Quote Originally Posted by ladywhipple02 View Post
I've watched it a couple times now - had to let everything sink in.

I, too, enjoyed the ending. I think the writers were more about big production than story, and they left a lot to the imagination of the audience, but still, it was a nice ending.

Here are my thoughts: Bran. Holy cow. If you really think about Bran, he truly played THE BEST game of thrones. Once he became the three-eyed raven, he was able to manipulate the pieces as he saw fit. He orchestrated the outcome of the Battle of Winterfell by giving Arya the dagger, he had the power to warn everyone about Dany but didn't, thus setting up the situation in which all of his enemies and rival to the throne would be removed and/or killed INCLUDING Jon. It is also hinted at that he now can possibly have the power of a dragon as if he finds Drogon, he may be able to warg into him and control him. The Stark family is completely set up after this, and I believe he orchestrated ALL of it in true GoT style. He left me with a very unsettled feeling too because a.) who's to say how long a three-eyed raven will live and b.) even though the council agreed to vote on new kings going forward, who's to say that Bran won't continually manipulate the outcome of said councils, and when he passes on the powers of the three-eyed raven, his successors don't continue to do the same?

As for Dany - ugh, I still love her. I can't help it. Tyrion was so right when he said that she believed in her destiny. She saw some horrible, horrible things, and experienced some horrible, horrible things done to her. She was bought and sold and tortured and all these other things, and she truly thought what she was doing was right in the end. She also thought that she still had Jon, that she still had ONE person in the whole world who would love her for who she was, even a dragon.... and she was wrong. It's a very tragic story, very Shakespearean, and the English major in me truly appreciates that.


Here's my head-canon: Jon becomes the new "King Beyond the Wall", marries a wilding girl, has little wildling/Targaryan babies so the line can continue. Drogon is also free to continue the line of dragons, since George RR Martin has made it pretty clear that mixed sexes aren't necessarily needed for dragons to procreate. And perhaps, someday, Targaryans and dragons meet again, only with less crazy as they now have "the north" in their bloodlines as well. Perhaps they'll need to return to release the world from the tyranny of the Three-eyed ravens lol
WOW! Well said. You got me thinking hard lol

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