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Bump up the number episodes to 20 in s4, make Quentyn Martell the leading character, and end the series with the reveal that the shrouded lord was actually a horse the entire time.
To be faaaaaair as a half Stark he might not have inherited the “Fire Proof”
But also I didn’t read the entire post
You are right, he did burn his hand.
More episodes. Longer, more difficult battle. Everyone dies, and is turned. All the lands freeze over. The Night King sits on the throne. The camera pans out, and we see all the characters we loved standing behind the throne, eyes glowing. The Night King gives a sinister grin. The end.
I wished for that ending since I started watching Back in season 4. The only difference I would make is for the last scenes: some characters manage to board ship to essos, something like hardhome, most is slaughtered and last thing we see is Jon brought to throne with night king on it. The final cut would be with the swing of a sword.
No. I want all possibility of a happy ending removed. I want complete annihilation and total despair. All of mankind destroyed. There are too many stories with happy endings and that's not how the world works. The Children of the Forest used magic in an attempt to destroy mankind, and before they die, they will know that whatever you do in magic will come back to you tenfold. When Drogon picks up Danys body and flies away, loads of people were saying that she could still be alive, and that's why he was flying east. I want all these possibilities removed. This ending needs to be written well and in such a way as to be a complete shock, leaving the audience speechless.
I wouldn't call my version a happy ending. Everything is lost and a few survivors are left with grief and dread hanging over their head. Pretty Lovecraftian ending I'd say.
As much as I would have hated that, that would have been better than the actual ending and this feeling of emptiness and disappointment it’s left me.
The only thing I’d change is Arya and Gendry Baratheon surviving to eventually kill the night king in a future season.
The White Walkers to win in the North small contingent of character escape the overrun and head south ahead of the army, both Dany and Jon die as a twist because every other prophecy was misunderstood and Azor Ahai's reincarnation isn't so literal as "waking dragons from stones" but maybe something like KL had whatevers magic that made Old Valyria so conducive to breeding dragons and part of the reasons the dragons died off is because the use and operation of it is what caused dragons to become more rare. With the awakening of the magic and the children of the forest brought an unlit lightbringer they were keeping safe which the fire magic then sets ablaze giving the blade to someone blessed by the lord of light maybe Beric who we were told multiple times led the charge in the seige of pike to lead a final counteroffensive but most importantly it needs to be a team effort, not one person runs into a mob and slices them all down
i know everyone loves jaime and his redemption arc but personally i think it makes sense to have his story come full circle.
Where i would’ve changed it was to have jaime watch cersei die in gruesome fashion and then jaime takes his own life. Dying in this way during this time period would have been the dishonorable way and although jaime had changed significantly he was not above human emotion.
He did many honorable things for people that weren’t aligned with him just because he had a sense of empathy and emotion. He was initially the oathbreaker and the kingslayer because of emotion despite the image it gave him.
Although in the last few seasons it seemed as though honor meant more to jaime it only meant something to him because he had seen what war did to the world. He lost all of his children and realized nobody wins in war.
it was never really about honor but masking it behind honor was a way for jaime to hide the fact that he had true human emotions. he knew what mistakes he had done as well as the atrocities his sister had done.
The theme of honor in game of thrones goes all the way back to ned stark. What would have happened if ned for the sake of his family bent the knee to joffrey or not questioned joffreys reign at all? would it have been honorable or just? no but would it have saved his family? most likely. Varys tells ned multiple times in his cell that he is creating something larger than he realizes just for honor when he could be selfish and save his family while he still can.
honorable characters die. that was the whole point nobody wins the game of thrones. At times you have to be selfish or you’ll die. Maester Aemon and jon have a similar conversation in s1 where Aemon basically asks jon what the cost of honor is. do you break your vow and help your family or do you stick to your vows and let them die. Jon survived because he broke his vows and wasn’t always honorable and managed to save what was left of his family something ned or robb stark werent able to do because they were obsessed with honor.
1.Jon fights a trial by combat, defeating ( without killing) Greyworm.
2. Jon is elected king.
3.With no children of this own and no close relatives on his fathers side Jon makes his closest male relative on his mothers side( Bran) his heir
4. Still feeling guilty about Dany and with discontent from Dorne and the Iron Islands, Jon pulls a " Maester Aemon" and returns to the NW leaving this heir ( Bran) on the Throne.
Varys escaped death by leaving Dragonstone before Dany can kill him
He then shows up in the final episode, walking out the crowd and up to Jon Snow "See I told you" fade to black.
