My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 9 - GAME OF THRONES FINALE RECAP

Episode Date: May 20, 2019

Ria from Barstool's Chicks in the Office joins Robbie this week to recap the Game of Thrones Series Finale (and final season as a whole) directly following the final episode going off the air! Obviously, this podcast contains *MASSIVE SPOILERS* for the finale, and series as a whole, so listen with caution!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Hi Robbie, it's the powerful and attractive Gene Simmons, wishing you the best of luck in your new podcast. I hear Dana was your first guest, but what's up? You got Gene Simmons now. Rock on. It's the first time Ria's been on My mom's basement in my mom's basement you could use either one because in your mom's basement yeah that's the nice little double entendre of the show of course before we get into this make sure you subscribe you you rate it you review it you do whatever you need to do with the podcast people tell me to say that stuff i say it i don't think it really helps i forget to say it every episode and then i throw it in at the end and i'm like

did anybody really make it all the way to the last 20 seconds? Who knows? You know, when it gets to the last 20 seconds, you're probably shutting it off. Yeah, it is what it is. Listen, if you want to subscribe, I would like you to subscribe. If you want a great review, I would like for that to happen. If you don't want to do it, I'm not going to force you to do it. We're here to talk about Game of Thrones and let's not wait any longer.

Rhea, let's just start off with this question were you a fan of the game of thrones series finale is this a straight yes or no or can i throw in no yeah go into it go into it um i would say while watching it i was like spoilers you haven't seen it i mean don't download this podcast if you haven't seen it that's dumb please that's dumb but spoilers of course we're going into everything yeah my biggest pet peeve on the internet is when people don't understand that game of thrones is going to be spoiled the minute it ends like just don't go online thrones isn't like a movie it's not like one of the avengers or something like it's in your home so you kind of got to watch it as it's happening yeah or stay on social media anyways while i was watching it i was like oh shit what's gonna happen which

every episode i've been that way right after john killed danny i i almost fell asleep i oh well after the dragon obviously burns the throne I really was out of it for a little bit. I was like, this is kind of boring. This is all falling apart. They're all, Grey Worm takes Tyrion, who's held as a prisoner at this point, and puts in front of the council. First of all, I thought they were going to just like cut Tyrion's head off. I thought it was rougher Tyrion. And by the way, before you continue, we should note that.

So you and I haven't been watching Game of Thrones since the start. We both got into it right before the final season. And both of us have been pretty positive about the final season itself. Like almost every episode, we've been the ones defending it and like being like, nope, this show's still great. You guys are being so negative about this. You're being so overdramatic. Yeah. I have been fighting with people close to me, very close to me, about this last season because I'm defending it.

Because I'm just like, you're not the writers. Let the writers do their job. Everybody thinks they can write a better story. And it's kind of annoying i even tweeted the other day um if you're signing the petition you're a fucking loser right after this finale ended i i was like i'm gonna put my name on the list like i saw a lot of people saying that we're signing the petition now like i'm ready to put my name on the list because the way that it was so chopped up, like I said, after John killed Danny, they were in front of the council with people I've never seen before. How did they end up back there?

How did they find out that John killed Danny? Because you know in the old seasons we would have seen how they found out. You know, when something would happen, somebody would go tell somebody, and you would see that. Yeah, we had Littlefinger or Varys. We had the whispers, all the whispers everywhere. People were running around telling people.

At this point, it was just ashes everywhere, yeah. Who told them? Who told them that John killed Danny? Because I just saw Grey Worm and Tyrion pop up out of nowhere in front of a council of people that I haven't seen before. There's – all right. There's a lot of questions. Let's take it from the start. Let's just walk through the episode and comment on it as it's happening.

So the episode starts with Tyrion walking through King's Landing. He sees a burned body. Pretty disgusting and shocking. Obviously, they're going for like look how fucked up uh what denarius did was davos and john are like okay this is crazy what are we gonna do we're gonna go confront this bitch are we gonna like stand here we go in a war and tyrian is just like listen i'm gonna go in alone they kind of follow him and then there's that scene with gray worm where he's like about to execute people and john's like, what the fuck are you doing?

We won. Stop executing them. He's like, nope. John is pissed off. Yeah. Oh, John's so pissed off. He's like, why is everybody killing everybody in his voice? What is that?

That was like you just did Tommy Wiseau from The Room. Well, that's my go-to accent. Yeah. Just John walked in and said everybody betray me fed up with this world that's that's what i'm picturing but that's really what happened he was like why why is there so much killing going on yeah no john and he's like you know that meme of the kid sitting at the class table and he's got like veins popping out of his forehead yeah that's how john is trying to defend Daenerys through the whole thing

because he was, to an extent, pretty fucking pussy whipped to where Tyrion's having this... We'll get to it. But Grey Worm just slits the throats of these people anyway. Grey Worm, total dick. Out on Grey Worm completely. I was kind of out on Grey Worm from the start.

