The Starks won, Jon stabbed the worst character in the entire series. Daenerys deserved to die and she should have died in season 1. As I said. I was team stark. GoT is literally the pro-Stark fanfic I came up with in my head and everything was perfect. I’ve never talked to a person who hated the GOT ending that DIDN’T like Danny. Js.
The Starks were a bunch of screw ups. Rickon was batcrap crazy. Catelyn was a witch. Ned, Jon and Rob was narrow minded and naïve. Sansa’s head was up her butt. Bran turned into a soulless jerk.
The only Stark worth a damn is Arya but towards the end she was turning into… I wouldn’t call it a Mary Sue but definitely a character with plot armor. She was becoming too “powerful” to be believable.
Daenerys was a cross between Maegor(who ruthlessly subjugated his enemies) and Baelor(who made reforms in an attempt to make the Kingdom better) in that she did what she thought was necessary for the greater benefit for the world yet used extreme methods to do so and maintain her authority.
She was tyrannical, her brother Viserys was mad and her other brother Rhaegar was nice and manipulatable(by prophets no less according to the Novels!)…
When the genetics of her Targaryen bloodline flipped a coin it finally landed squarely on Tails(Tyrant) rather than on Heads(Nice) or on it’s side(Madness which goes both ways)!
The ending wasnt the worst, but the writing of the whole last season was so unbelievably bad. The fact that there were people that were paid to write it is incredible.
The Night King’s counterpart in the Books is Euron Greyjoy… Furthermore Euron claims to be the Drowned God and the Storm/Night King in the Show… Euron of course is implied in the Books to be the Great Other himself using a disguise.
They should have honestly made the Night King steal Euron’s name while paying King Balon Greyjoy a visit(where he kills Balon and later claims the crown by boasting of killing him) and waited till the burning of King’s Landing before getting Arya to kill him…
He should have been seen feeding Viserion Wildfire and later abandoning Cersei once Tyrion lets it out that her infant is Jamie’s. When Daenerys burns King’s Landing the Night King should join in sending in not just a Wildfire empowered Viserion but also a newly Undead Rhaegal to burn King’s Landing at the same time as Daenerys.
The Night King having taken the place and personality of Euron would have naturally challenged Jaime before fatally wounding him sending him on his way to Cersei(who is in the middle of giving birth to 16 White Walkers who Jaime has to fight through to reach Cersei).
He would comment on having a fine dinner before noticing Bran and announcing he didn’t know they were serving Cake while marching towards him in a determined manner before Arya comes in and kills him as usual causing the White Walkers to explode and Viserion and Rhaegal to drop dead(while breathing Blue Fire and Wildfire) along with the other Undead.
Cersei would have had the Red Keep fall on her and Jaime’s heads while Daenerys burned it.
Not making Euron Greyjoy the Night King/Great Other in disguise like in the Books weakened the Game of Thrones’ story. His arm movements were even like the Night King in the Show!
Daenerys just suddenly went crazy, was the problem. It was out of character.
They had her go from “free the slaves”, to “kill all the innocent bystanders.” It didn’t make sense.
It seemed like they just wrapped the thing up, as crazily as possible, without following what the author had written at all. I mean, they could have come closer than THAT. It is a shame he took so long with the books.
I’ve never read the books, but if he lives long enough to finish it then I’ll definitely read the ones that start where the TV series diverted from them. I’ll just have to picture the characters as the actors in the show, surely seeing the way it actually should have been done.
I think it did make sense. Power. Humans always abuse it and without a constant check to your power you will do just that. She finally saw everything before her and it was almost over. She saw the people that took everything she believed was entitled to her because of the elitist class system that was in place. I don’t think we have to respect the idea that nobles need to exist, even for that medieval mirror of a fantasy world. Nobles and their class system is flawed. It’s not good and I think that show demonstrates that we shouldn’t look at that show as a different context that we don’t understand. Danny lived a life full of rising to power. From the 1st season you saw how she eventually became obsessed.
Life doesn’t make sense and if you look at history there are some rather intelligent people who do some pretty heinous things and make bad decisions. Emotions are the most powerful thing in a human and they control us. Danny was destroyed by the Throne.
No doubt thats how people feel because at the end of the day it is just a show. Its for entertainment and it doesn’t have to literally reflect reality.
I just don’t agree technically that given the laws of that universe within GOT as a fantasy setting, Danny couldn’t have become resistant against her irrationality in that moment. It’s a possibility no doubt and it ended up being her downfall.
There’s a lot more nuance and different ways to look at it, but I get WAY too into things and delve way too philosophically. This is extremely anecdotal but also evident by how most people hate the ending, but most people just wanted Danny to win. Straight up. She was the largest Reddit group. Most people hated her death. Does that REALLY mean that everyone hated it JUST BECAUSE she died like that? No. Not at all actually, but what I personally think it is that they loved her and she perished. Even take a different scenario for example, one where Danny didn’t basically have a genocidal moment but her army still did the immoral casualties thing. Say Arya ended up assassinating her and the ending played out the same way therefore, I still think people would be upset.