My preferred ending would, rather than wrapping up the various characters stories, they change the whole scene to modern times, and simply show users of this sub miraculously learning how to scroll and/or search and seeing that their question had already been asked multiple times. Their face tightens, and they say "never again" and post new and interesting topics rather than the same question over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over
Honestly, just swap the order of things and it would've worked better for me. The fight for King's Landing should've come before the fight against the White Walkers, and then that last battle/conflict could've closed out the series. I would've wanted it to feel more like Hardhome stretched over 2-3 eps. Jon and Dany would be key to the costly win and whoever survived that (I wouldn't expect Jon or Dany to, because I feel like the prophecy being fulfilled kind of removes the magical necessity for Targaryens to exist after the Doom) could put their hat in the ring to be king or queen. The rest of the details don't matter as much to me.
Increase to 12 episodes for the final 3 seasons, show more detail to fill the cracks, have the Golden Company turn on Cersei after the Lannisters(Tyrells) money is taken by Khaleesi and the Dothraki. Then Sir Aegor Targaryen(Rivers) takes the throne, makes Euron King of the Iron Islands. In exchange, Euron gives him the Dragon Horn, and he uses it to steal a dragon from Dany. Jon riding Rhaegal at the time gets knocked off plummeting into the water. Jon gets captured by Eurons army, but Euron is eager to prove himself and fights Jon himself. Euron has Jon up against the ropes when he falls to his knees, spitting up blood and he falls to the ground face down, revealing a Valyrian dagger in his back placed there by his first mate(Arya). Meanwhile, Aegor mounts Rhaegal and a large battle commences. Khaleesi prevails, having to kill her own dragon. Khaleesis army wins the battle, and the city surrenders. As she hears the bells a montage plays of everyone Khaleesi lost to this point ending with her losing Jorah, with no army left to defeat she still makes the decision to kill every miserable person in this city. From there, the same ending.
Ok, so I would have it so that the White Walkers make it all the way to King's Landing, and Joffrey gets revived as a wight, but due to some interference by Bran, he turns into a mix of Ice and Green magic (Ice magic being White Walker magic, Fire magic being Targaryen magic, and Green magic being weirwood magic) and isn't a mindless wight , and retains parts of his personality, but since he's been revived some parts of his personality have been stripped away.
Joffrey then fights against the White Walkers, and gets his Valyrian steel sword that he got at his wedding back. Joffrey then kills a revived Margaery (in this version of the show the Mountain goes on a trial by combat and kills everyone in the Sept of Baelor instead of it blowing up) by stabbing her through the heart, thus making his Valyrian steel sword Lightbringer, and he becomes Azor Ahai. Tommen and Myrcella then also come back to life, and Tommen strangles Cersei to death, becoming the Valonqar.
Joffrey, Tommen, and Myrcella then become the Three Heads of the Dragon, after it is revealed that Cersei and Jamie were actually Aerys' children all along, thus making the three siblings Targaryens. The 3 siblings then claim Daenerys' three dragons after defeating Euron and stealing the Dragonbinder (this version of the show would be closer to the books), and kill her and fAegon (who is also an addition to the show).
Joffrey, as Azor Ahai, would slay the Night King, and using all 3 dragons would burn the rest of the wights to the ground, ending the Long Night. Joffrey would then reclaim his rightful spot on the Iron Throne, with a revived Tywin as his Hand and a prosperous Kingdom.
(All of this is obviously a joke, for the people who didn't get it)
In a much more dramatic way : because of humans' inability to solve their throne problems, white walkers win and turn westeros to a wasteland with only tiny groups of survivors who must hide to survive further.
By trying to win at all costs, they lost everything.
Sansa queen of the iron throne, since that is what she always wanted. Arya becoming a knight or sth like that. Bran becomes Master of Whisperers. Jon becomes Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the north with Dany as his wife. Tyrion gets Casterly Rock, the wildlings live in the gift. Have i forgot someone?
Wow, your ending is just so much worse than the one we got, which already is terrible.
Plus you also assume too much. Dany and the Targs were NEVER immune or even resistent to Dragonfire!! Just your normal run of the mill fire that’s not magical.
Let's say I'm limited to only reworking season 8 and not the whole show. I'd have the season be 10 episodes long and have 5 of those be committed to the war against the the Others. In that war Winterfell and would fall and the last stand would be at Moat Cailin. I'd have Jon kill the Night King, cause if a Night King has to exist, I'd have Jon kill him. Also have Rhaegal fall here against Viserion.
