GOT Episode 8 of 8 “Snow extinguishes Fire”

Published May 28, 2019 · Updated July 6, 2022

EPISODE 8:

Opens the same as episode 6 in the original airing of the show. Danyers gives her speech to the Unsullied and Dothraki forces. Tyron and Jon are horrified. She meets with her war council of Unsullied and Dothraki generals and tells them to lay waste to the other cities that will not come in line with her rule. Jon goes to see Tyron in jail and Tyron convinces Jon that they have to stop Danyers now before she gets even more powerful and even more isolated. She is given the word that the Throne room is safe and they can take her there. UNsullied men are walking around the throne room checking with their spears that the ground is safe to walk on. She asks them to step back. They retreat to the first set of stairs in the throne room. She approaches the Iron throne and touches it but never sits on it. This is when Jon comes in Danyers tries to convince him of her vision of the world. Jon kills her and immediately the Unsullied rush forward to attack him and they manage to stab him in the shoulder before Danyers tells them to stop, leave him be. The dream could have been so beautiful. Then she dies.

The council is formed and they elect Jon to lead them after the death of Danyers. Greyworm won’t allow it. Saying Jon is a traitor to his Queen. Tyron lets them know that almost every King that fought for the throne has to betray the last King or Queen that sat there before them. Unless you were born into the position like Goffery or Tomin, or the long line of Targerian rulers. You had to usurp the previous ruler. They bring Jon out of prison and let him know of their decision. He refuses and states that ruling the North is one thing, but the Whole of Westeros is another. Plus Stark men don’t do so well in the capital. They are doomed to fail. He states that he intends to live out the rest of his time beyond the wall. It’s the only place where he has felt home, where he has felt free. His battle is for the lives of mankind and the Knight King is still out there. This is when Bran tells them what he sees in the future of Kings Landing, the mistakes of the past and the promise of a new way. The council votes him as King and the episode plays out as in the original broadcast. Except we see the small council discussing they have to hunt down more wights that are found in the forest and in unexpected places. They suspect that it will be years before we get them all. With an added flyover of the rebuilding of the destroyed Citadel.

I hope this humble attempt to give a different spin on the events that take place with the end of ASOIAF, can add a little something to the narrative and that George RR Martin is able to correct that missteps of Dan and Dave.

Kevin Gabriel

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