I love previous seasons of this show and I would have no issue with the way Game of Thrones ended if only it was done so intelligently. The cast and crew, including the two main writers, have done beyond fantastic overall but unfortunately the story arcs this past season(s) in my opinion have been poorly written and executed. There are many ways in which it could of been improved to match the high expectations set in the beginning but away from all of that, it’s the final message that really does astound me.
How exactly is the so called wheel broken??
Bran - the three eyed raven who sees the past, present and future, also now the new King of the ‘six’ kingdoms who got there by choosing to allow thousands to die for this to happen. It’s been shown many times that he sees the future. It’s also shown that he has intervened in the future more than once, most notably after he was willing to use Daenerys and her armies to essentially save himself from the Night King only to then insist that Sam was to inform Jon of the details surrounding his birth knowing the discord this would sew, the chain reaction it would cause and the path it would help Daenerys go down. It then follows that he could of saved thousands from death by either not helping Jon learn of his parentage or by making it known what was in store for Kings Landing before it happened. All this from the man who said he could not be lord of Winterfell but when asked if he would be king his response was ‘Why do you think I came all this way?’ He had the power to prevent what happened yet didn’t. This was the path he chose to follow all in service for him to become king. How exactly does this make him a better ruler?? By my calculations it makes him the worst of all.
The fact that Sansa is hailed as a queen now despite doing nothing to deserve it really does confuse me from the writers point of view. She has literally had to be rescued from every situation she found herself in - from the Hound preventing her from being raped, Olenna and Little finger helping her escape Kings Landing, Theon killing Myranda and helping her escape Ramsay (remember, the guy she willingly married after finally being free just to become a prisoner again) to Little finger once again saving her and Jon in the battle for Winterfell (something she seems to think she should be praised for?? The Vale fought for him, not her and he only helped because he was attracted to her, not for anything she had accomplished). When it came to the battle with the Night King she hid like a coward whilst her ‘people’ she professes to care so much about (including women and children who were no better fighters then her) died fighting for the north. Daenerys, the queen she held so much animosity towards when instead she should of been filled with gratitude, fought more for the north than Sansa ever did. Even without getting into more reasons, of which there is plenty, I fail to see how anyone would choose to stand by a queen who cannot even protect herself, let alone her people. She is there by virtue of birth only, her name, which stands in complete opposition of the message they had just told.
They have apparently broken the wheel by insisting that new kings and queens will be chosen, not born, yet the people who got to choose this new king and likely will choose future rulers are from a selection of people also born into their position, not chosen themselves.
This ‘broken wheel’ doesn’t seem so broken to me.