The show removes that arc, but it lacks anything better to replace it with. Thus, Tyrion makes a lot of decisions that don't make any sense the moment you think about them for more than 30 seconds.
How would Macabre Storytelling do things differently? But when she lays waste to King's Landing — an act that makes more sense in this telling — he realizes the true horror of what he's done. Instead of Jon Snow, then, it's Tyrion who kills Daenerys. This ending takes the story to the sort of blisteringly tragic place "Game of Thrones" loves to go, without resorting to Season 8's unconvincing twists. All it requires is a willingness to let Tyrion indulge his anger — and really, who wouldn't want to watch Peter Dinklage pull that off?
Though she spends most of Season 8 drinking wine and posing imperiously, Cersei Lannister is one of the most dynamic characters on "Game of Thrones. Vocal Media writer Tyler Callaway imagines five substitute deaths that "would've done Cersei Lannister justice," one of which is particularly intriguing and thoroughly foreshadowed: What if Cersei blew up the Red Keep herself?
Let's say Cersei booby-traps the castle with wildfire in the hopes of luring Daenerys there. Once she realizes the Dragon Queen can't be stopped, she decides to go out on her own terms. In a massive green explosion, she brings the Red Keep down, denying Daenerys the pleasure of killing her and taking up the seat of her ancestors. This is exactly the sort of spiteful thing she'd do, but it also encapsulates her defining struggle for autonomy.
Cersei is monstrous, but the world has been monstrous to her from the day she was born. This doesn't excuse her actions, but it does inform them. Someone denied a voice is going to want to make the biggest statements possible, by doing things like blowing up the Sept of Baelor Plus, such an ending creates a powerful parallel to Daenerys' own fiery acts of destruction against a world that tried to break her.
Despite seven seasons of build-up, the White Walkers aren't actually the ultimate enemy of "Game of Thrones. This strikes many fans as a fumble since the show spends a huge amount of time portraying humanity's inability to focus upon the White Walker threat as their likely undoing.
One Reddit user's blueprint for a better ending offers a solution: Cersei is defeated before the battle with the White Walkers takes place, making way for a conflict like none Westeros has ever seen.
In this fan's version, the White Walkers overrun the North, sending a flood of terrified survivors south. This doesn't just make it clear to the rest of Westeros that the Walkers are real, it proves that they're an existential threat.
This forces the realm to unite like never before. Imagine seeing Lannisters, Starks, Martells, and members of every other house put their differences aside to conquer the undead.
The potential for greatness is immense — "Game of Thrones" excels at portraying battlegrounds, and this one could've topped them all. Thousands of fans wanted this sort of ending — not solely because it would be awesome but because it's what the series foreshadows.
Instead, they get one pretty cool, admittedly episode, followed by three installments of Walker-less discord. The Onion Knight was born a lowly peasant, but he ends the series as King Bran's master of ships. The fact that he accomplishes this by being a forthright, loyal, and compassionate person and, okay, an occasional smuggler is astonishing. It also makes for one heck of a story. By Tyrion's own logic, and that of this Reddit user , that means he should be king.
How can anyone possibly top a journey from Fleabottom to the throne? This ending is meaningful, clever, and unexpected — three things "Game of Thrones" loves to be. It also goes a long way to making Tyrion seem like an intelligent and innovative person again.
With a little Davos-specific tweaking, his argument becomes genuinely groundbreaking. A commoner on the throne is a story that would grab the public's attention like nothing else. It also makes the ending feel less like, as Daenerys would put it, another turn of the wheel. Yes, Bran is an unusual lord, but he's still always had a last name. Davos on the throne is an actual challenge to the status quo, without being the sort of outright revolution that would stretch credulity.
Plus, who wouldn't enjoy seeing Davos be lavishly rewarded for his years of steadfastness? Onions for everyone! Missandei's death feels unjustified. It's clearly meant to push Daenerys into "mad queen mode," but as fans have made clear, that plot twist just isn't convincing. Beyond that, it's simply, stupidly mean. Do we really need to see a woman who endured slavery not to mention one of the only long-term characters of color on the show die as a pawn in the larger game of thrones?
Missandei's death fails to be shocking, motivates nothing worthwhile, and insults the character. You know what ending fans really wanted for Missandei? If we tried to turn it into a ten-season show, we'd strangle the golden goose. We wanted to stop when the people working on it and watching it wish we had [kept going] a little bit longer.
There's the old adage of 'Always leave them wanting more,' but also when you stop wanting to be there - that's when things fall apart. Much of that is an understandable viewpoint, although there was arguably little worry about Game of Thrones outstaying its welcome, given it was bigger than ever in season 8. But it's true that there was a sense of momentum going towards the end - in part because of how much was cut from the novels, but also because, as co-executive producer Bryan Cogman notes in the book, "There are White Walkers and dragons , and once they come together the story has to go where it goes.
Benioff's comments could also be construed as the showrunners being tired of it and simply ready to move on, though Weiss does note " How bizarre it will be to not be doing this anymore. This was, as mentioned, the biggest TV show in the world, so the network was understandably hesitant about letting go of it. In Fire Cannot Kill A Dragon , HBO's former programming president, Michael Lombardo, admits that he "pushed back" against the idea of ending after just eight seasons, and did so again when told they were thinking of such truncated runs of episodes:: "[Benioff and Weiss] said, 'We can do it with season six and then thirteen hours, then we think we're done.
No one thanked him for a thankless task. How can anyone feel hope for a future where Jon is unjustly punished for making one possible? I am grateful that the remaining Starks circa Season 7 and Tyrion survived the series finale. They earned it, and for the most part, they did seem to be happy. Not perhaps in the ways that I wished they would be, but happy, nevertheless.
At least, Jon Snow got to reunite with Ghost after that disastrous no-petting incident. Is that not what many of us really wanted? You can still watch the controversial Game of Thrones ending.
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