r/HBOGameofThrones • u/MohitYTMahi • 8d ago
No Spoilers [NO SPOILERS] The GOT ending was not bad — it was just missing one parallel that was hiding in the show the entire time
I loved Game of Thrones. Even the ending. But watching it I always felt something was missing — not a complete reimagining, just the loose ends tied and the show's own rich background built upon properly.
The biggest missed opportunity was right there in the story the whole time.
Let me explain what I would have done differently.
Daenerys knew Jon was coming.
In the show she dies vulnerable and unaware. For a woman who survived her entire life through suspicion and political intelligence that never made sense to me. She trusted no one completely. She would have known.
So imagine this instead:
She is sitting on the Iron Throne. Drogon beside her. Jon approaches. They have the conversation — she sees his resolve, he sees she will not stop. She makes her choice.
Dracarys.
She orders Drogon to burn Jon.
Drogon does not move.
No drama. No roaring. Just silence.
And in that silence Daenerys understands something no political argument could ever say — the dragon does not recognise her claim anymore.
Drogon turns and burns the Iron Throne instead. With Daenerys sitting on it.
She emerges unharmed. Targaryen. Fireproof.
But standing in the ashes of everything. No throne. No dragon's loyalty. Nothing.
Jon demands an explanation for King's Landing.
She does not apologise. She does not break down. She just says —
Burn them all. They are not human enough to be ruled by me.
Burn them all..burn them all she keep repeating ..
Her father's last words. Exactly. Word for word.
The Targaryen madness did not skip a generation. It waited.
Jon kills her.
And here is where I realised something while thinking about this — this moment accidentally fixes the show's entire theme.
Ned Stark spent his whole life judging Jaime Lannister as the most dishonourable man alive, The Kingslayer. The man who stabbed his king in the back. Ned never forgave him for it even though Jaime did it to save half a million lives.
Jon Snow — Ned's son in everything but blood — now does the exact same thing.
Kills the ruler he swore to serve. Kills the woman he loved. Kills his own blood.
To save the realm.
Jon becomes Jaime.
And in doing so proves that Ned Stark — the most honourable man in Westeros — was wrong about Jaime the entire time.
The most Ned-like person in the story ends up doing the most Jaime-like thing.
The show spent eight seasons asking one question — what is true honour?
Ned's answer was loyalty and code. It got him killed.
Jaime's answer was consequence and pragmatism. He was never forgiven for it.
Jon's ending finally answers the question properly — and it was hiding in the Jaime parallel the whole time.
I did not plan this analysis. It came to me while thinking about the ending and I genuinely got chills when the Jaime connection clicked.
Does this land for anyone else or is it just me?
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u/vilager_01 8d ago
as smart as dragons are, they dont disobey their riders, you can take maegor the cruel as an example, he burned an killzd every1 in his way but balerion did not disobey him. maybe a wild dragon or a dragon who had a kind rider before would disobey her but that still unlikely,
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u/MohitYTMahi 8d ago
We saw some instances where drogon disobeyed her or show danny some resistance like while he was eating or when he left her in plains to be captured by other dothraki riders
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u/Haha_cool_reference 8d ago
Why would Drogon stop recognizing her claim?
Ned didn't know about Jamie's reasoning for killing The Mad King and his plans for the wildfire.
This doesn't exactly "fix" the 999 other problems with the show's last season.
Also, I'm pretty sure those aren't her father's last words, wheres your source.
Lastly, you do know you can have multiple sentences in a single paragraph, right?
You don't have to hit a space between every single one.
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u/MohitYTMahi 8d ago
Jamie said it was mad king last words when he talked to Robert in the show.
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u/freebiscuit2002 8d ago
They are not human enough to be ruled by me
I don't remember those words at all.
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u/SRGTBronson 8d ago
You are hallucinating bud. The mad king said the same thing he'd been saying for hours. Burn them all.
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u/Forsaken_Distance777 8d ago
Still doesn’t fix the Bran thing
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u/MohitYTMahi 8d ago
I completely agree but my point was to fix the danny ending not the show one..I have other theory about it will share soon
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u/Triof 8d ago
I wouldn't have Drogon burning Daenerys on the throne, because she's not supposed to be fireproof at all. Having him refuse to burn Jon I could understand, and then he kills her maybe.
But I didn't really have much problem with the last season at all. The Battle of Winterfell was silly, but no sillier than the Battle of the Bastards, and people loved that.
Downvotes incoming...