Jon and Daenerys finally hooked up on 'Game of Thrones' and boy, people are conflicted

This show is def. pro-incest.
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Erin Strecker
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Spoilers for the season finale of Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones is a show that knows its way around an incest plotline, so people shouldn't have been too surprised when, in the final moments of the Season 7 finale, Jon and Daenerys finally pushed through a season of awkward, charged moments and had sex on a boat while Tyrion hung out in the hallway.

Anyway, because the show was kind enough to take the extra step of confirming for fans that, yup, these two are definitely related right before the big moment happened, people were ... conflicted about the proceedings.

Let's see how the internet dealt with this long-awaited but also problematic hookup.

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Erin Strecker

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