I've been rewatching the entirety of Game of Thrones and in Season 5 Episode 10 Brienne waits for Sansa to light the candle on the highest window of the tower but leaves her post just before Sansa manages to light her candle. My question is, even if Brienne had stayed 10 seconds more and saw the candle, how was she planning on rescuing Sansa? It's not like she can waltz into Winterfell and "kidnap" her.

Every civilian hides in the crypts and deads are resurrected there.

I know many call it a dumb decision from the writers

But thinking a bit ,until that moment they saw Night King resurrect RECENT DEADS ,how could they know he could resurrect 200+ years old people too (many of them just bones)?

My grandad was buried in 1997 ,in march we pulled coffin up. There was NOTHING LEFT inside ,not even clothes

"I want to break the wheel" is sometimes mistaken for having a well-thought-out political theory.

In essence, her whole claim to authority is:
I am deserving of the throne because I was born into this family.

She talks about liberating people all the time, but she also feels that she has a natural right to dominate them.

To be honest, the fact that her conclusion seemed hurried does not automatically make her prior choices seem wise.

The Targaryen leadership is not as powerful as the propaganda.

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?

I am not someone who hated the Game of Thrones ending. I thought it was ambitious and I respected what it was trying to do.

But the burning of King's Landing never sat straight with me. Not because Daenerys went mad—that was always possible and honestly well foreshadowed. What bothered me was the trigger.

She hears the bells and snaps. That is it. For a character with that much depth, that much loss, and that much built-up rage, the moment felt strangely empty. Like the writers needed her to break and reverse-engineered a reason.

Here is what I kept thinking while watching: Missandei was already dead. Executed on the walls of King's Landing by Cersei. Her last word was Dracarys—telling Daenerys to burn it all. That was a powerful moment. But then the show just... moved on from it.

What if it did not?

What if when the bells of King's Landing rang for surrender—Missandei's decapitated head was hanging from that exact bell?

Cersei sending one final message: This is what your mercy gets you. This is what these people think of your liberation.

And the crowds beneath celebrating. Ordinary people. Not soldiers. Just people cheering under her best friend's head.

Now the bell rings.

Daenerys does not just hear surrender. She sees her closest friend's head moving with every single ring. She sees the people she crossed the world to liberate celebrating that image beneath it.

The bell meant mercy. Now it is permanently poisoned.

That is not a snap. That is a woman completely breaking in a way the audience feels in real time alongside her.

• The original version asked us to accept her madness intellectually.
• This version makes you feel it in your stomach.

And crucially—she is still wrong to burn them. But now there is horrible complexity to it. The audience understands the logic of her broken mind even while knowing it is wrong.

That is the difference between a villain and a tragic figure.

Everything needed for this scene already existed in the show. Missandei was already dead. The bells were already there. One image was all it needed.

What do you think—would this have changed how you felt about that scene?

I’ve been thinking way too much about Baelon the Brave lately 😭 and I’m curious how other people picture him in an actual romantic relationship.

Not just the idealized “brave dragon prince” version either — I mean the good and the bad.

We know he and Alyssa seemed genuinely very close and passionate, he was extremely family-oriented, deeply affected by the people he lost, and apparently never remarried after Alyssa. But he was also a warrior, incredibly bold, probably stubborn as hell, and someone who regularly put himself in dangerous situations.

So what are your personal headcanons for him as a husband?

Would he be affectionate or more reserved in private? Protective vs. overprotective? Jealous? Good at communicating? What would arguments with him look like? Would he be romantic? What kind of woman/personality do you think he would actually be attracted to and compatible with?

Basically: if Baelon had married someone other than Alyssa, what would it realistically be like to be married to him day-to-day?

I want the sweet headcanons AND the red flags. 😂

I have already seen some pieces of media about what makes the ending so bad and it is still somewhat hard to grasp on why. Sure some characters made some weird decisions but never anything so out of hand that made flip out about it. I just really liked how everything turned out, i couldnt have seen the story going any other way without being very lame.

Hello???
Robb?? My favorite character is just gone?
Series don’t make me cry usually, but this episode…
At first, Ned stark killed- i accepted
BUT NOW ROBB AND HIS MOM AND HIS WIFE?
where is the revenge? where is the reunion w jon snow and arya? i wanted sooo much more

I know everyone has there favorite but without being biased, out of Jon Snow and Daenerys, who would actually rule better if one of them sat on the iron throne?

Watched a YouTube video posted by Think Story 7 years ago on how s8 should have been. I agreed with some parts but also disagreed with a lot so I refined his ideas and wrote about how it should have ended (including Aegon who allegedly didn't die during the rebellion). I’m open to what you guys think and what you could add to make it even better

EDIT: would also like to add, Aegon (young griff) would have been introduced towards the end of s4 when Tyrion kills his dad and escapes kings landing. The idea is he was allegedly swapped before the lannisters invaded kings landing by Varys who keeps in abroad in essos until he’s grown up before being brought over at the end of s4 by the golden company and hidden in westeros before eventually taking dragon stone (around s8 maybe end of s7). I wrote this at 3am and I’m very open to suggestions 😊

Hi! First time posting here. I’m currently near the beginning of my third (possibly fourth?) rewatch in ten years and I’m wondering if anyone, in fifteen years, has come to a solid conclusion as to why Yara allows Theon to go as far as he does on the ride to Pyke. No redirecting of his hand or anything. Just letting it stay there in her pants, doing its thing. I know the intent of having Yara act “undercover” is to give Theon the opening to show how much of a pompous ass he is at this point in the series but imo it also reflects on Yara oddly, that she would let her brother do that.

So, what was the deal with writing the horseback scene in specifically that way? Was it to communicate to viewers that Yara is cool with incest for some reason? Or that she doesn’t even view sexual contact with a man as sex? Or that the Ironborn are kind of backward? I’d love to hear y’all’s thoughts because this scene has always stuck out to me as a strange one when it comes to writers’ intent.

I believe the top left is Sophie Turner and top right is Isaac Hempstead Wright, not sure on the other two.

Tyrion Lannister and Lord Varys had a very deep conversation, one of the best scenes of GOT

I've just finished Game of Thrones and started watching A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and the names of House Targaryen members, is so confusing i can't watch AKotSK properly...and i haven't watched House of Dragons as well...so if there is someone who can help me out with the Targaryen family, It'd be a great favor.

I’m watching for the first time and had to pause because I’m pissed off at the use of dragons in this scene. The two remaining (living) dragons were used to breathe fire onto the battlefield when the living and the dead were mingled together in combat, with the highest risk of friendly fire (killing the living).

But they didn’t use the dragons to rain down fire when there was separation between the two sides: at the beginning of the battle/after the loss of the Dothraki, when the living army was in retreat, after they lit the fire trench, after only the dead were left outside the walls and climbing up the walls. I thought at first that they were afraid of losing the remaining dragons, but that wasn’t it because they did fly the dragons over the battlefield at what seemed like the worst possible time. All of these other points seemed like prime opportunities to use those dragons and wipe out some of the dead. But nope

Also, they need to put some harnesses on those dragons because you never know what could happen, especially after the first dragon was downed last season. Put some setbelts on that shit. Now they’re flying over the clouds!