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Which has made me question Tywin's plan to have Tyrion marry Sansa; given the North's attitude towards cripples (the Karstarks said that Bran should kill himself) and the fact that they were never sympathetic towards Sansa (I mean, there is this big Northern conspiracy with multiple branches like Davos recovering Rickon and smuggling Jeyne!Arya out of Winterfell, yet nobody tried to help Sansa at any point), how did Tywin expect the North to go along with his plan to have Tyrion and Sansa rule? They would have been chucked out.

Admittedly Rhaenyra's line wins out (posthumously) since her son Aegon III accedes to the throne while Aegon II's line ends with all of his children dying young.

Torched, then eaten alive?

My thought about Maester Walys was that Barbrey had him murdered to take revenge for Brandon's betrothal to Catelyn (which she thinks was Walys' idea). Now my big question about whereabouts during Robert's Rebellion is Tywin Lannister. We know he and the Westerlands rode from Casterly Rock to King's Landing... from the opposite side of the continent since Casterly Rock sits overlooking the west coast and King's Landing is at the end of a bay on the east coast. And somehow he reached King's Landing quicker than Ned, who was already halfway there (Woo-oo, living on a prayer).

Or maybe Daenerys blowing herself up by accident by unknowingly setting fire to a cache of wildfire? That would be epic (if silly).

Sansa.

Well for example, Ian McElhinney has expressed disappointment in Barristan going out as quickly as he did. And I think Natalie Dormer expressed disappointment for how quickly the Reach went down in Season 7. McElhinney Dormer

The score was pretty good as well.

He was a bit of an idiot though when it came to actual tactics.

Another one I was shaking my head at was Sam; in Season 7 Sam left with a rather bitter taste in his mouth about the Citadel and the maesters. Then at the end there he was as Grand Maester, with a full chain, so what was going through my head was: Why did he go back? Why would they take him back? Does this mean his mother and sister are left to the wolves so to speak, as are Gilly and Little Sam?

Then the matter of the question goes back to why there weren't more before them; contrast with Ned Stark who had five children by the time he was 35 (six if you count Jon Snow), a year older than Aegon was when Aenys was born.

In the final season the characters acted very differently from what was established about them and that's what people are complaining about. Take Jaime saying he killed The Mad King to save the people of King's Landing and then saying he didn't care about them. Now why did he say he killed the Mad King this time around, eh? An example from my childhood: So in Thomas and Friends and its source material The Railway Series, one of the main characters is Edward. Edward is one of the older engines and is generally considered too old and weak to work, but is a kindhearted soul who lends a word of caution to a foolhardy younger engine, or a word of kindness to a down one, and consistently proves his worth when the chips are down, such as in "Old Iron" when he chases down James when the red engine has no driver, suggesting a deputation to save Donald and Douglas in "The Deputation", and in "Edward's Exploit" when he pulls a heavy passenger train and gets it home despite having a broken crank-pin leaving him with only one set of working wheels. However, in the later model seasons before the show switched to CGI, Edward is more temperamental and has an uncharacteristic nasty edge as shown in the episode "Edward Strikes Out" where he is dismissive of a new character and subsequently ignores warnings from said character about his cargo, causing a derailment when it falls off his train. And that's not going into the personality changes that the Skarloey engines went through...

I thought Rhaenyra got torched.

If you can find 'em. They might already be dead.

On the other hand if he was more judgmental he might have survived, ie dealing with Littlefinger.