![]() ![]() ![]() It was always an instructive piece of dialogue for the greater themes of Game of Thrones in hindsight, it’s fitting that Martin’s first imagined scene in the world of Westeros wasn’t just meant to instruct the readers about his sense of justice, but also designed to instruct the future king of the land. “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword,” the late Ned Stark (Sean Bean) told Bran on that long ago day. In interviews, Martin has said that the first scene he ever envisioned for the series involved Bran watching his father execute a man in the bitter cold north, an early example of what it means to rule justly. Martin’s A Game of Thrones, the first book in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series, features Bran as the first main point-of-view character. Bran replies calmly: “Why do you think I came all this way?”Īuthor George R.R. Tyrion asks Bran if he’s up for the task. The wars, weddings, births, massacres, famines. He is our memory, the keeper of all our stories. He crossed beyond the Wall, a crippled boy, and became the Three-Eyed Raven. He knew he’d never walk again, so he learned to fly. ![]() And who has a better story than Bran the Broken? The boy who fell from a high tower and lived. There’s nothing more powerful in the world than a good story. What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags? Stories. “About our bloody history, about the mistakes we’ve made. “I’ve had nothing to do but think these past few weeks,” says Tyrion. It has been from the beginning since you were a little boy with a bastard’s name and I was a little girl who couldn’t count to 20. In the episode’s most climactic moment, Jon meets with Daenerys beside the ruined Iron Throne the Dragon Queen’s ambitions are clearly only beginning to grow. Jon Snow’s reconciliation involved a reckoning, fueled by a conversation with an imprisoned Tyrion, who sketched out a dark vision of the future under Dany’s rule. Much of the series finale dealt in the aftermath of Daenerys’ conquest of King’s Landing, and how the survivors reconciled her violent actions. That’s right: Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) now doubles as the Three-Eyed Raven and the King of the Six Kingdoms. In the words of Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage): “All hail Bran the Broken, first of his name, King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Six Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm.” The slightly longer answer: there’s a new ruler, but no Iron Throne. So, who’s sitting on the Iron Throne? The short answer: nobody. How did the deadliest game of musical chairs in television history resolve? Look no further for the answer.įinal warning: major spoilers for the finale are ahead. After Cersei’s death in “The Bells,” the Dragon Queen Daenerys finally landed on the throne, the object of her desires for so many seasons. For most of the series, the Iron Throne belonged to House Lannister, most recently Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey). The best news of all? We finally have resolution to the central question of the series: who will sit on the Iron Throne when all is said and done? The Seven Kingdoms’ seat of power has been at the heart of the series’ fictional universe as well as HBO’s marketing campaign from the very beginning, with countless different contenders to sit on the throne along the way. While Game of Thrones definitely did not end as a full-fledged fairy tale, the story closed with some notes of happiness. ![]()
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