Game Of Thrones: An End We Never Wanted.

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Kanak Singh
May 13, 2019   •  47 views

Game of Thrones, one of the greatest show in the world TV history, has finally arrived at an end. The penultimate episode of the final season came out which basically proved one of the Cersei's famous dialogue completely true I.e.,

"Power is Power"

As it was evident in episode 4, Daenerys had already lost her two dragons making her last dragon vulnerable. On the other hand, the secret of Jon Snow being a Targaryen is finally out now so Varys attempts to betray Daenerys and resultantly as Dany had promised him she burnt him alive on his betrayal. It is not quite evident whether who could really win the war until Daenerys' first attack on the iron fleet destroying all their ships and the process of taking revenge starts. (As iron fleet killed Rhagal in the last episode😕).

An obvious move for Daenerys but she destroyed all the scorpions removing the danger for her dragon before her army could take over the city. Though it is yet tough to speculate what the final ending of the show could be, the real plot twist that D&D incorporated in the penultimate episode of the final season was the burning of King's Landing done by Daenerys using Dragon even after the Cersei surrendered, revealing the Hamartia (a tragic flaw in character which results in its downfall) of the lead protagonist which turned her into the antagonist in just minutes.

Emilia Clarke has done a tremendous amount of justice with her character in that very moment when she watches Red Keep and all of a sudden a particularly intense hatred emerged in her heart and mind. Red Keep was the home to her ancestors after they started ruling seven kingdoms. And watching it under someone else possession and being alone in the world made her vulnerable and at that moment she decided to destroy the whole city in order to erase all the past memories related to Red Keep, King's Landing and the tyrants who ruled them.

It is though important here to remember back the time when Daenerys was still in Essos and while being captive at House of Undying she had two visions. The first one was being the Queen of Ashes where she saw a destroyed by Red Keep and King's Landing. Though Daenerys actions were intentional and made her follow her father's tyrannical strategy making her Mad queen, but in a way it was her fate to become queen of ashes. But to be honest it is hard to see an overall good character turning all negative.

Regarding Arya Stark and her green eye killing prophecy given by Melisandre turns out to have even deeper implications. With Cersei dying with Jamie under the debris of Red Keep, it is sure that Arya was not prophesied to kill Cersei. But she still has a queen to kill with green eyes. A mad queen. Rest I leave you all at peace for the last episode. And this time even I have no idea what is going to happen.But watching Daenerys becoming the queen of ashes was the last thing game of thrones expected.

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