I was never a Grey Worm guy, I'll be honest. Grey Worm got way too much airtime this episode. Fuck Grey Worm. Yeah, I know. The know the finale gray worm was like the focal point he said 12 words the entire show and now gray worm is in the entire finale where i'm barely seeing aria the baddest bitch on the entire show yeah the only way i would have been more happy with gray worm in this episode is if they gave us like a huge gray worm john fight yeah why didn't that happen why didn't we get a little battle yeah that was weird tyrian and goes to the red keep and he sees uh jamie's hand and then he sees uh cersei and he starts sobbing pretty pretty emotional scene

got to the point where i was like all right this episode might be might be for real peter dinklage showing off them them acting chops i felt the same way about that although for some reason i felt you said great acting chops there i agree not enough tears not enough tears he probably probably doesn't have any more fucking tears left to cry i agree did you cry at all this episode yep no i didn't didn't cry. Oh, you didn't cry this episode? I actually haven't. I cried one time this episode. I haven't really cried a lot watching Game of Thrones. And that might be part of the reason why I've been defending the season and not that bummed with the finale.

Like, I didn't really enjoy the finale after John stabbed Khaleesi. Everything after that stunk. But I'm kind of over it already because I don't think I was that emotionally invested in it. I cried... I think I teared up when Ygritte died. She was my girl. That was my favorite character. Yeah, no. When she

died, I think I cried a little bit. I don't think I ever did it other than that. Because, like, Red Wedding, you don't cry. It's too shocking to cry. I felt like... I'm sure a lot of people actually did cry at that after the fact, but I was just too stunned to cry. But yeah, no, I didn't cry during this episode. I guess we'll get to when you cried, though. And my favorite part of the episode is pretty much right here when Daenerys emerges from this castle and Drogon is behind her.

And it looks like she has these massive dragon wings. It's like the coolest shot in Game of Thrones history. I was ready to declare her queen at that point in time yeah and she's got the whole arm laid out it actually to be quite honest with you it looked like nazi germany with all the red flags and all that shit that's that she was kind of scaring me she was scaring me to the point where where i was like okay i'm ready to bend the knee because you're scaring me. It was a very cool shot. It was crazy.

She obviously was a crazy person. And I loved it. She was playing it like she wasn't crazy. Almost back to the Daenerys that we saw in the beginning of the season where it was like, all right, she still thinks what she's doing is right. It was wild. But it was like my favorite sequence on the whole episode. She just kept moving along.

She was like, all right, let's do this. It kind of pumped me up because she was speaking the other language. Oh, yeah. That was cool. Yeah. And she looked good doing it. Oh, this was maybe the hottest. Like I've seen her naked and the outfit she was wearing here was even hotter.

Yeah. I think this was the best she's ever looked. Yeah. And in front of all those people and the people going nuts i i was pumped up about it and then i remembered that she killed all those people and i was like oh that's not great she's just kind of a killer she's not great she killed more people than cersei ever did which is nuts if you think about that like Cersei was bad Daenerys would have been extremely bad like she's just planning on killing and killing and killing like think about this

Joffrey and Ramsay Bolton the most hated characters in the history of the show I think that's fair to say she's way worse than them that's crazy to say out loud but it's true yeah yeah you're right I was still with her till the end I was with her I was still with her. Till the end, I was with her. I was like, mad queen. That's the best. Yeah. I was kind of excited when she went crazy. But then it leads to the point where Jon has to go see her. Well, not yet.

Because there's that moment where Tyrion takes off the hand of the queenpin. Oh, right, right, right, right. And that's huge. Because when she gave that to him, that's the first thing I thought of when he took that off like the moment she gave it to him he was fucking hype about it he was stoked like the happiest he's ever been so honored and he just like took it off threw it on the floor and he's like bitch you're fucking crazy because she says or she like accuses of him being a traitor and she's like you freed your brother you're a traitor and he's like yeah and you slaughtered a city takes it off throws it on the ground awesome moment for tyrian one of those

defiant tyrian moments and a moment for him and then they they take him prisoner and john goes and meets with him when he's locked up and tyrian tells john she's crazy and you know for a fact that you would not have done what she did john is spin zoning the living hell out of this he's like cersei gave her no choice this that like cersei surrendered the bells were ringing i don't know what john was really fucking talking about here but it was a crazy spin zone through and through yep uh he says then tyrian says the line i wrote it down because this was like one of the big ones of the episode. He said, she believes her destiny is to build a better world for everyone. If you believed that, if you truly believed it, wouldn't you kill whoever stood between you and paradise?

