How Game Of Thrones should have actually ended.
Game Of Thrones was for sure the best web series to ever have aired on HBO...until Season 8 happened. GOT fans were so upset they even started campaigning against HBO demanding a Season 8 remake. I was so mad about the finale that I actually created an instagram account just to send curse words to HBO and George.R.R.Martin and I deleted it so they won’t sue me for having said what I said (yep it was that bad).
Now I won’t say Season 8 was a total BS. There were several scenes that gave us goosebumps like when Arya killed the Night King or when Jaime made Brienne a Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms and many scenes that gave us the satisfaction like when Littlefinger was executed by Sansa herself.
But for the most part Season 8 GOT was an insult to the rest of the Seasons that aired. Here’s why I think so:
1. They should have given us the real identity of the ‘Night King’.
Episode 4 of Season 8 GOT wasted a lot of time at the “after party” after they defeated the White Walkers. You see they could have made use of the time in explaining to us about who the ‘Night King’ actually was, and what his story was before the ‘Children of the Forest’ created him and the other White Walkers. According to Season 6 he was once a human, who was a member of ‘The First Men’.
Many of us fans thought that the Night King was once a Targaryen (As they were one of the oldest noble houses around at the time of his creation. After all only he can ride a dragon and as far as we know only Targaryens can ride a dragon) or a Stark (Because the ‘First Men’ were their ancestors).
2. Lord Varys’s identity.
We know that Lord Varys, aka the Spider, died on the 5th episode of Season 8 after Daenerys learned from Tyrion that he spread the word about Jon Snow’s true lineage. He was one of the most mysterious characters in the entire show. Whenever something important happens he’s always there, watching, whispering, spinning his secret webs. What was this guy really upto? Who was he really?
One of the major issues of the finale was they skipped many people’s true identity.
3. Jon murders Dany and ends up in prison.
Finding out that your new boyfriend was your nephew and not being disgusted by it is nothing new in GOT. But the fact she starts to doubt his loyalty even after he kneeled down to her and for being known to keep his words was actually boring. We knew that Dany won’t be able to bear any more children. So that totally denies the possibility of Jon Snow marrying her. And it was pretty obvious for the unexpected to happen, that being her killed by her very own lover and nephew- Jon Snow. But a cool plot would have been him killing her and becoming the ‘Azor Ahai’ instead of him being put into jail and later sent to the Night's Watch again.
If you don’t know what Azor Ahai is don’t worry I've got you covered. Azor Ahai is the hero who ended the last long night. A hero who brought back the day. There was also a prophecy that Azor Ahai will take rebirth to save the world again.
Saving the world could have been by killing Daenerys because she was starting to act exactly like her father, the Mad King aka Jon’s grandfather, who thought that everyone around him was secretly plotting against him and burning innocent people. Only in Dany’s case she burned a whole city.
4. Cersei’s death.
The one big bitch that kept getting under our skin from the very beginning was Cersei Lannister. If there was a competition for being the worst person to have ever existed she’d have won for sure and maybe murdered the rest of the participants in joy. No wonder Joffery was such an asshole. She’s done the worst things in the entire show. Cheating on her husband with her twin brother, poisoning Robert Baratheon to death, Jon Arryn’s death, Ned Stark’s death, banging every Lannister apart from her kids and Tyrion, blaming Tyrion for Joffery’s death, forcing Sansa and Tyrion to get married, destroying the Great Sept Of Baelor, Missandei’s death, the list can keep going on for eternity.
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But the fact that she died by bricks being fallen upon her and her lover (twin) actually made us feel sorry for her. Which we shouldn’t actually have felt because of the list of things she’d done like I said before. As sadistic as it sounds Cersei should have died an even awful death. Maybe watch Jaime being eaten alive by Drogon in revenge for having murdered Missandei in front of Dany. And maybe then starved for a few days and left to rot in grief like she did to Sansa and then later maybe burned to death.
Somehow Karma seems to have cut her some slack (idk maybe because she was pregnant) and gave her a smooth death. My point is she had a sudden death but she should have died piece by piece.
5. The great army and the great war we missed.
We know that Cersei had asked the Golden Company and the iron fleet to assemble for war.
But this could have turned out the entire show but would have been totally worth it. The Night King would win the war and the remaining forces in Winterfell would be forced to retreat to King’s Landing, which may include only a few people like Arya,Jon,Sansa,Tyrion and Jaime. Cersei decides to help because Jaime would talk her into it. Then the great war would happen, Arya kills the Night King and then my 4th scenario would happen.
6. Bran Stark as the King?!
Seriously?! (Anyone but Bran could have been better -_-). All he can do is watch back and forth in time and put out a list of advices. Honestly he'd have made a very good Hand of the King if Jon Snow (Azor Ahai) had become the king.
Now that he’s the King, the whole point of Jon Snow being the true heir to the throne has been shattered to pieces.
7. Theory that Night King would die by dragon fire.
This is a theory I read which would have been cool too. According to the books, the Night King is supposed to die by dragon fire. But from Season 7 we got that fire doesn't affect him unlike the dead army. So the theory goes like this.
The Night King was created by the Children of the Forest by being tied up against the weirwood tree, which is where Bran Stark keeps waiting for him. But instead of Arya being the one to kill him, Daenerys figures out that all powers of the Night King resides in the weirwood tree. She goes there and by then Night King would be there too, to kill Bran. When Dany arrives Night King would try to kill her and Drogon comes to rescue her. She says "Dracarys" and the whole place gets in fire and the Night King's ice cold body starts to melt. This is when Dany would pierce Dragon glass into his chest because of course the fire can't affect her, and hence the Night King dies.
8. Daenerys's resurrection.
We all saw that Drogon took Dany's dead body and flew away. This is something I came up with. What if the season finale ended with Dany being resurrected? You don't think it's possible? Here's why I think this could have been a good ending for Season 8 and leaving an opening for a Season 9.
Do you remember the witch who came to Daenerys, the one who prays to the lord of light, who told her she was the chosen one and stuff? ( The one who wears a Ruby around her neck like Melisandre, I can't remember her name.) Anyway, what if Drogon flew Dany's body to the Red Temple where she and the other red witches are present (You know the place where the lord of light is worshipped and stuff). Sorcerers there can resurrect people from death. Melisandre for one has resurrected Jon Snow, Beric Dondarrion was resurrected 6 times by Thoros of Myr's prayers to the lord of light. In fact that witch mentioned that Dany was the chosen one, so that's a possibility of her being the one to resurrect Dany.
Anyways these are just my thoughts. I know a lot of people who started watching GOT because of the buzz it created when Season 8 was released. But I've been a GOT fan since 2015 and I was extremely upset with the way they ended it.
Now I know I ain't nobody to judge the great writers. But the fact is that they could have done better. They could have given us the backstory about Robert and Rhaegar being enemies and how Rhaegar died and a lot of backstory should have been covered. They concluded the show too fast. They skipped a lot of explanations. And for hell's sake Bran shouldn't be the King -_-
Let me know if you have any interesting fan fictions in mind ;)
