Mixed bag of a finale. The first section through Dany's death was very good. Not a ton of great dialogue but really well-played overall with more brilliant visuals.
The choosing a new government part was dumb as hell but it was so much so that it was like gloriously dumb. I enjoyed it. Liked bringing Edmure back to make an idiot of himself, he was a good bit character.
The sendoff was...fine. After all that, in the end, the Starks won big time. Everybody basically got what they wanted, presumably even Bran, who knows.
Biggest failing of the show was Bran. They never did a good job explaining that character. Easily the least interesting character of the show - so having him sit on the throne at the end feels really empty. It also doesn't feel like a fitting conclusion to the story's arc.
Yes - he was basically a cipher after he left Winterfell. His character was mostly things happening to him and despite being essentially omniscient was never really proactive about ANYTHING, even claiming the crown.
I don't really buy that the lords of the realm etc would have gone along with choosing Bran.
Yeah the major political developments, which happen in like 5 minutes, are A: little known weirdo mystic Bran Stark, with no traditional claim, is king now, with ZERO rival candidates, and B: his sister Sansa Stark gets total independence for her territory, which is largest in Westeros. You'd get resentment and rebellion basically overnight. And for anyone who takes it seriously, Queenslayer Jon Snow is in a foreign country where his sentence can't be enforced, and immediately jumps the border!
Also hard for me to believe Drogon wouldn't have turned Jon into a fritter after seeing him standing over Dany's corpse.
The Targaryen blood saves him I think.
Kinda related, how do you feel about Drogon melting the Iron Throne of his own volition? The throne getting melted was like the one thing I called correctly years back, and at first I thought not having a person make him do it was another terrible execution, but as I think about it I kinda like it. If you assume Drogon is roughly as smart as a person but in an alien way, it feels like he really was destroying the thing that killed his mother.