And then sort of insinuates that, hey, bro, you're the heir to the Iron Throne. People know that. I know that. She knows that. She's going to kill you. And also, your sister is not going to surrender to her. So you got to make a choice like right here right now he goes and he fucking kills her i had a feeling he was

going to kill her i had a feeling he was going to kill her or she was going to kill him i felt like you know it was one of the other more people also thought maybe uh aria could have killed her yeah but they wouldn't give aria two big kills in a season i think because john so didn't get to kill the night king and i i don't know if people are necessarily because i think maybe the writers thought people would be really happy that john killed danny because people are gonna hate danny but people love danny yeah even after she turned love danny even after she turned crazy so like now john kills dann, which I'm fine with. You know what?

He was whipped the entire season. He didn't do anything the entire season. Did nothing. And in this moment, he's like, I have to kill her. He did it for his family. He did it for Tyrion. I like that. But also, I like Dany.

She didn't get to sit on the throne, which I wanted to see the shot. I guess they probably wanted you to show, like, hey, she didn't even get to fucking sit on the throne, which I wanted to see the shot. I guess that was they probably wanted you to show like, hey, she didn't even get to fucking sit on the throne because it corrupted her that much or whatever. But the way they shot it where like she was walking in and it was completely made to ash and like destroyed. It was the coolest the throne room ever looked. And then she kind of touched the throne. She looks crazy. Here's a question for the first girl to ever be on my mom's basement. The braids on the back of her head had to weigh 10 pounds yeah i think that her wig probably weighed a ton how much fucking hair did she have did she ever get a haircut in the history of the

show it's i if you unfolded all those braids would they be like the tail of a wedding dress i i honestly don't know seems like too much hair to be on one person's head her neck must be killing her like because there's no extensions in game of thrones i would be highly suspect no no no it's a wig i know it's a wig no no i don't mean in real life i mean in the show oh oh yeah no duh robbie i'm just saying um the but the way they shot it was cool the way the throne room looked cool it was cool and then the way they shot it was cool. The way the throne room looked cool was cool. And then the way he stabbed her. Like when he first stabbed her, I didn't know who stabbed who.

And there was a big part of me that wanted it to be like she was so crazy that she made out with him after he was like, you're always my queen. And then she stabbed him anyway. But it wasn't. Drogon comes fucking flying in. That would have been nuts. He sniffs her. That would have been hot. He looks at Jon.

He's like, I guess you did what you had to do. But he's fucking pissed, so he does the dragon equivalent of shoving his face in a pillow and screaming, and he just destroys the throne. Just Dracarys all over that thing. I love how he was like, if my queen isn't going to have it, and nobody's

going to have it, I'm burning it down. I thought it was cool. In the moment, I liked it. a as a moment i thought it was cool i liked that it was drogan just kind of being like fuck this nobody's on the throne of khaleesi's not on the throne when you really think about it it's kind of crazy that they're insinuating that the dragon would they a whole episode the theme of this episode the theme of the final season i think was they have to break the wheel because it's going to be an endless circle of war and break the wheel break the wheel break the cycle that drogan was like we got to break the cycle guys and i'm gonna yeah i'm about to do it he's been listening to it the entire time also bran doesn't need the throne because he can't sit in it he's in a wheelchair oh fact yeah that would be it'd be weird if every time he had to sit on the

throne for a meeting or something they would have to wheel him out there and then pick him up. Because that would be a bad look for our king. No offense to Bran, but it just is. Yeah, it's more powerful. He just rolls up. Yeah, and right after he kills her, we have a massive time jump forward. Tyrion's got a beard now. This was maybe my biggest issue with the entire episode. This season needed to be 10 episodes. If you're going to do this time jump, I want to see everything that happened in between Khaleesi getting stabbed and this meeting. I want to know how the Starks got to King's Landing.

I want to know how they reacted to the news. I want to know how people found out that Jon killed her. Everything that they cut out of this episode, it should have just been a 10-episode season. Give that to us. That's what I want to see. I agree. That's what my biggest problem with the overall finale was, was up until that point, I was kind of into it. I was so into it up to that point. They jump forward there was in front of everybody how did they find out in all of the other seasons we would have seen how they found out it's just laziness it was also it was also like a kind of weird tonal jump because so gray worm like goes and gets tyrian from his cell he's got a beard now you could tell time has passed and he brings him to the the dragon

pit where they all met at the beginning of season seven I think it's the same place and it's like Sansa Arya, Bran, Gendry Ser Davos, Brienne of Tarth fucking Yara and Greyjoy Yara, Greyjoy whatever the fuck this girl's name is she was the first one to pipe up out loud I was like shut the fuck up

Yara you're not the one it reminded me of Euron Greyjoy who just was piping up in the beginning of season seven. And they were like, listen, you are you shouldn't even be here. Like, you're lucky that we granted you a seat at the table. Shut up. Yeah. When Arya threatened to cut her throat, I was like, just do it. Just get up and do it.

That would have made me excited if Arya stood up and cut her throat. I forgot Yara was alive. I thought she might have been dead or something. Tyrion then says – they're talking about like what do we do to Jon for killing Khaleesi right in front of Tyrion, which was like a weird conversation to have with the prisoner of war there. Right? And then this is – everything after this time jump gets super wacky. Like that's the best way I can describe it. It's just wacky.

Tyrion is like, listen, we shouldn't all decide what happens to Jon. We should pick a king. That's what we should do in this meeting. And then that person can decide what happens to Jon. And they're like, oh, good. Let's listen to the prisoner in this moment. So they do. First Sansa's uncle starts saying some bullshit.

She's like, sit down. I could have done without that. That's like a comedy. We're doing a comedy moment right here. Robbie. And then they left room for, like, laughter laughter in the show didn't you feel that way like yeah no it was so weird what is going on why are we making jokes so weird why are we making jokes i so mad i was so mad game of thrones is usually very good at comedy, too. Like, it's a very serious show, but when there's jokes, they usually land even up to the final season.

People don't like the final season. I think a lot of people, one of their highlights for this season was Tormund talking about sucking the giant's tit. That's a very funny comedic scene. It works because it breaks the tension. Tormund always breaks the tension, or sometimes Samwell does. Then Samwell, someone that's usually good at comedy, they put in another role here. And this is the most mind-blowingly bad scene in the entire episode for me, because Samwell suggests, hey guys, what if we do a democracy?

And in my mind, I'm like, this is the lamest shit in the entire world. If they're really going to end this with, hey, let's all be fair and share, because that's the way this should work. I don't want to fucking see that. The whole show's been leading to who's going to be on the throne this should work. I don't want to fucking see that. The whole show has been leading to who's going to be on the throne at the end. I don't want to see a democracy. But everyone laughs in his face, and it's like a complete joke. And it's almost like they're looking through the screen and being like,

ha ha, we wouldn't do what you guys do over there in America. Fucking weird. And then Tyrion says, who has a better story than Bran the Broken? And he just fucking calls the cripple in front of him a broken man. I'm sure he appreciated that. And he's like, he fell from the high tower. He lived. He knew he'd never walk again.

So he learned to fly. And they take a fucking vote. Because this is so crazy. Tyrion says, from now on, rulers will not be born. They will be chosen on this spot by the lords and ladies of Westeros to serve the realm. And then fucking everyone just decides that's the law. It's like he was the president. It's like he was on the throne and he just made that the rule.

He was in handcuffs when he said it which is it was like why why was tyrian even a prisoner if he was the one controlling everything like it literally was tyrian who decided that brand was the king tyrian said brand is going to be the king everyone thought that was a good idea they all said i which under different circumstances i think would have been okay because you you set up like i don't love the idea of brand on the throne i would pretty much rather anyone else on the entire show have the throne but i think you could look back and say hey they set it up with the three-eyed raven thing he had like a whole season where he was almost like the main story where they were doing flashbacks they had the moment in this season where he sits

down with tyrian but the circumstances circumstances of the weird time jump, we don't know what these characters have been doing for months. And then Tyrion is a prisoner. Part of me thinks that the whole table sat down in that dragon pit with Grey Worm and all that. And they were like, we don't fucking know what to do. And I'll tell you what, the only person that's ever been good at this is Tyrion, and we locked him up right now. Bring him up, and let's just act like we're about to decide something

and listen to what he has to say. Because that's the only explanation for why they listened to a prisoner. They all vote. It's unanimous, and then they get to Sansa. And Sansa's like, listen, my brother's dick don't work. I'm going to head back up to the north, and you guys fucking do what you guys are doing i'm out i think sansa was like this show sucks i'm out yeah i i kind of i love that because i called

this um a while back that sophie turner has this new aura to her recently where i was like she's gonna be the queen of something like she's going to win something in the end because she is feeling herself. She's feeling good. She ran off to Vegas. She got married. She's loving life. She's going on tour with the Jonas Brothers. She's one of the most likable people on the planet right now.

