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Date:
12/30/2018 9:34:48 AM
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Game of Thrones predictions
I think I've done this before and nobody cared then, so you're not likely to care now. However, I think you'll be amazed by how accurate my forecast is.
1. The Lannisters will be wiped out with one exception. Cersei will die horribly. Jaime will die nobly. Tyrion will survive to pursue a drinking career with his bodyguard Bronn.
2. People expect that Jon Snow will win the Iron Throne, pointing to his general girl-throb wonderfulness and his real identity as Aegar Targaryen. They probably also think he'll marry Daenerys because they're going steady and both are the most popular kids in the senior class.
There are two problems with this scenario. First, the plots of Game of Thrones invariably sabotage happy endings because the writers are very mature and know the ways of the world. It doesn't matter that happy events sometimes occur in real life. They know better. In the real world, everything is toxic and grimdark, a sort of ongoing Beowulf in which any cause for celebration is always foredoomed by something bad waiting in the wings. Second, Daenerys is a conqueror by nature and is therefore incompatible with the noble, humble, service-oriented Jon Snow. She chafes when she doesn't have cities to burn down or slave masters to murder.
If, therefore, Daenerys and Jon Snow cancel each other out, who will reign? My vote would go to Sansa Stark, who is becoming the via media between Stark virtue and Lannister machiavellianism. Having begun as a sweet but dopey doormat, she is now the formidable Lady of Winterfell, a strategist of the first order. Her natural choice for the position of Hand would be Arya, who is by now feared by everyone.
The problem with this outcome is that the Iron Throne has always been occupied by a male. It's true that Cersei uses the throne, but in reality she's a steward until a proper male comes along. No one in the Seven Kingdoms would tolerate a female permanently and officially installed on the Throne.
That leaves Bran, the crippled Stark boy renowned for his mostly useless trances and visions. This should work because he probably won't live to adulthood and the whole mess can start over again. Remember the prohibition against happy endings.
3. Daenerys's remaining dragons and Bran's dire wolf will start an animal preserve in Westeros. The last scene in the final episode will show the wolf frolicking among the trees, being chased by the dragons, who have pledged never to set the wolf on fire and eat him. It's okay if they have a happy ending because they're animals.