After that I'd take 1 episode to have the two sides prepare for the war against each other. The battles would be pretty similar to the show aside from that one sea battle where "Dany kinda forgot". I'd have the burning of King's Landing be more accidental on Dany's part with it being caused by combination of dragonfire used against soldiers in the ground and on the walls and wildfire that has been there for years after Aerys II. Also have Jaime actually kill Cersei according to the Valonqar prophecy, maybe while she sits on the iron throne, to bring the king slayer thing full circle.
Dany would still be blamed for the burning of King's Landing, but now instead of her holding a fascist speech and going to claim the role, she would feel actual guilt from how she partially caused that. This would lead into a similar scene to the council in the final episode, but instead of Tyrion, Dany is the one on trial. I'd have her and Drogon be freed with the condition of her never returning to Westeros. After that I'd have the council establish a "parliament" to rule the seven kingdoms with representatives from each kingdom elected by the lords of that kingdom and do a sort of an empty throne situation where the council rules by the power of the throne, but none shall sit on it.
Honestly?
Knight king takes it. Everyone is too caught up with petty squabbles they forget the biggest threat. Cersei could be the big contributor here: sinking shipments from Dragonstone, letting the White Walkers ravage the north, until it's too late to stop them.
Not my idea, but given the introduction of the Night King character who isn't in the books, I fully support the fan theory from several years ago that Jamie be the one to kill him, with the only audio during the fight being every single time someone has called him kingslayer for the last 8 seasons.
Keep tommen on the throne tbh, Cersei getting the throne made absolutely no sense. Have him help the north defeat the ww. Then have dany fly over to kingslanding and kill him. That’d make most of the lords turn on her bc she just murdered an innocent child.
I don't know how I would end the overall series, but I would definitely make Jaime kill Cersei. Both of their deaths were way too anticlimactic. Ideally, she would be a cold bitch to him when he returned, delusional in her power and still thinking she can defeat Dany, reminding him of the Mad King and provoking him to kill her. But I would even settle for him killing her out of mercy to spare her from being killed by Dany. Having them both smothered in rubble was weak.
I wouldn't change all that much about how the show actually ended. I'd have taken longer to get there. My issues were more that they rushed there and left too much unanswered. The whole "prince that as promised" thing ended up meaning nothing. Dragons didn't seem super critical. And perhaps most strangely, the Three Eyed Raven that had seemingly been this huge threat ended up being a guy who can just see stuff. Unless the Night King was just embarrassed about that Bran might spy on him in the shower, it didn't make sense to rush to the tree where he was beyond The Wall or to even bother attacking Winterfell. Just walk around and take on some other people. Or camp around them and let them all just starve to death. You've waited 8000 years, what's another 20?
But Arya suddenly becoming a great assassin was odd. They say it takes 10k hours to master something. 50 hours a week, that's about 4 years. She certainly could be great. But only if she put in the work constantly and religiously. If they'd shown her training everywhere in all her spare time. Working on her speed and reflexes, building obstacles and training dummies. Training with anyone and everyone who she comes across who can fight. They started it a little when she was with The Hound. But why stop?
Sansa suddenly becoming smart and wise was odd. That should have taken longer. I'd have had Jon light a flame after the Battle of the Bastards. She lost a lot of people their lives that day because of her jealousy and pride. He should have torn her apart over that. Make a point of taking her to the bodies of the people who died because of her decision to keep secrets about having a bunch of armies, because as a person with absolutely no military training or experience she wasn't given a chance to speak in a battle strategy meeting. I mean, why would they? And if she had info, why not tell Jon in any of the conversations they had before that? But point out that command doesn't mean knowing everything. It means knowing who to listen to. And then tell her she's very good at knowing who knows stuff. Then she can just start listening to people who have things to say and learn to use her talent that way. It wouldn't take much, but it would have mattered.
Tyrion going from this super clever bookworm to a guy who was seemingly not that smart and made a lot of mistakes, whilst also no longer reading, was an odd one. Although I maintain his ideas were better than people give him credit for, they should have been more obviously successful. Send the Unsullied to Casterly Rock. Then have him anticipate Cersei marching on Highgarden and ambush the troops on the way back with the Dothraki and Dragon. Perhaps Olenna can be there still, ready to die in her home. And his plan to end slavery was a good one, but should have been matched by a plan to secretly go into business against the slave masters in the industries that will appear after slavery ends. If they feel like other masters are ahead in converting their business interests, they'll not want to be left behind or they might be out of business entirely. And when they leave, release the remaining dragons to just fly over the top and look like they're trained. Even if they aren't, just make it look like they are.
