Game Of Thrones: where is going season 8?

Attention: spoilers for all Game of thrones Episodes from season 8 up to and including bells

It's been eight years since Game of thrones 10 years after the shooting of the first pilot, the first book readers have been waiting for the conclusion of this story for 23 years now – and in 79 minutes next week, everything will be over. But where does this series lead us exactly in the last eight epic seasons of television?

The question we've all been asking ourselves for all these years is, of course, who will sit on the iron throne? And all this time, it seemed like an obvious solution was watching us all in the face. Fans have long understood that Jon Snow was the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, and with the confirmation that he was also legitimate after all, and therefore the "legitimate" heir to the Iron Throne, the obvious kind of power-sharing solution between him and Danaerys Targaryen, either by marriage, or having his queen on the iron throne and his king in the north. This would follow the rather classic fanciful narrative of a royal descendant modestly going back to his early days to become the real king at the end, while Dany's story was often portrayed as a sort of triumph of the first time. oppressed, given the weakness of his character's weak points. summer.

However, the two episodes we have seen since the fall of Night King in the third episode of season eight seem to have almost broken it. The character of Danaerys has always lived in the shadow of his father's actions and has always been aware of the concern of those around him to find himself in the same situation, furious about mass murder. She was born because she looked a lot more like her beloved brother, but during the series, whenever she tried to do good in the world, she tended to turn against her. Save Mirri Maz Duur and trust her cost her husband and son to Dany; the liberation of the slaves of Astapor, Yunkai and Meereen resulted in civil unrest and riots that resulted in the death of one of his closest advisers; Saving Jon Snow and his company from their desperate mission to capture a zombie cost him one of his dragons. Dany tried to do good and found that it did not lead anywhere. She has now lost her two closest friends and has nothing to detain her.

It is also important to remember that since the betrayal of Mirri Maz Duur, Danaerys is ruthless. "I'm not a princess – I'm a Khaleesi" has become a rallying cry for geeky women, but governing Dothraki means governing a people who see sexual violence and murder as an essential part of the average marriage (just the first of many disastrous marriages on Game of thrones). Danaerys' reaction to the cruelty of Yunkai's slave masters was to visit some of this cruelty, and when Sam's father and brother refused to bend the knee, she roasted them alive. She is also determined to regain the throne that her family took to the forefront by destroying their enemies by shooting dragon, by attacking her brother's obsession after her husband, with his approval, murdered him. Perhaps we would have always seen that putting Danaerys on the throne would not be a happy ending.

A happy ending is certainly not what the people of King's Landing have now. All these years, Jaime Lannister broke his oath and destroyed his reputation for saving the people of King's Landing, but it seems that this effort was wasted because the daughter of Aerys Targaryen came back to complete the job. We know that the end of this story will be "bittersweet", but after what Dany just did, seeing her triumph in the end would be positively disappointing. Narratively, we would say that she withdrew from the race at this point, even though in the world of Game of thronesshe is currently in the strongest position.

If it was a traditional epic story, Jon Snow / Aegon Targaryen would play the throne, but all we've seen in the last two episodes is that in reality his story is not not the one we follow. There was an outcry after the fourth episode, when Jon just gave Tormund his ghost of the werewolf without even praising him, but we think that actually tells us where Jon will end up – living north of what was the wall with Ghost and Tormund, in a society without kings. Jon admired Mance Rayder, fell in love with Wilding's wife, Ygritte, and never seemed as happy as when he was undercover with them, not to mention being killed while he was there. was trying to build peace with them. He will find a way to live on the ice, where he will be able to call himself whatever the name of his choice and it does not matter.

Is there even an iron throne on which to sit, anyway? The red dungeon has been destroyed, but it remains to be seen if the physical throne has survived (the building seems to have collapsed rather than being burned by the fire of the dragon, so the throne could still be intact). On a more metaphorical level, it has often been suggested that the series does not end with one or two characters seated on any throne, but with the emergence of democracy in Westeros.

It is certainly possible that a kind of proto-democracy be created by the end of the series. Much of the story that inspired the show is the British medieval history, and medieval Britain saw the slow emergence of elements of democracy that gradually shifted into democracy with a constitutional monarch that we have today. It began when King John protected some of the Baron's rights by signing the Magna Carta, which led to the creation of the Parliament, through which the King had to work to raise funds for wars, and who was transferred to Many times over the years, the arrival of a king (George I) at best fragile, which leads Parliament to take much more control.

It is not impossible that the conclusion of Game of thrones will indicate a kind of power-sharing for Westeros, with the signing of a Westerosi Magna Carta. The series has clearly shown from the beginning that it is impossible to reign without the support of lords, ladies and landlords, which Danaerys will likely discover the hard way next week. But 79 minutes do not seem to be enough to set up a full-fledged democracy, nor would it be likely to give a satisfactory televised finale. In addition to this, the character most able to set up a new system of power sharing, and who always acted above all in the interest of the people, was grilled to the dragon in the first minutes of the episode 5. Whether the Seven Kingdoms remain intact or not, Westeros will need at least one leader to maintain it, or two, if North and South are divided.

There are not many elements left on the board: there are only two viable candidates left: Sansa Stark and Tyrion Lannister. Of the two, Sansa seems by far the best bet. Psychologically speaking, Tyrion is a broken man. Although he played well in the second season, he lost his hand a long time, largely because of his weakness for his brother and even for his sister, even though she hated him. Sansa, by contrast, changed more than anyone else in the series, learning to govern – and how not to govern – Cersei, Margaery and Littlefinger. On top of that, she has a brother who has visions and a sister who is a deadly assassin. We could even attend a power-sharing wedding after all. If the appalling nostalgia of Tyrion and Sansa about their brief wedding in episode 3 has enough to hold, we think Tyrion will want to retire to Casterly Rock, the home that he always has. wanted to inherit, and drink his days away from pure guilt to where his choices led.

So we go there, we put our claim. Regardless of the power-sharing agreement obtained, the winner of the Game of thrones Sansa Stark, with the help of the armies of the North (her brother / cousin has now retired from King's Landing and will be throwing behind her) and her ninja murderous little sister. Tyrion Lannister will share the victory, but for him it will be a pyrrhic victory, and he will never forgive himself.

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