OkâŚsoâŚthis wasâŚnot good.
Some of the most interesting parts of Game of Thrones - if not the most interesting- when the material could actually support it was the political intrigue and all of it so to end like this?
It makes no sense. And yes it is fiction but still some realistic perspective over the world at hand would not hurt.
So Varys sent letters all over Westeros revealing Jonâs true identity (mind you while his lineage in the end counted for nothing in the narrative. You could take it out of the story and the result would remain the same).Â
On the other hand Gendry is now established as a Baratheon. The last living Baratheon.
Both of them have a legit claim on the Throne. And the Throne is not just a chair you can burn. Not when the feudal system still thrives. The fact that they may not wanted does not mean that others would not wage wars in their names.Â
Now⌠they went for elective monarchy but chose a man that has no wants anymore and this was why he couldnât be the Lord of Winterfell but went over there to be King. A Stark King. That coincidentally gave the North its independence. The same independence Yara wanted but now didnât get because she apparently forgot to ask and is not a Stark.Â
What is there to hold the Six Kingdoms together? Why wouldnât they ask for independence too? Especially Dorne? And the Iron Islands that Yara made it a condition so to join Daenerys? Or even the Vale that is also geographically isolated?
This new system on the other hand is proposed by the man that betrayed his Queen and was arrested for treason (by the Unsullied and Daenerysâ forces that somehow let Jon live and had the power to do all that after her death). The same man that counselled that same Queen for years and brought her to Kingâs Landing and stood by her side as she literally nuked the city. The same man that was then rewarded with the position of highest power in Westeros.Â
The preexisting system has existed for thousand of years. It would never be so easy to disregard it like this. Especially since it was founded by nobles that have no respect or concept of democracy. Even if Bran was able to keep the Throne somehow are we seriously to believe that the transition of power to the next King would come just as easily and without bloodshed? And what would happen when the King after Bran would have heirs? Those would step back and allow others to elect the new King and would not desire the Throne for themselves by default?
In a system that somehow in the show is idolized but in essence is as just as corrupt as the old one because at least the one before didnât pretend to be something it wasnât.
So according to Tyrion they kind of broke the wheel but somehow the spokes of the wheel are still in power, they occupy the positions of power and they decide the fate of everyone once more.
More so any meritocracy that existed before is now null and void because as we have seen positions of power are given to people that just have the right friends in the right places. Sam as lovable he may have been couldnât even finish a semester (it was far less) In the Citadel and then he becomes Archmaester.Â
Bronn as much of a fan favorite character he may have been was given Highgarden as if the noble families after the Tyrells would ever allow that to happen and on top of that he was also made master of coin when it was canonically shown that he didnât understand the concepts of loans and interests.
And you know what?âŚConceptually these may have been ideas that could have worked with the right preparation and build up but as they were executed in the show?
WellâŚhereâs a joke for the new Hand of the King:
