wish that she had died in the Battle for Winterfell, but the end of her story was when she was knighted by Jaime and stood her ground against the Army of the Dead.  It would have been such a fitting end if she had seen Lyanna Mormont almost get taken out by the giant and went to defend her, then get killed herself, and then we get Lyanna's death. Brienne would have died doing her duty as a knight; Lyanna would have died being a badass.

You have a vivid imagination... I name you designer of fan fiction! Go forth and produce some nice comic book sketches of that alternate ending for Brienne.

And what in the world makes Bronn qualified to be Master of Coin? I thought Bran was supposed to be wise.  That was total, stupid fan-service.

That was just funny.
None of the characters could have been Master of Coin like Littlefinger was... oh, so that's why Bronn was talking about brothels... he's the successor!

I might buy him as Master of War since what he's known for is being a good swordsman and fighter.

I thought he just wanted his castle and be rid of worries for the rest of his life.
Highgarden was his castle, he had a wife, I think... was setup for life. Why have a castle and then spend his life as master of coin at King's Landing?

There were so many character moments that should have been addressed on screen that just weren't! We spent 8 fucking seasons with these characters and what do we get? Them waltzing into the small council chambers in their new roles without a comment to how it happened? WTF.

It's ok for those moments to be left to the viewer to fill in.
Allegedly, they also rebuilt the red keep, so I'm assuming it took quite some time until that reunion... but it makes no sense for the kingdom to be without the small council for all that time.