Now that it's over, who would y'all say is the "winner" of the Game of Thrones? I don't think it's any one clear-cut answer, to be clear. I'm leaning towards Tyrion, but I'm curious what y'all are thinking.
Bronn had a pretty strong come up ha. Tyrion lost his whole family over the course of the show. The whole thing with Shae and losing Jaime makes it hard to feel like he "won"
My thoughts on Tyrion being the winner is that yes, he's lost a lot of people but pretty much everyone has so I don't think his losses were any more or less "important" to him than other. Plus, most of them were openly assholes to him. He outright said that Jaime was the only one who didn't treat him like a monster. In the end he gets to be the hand to the person he thought would be the best king going forward which, for the most part, he was good at.
Sansa became a queen and Bran became a king, but you could say the trauma they endured on the way might not make them the winners. Bronn definitely rose the most. Brienne went from a joke to lord commander of the kingsguard A case could maybe be made for Archmaester Samwell as well
There’s a quote from this interview with Emilia that seems to suggest that there was a bit more nuance to Dany’s turn than there appeared to be in season 8. My wife and I plan to start rewatching from season 1 soon with the knowledge of how it all ends. Emilia Clarke on the 'Game of Thrones' finale's shock twist: 'I stand by Daenerys' “In previous seasons, producers would sometimes ask Clarke to play a scene a bit different than what she expected for a seemingly heroic character. “There’s a number of times I’ve been like: ‘Why are you giving me that note?’” Clarke says. “So yes, this has made me look back at all the notes I’ve ever had.””
He also probably feels a lot of responsibility for everything that happened with Dany. He sold out his best friend to be executed because he believed in her, and he ended up being so wrong. Sure, it looks like he'll end up with a lot power as hand of the king, but the show frames it as a commitment to atoning for all the mistakes he made.
I was gonna say him but he actually got a demotion going from Stannis’ hand to master of ships haha His titles jab at Bronn was great tho
Most characters got about as happy an ending as you could ever expect from this show, so they all at least beat the “or you die” part of the game.
Idk the targ/dragon theme is pretty dark. It starts off almost sounding triumphant but the end of the melody hints at darkness imo. Actually that melody pretty much describes her arc perfectly.
I guess technically speaking the Starks won the Game of Thrones. Started with zero Starks on the throne. Ended with two.
I've been thinking what if Bronn and Varys "changed places" in a sense and how people would feel about that for this past season. Instead of being under Cersei's direction, Bronn was with Jaime and Tyrion and the whole time trying to talk Tyrion into seeing how mad Dany is going and how he needs to poison her, convince Jon to take the throne, etc... just like Varys was doing. I would have been much more satisfied with that and Varys ending up on the counsel in the end rather than Bronn.