If I were writing this ending, I'd have Sansa and Cersei finish off as Queens, and the Kingdoms splitting between North and South. From typical fantasy stories, you're expecting the long-lost true heir to return, and Jon's basically what Aragorn would be if he's totally inept.
Sansa and Cersei have so much in common. Both are intelligent women who've had to endure domination by men all their lives. Both were sold by their fathers into horrible relationships, have been abused and raped, and are constantly ignored because of their sex, despite their superior capabilities. I feel an unhappy truce is more realistic than a happy united kingdom, and I would love to see Sansa make such a difficult choice to sell out Jon and Dany to do what's right and best for her people. Cersei would get to keep everything that really matters to her, and have some respect and peace for once in her life.
Sadly I don't think we'll get that, even though what this show's been building up for years is showing you how horrible things are under male rule, and now that they've basically all killed each other it's time for the women to finally take over and rebuild a better world. Alas I feel this show's now spinning around with a bait-and-switch, and now that the Night King's dead, show you how the greatest threat to the world is women who seek power to ensure their survival.
I'm disappointed with Missandei's death, I'd have sooo much preferred Grey Worm to die. Sadly what you've got is another example of male creators not knowing what to do with women characters, so she's expendable (Grey Worm is still a general, so he has a point) What is Missandei's role now? She's done nothing for two years, Dany certainly doesn't need her translator skills anymore, and D&D never gave her any other layers to her personality. They could've killed Grey Worm, and found something for Missandei to do, but they took the easy way and kept their warrior alive instead of their woman.
This show's long had a problem with how it handles women, but many of us were holding out hope there's going to be a positive message eventually, but sadly I think we all overestimated these guys.
Personally, I feel the only solution is probably some sort of law saying any television series or movies has to have a woman at the top creative level - I don't mean solely, but like with D&D, and so many other things have multiple creators with equal authority, so you could have a man and a woman, or two men and a woman, or whatever, but at least require female representation at the highest levels of control. Look how much better of a job Star Wars is doing with Kathleen Kennedy in charge.
Whereas Danny is your
typical useless white female who only got started to be someone because she was born pretty and bedded a powerful man?
Prejudice much?.
Wow, just ... wow. I thought the bar here couldn't go any lower, but I guess I keep overestimating many of you.
When has Dany ever needed to be saved? When has she shown any level of incompetence like Jon has? She's his exact opposite. She's a winner.
She lead her people across the red waste and survived. When she was betrayed in Qarth, she had to rescue her dragons herself, and no one saved her from the Warlocks - she instead burnt down their tower and killed Pyat Pree. She outsmarted the slavers in Astapor and freed the Unsullied, and she inspired them to follow her willingly.
No one could save her in Mereen from the Sons of the Harpy, she and Drogon got out of there together. Jorah and Dario didn't save her from the Dothraki, but instead she singlehandedly not only broke free, but completely conquered their entire people, and again she knows how to inspire them to be her loyal followers willing to die for her (unlike Jon, whose followers need to kill him)
She won the battle of Mereen, after Tyrion showed he's incapable of making things right on his own. She doesn't need some last second rescue because she can't plan and follow through. She cares about her people, and she protects them, and she wins.
She destroyed Jaime Lannister's army outside King's Landing, another total victory for her.
Her biggest problem is she keeps listening to her incompetent male advisers, she should've taken Lady Olena's advice and made her own decisions instead of letting others make them for her. When Tywin Lannister berates his commanders for their stupidity and decides what to do, he's viewed as strong and confident. But if Daenerys is to do what she needs to do, she's the "Mad Queen."
Like take Varys ... for all his talk, he's in things for himself. He claims he wants to see her as queen, but
only if she does what he approves of. He has absolutely no respect for her in any way, and he won't accept maybe she knows how to do her job better than he does. Not like Varys has any kind of great track record for advising rulers ... he's got Aerys, Robert, and Joffrey.
What you're seeing here now is oh so very typical ... on one hand, you've got an accomplished woman with experience and a track record of success, and you've got a man who's been nothing but a failure his whole career, but people want to give the job to him rather than her.
Since red wedding I always expect the worse
