"If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention."
I'm just going to assume the absolute worst. I'm not expecting my favorite characters to survive the final season.
Why isn't the Night King an option? Are we just assuming everything is going to turn out alright?
I mean, most of them?
Jon and Dany are kings, Jamie redeems himself and gets Lannisport, Sansa gets the North, Tyrion gets nothing/dead, Bran rules the land beyond the wall, Cersei is dead or exiled and Arya gets some ceremonial position somewhere.
GRRM + D & D already said that the ending won't be tragic just bittersweet. It's kinda ruled out by default.
Do people really think the Night King is actually going to win?
There's nothing to rule beyond the wall. All the people there are dead.
Goddamn, you cold blooded mothafucka. Forgive the girl already, she was but ten and three!Hopefully sansa dies. She betrayed Ned cause he was ruining her plans to marry joffrey.
Hopefully sansa dies. She betrayed Ned cause he was ruining her plans to marry joffrey.
Goddamn, you cold blooded mothafucka. Forgive the girl already, she was but ten and three!
Monarchy is abolished is my best guess.
Jon or Dany on the throne is entirely too predictable.
The monarchy being abolished would betray every single motif of that has being laid down in the book and show regarding medieval power politics. It would honestly be the worst betrayal of the world building from the show-runners.
Did you really have to ackchyually two posts that were clearly taken the piss?She was 11 years old and it's not in the show.
Younger than that. 11 in the books and doesn't happen in the show.
no?
not at all, the show and books has largely been about illustrating how pointless political squabbles are in the end when there is a massive looming threat like the WW. couple this with Dany's "break the wheel" speech and her vision from S2, and Tyrion trying to get her to reconsider her political legacy, it seems unlikely the throne will become her (or anyones) destiny.
Let me expand a bit. The show has built up a world view in which sustaind power is achieved through a mix of four major elements:
1) Military Power and Experience
2) Political Cunning and Charisma
3) Ruthlessness
4) Blood
Every major character that has fallen power has had a tragic deficit in at least one of these. Ned was not ruthless enough, Ramsay did not have the right blood, Joffrey had negative charisma, etc etc. The main characters have been presented to us as having deficits in some of these, but we have seen them grow.
In fact, the whole reason that Jon and Danerys work so well is that you combine their lineage, temper Danerys ruthlessness with Jon's charisma and then amplify their military power through the dragons and manpower.
The show is 100% monarchistic. Not in the sense of a king that can do anything, but in a ruling dynasty that is accepted but has to eventually answer to their people and to their competing houses.
In the show? who gives a shit.
In the books? the throne probably gets destroyed and replaced by democratic leaders.
No idea honestly. Jon Snow would probably be the one I hope ends up the ruler. Though that seems a bit to saccharine for GoT. I also kinda hope Cersei ends up victorious. Mostly for the shitstorm that would create among fans
This line of thought is most amusing.The same people will be ruling at the end in both books and show.