Yeah, and she's also awesome. She just seems like such a great person, and she's queen. And I usually would hate on it. I'd'd be like she's just power hungry like she literally was like okay fuck my brother he doesn't have a dick uh i'm gonna take the north it was her brother who was the king like if john was the king oh she would stay she would she would stay and she'd be like i'll be the hand but since bran is in a wheelchair doesn't have a dick she's like and she's like i can't stand another fucking conversation with this weirdo fucking stoner also brand is just so weird nothing he like i understand i'm not gonna say nothing he did like i was gonna say he didn't make sense he did he made a lot of sense he said a lot of

things sometimes like i'm sure if you dig deep into the reddit fan theories i'm sure you could Like I was going to say he didn't make sense. He did. He made a lot of sense. He said a lot of things. I mean sometimes. Like I'm sure if you dig deep into the Reddit fan theories, I'm sure you could add everything up. For the most part, people were laughing at him the whole season. Yeah. He was just – would pop up out of nowhere. We never knew what the conversation between him and Tyrion even was. That's another thing. He knew the Night King.

He didn't know the Night King. I wish they expanded on it. And now that the whole thing is over, I'll say it. I wish we knew more about the Night King. He didn't know that. Yeah, I wish they expanded on it. And now that the whole thing is over, I'll say it. I wish we knew more about the Night King. I didn't think I wanted to know more. I was like, oh, whatever. The big beetle thing. Tyrion made the whole speech. I wish we knew more about the Night King.

I wish that that would have been like episode two or three or something. And Bran says Tyrion's like, do you want to be king? And Bran is like, this is why I'm here yeah it was such a like bro what the fuck are you talking about no and then he's like Tyrion you're my hand and Tyrion's like I don't want to be the hand and Bran's like I don't want to be the king but it that's such bullshit like I'm the king but do you think that Bran did all of this because he knew like do you think brand wanted to be king this whole time and caused this shitster because he knew the the news about john and was like you know what i'm going to tell everybody this because i want to be the king but

but they would say that like that's just a theory like yeah i him him saying him saying like well hey well i'm like nudge wink wink, nudge, nudge. Why do you think I came all this way? Of course I want to be the king. And then two seconds later, Tyrion's like, dude, I'm not going to be your fucking hand. I've been doing this for how many years now? And he's like, well, I don't want to be the king. You got to do this.

And I don't know. That made no sense to me. He was like, this is why I'm here. And then smirked. I've been like, yep, he told everybody because he knew what would happen. He would cause chaos. And in the end, he would be standing there. But then he said he didn't want to be king.

So what the fuck? And then Arya is just like, she doesn't even say anything. We're all sitting there. Yeah, Arya was at the meeting. I mean, they should have looked at her and been like, hey, you killed the Night King. What do you think? Arya killed the Night King, and she had no say. She didn't say I.

She didn't say anything else. And also, what the fuck was up with that horse at the end of the last episode? I thought she was going to ride in on a horse or something. Whatever. The horse meant nothing. Whatever. Tyrion, we cut to Tyrion. He's telling Jon, this, I couldn't believe when this happened.

I laughed out loud when this happened, and I was like, I instantly refreshed Twitter because I was like, I think this is funny, but this is going to enrage a lot of people. Tyrion just sits down with Jon. He's like, listen, talked it over with the big man, and we're not going to kill you, but you're going to be headed back to the Night's Watch. So we're right back where we started with literally the entire series. I think in their mind, it was like, what a great way to come full circle. Motherfucker, you just went around, go, collected $200, and we're back to where we started. Also, what do you mean the Night's Watch? Because there's no wall.

Well, apparently they kind of rebuilt the wall, it looked like, by the end. I don't know how. But there's kind of no wall, and there's no White Walkers. So what are the what are the knights watch watching john snow went through everything for him to just go back he couldn't have been uh uh the master of war brand's master of war at the end they're like we need another master of war why couldn't john be that he seemed okay doing why why didn't brand keep him like why did he just let him go he was the king he's the king he's allowed to decide he also thinks so basically what he did was he's the king slayer the queen slayer right the queen slayer john snow jamie lannister murdered the

mad king and they kept him around they were like yeah he kept but he was crazy how is it not the same thing for khaleesi she slaughtered whatever yeah um they all gather the starks for the final time and john says to him listen sorry gotta go aria make sure you visit me and aria says i can't i'm going west i'm going to travel going to discover cool i guess i i don't know i wish she used one of the face things this season i guess they they're they're saying she used it to kill the night king with the with the white wall but we didn't see it she just says i'm i'm going off to be christopher columbus yeah she's aboard the mayflower it was cool to see the ship with like the stark uh whatever the wolf but like yeah that was cool i don't know that was weird because it felt like

they set up an aria spinoff sequel and i'll get to that in a bit because ria i highly doubt this is the last time we're seeing these characters on game of thrones oh and then and then yes and then bran tells john this is exactly where he's meant to be and john's like all right you fucking weirdo. Like, you just sent me back to the Night's Watch. I don't want to go there. You know I don't want to go there. I don't want to go there.