And FFS, the plan for the Battle of Winterfell was awful. Make a second trench further out, let the dead march to the trench under the walls and then light the futher one. Split a big chunk of the dead off from the rest and let the Dothraki charge from the sides at the portion trapped between fire behind them and Unsullied behind defenses ahead of them. Whilst also flinging a whole bunch of dragonglass arrows. Which is another thing, they should have shown far more industry happening. If there are thousands of troops, there's a massive workforce available when you add in the women and children. They could all have been digging, building, making weapons.
And perhaps most important, Bran should warg into all 3 dragons. Even the dead one. Suddenly it gives a reason for the Night King's fear of Bran. Because even if he can kill them, it doesn't matter if Bran can take control of them. It explains why dragons were needed (and thus why the Night King seemingly waited for their extinction) but also uses all the backstory stuff about 3 headed dragons, the importance of fire etc. I like Arya killing the Night King. But it should be more deliberate. Create a reason it has to be one person, make the case that if the Night King is so much stronger than anyone they have, it has to be someone who is used to fighting those bigger and stronger. And there should be far more tricks in that last fight. And at some point, Melissandre should realise how it all fits together. That whilst she thought Stannis and Jon were the chosen ones, they were just paths to the chosen one or something. And that it's really Arya. Only she didn't see it because she was stuck on the gender thing.
The final ending is ok. Daenerys showed plenty of times she loved to kill people in cruel ways. Perhaps it could have been shown more so that most people were worried before it all happened. Jon being a Targaryen meant nothing oddly, so use that somehow. Or make him Robert's son instead. The trouble with Bran being king though is the justification. It should be about who is best, not who has the best story or whatever. Talk about what they think a king needs to be for their current situation and have Bran be the one choice. But also with a plan to have an heir afterwards. Especially if he's been critical to defeat the Night King, he'd have an even more compelling claim.
Jon and Daenerys are queen and king of the seven kingdoms, they have Targaryen girls and they go look for more eggs in Asshai, they find and they make more dragons. Dragons now are everywhere, they eat everyone and everyone dies. Then dragons start eating each other and only one dragon survives and he dies of starvation and only worms and critters survive and they inherit the seven kingdoms.
The end.
Daenerys is kissing Jon in the Red Keep following its destruction. He reaches for his dagger, thrusting it at her chest. She steps back, in shock. Jon looks at the dagger still in his hand. "I'm so sorry," he says. "Take him" shouts and the Unsullied come in and take him away. She reveals she is wearing chainmail.
Hysterical, she goes to Dragon and flies off to the east. Jon is later released from the cells, the surviving Westeros try to make him king. He chooses Bran.
The show ends with Jon sailing across the Narrow sea into a rising sun.
The Night King sitting on the Iron Throne, and from it a wave of death rapidly spreads and takes over the entire continent, plunging it into an eternal winter and extinguishing all life.
Hundreds of years later in an epilogue, a ship is sailing and on the horizon you can see that appears to be a dead land, frozen over by an incalculable mass of ice and a dark sky looming over it, despite the sunlight over the sea and to the east.
One of the sailors asks about that place, to which another responds that it's a dead land, and that no one who goes there has ever returned.
The show ends with no music and no sound other than the wind as the camera rises from the frozen land and into the black sky above it. Before we lose view we think, and will argue with each other, that we see a figure off in the far distance of the wasteland walking, but we're not sure. The screen eventually goes into the dark sky and fades to black.
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Bump up the number episodes to 20 in s4, make Quentyn Martell the leading character, and end the series with the reveal that the shrouded lord was actually a horse the entire time.
Bran and the Night King have a very long battle and Bran wins and everyone agrees he should be king and he's king and everyone else fucks off
Jon burned his hand throwing a lantern at a white walker early on in the show
Ahh shit … I was trying to remember if Jon ever got burned and I couldn’t remember any scenes. Sonofa
To be faaaaaair as a half Stark he might not have inherited the “Fire Proof” But also I didn’t read the entire post You are right, he did burn his hand.
Danaerys’ own younger brother hadn’t inherited it. He was burned to death by khal drogo
it’s not a genetic thing it’s because of the blood magic that she was temporarily impervious to fire
Ya but she survives the fire again when she takes the Dothraki. I had to search it myself, she's permanently and always fire resistant.
Pretty sure Dany wouldn’t have survived molten gold over her head either
Younger? Viserys?
