The Ending Was Perfect, Shut Your Yap About It!
I don’t understand people yapping about the ending of Game of Thrones. I don’t. It’s a TV show. It’s over. Get over it.
Plus, I kinda liked the ending.
Jon Snow or Jon Stark or Jon Targaryen or whoever made the tough selfless call. And what did he get for it?
Squadoosh! Nothing! Zero!
Actually, he got worse than nothing! He got sent to the Knight’s Watch where you can’t own anything!
You can’t have a girlfriend! You can’t play with mom’s iPhone after 7pm! You can’t do anything!
And I love it! You know why?
Because that’s how real life is. You seldom if ever get awarded for doing the right thing. And many times, you get the opposite. You get isolated and punished.
Nobody wants to do the right thing. The right thing is difficult. The right thing makes enemies for you because people don’t understand why you can’t bend the rules this way or that way.
Here’s a Jon Snow character for you, Jesus Christ.
We know he did the right thing. He gave us miracles. He gave us hope. He fed the people. He healed the people. He revived the people. He walked the walk. He talked the talk.
He didn’t bend any rules for the turkeys in the crowd.
He didn’t roll up into the temple and say, “Eh maybe it’ll be okay if you just do some money changing during certain hours of the day.”
No, he kicked their butts right out of there.
And what happened to him?
Same thing that happened to Jon Snow. He was condemned by the powers at be. And none of his friends would lend a hand. None of the people he healed would lend a hand! Nope, they just let him go.
“Sorry Jon, you could have been King but now you must be ostracized and sentenced to damnation.”
It was a great ending because the truth is, people are made of clay. And most people are still malleable. Most people are soft. Most people will abandon you if the wind of the populace changes direction.
It’s the way of our people. It’s why most politicians are just horrible, horrible people. Because in the end what matters is what the people think.
In most movies that stink, the hero who does the right thing is rewarded and is heralded. But in the real world, that virtually never happens.
I also like that Tyrion, who seemingly comes out a winner, is actually a loser, because despite various great successes as well as failures, he isn’t even mentioned in the written history.
Why?
Because he doesn’t have the stature of the typical knight. He’s an imp. But most importantly because his decisions were made out of mercy, not ambition.
Just like Jon Snow.
And so what of all the other characters?
Ah well they gave in to their desires, their darker side, their ambition.
Sansa, went from being an innocent to being a cold manipulative killer. And so she became Queen of the North.
Arya, Jon’s other sister went from being a sweet little kid to being an assassin. She got to sail away on a ship, potentially into her own spin off at HBO!
And the dragons?
Well with only one left he got stuck being the Pontius Pilate of the deal. He knew who the king was! But he washed his talons in the blood of Dany and took off east back to Rome.
Or something like that.
The end.