We cut to Brienne, who I'm shocked made it to the end, especially given her knighthood. She's reading this big book. It's a medieval times book, basically. She flips to Jamie Lannister's page and starts just writing about his life and she puts in a very nice word for him even though all of what she said probably wasn't true or wasn't warranted she says he died protecting his queen they cut to the red keep tyrian's like arranging the chairs it looks like a first day of fucking school samuel comes in and plops this book in front of him and it's a song of ice and fire which is the books that game of thr in front of him and it's A Song of Ice and Fire, which is the books that Game of Thrones

are based on and it's the cheesiest fucking moment of all time. There's that Family Guy episode where Peter is like, oh, it's like when they say the name of the movie in the movie and it cuts to him in the movie theater and they're like and that's why it's blah blah blah and he's like, oh, they said it and that's what this moment was. It's like, why are you breaking the fourth wall

in the finale? It was so cheesy. It didn't have to be done. i don't want to feel like i'm in your world i want that i watch this show to feel a different world and now that you're putting this book in front of me referencing like george rr martin like oh jesus christ yeah like what are you doing this is this this doesn't exist then like what what is going on the whole thing was i hated that scene hated it that was that was horrible they say they make a big point like we're lacking a few key roles here uh we need to fill these roles and where's drogan we need to find drogan because he flew away after calise died he was done he was done with all that shit he retired yeah bran is like let me let me worgen to him try to bring him back he's been cited east another thing that felt like they

were setting up a sequel it was the weirdest this doesn't feel like a finale at all it feels like you're about to set up oh drogan will be back next season they cut to the north torment is there he lets john into castle black uh john gets his moment with ghost ghost is all fucked up so thanks a lot john for sending him into the wild. He's got no ear now. His face is all fucking stitched up like Tyrion Lannister after the Battle of Blackwater. Sansa is the Queen of the North. Cool.

She's got a crown. She's got a cool new outfit. Looks smoking hot. Arya is on the ship like we talked about. And then the final shot of the show is Jon, Ghost, Tormund, all the wildlings. They leave the wall. They go into the, Tormund, all the wildlings. They leave the wall. They go into the forest. They,

they're going to be wildlings. I don't know. It just stunk. The whole thing was, it just was not good. Like I wanted to like it because I liked the whole season, but there was so many corny moments. I was trying so hard to like it.

There was so many corny moments. I want to go back to when John was killing Danny. And she starts doing a speech and she goes, since you were the son of a bastard and I couldn't count to 20. Like, what? You couldn't think of anything better to say than you couldn't count to 20?

You were the daughter of the Mad King. And you said, I couldn't count to 20. Like, that's the mad king and you said i couldn't count to 20 like that that's the writing that went into this show and i i was so against people bashing the writers of the show because i'm like i still kind of have to be honest but like i get it they got left hanging by that fucking fat george rr martin sorry that was a ricochet shot at george rr martin i got heated there i shouldn't have called him fat. But he fucking left him hanging. You're right. When did he leave it off?

When John died, I think. I'm sure people know. I think he left off the books when John dies. It felt like the writers picked up the show for a while. They were good. Season six, a lot of people dug. I loved season six. I really liked season seven as well.

Battle of the Bastards and like winter went yes are two the best agreed and people are like they can't write okay ramsey bolton's death is like one of the most satisfying moments in television history so i i don't agree that they can't write i don't agree with the people that are like take away their they're getting a star wars trilogy i don't know if you knew that they're like take that away from them don't take it away from them they did a good job for a long time but the thing is it was like they were riding a bike and they were learning how to ride a bike without training wheels. And they got a good distance when their mom let go of the handlebars. But then they eventually crashed because that's what happens.

Yeah, and they got tired and they got lazy and they just wanted it to end. I don't understand why they didn't do the 10 episodes. I don't know why they didn't do the 10. Because HBO offered it to end and i don't understand why they didn't do the 10 episodes i don't know why they do the 10 because that's why hbo offered it to them they offered the the bigger budget it's crazy that they i don't know if it was laziness because in my mind i'm like if i'm the writers right the game of thrones no matter what i do for the rest of my career the rest of my life game of thrones is going to be my legacy why would you stop putting the effort that you put in the beginning at the end wouldn't you want to close it off especially if it is going to be my legacy why would you stop putting the effort that you put in the beginning at the end wouldn't you want to close it off especially if it is going to be six episodes you know you