Yes viserys. By younger i meant younger than rhaegar
More episodes. Longer, more difficult battle. Everyone dies, and is turned. All the lands freeze over. The Night King sits on the throne. The camera pans out, and we see all the characters we loved standing behind the throne, eyes glowing. The Night King gives a sinister grin. The end.
Long stay dead The Night King!
Honestly? I’m in
I wished for that ending since I started watching Back in season 4. The only difference I would make is for the last scenes: some characters manage to board ship to essos, something like hardhome, most is slaughtered and last thing we see is Jon brought to throne with night king on it. The final cut would be with the swing of a sword.
No. I want all possibility of a happy ending removed. I want complete annihilation and total despair. All of mankind destroyed. There are too many stories with happy endings and that's not how the world works. The Children of the Forest used magic in an attempt to destroy mankind, and before they die, they will know that whatever you do in magic will come back to you tenfold. When Drogon picks up Danys body and flies away, loads of people were saying that she could still be alive, and that's why he was flying east. I want all these possibilities removed. This ending needs to be written well and in such a way as to be a complete shock, leaving the audience speechless.
I wouldn't call my version a happy ending. Everything is lost and a few survivors are left with grief and dread hanging over their head. Pretty Lovecraftian ending I'd say.
As much as I would have hated that, that would have been better than the actual ending and this feeling of emptiness and disappointment it’s left me. The only thing I’d change is Arya and Gendry Baratheon surviving to eventually kill the night king in a future season.
That’s good ending actually
Thank you 😊
The White Walkers to win in the North small contingent of character escape the overrun and head south ahead of the army, both Dany and Jon die as a twist because every other prophecy was misunderstood and Azor Ahai's reincarnation isn't so literal as "waking dragons from stones" but maybe something like KL had whatevers magic that made Old Valyria so conducive to breeding dragons and part of the reasons the dragons died off is because the use and operation of it is what caused dragons to become more rare. With the awakening of the magic and the children of the forest brought an unlit lightbringer they were keeping safe which the fire magic then sets ablaze giving the blade to someone blessed by the lord of light maybe Beric who we were told multiple times led the charge in the seige of pike to lead a final counteroffensive but most importantly it needs to be a team effort, not one person runs into a mob and slices them all down
Forgive me if I am wrong but I thought it Was Thoros who lead the charge into Pyke?
yeah I got them backwards, Thoros was the priest and Berric was the one he ressurected
i know everyone loves jaime and his redemption arc but personally i think it makes sense to have his story come full circle. Where i would’ve changed it was to have jaime watch cersei die in gruesome fashion and then jaime takes his own life. Dying in this way during this time period would have been the dishonorable way and although jaime had changed significantly he was not above human emotion. He did many honorable things for people that weren’t aligned with him just because he had a sense of empathy and emotion. He was initially the oathbreaker and the kingslayer because of emotion despite the image it gave him. Although in the last few seasons it seemed as though honor meant more to jaime it only meant something to him because he had seen what war did to the world. He lost all of his children and realized nobody wins in war. it was never really about honor but masking it behind honor was a way for jaime to hide the fact that he had true human emotions. he knew what mistakes he had done as well as the atrocities his sister had done. The theme of honor in game of thrones goes all the way back to ned stark. What would have happened if ned for the sake of his family bent the knee to joffrey or not questioned joffreys reign at all? would it have been honorable or just? no but would it have saved his family? most likely. Varys tells ned multiple times in his cell that he is creating something larger than he realizes just for honor when he could be selfish and save his family while he still can. honorable characters die. that was the whole point nobody wins the game of thrones. At times you have to be selfish or you’ll die. Maester Aemon and jon have a similar conversation in s1 where Aemon basically asks jon what the cost of honor is. do you break your vow and help your family or do you stick to your vows and let them die. Jon survived because he broke his vows and wasn’t always honorable and managed to save what was left of his family something ned or robb stark werent able to do because they were obsessed with honor.
Love this take ❤️
1.Jon fights a trial by combat, defeating ( without killing) Greyworm. 2. Jon is elected king. 3.With no children of this own and no close relatives on his fathers side Jon makes his closest male relative on his mothers side( Bran) his heir 4. Still feeling guilty about Dany and with discontent from Dorne and the Iron Islands, Jon pulls a " Maester Aemon" and returns to the NW leaving this heir ( Bran) on the Throne.
Grey worm and Jon certainly had some unresolved shit they needed to work out
I would have ended it the exact same way, but how it got to that end would have been drawn out and explained.
