Jon ~ ‘How do you know? How do you know it’ll be good?’ĭaenerys ~ ‘Because I know what is good. Unrepentant of such necessary evil, she summons Jon to join her to ‘break the wheel’ of tyranny and rule a new world together.ĭaenerys ~ ‘It’s not easy to see something that has never been before. With imagery allusive of post World War II destruction, Daenerys looks over a destroyed city, covered in a white layer of ash including human flesh incinerated. She falls prey to the same fate as her Targaryan ancestors, becoming a ‘mad queen’, torching the city that should be hers, mercilessly, and beckoning Jon to join her in creating a new future world, styled in her version of ‘goodness’. Instead he stands by and watches the demise of his love, Daenerys, maddened by grief and power-lust. Jon does not kill the Night King, ending the long winter, nor does he take the Iron Throne to rule Westeros in peace. However, the final series falls shy of such predictions. He is betrayed at the hands of his friends and murdered, but he returns from the clutches of death to prompt the Priestess of Light to declare him Azor Ahai, the one prophesied to bring balance between light and dark, to end the Great Battle with the forces of darkness and death. He sacrifices for his men and gains their loyalty and trust.
It is Jon Snow who demonstrates he is a true leader, one worthy of this cosmic battle. A Christ-like figure of messianic proportions. Jon Snow is styled by George R R Martin to be an epic hero of mythic narrative. In an earlier post, I discussed the series in a post Game of Faiths, analysing its rich world of spiritual and religious ideas. No enemy can defeat it.Īnd epic story it is. There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. In a poetic soliloquy to sum up epic series, Tyrion Lannister declares: At approximately $5 million-$10 million production budget per episode, the final season was ‘epic’ indeed. The now famously controversial final season was reduced from the normal 8-9 episodes to only 6 intense episodes full of battle scenes and special effects. Despite controversy and fan protest about the series conclusion, it has shattered all records for being one of the most watched TV series of all time. The 8 season, 73 episode series was first aired on Apand the finale aired this year to a staggering 17 million viewers worldwide. In May 2019, the epic HBO TV series Game of Thrones came to an end. 6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. 4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.
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