have these six episodes to fucking nail it and it's going to be very hard to do but can't satisfy everybody whatever it felt like they satisfied very a very few amount of people i don't know if it was that's why laziness but it was was – it went off the rails at some point. It got out of control. I mean the whole last half of the finale was just – I was watching it with like – I tasted something bad in my mouth. Like I was watching with just like a sour face on. And it also felt like it ended a hundred times. It felt like Return of the King, the last Lord of the Rings movie where every final scene i was like oh is this gonna yeah the credit's gonna hit after they when they were zooming out on

the table when tyrian's like planning shit i thought that was the end of the series i thought we were running with tyrian and then they cut to aria and then i thought it was it and then they cut to sansa i thought it was it then they cut to john with with ghost i thought that was it and they cut to him leaving the wall like it was just like ending after ending after ending after ending when it shut and it was him looking back i was like are they really gonna fucking end it i know and then they cut to him like just in the in the wild like for like two more seconds i don't know i thought the ending was trash i really did like i wanted to like it so bad i really wanted to like it there were so many corny moments. So let's do this.

Let's do this, Rhea. We were very negative this episode. I think it was warranted negativity. But to be positive, let's do your favorite moment from the final season. Because there were some good moments. I had a favorite moment in this episode when Khaleesi makes that speech. Like I said, I thought that speech was fucking awesome. When the dragon's behind her.

Drogon's behind her with the wings. Amazing. The whole last episode, I loved. loved loved khaleesi going mad queen i loved aria running away from everything i loved uh klegane the klegane ball the hound versus the mountain and it was overall like i think it was a good final season a bad finale i think it will i think time will be good to this final season, because for people like us, that are catching up and you binge the whole thing, I've done it with a few shows where people don't like the

last season, like Lost. People hate the last season of Lost. I binged it, didn't watch it live, and when you're not invested week to week, it just plays differently, like on Netflix. When you're one after the other, one after the other, I think people will feel the same way about Thrones that discover it a few years down the line. They'll say the last

season wasn't as bad as everyone made it out to be. I think the finale will get rightfully shit on. What were your favorite moments of this final season? And if you want to do your favorite moment of the series. My favorite moment of the series is easily Tyrion's trial. I think season four over

killing Joffrey. I thought that was the best episode in the entire series. I thought that and then him actually killing Tywin. Those were my two favorite moments in the whole series. Well, I would have to agree with you. That's one of my top moments. I really loved Drogo. Really.

I don't know why. I'm going to bring it back to like season one and two. I feel like people don't talk about those seasons enough. Although, you know, he was a little, you know, we didn't like him at first. A little rapey. He was a little rapey at first with Khaleesi. But they fell in love. And I loved when he was just so riled up all the time.

And he was like, my my son like everything was so dramatic and it was so good and so dramatic it felt like a whole different show dude craziest craziest like lamest death in the show though i gotta tell you when that guy just holds out the knife and he's being a fucking hardo and he like stabs himself with it and then he gets infected and dies it I know. It was such a loser death for such a cool character. Love Tyrion on the trial. You'd know that I would impersonate that all the time. Love that scene.

I could plug actually, I'll plug Rhea's impersonation of that episode into this now because it's seriously pretty impressive. I'm on trial for being a dwarf. I've been on trial for being a dwarf my entire life. I wish I had killed Joffrey, but I didn't. I wish I was the monster you think I am. Watching your vicious bastard die gave me more pleasure than a thousand lying holes. Yeah.

Arya, I really liked Arya's whole storyline throughout the season when she was alone. And I liked when she was doing the faceless men stuff. I liked all the stuff with her and the Hound, too. I thought they were a great duo. Yeah. But I liked, I forget their exact names, but when she was going to see the play

and she was going to kill that woman and then she saved her, that was one of my favorite sequence of events. It's cool watching that play, too. It was like, oh, shit. Right? It was like, oh, that's them. Ned Stark's getting his head cut off.

Or whatever scene it was. I think it was that. And then when she killed the other guy. It's so long ago now. I'm forgetting the names. Oh, Walder Frey. Yeah. No, no no no

the pervert when he was like hitting the little girls the pervert yeah yeah yeah that was awesome love that was fucking brutal oh my god i forgot about that brutal but honestly the most shocking death i did not see it coming yeah it was came out of nowhere she was taking the hits one of my favorite scenes by far in the whole show in the last season um i really loved last week's episode i think the most i liked danny going mad queen the battle of winterfell with the night i looking back like i didn't hit like hated that much but the last episode was so much crazier. That feels like a completely different show than the show we watched tonight. Yes, I agree. In a weird way.

