I will say comparing GOT to BrBd is unfair…I get the singular analogy you are makign and you aren’t wrong. However, the issue is with BrBd it was really only about one main character and and handful of support characters to focus on. With GoT, Dany is only one of MANY main characters…waaaaayyyyyyy too many IMO to give enough screen time to and provide compelling and good character development.
This is a story of Fire and Ice. These last few seasons we had it down to the fire proof Mother of Dragons and the north-raised, beyond the wall exploring guy actually named Snow. If they had focused more on those 2 or 3 seasons…maybe it would have been better. But I kind of doubt it because I don’t have faith in how these guys write and craft characters at this stage.
I only mention it because someone else brought it up first.
You’re right, it’s NOT a fair comparison; when their series ended, the BrBa team didn’t shit all over their fandom and their writers’ own integrity for mere fan service and the sake of contrary spectacle.
I’m just saying that if one wants a good example of a compelling and believable arc of an iconic character’s metamorphosis from protagonist to antagonist, one need look no further than what Vince Gilligan and Bryan Cranston did with ‘Walter White.’
I wonder if a person could go back and trace the interactions, they would just find that Jon Snow had a communicable disease that made him a stupid carrier.
People spend three hours with him and their personalities completely flip, causing them to make childish and foolish decisions, where if they were a continent away from him, they make more interesting and nuanced choices that promote their actual self-interest.
Which was a weird ass moment. So…all of a sudden, the dragon has consciousness and “knows” the throne needs to burn? If there really is supposed to be some magical Targeryn Blood connection with dragons and all that…why wouldn’t he just realign to Jon?
Looked to me like he was about to torch Jon but instead torched the big giant object next to him (this is a dragon that was just used to destroy a city, it’s good at seeing things that need torching). And it’s heavily implied that Drogon & Dany had a deep psychic connection, so finding her dead would make him lash out.
The show ended pretty much exactly as I expected it to, and I found it a satisfying way to wrap things up.
I thought he wanted to torch Jon but couldn’t because magical bloodlines and all. Its what made sense to me. This…much like Avengers End Game…is frustrating to me. I shouldn’t have to guess or winder or play 20 guesses and and watch 22,000 hours of youtube and listening to podcasts to get answers. It should have been obvious.
I found some of the endings satisfying. That was not how I wanted Arya’s story to end…but I am satisfied with it regardless (for example). They could have done much much better overall though. This definitely went down hill and not because of a jumping the shark moment.
Most likely. He’s half-Targaryan, so theoretically he could be torched and come out unscathed, and maybe Drogon knew that, but that’s all conjecture. All we know for sure is that he got the hairy eyeball from a dragon who then torched the MacGuffin, and I’m totally good with the Iron Throne being gone. I guess if folks want to theorize in a YouTube video or podcast about why Drogon melted it, that’s up to them, really.
My big complaint is simply that there was far too much story to tell in six episodes, and it showed. We needed at least one more episode to let things slow down a little and make room for natural dialogue & exposition scenes so that various character choices wouldn’t seem so abrupt. I mean, heck, they could have done six well-paced episodes and then one three-hour-long theatrical movie to finish things up.
If the dragons are hyper-intelligent, then why are people not already seeing something in Drogon flying east for the lands of Essos? The priests of R’hllor have already solved a case of a stabbed Targaryen once. Who’s to say they couldn’t do it twice? And one who was less stabbed than the first one.
We weren’t privy to how Dany had been communicating with the dragons. If they were intelligent, then they might have been telling her the whole time not to go back to Westeros. They had it pretty good in Meereen, didn’t they? Drogon had no reason to love that stupid metal chair.
Maybe Drogon liked Dany and Jon and didn’t want either of them to suffer any further.
Or, like you said, maybe the dragons are just massive psychic plot devices attached to the nearest Targaryen, and destroying the Throne was acting out Jon’s feelings at that moment.
Or, if the dragons are not that intelligent, maybe Drogon didn’t really understand that Jon had killed Dany. I mean, if Jon had killed Dany, then he’d be eating her afterwards, wouldn’t he? There’d be blood and guts all over his face /predator logic
I am now unshakeably convinced that dragon was hightailing it to the first Red Priestess he could find to the East, because Dany was only a little stabbed (compared to Jon Snow’s fillet party).
I’ll also say that they gave Jon Snow the exact same method of getting rid of a superior officer that did him in the first time, and for the same reason, to protect lives from a wild commander. They might have given him a line where he noticed the staggering irony, but maybe he really did know nothing?
I was super-duper-sincerely hoping for this. It would have been awesome, and probably cut down on 50% of the gripes that the finale wasn’t brutal enough.
So, I didn’t see it, did Drogon melt the throne? Because frankly that’s impossible, I’ve spent time inside several steel plants, from the color Drogon’s flame is at least 500C too cool to melt a chunk of iron that large.
Since fire breathing dragons don’t actually exist (pinches self as reminder of reality), their breath can be any temperature you like, though the internal engineering to get up to smelting temperatures would be a tricky and interesting project. However, the red in a steel mill at night is mainly from the molten ingots and slag, not from the furnace. You need blue flame to melt iron.