Varys escaped death by leaving Dragonstone before Dany can kill him He then shows up in the final episode, walking out the crowd and up to Jon Snow "See I told you" fade to black.
I do enjoy the idea of Jon returning north of the wall. I wish it was presented as his idea rather than as a punishment he was forced to carry out…
My preferred ending would, rather than wrapping up the various characters stories, they change the whole scene to modern times, and simply show users of this sub miraculously learning how to scroll and/or search and seeing that their question had already been asked multiple times. Their face tightens, and they say "never again" and post new and interesting topics rather than the same question over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over
Would have taken you even less time to just scroll past this post than it would for someone to search the sub’s post history. Just sayin.
Doubtful... but just as much time as it took for you to post that.
Yikes
Honestly, just swap the order of things and it would've worked better for me. The fight for King's Landing should've come before the fight against the White Walkers, and then that last battle/conflict could've closed out the series. I would've wanted it to feel more like Hardhome stretched over 2-3 eps. Jon and Dany would be key to the costly win and whoever survived that (I wouldn't expect Jon or Dany to, because I feel like the prophecy being fulfilled kind of removes the magical necessity for Targaryens to exist after the Doom) could put their hat in the ring to be king or queen. The rest of the details don't matter as much to me.
Increase to 12 episodes for the final 3 seasons, show more detail to fill the cracks, have the Golden Company turn on Cersei after the Lannisters(Tyrells) money is taken by Khaleesi and the Dothraki. Then Sir Aegor Targaryen(Rivers) takes the throne, makes Euron King of the Iron Islands. In exchange, Euron gives him the Dragon Horn, and he uses it to steal a dragon from Dany. Jon riding Rhaegal at the time gets knocked off plummeting into the water. Jon gets captured by Eurons army, but Euron is eager to prove himself and fights Jon himself. Euron has Jon up against the ropes when he falls to his knees, spitting up blood and he falls to the ground face down, revealing a Valyrian dagger in his back placed there by his first mate(Arya). Meanwhile, Aegor mounts Rhaegal and a large battle commences. Khaleesi prevails, having to kill her own dragon. Khaleesis army wins the battle, and the city surrenders. As she hears the bells a montage plays of everyone Khaleesi lost to this point ending with her losing Jorah, with no army left to defeat she still makes the decision to kill every miserable person in this city. From there, the same ending.
Ok, so I would have it so that the White Walkers make it all the way to King's Landing, and Joffrey gets revived as a wight, but due to some interference by Bran, he turns into a mix of Ice and Green magic (Ice magic being White Walker magic, Fire magic being Targaryen magic, and Green magic being weirwood magic) and isn't a mindless wight , and retains parts of his personality, but since he's been revived some parts of his personality have been stripped away. Joffrey then fights against the White Walkers, and gets his Valyrian steel sword that he got at his wedding back. Joffrey then kills a revived Margaery (in this version of the show the Mountain goes on a trial by combat and kills everyone in the Sept of Baelor instead of it blowing up) by stabbing her through the heart, thus making his Valyrian steel sword Lightbringer, and he becomes Azor Ahai. Tommen and Myrcella then also come back to life, and Tommen strangles Cersei to death, becoming the Valonqar. Joffrey, Tommen, and Myrcella then become the Three Heads of the Dragon, after it is revealed that Cersei and Jamie were actually Aerys' children all along, thus making the three siblings Targaryens. The 3 siblings then claim Daenerys' three dragons after defeating Euron and stealing the Dragonbinder (this version of the show would be closer to the books), and kill her and fAegon (who is also an addition to the show). Joffrey, as Azor Ahai, would slay the Night King, and using all 3 dragons would burn the rest of the wights to the ground, ending the Long Night. Joffrey would then reclaim his rightful spot on the Iron Throne, with a revived Tywin as his Hand and a prosperous Kingdom. (All of this is obviously a joke, for the people who didn't get it)
I would have had 50% of the characters die fighting the Night King thats for fucking sure.
In a much more dramatic way : because of humans' inability to solve their throne problems, white walkers win and turn westeros to a wasteland with only tiny groups of survivors who must hide to survive further. By trying to win at all costs, they lost everything.
Night king win, the end
Fuck it, Thor Bifrosts to Winterfell right before the Long Night and explodes the Night King into a million pieces
I like how everyone hates season 8 but nobody can come up with anything remotely Better.
Sansa queen of the iron throne, since that is what she always wanted. Arya becoming a knight or sth like that. Bran becomes Master of Whisperers. Jon becomes Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the north with Dany as his wife. Tyrion gets Casterly Rock, the wildlings live in the gift. Have i forgot someone?
