As soon as she closes that book, it's going to look like a Roshock test.

It's just going to be a big blob.

Unless the paper is super thirsty.

No hope, Brianne's thirsty. And the Welcome back to Shadon TV Game of Thrones edition, the unofficial podcast

Companion piece to the Juggernaut HBO series Game of Thrones.

I'm one of your host, Gene Lyons, and alongside his my co-host, Big D. D.

Ebert.

Good evening.

And this is our deep dive edition where we look back at this week's episode of Game of Thrones and share our insights, research and opinions.

This week's episode was the series finale, Season episode 6 titled the iron throne big D we've had 24

hours now to say farewell to a game of thrones and really digest everything that has happened, hear from the audience,

rewatch. And after all that, how do you feel about this episode?

So I had a friend text me today and he said, come on man man he said did you really like that and I said to

I said I'll be honest I said if I had watched the finale before I'd seen any of

season 8 I probably would have been disappointed I would have been livid but as the seasons gone on I found that my expectations have slowly been worn down to where I actually found myself last night enjoying most of the finale.

Was it bad? No, but my expectations was a complete disaster.

I was picturing Ari deciding to end up with Gendry. I was picturing all the worst case scenarios.

So what I got actually turned out to be a pleasant surprise.

Now I normally am the first to say something is terrible and especially when it comes to TV and especially when it comes to fan service.

And yet this season I seem to be more optimistic and more positive toward the show and I couldn't figure out why and as you just

mentioned that I think I cracked it I started to feel this way in season 7

all the jet packing going north of the wall, the Polar Bear, Gendry running forever,

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