Warning: Full Spoilers For Game Of Thrones Season 8 Episode 6 “The Iron Throne” Ahead

The feeling that a TV Series’ final episode should leave its audience with is a subject open to debate, but whatever your view, it’s fairly certain that ‘indifference’ is not the correct answer. That’s not to say that The Iron Throne was a bad episode by any means, just that for a show that has been so uncompromising, the ending felt like a compromise – of both its characters and of logic. There are a few high points worth discussing, but let’s start by looking at the episode’s most head-scratching moments.

First of all, what have they done to Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke)? For someone who has been so measured and calculating for the seven seasons, the circumstances around her death just made her seem stupid. After braying for two weeks about how Jon Snow...