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Game of Thrones: How should it have ended?

April 30, 2019 By JD

Good guys lose the Battle of Winterfell. Nearly everyone dies. Jon, Dany, Arya, Sansa, Jaime, Tyrion, and Bran live (Bran only to later reveal that Night King was a victim whose people were slaughtered and whose humanity was stolen and who has suffered immortal human exile and madness for thousands of years and seeks vengeance and death, in that order). Good guys flee to Iron Islands as The Dead move south. At last, Tyrion and Cersei collaborate to destroy (most of) The Dead with wildfire. Cersei finally does one good, noble, human thing  in agreeing to work together. Jon faces Night King in single combat amid wildfire and dragon flames. He’s mortally wounded. At the last moment, just as he’s about to die, Jaime Kingslayer kills Night King with a stab from behind. Good guys win. Arya kills Cersei anyway, because: her list. Jaime and Tyrion have mixed feelings. Heartbroken Dany establishes the Two Kingdoms (and eventually Republics), the North, in honor of Jon, to be Queened by Sansa, and the South, also known as the Dragonlands (including Essos/Slaver’s Bay). Dany retreats to Dragonstone where she dies giving birth to Jon’s son, name of Aegon, who will be raised by Regent Tyrion and Varys. Her last dragon, Drogon, grows weak and dies. And like The Bear and The Maiden Fair and the Dance of Dragons, the Song of Ice and Fire is the myth ballad told for thousands of years of how magic disappeared from the world and Westeros transitioned into modernity. Maester Sam writes the book.

See guys, good storytelling isn’t that hard.

Filed Under: Good ol' fashioned rant Tagged With: Game of Thrones, George RR Martin

Game of Thrones Predictions

April 13, 2019 By JD

For the record:

Dany dies in childbirth

Jon dies in battle

Jamie Kingslayer kills the Night King

Arya kills Cersei wearing Littlefinger’s face

Sansa becomes Queen in the North

The Night King, a Stark, was the first double-duty warg/greenseer

The Three-Eyed Raven is his arch nemesis, the only other double-duty warg/ greenseer

The White Walkers aren’t exterminated, but only retreat until the next long night

The Hound kills The Mountain

Theon sacrifices himself to save his sister

Brienne acquaints herself with Tormund’s member

Tyrion is elected Secretary General of the Westerosi Federation

It is known.

 

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Game of Thrones, George RR Martin

Kings, princes, generals and whores…

April 24, 2014 By JD

History is written in blood…

…from this excellent Rolling Stone interview with George R.R. Martin, who as far as I’m concerned is just about the most honest, intelligent, and valuable writer alive.

Really. All he’d have to do is take a heartwarming liberal political stance. Say that the Song is an allegory for Western political persecution of the lower class, post-colonial atrocities toward “the other,” whatever, jargonjargonjargon. Mix in some chummy back-patting with John Stewart. Hello Nobel Prize. But no, he doesn’t, because he’s a storyteller. So that’s what he does. Tell a story for the sake of the story. How few writers actually do that. How few writers admit that they don’t have answers…

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When can we be redeemed? Is redemption even possible? I don’t have an answer.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: A Song of Ice and Fire, George RR Martin, Rolling Stone