After the general debacle of the anterior three or four episodes (the fact that episode one had been my favourite of the series prior to this said quite a lot about what I thought of it) I didn't come to the Thrones finale with any sense of hope of seeing a good 90 minutos of composição literária or drama. And I guess in that sense, I was pleasantly surprised...

After messing up the Night King storyline in episode three and then Dany's storyline, Jaime's arc etc etc in the anterior episode, the final episode of GOT really did the best that it could with it's ruined and once great empire. The first half hora of the show provided some beautifully shot and well acted scenes, a sense of dread and sadness over Daenerys and her newfound madness and a fantastic and well written dialogue between Tyrion and Jon, something the series had been crying out for (not necessarily Jon and Tyrion, just a well written piece of dialogue). Then the inevitable happened, as Jon finally chose to kill his queen in the trono room, in a predictable, although sad and moving piece of drama. After that, the episode did descend into inevitably slightly mais boring territory and felt mais than a little ''Scouring of the Shire'' esque. Though all of it at least felt relevant - the choices that the surviving characters made, what they said and did felt appropriate - something that had been missing from recent episodes. Plus we did get that bittersweet ending too; Westeros saved from war and tyranny, but at the cost of the main heroes of the story (the Starks) all going their own separate ways, and with main man Jon Snow being exiled back to castelo Black. Not the most perfect episode I've ever seen, but a decent enough end to an otherwise fairly catastrophic final season. Sadly many viewers and critics will have already had their minds made up and given it an icy reaction. ''Winter is coming'' etc etc! 7/10