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So Jon rode north with the wildling. Did he swear an oath the join the nightwatch before and rode as part of a misson for them? Or did he defect to live as one of the free folk? Did he swear at all, or refused and went north as one of the free folk? What do you think?

I think he got screwed over. The end.

He fucked off with the Wildlings for good. Ghost, Tormund, the Wildlings and Jon all belong North of the Wall.

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Ersatzdrummel wrote:

So Jon rode north with the wildling. Did he swear an oath the join the nightwatch before and rode as part of a misson for them? Or did he defect to live as one of the free folk? Did he swear at all, or refused and went north as one of the free folk? What do you think?

There is no more nights watch, he's the "King beyond the wall" now.

Any good Got memes?

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Shovelcut wrote:

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Ersatzdrummel wrote:

So Jon rode north with the wildling. Did he swear an oath the join the nightwatch before and rode as part of a misson for them? Or did he defect to live as one of the free folk? Did he swear at all, or refused and went north as one of the free folk? What do you think?

There is no more nights watch, he's the "King beyond the wall" now.

His brother is king and his sister is queen and greywurm fucked of to die on some island.
Who or what exactly is forcing john to stay in the north?

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jackof8lades wrote:

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Shovelcut wrote:

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Ersatzdrummel wrote:

So Jon rode north with the wildling. Did he swear an oath the join the nightwatch before and rode as part of a misson for them? Or did he defect to live as one of the free folk? Did he swear at all, or refused and went north as one of the free folk? What do you think?

There is no more nights watch, he's the "King beyond the wall" now.

His brother is king and his sister is queen and greywurm fucked of to die on some island.
Who or what exactly is forcing john to stay in the north?

Jon's been an "honorable outsider" all his life and he probably had to give his word he'd live by the sentence handed down. If he did, then he's likely to follow his word. Also, given that he's essentially always been an outsider returning the to Night's Watch might not be as bad for him as it could be for many others.

I know it's nitpicking, but I believe Sansa & Bran are Jon's cousins.

Also, one of the real issues with the ending for me, is it didn't really end. There was still potential for more story. Drogon running around, Jon still around, Bran doing bran things.

There really wasn't a conclusion. This could have easily been the ending to a previous season; not the entire series.

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Destructodave wrote:

Also, one of the real issues with the ending for me, is it didn't really end. There was still potential for more story. Drogon running around, Jon still around, Bran doing bran things.

There really wasn't a conclusion. This could have easily been the ending to a previous season; not the entire series.

Tbf to the series (I have to say that cos I think it was terrible), that's about as much of an 'ending' as we were ever gonna get. Most stories end like that - the only ones that don't are ones where all the main characters die or disappear off somewhere else. Even LOTR could've continued with the adventures of Pippin & Merry, or Aragorn, or whoever. They almost always have potential for more story - that's life, it only ends when you're dead.

A good ending ties up all the plot threads of the main story arc (or sometimes leaves a few open intentionally, for speculation). S8 absolutely mangled all the plot threads, but it did tie up the abused stumps of the main ones. The way it got there was stupid, the final conclusion it left us with was dumb, but I'll give it this - it did look like an ending. Mind you, the show had far fewer threads to tie up than the books do, especially after they began cutting all the (already fewer than the books) threads in season 6 and 7.

Now we just need to wait and see what they wind up doing to Star Wars next...

Isn't Star Wars already irreparably damaged? I very much doubt it can get any worse.