Game of Thrones final season [spoilers]

[Rev. Rye]

Welp, I just finished the last episode, and one thing's really bugging me:

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They didn't give us closure on Ser Ilyn Payne! I know he's a minor character, but Wilko Johnson has proven himself to be a total badass, even beating terminal cancer during the show's run! You would think that there'd be at least some mention of him.

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Yeah no matter your opinion this series changed TV and pop culture .

As I understand it, the show had a kind of unsettling, if minor, effect on regular culture.  Apparently, thousands and thousands of people around the world have named their baby daughters 'Khaleesi' or 'Daenerys' since the programme's inception.  Since the last installment, some government offices in Europe and the US report a huge upswing in petitions for name changes.

Boru

I can actually remember watching an episode of What the Fuck is Wrong With You where, as a prelude to the other news stories of mankind gone wrong, Nash and Tara laugh at a story that explains that parents are naming their children Khaleesi. And then noting in horror that this doesn't specify that it's just daughters, implying that there's some fucker who named their son Khaleesi. I know some guys might actually be okay with that (including at least one person on this board), but that can't be good for a boy's self-esteem to have a name that means "queen."

And here's that episode.




Then again, knowing that literally every episode of Black Mirror with some brain-breakingly insane technology with horrifying implications is actually either here already or in the process of being created, this can't be surprising. I call it Brooker's Law:

"There is no idea so horrible or boneheaded that it cannot gain a significant audience willing to make it reality. Especially if it’s both."