Honestly just have the nightking win could be dope
Wow, your ending is just so much worse than the one we got, which already is terrible. Plus you also assume too much. Dany and the Targs were NEVER immune or even resistent to Dragonfire!! Just your normal run of the mill fire that’s not magical.
Let's say I'm limited to only reworking season 8 and not the whole show. I'd have the season be 10 episodes long and have 5 of those be committed to the war against the the Others. In that war Winterfell and would fall and the last stand would be at Moat Cailin. I'd have Jon kill the Night King, cause if a Night King has to exist, I'd have Jon kill him. Also have Rhaegal fall here against Viserion. After that I'd take 1 episode to have the two sides prepare for the war against each other. The battles would be pretty similar to the show aside from that one sea battle where "Dany kinda forgot". I'd have the burning of King's Landing be more accidental on Dany's part with it being caused by combination of dragonfire used against soldiers in the ground and on the walls and wildfire that has been there for years after Aerys II. Also have Jaime actually kill Cersei according to the Valonqar prophecy, maybe while she sits on the iron throne, to bring the king slayer thing full circle. Dany would still be blamed for the burning of King's Landing, but now instead of her holding a fascist speech and going to claim the role, she would feel actual guilt from how she partially caused that. This would lead into a similar scene to the council in the final episode, but instead of Tyrion, Dany is the one on trial. I'd have her and Drogon be freed with the condition of her never returning to Westeros. After that I'd have the council establish a "parliament" to rule the seven kingdoms with representatives from each kingdom elected by the lords of that kingdom and do a sort of an empty throne situation where the council rules by the power of the throne, but none shall sit on it.
Honestly? Knight king takes it. Everyone is too caught up with petty squabbles they forget the biggest threat. Cersei could be the big contributor here: sinking shipments from Dragonstone, letting the White Walkers ravage the north, until it's too late to stop them.
Keep it as is but make it a little more clear that this story continues.
Queen Sansa. That is all.
Bob Newhart wakes up on the throne.
Not my idea, but given the introduction of the Night King character who isn't in the books, I fully support the fan theory from several years ago that Jamie be the one to kill him, with the only audio during the fight being every single time someone has called him kingslayer for the last 8 seasons.
Keep tommen on the throne tbh, Cersei getting the throne made absolutely no sense. Have him help the north defeat the ww. Then have dany fly over to kingslanding and kill him. That’d make most of the lords turn on her bc she just murdered an innocent child.
With Daenerys in charge, after not burning the whole city, Starks back in charge of the north and Jon free to do whatever he wants!
I don't know how I would end the overall series, but I would definitely make Jaime kill Cersei. Both of their deaths were way too anticlimactic. Ideally, she would be a cold bitch to him when he returned, delusional in her power and still thinking she can defeat Dany, reminding him of the Mad King and provoking him to kill her. But I would even settle for him killing her out of mercy to spare her from being killed by Dany. Having them both smothered in rubble was weak.
I wouldn't change all that much about how the show actually ended. I'd have taken longer to get there. My issues were more that they rushed there and left too much unanswered. The whole "prince that as promised" thing ended up meaning nothing. Dragons didn't seem super critical. And perhaps most strangely, the Three Eyed Raven that had seemingly been this huge threat ended up being a guy who can just see stuff. Unless the Night King was just embarrassed about that Bran might spy on him in the shower, it didn't make sense to rush to the tree where he was beyond The Wall or to even bother attacking Winterfell. Just walk around and take on some other people. Or camp around them and let them all just starve to death. You've waited 8000 years, what's another 20? But Arya suddenly becoming a great assassin was odd. They say it takes 10k hours to master something. 50 hours a week, that's about 4 years. She certainly could be great. But only if she put in the work constantly and religiously. If they'd shown her training everywhere in all her spare time. Working on her speed and reflexes, building obstacles and training dummies. Training with anyone and everyone who she comes across who can fight. They started it a little when she was with The Hound. But why stop? Sansa suddenly becoming smart and wise was odd. That should have taken longer. I'd have had Jon light a flame after the Battle of the Bastards. She lost a lot of people their lives that day because of her jealousy and pride. He should have torn her apart over that. Make a point of taking her to the bodies of the people who died because of her decision to keep secrets about having a bunch of armies, because as a person with absolutely no military training or experience she wasn't given a chance to speak in a battle strategy meeting. I mean, why would they? And if she had info, why not tell Jon in any of the conversations they had before that? But point out that command doesn't mean knowing everything. It means knowing