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Originally Posted by jjshabado
I guess part of my problem is that in order for me to be satisfied with this ending we needed at least N episodes between the killing of Dany and the selection of Bran the Broken with a bunch of maneuvering/actions of Grey Worm, Tyrion, Sansa, the other families, etc. setting up the meeting.
But they probably can’t write that and still have ‘an exciting twist’ in the final episode. That seems fine to me since a series that covers the politics and process of who gets to rule probably shouldn’t have a surprise ruler at the end. I’d be satisfied with a well written but fairly predictable conclusion at that point. But maybe that isn’t what’s popular?
A whole season of politics to figure out what happens to the throne after Dany is killed would be exactly in line with seasons 1-4. It would have been immensely popular. They could have killed some of the old ones off and brought in some new characters and gone for two more seasons, easy.
They wouldn't even have to change much about what happened. I've read some good explanations for why things went the way they did, it's just that there is no chance the writers were really thinking those things through, and even if they were there was absolutely no subtext given in the show to explain those things. Like Sansa being the only one to get independence, or why people accepted Bran, why there wasn't more debate, why the Dorne guy didn't go for independence. There could have been some interesting, logical stories there that we never got to see.