Not even in a good or bad way, just in like a – it felt like two completely different shows. Also, I didn't love the lack of Sansa this season. People kept complaining about it, and I was kind of keeping it in the back of my mind. Sansa, someone that leading into this season, a lot of people were like, she could be on the throne at the end of this. She was in half the episodes, maybe. Cersei wasn't even really

in the season. The characters they chose to focus on were strange. Would you have rathered Cersei ended up on the Iron Throne at the end? Yeah. I was really against that, but tonight I'm like me too I was so against it I was so against it but looking back I'm like you know what Cersei on the Iron Throne fuck yeah because I really just people are like it makes sense that Bran is on the Iron Throne he knows everything he's the most powerful but like it doesn't really make sense he's on the Iron Throne. He knows everything. He's the most powerful, but like,

it doesn't really make sense he's on the Iron Throne. Yeah, I don't know. And I saw a tweet that was very funny. Someone tweeted, they said, if I was Tyrion, every time Bran was asking me a question, I'd be like, motherfucker, you know everything. Why do you have a hand to the king? You know literally everything. Past, future, future.

You don't need a master of war. You don't need a master of future like you don't need a master of war you don't need a master of this you don't need a master like you know everything just you got it's my biggest problem on the flip side on the flip side i kind of look like brand i kind of look like brand ladies love power maybe that's a good look for my brand brand every time that brand yeah yeah yeah every time i saw brand on the screen like okay robin fox got off my screen yeah when he wears glasses it's pretty similar you're on gray joy and oh the $20 chef every time that was scary joy i would be like get off like i would walk into work and be like chef like how could you i was genuinely pissed off one of the more pointless characters in history television you're on gray joy ladies and gentlemen nothing he ever did mattered ever How could you? I was genuinely pissed off. One of the more pointless characters in the history of television.

You're on Greyjoy, ladies and gentlemen. Nothing he ever did mattered ever. Looking back now at the end, it's like nothing ever mattered. Like, Jon's just, you know, going off with Tormund again. And whatever sounds as the queen, good for her. She looks great. Arya, she's going to sail away. And where the fuck is Gendry?

Here's my thing, though. Where the fuck is Gendry? Here's my thing, Rhea. I teased it earlier. i don't think this is the last time we're seeing these characters i don't think this is the last time they will be in action i think due to the poor reaction that this season has gotten due to the poor reaction that the finale has gotten the petition i think is so stupid i still think it's stupid we all think it it's stupid. I know that. And I'm not saying that petition worked. But they left so many little tidbits on the table, and they teased so many different things.

I think we're going to... We know we're getting some Game of Thrones spinoffs, prequels, what have you, whatever. I think a spinoff will be Jon Snow in the wild. I think a spinoff will be Arya exploring the world. I don't know if they'll be together. I don't know if they'll just kind of continue it as an epilogue season or something like that. I think there will be more thrones, especially the ratings this season did were fucking insane. There's a chance they redeem themselves, I think, with spinoff series.

You think so? And I don't know if it would be good or bad because the can of worms you open up in doing that is the people that started the petition think that they won. And when you start getting into that territory, like creators giving in to fans and backlash, that's no good. Because then the fan base of everything is just going to become so toxic and like, we want this to happen. We want this to happen. We want this to happen. And that's why I don't think you should continue it don't call it game of thrones season nine call it the adventures of aria columbus discovering fucking america so whatever you want to do do you think aria and

gendry will do a little long distance like what the fuck we didn't where did gendry go dude it'd be so weird if they did and then like was gendry just on the show because he was there to bang aria and that was it like you know what's horrible is if they did and then like was gandry just on the show because he was there to bang aria and that was it like you know what's horrible is if they had to do long distance sending little raven notes and then uh fucking bran accidentally wargs into one of those ravens and he has to read like a sext from his sister to her boyfriend oh my god oh that would be horrible but that's the kind of drama we get maybe maybe that's the show that we need that's i mean that's pretty much all there is to say about Game of Thrones finale. I think that's all there is to say about the series finale.

Rhea, thank you for filling in for Trent on short notice. Trent was covering the PGA Championship with foreplay. They crushed it all week. Follow Rhea on Twitter. Oh, yes. At Barstool Rhea. She's on Instagram at Maria Chiffo. Good luck spelling that.

Yeah, UFFO. Yep. And she's on Chicks in the Office, 3 to 4 spelling that. C-I-U-F-F-O. Yep. And she's on Chicks in the Office, 3 to 4 p.m. on Sirius XM, Power 85, every day. I'm on that show sometimes. If you tune in, one of them's sick, there's a chance that I'm filling in. And she's got the Chicks in the Office podcast. She's nominated for PCA. You've got to have less accolades because I'm trying to wrap this up.

I've got to turn my air conditioner off to record the podcast. I'm sweating here. Thank you for joining me. College dropout. College dropout. Yeah, both of us. Brought on around the same time, dropped out around the same time. Now we're recapping the Game of Thrones finale in my mom's

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