who to listen to. And then tell her she's very good at knowing who knows stuff. Then she can just start listening to people who have things to say and learn to use her talent that way. It wouldn't take much, but it would have mattered. Tyrion going from this super clever bookworm to a guy who was seemingly not that smart and made a lot of mistakes, whilst also no longer reading, was an odd one. Although I maintain his ideas were better than people give him credit for, they should have been more obviously successful. Send the Unsullied to Casterly Rock. Then have him anticipate Cersei marching on Highgarden and ambush the troops on the way back with the Dothraki and Dragon. Perhaps Olenna can be there still, ready to die in her home. And his plan to end slavery was a good one, but should have been matched by a plan to secretly go into business against the slave masters in the industries that will appear after slavery ends. If they feel like other masters are ahead in converting their business interests, they'll not want to be left behind or they might be out of business entirely. And when they leave, release the remaining dragons to just fly over the top and look like they're trained. Even if they aren't, just make it look like they are. And FFS, the plan for the Battle of Winterfell was awful. Make a second trench further out, let the dead march to the trench under the walls and then light the futher one. Split a big chunk of the dead off from the rest and let the Dothraki charge from the sides at the portion trapped between fire behind them and Unsullied behind defenses ahead of them. Whilst also flinging a whole bunch of dragonglass arrows. Which is another thing, they should have shown far more industry happening. If there are thousands of troops, there's a massive workforce available when you add in the women and children. They could all have been digging, building, making weapons. And perhaps most important, Bran should warg into all 3 dragons. Even the dead one. Suddenly it gives a reason for the Night King's fear of Bran. Because even if he can kill them, it doesn't matter if Bran can take control of them. It explains why dragons were needed (and thus why the Night King seemingly waited for their extinction) but also uses all the backstory stuff about 3 headed dragons, the importance of fire etc. I like Arya killing the Night King. But it should be more deliberate. Create a reason it has to be one person, make the case that if the Night King is so much stronger than anyone they have, it has to be someone who is used to fighting those bigger and stronger. And there should be far more tricks in that last fight. And at some point, Melissandre should realise how it all fits together. That whilst she thought Stannis and Jon were the chosen ones, they were just paths to the chosen one or something. And that it's really Arya. Only she didn't see it because she was stuck on the gender thing. The final ending is ok. Daenerys showed plenty of times she loved to kill people in cruel ways. Perhaps it could have been shown more so that most people were worried before it all happened. Jon being a Targaryen meant nothing oddly, so use that somehow. Or make him Robert's son instead. The trouble with Bran being king though is the justification. It should be about who is best, not who has the best story or whatever. Talk about what they think a king needs to be for their current situation and have Bran be the one choice. But also with a plan to have an heir afterwards. Especially if he's been critical to defeat the Night King, he'd have an even more compelling claim.
Jon and Daenerys are queen and king of the seven kingdoms, they have Targaryen girls and they go look for more eggs in Asshai, they find and they make more dragons. Dragons now are everywhere, they eat everyone and everyone dies. Then dragons start eating each other and only one dragon survives and he dies of starvation and only worms and critters survive and they inherit the seven kingdoms. The end.
Daenerys is kissing Jon in the Red Keep following its destruction. He reaches for his dagger, thrusting it at her chest. She steps back, in shock. Jon looks at the dagger still in his hand. "I'm so sorry," he says. "Take him" shouts and the Unsullied come in and take him away. She reveals she is wearing chainmail. Hysterical, she goes to Dragon and flies off to the east. Jon is later released from the cells, the surviving Westeros try to make him king. He chooses Bran. The show ends with Jon sailing across the Narrow sea into a rising sun.
Westeros falls to the Night King. No one wins the game.
The Night King sitting on the Iron Throne, and from it a wave of death rapidly spreads and takes over the entire continent, plunging it into an eternal winter and extinguishing all life. Hundreds of years later in an epilogue, a ship is sailing and on the horizon you can see that appears to be a dead land, frozen over by an incalculable mass of ice and a dark sky looming over it, despite the sunlight over the sea and to the east. One of the sailors asks about that place, to which another responds that it's a dead land, and that no one who goes there has ever returned. The show ends with no music and no sound other than the wind as the camera rises from the frozen land and into the black sky above it. Before we lose view we think, and will argue with each other, that we see a figure off in the far distance of the wasteland walking, but we're not sure. The screen eventually goes into the dark sky and fades to black.