How to rewrite the throne scene!? And more!!?

Published May 22, 2019 · Updated July 6, 2022

Hey guys!

Here’s a way to rewrite the scene where Drogon melts the throne. He certainly showed some intelligence there if not wisdom, all of a sudden. Now, yes, in almost all fiction dragons are portrayed as intelligent and wise, but that’s not how dragons worked in Game of Thrones the TV series up until that point. That’s why it felt a bit odd to me. I actually predicted that the throne would be destroyed somehow before anyone else could sit on it, but I thought it would be someone leading the dragon, or that they’d dismantle it or whatever. I never thought they’d give that much agency to the dragon itself, because it doesn’t actually make any sense.

So my fan-fiction ending is this: Jon kill Daenerys. Drogon comes, nudges her body with his nose (same ‘awww’ moment). After that, he looks at Jon with the same rage. Jon, being stunned at first, slowly starts to move, out of pure survival instinct, and goes until somewhere closer to the throne. In this moment of suspense and terror, we see flames starting to form in Drogon’s mouth. Jon, again as an act of survival, does the most reasonable thing and jumps behind the throne to be protected from the flame. Drogon turns and starts firing at the throne, which melts, either leaving Jon there basically as a pile of ash trapped under the melted throne he was supposed to sit on, or he jumps out of the tower or whatever. We just see the throne melt down and know that Jon’s dead.

It would also save us from the moment where they (very briefly) try to explain Jon’s situation during the council. And it wouldn’t probably change any of the power dynamic there anyways.

I don’t know, does it sound cheesy? Or would it be good?
Or is Jon’s survival just worth seeing Ghost being patted? Let me know.

Also, one more thing to save the finale for most people (and make it way better for people who already liked it, like me) would be if they had actually made us like or at least respect Bran. We’ve been at best neutral about Bran and we don’t know anything about the Three Eyed Raven. We have no idea what his deal was all along. If Bran is no longer Bran, but the Three Eyed Raven, that means yeah, that guy -or whatever “being” he is- could have planned this whole thing all along just to be the king. What has Bran actually done after he became the Three Eyed Raven? What is one thing he did that directly helped people? We don’t really know if this guy is good or evil. He just followed the path leading to him being the king. Hell, the Night King was maybe a similar being with similar powers just playing the Game of Thrones with him, trying to stop him. Most of what Bran actually did communicate was directly related to stopping the Night King, this Three Eyed Raven’s arch-nemesis.

Anyway, even without my tinfoil hat, I think we could still benefit from having seen more about Bran, having seen something that would make us actually like him, or respect him, not just pity him as the crippled boy or feel totally empty against this weird dude with the soul-crashing stare.

Thanks for all your great companionship during this show. I thoroughly enjoyed this journey like I did with your Westworld and American Gods podcasts, as well as those of the previous GoT seasons. You have been one of the few that didn’t cave in to all that negativity and kept being objective about the show. And I know you don’t just like any show, because I listened to the American Gods one. You must be really glad that one’s over.

All the best,
Some guy from Berlin

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