Game of Thrones: Who will actually take The Iron Throne?
As the snow starts to settle in Game of Thrones, a show of dragons, white walkers, and armies getting ready to destroy each other for a seat in The Iron Throne. Fans prepare themselves for the series finale in a year and a half, and one of the many long standing questions in the entire story is who will finally sit in the iron throne after the end of the war? While Cersei is currently the queen of the seven kingdoms, so many things can happen in George RR Martin’s anticipated bitter sweet ending. There are many candidates fans have chosen and even the cast themselves have guessed who will end up on The Iron Throne, but what if it doesn’t matter? While several armies are battling each other and destroying everything in their way, there is a greater force getting ready to take over the world.
Fans have been debating who is going to win since day one, so many characters have been chosen by everybody such as Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, Tyrion Lannister, Jaime Lannister, Cersei Lannister, Sansa Stark, and on and on and on the list goes. Even the Night King has been chosen to be the ruler despite the fact he has an undead army getting ready to kill everything and everybody who stands in his way. Though many article’s such as Chris Taylor’s “Who is Most Likely to Sit on the Iron Throne at the End of the Game,” gives us a list of characters who are, as the title suggests, most likely to win the game. What I found in most lists is that usually Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen are the two top contenders in Game of Thrones. Jon Snow is an honorable man who fights not for himself, but the lives of the people and he would die if it meant that his life saved everybody. But, Chris Taylor believes that “It would be narratively unsatisfying for Snow to end the coming war as the leader of the Seven Kingdoms” (Taylor). If Jon Snow was given the opportunity to take the throne, he would most likely turn it down despite the fact he is heir to the throne, and give it to someone else because he is selfless and has no intention to rule. Or, he would pass it down to Daenerys, Jon’s aunt, and let her rule while he sits back and relaxes after defeating an undead army and Cersei. But Daenerys might not need Jon’s help because as Taylor says, she has:
“A massive invasion fleet to carry her Dothraki and Unsullied legions; a new alliance with Yara and Theon Greyjoy; a possible alliance with Dorne, care of Varys; and one of the smartest people on the planet, Tyrion Lannister, as her Hand of the Queen.”
She could even take the throne right now but she doesn't want to kill a lot of innocent people even though she has a dream team that can destroy Cersei”s army in an instant.
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Although I understand that these two characters probably deserve to be on that throne since they have gone through hell throughout the entire show, my view, however, is that there is one major thing that everybody seems to overlook. There is an undead army getting ready to kill everybody and spoiler alert, they blew up the only defense that mankind had in the latest season’s finale. Now I mention this because I think that the white walkers will actually succeed in taking over the world. Now I know fans of the show might get angry because they want Jon or Dany to win, but I think the characters in Game of Thrones and the audience themselves do not pay attention to the main enemy up north as much as they should have been.
The Night King and his army are getting ready to conquer the world and as Jon Snow puts it “We’re children playing a game screaming that the rules aren’t fair” (HBO Game of Thrones) and while the audience tries to guess who will take the iron throne, I believe that no one will be left alive take it. Shreya Pandey who wrote the article “Who will win the Game of Thrones and why?” explains how the complex story of Game of Thrones is hectic and how “nobody will win the game of thrones because there will be no throne left to win” (Padney). I believe that all the main characters will probably die in the end making the throne mean nothing and the survival of the human race the top priority, even though the name of the show is centered entirely about a game of an iron throne. Even Bran Stark, the three eyed raven, which basically means he can see things happening in the past, present, and future, saw a vision of a King’s landing “With the snow-covered Iron Throne in a ruin” (Padney). Daenerys saw the same vision and she’s not even psychic. Now if a person who can literally see things around the world in different points of time saw what’s going to happen, I’m pretty sure if the throne was covered in snow and in ruin I believe that the Night King might have won and nobody would care about the throne anymore if everybody is dead.
Work Cited
- Padney, Shreya. “Who will win the Game of Thrones and why?” Quora 31 July 2016, Quora.com. Accessed 24 Sept. 2017.
- Renfro, Kim. “Guessing who will win the Iron Throne is the most pointless ‘Game of Thrones’ debate.” INSIDER, INSIDER, 6 July 2017, www.thisisinsider.com. Accessed 24 Sept. 2017
- Taylor, Chris. “Who will win the Game of Thrones? Our updated power rankings.” Mashable, Mashable, 31 May 2017, mashable.com. Accessed 24 Sept. 2017.
