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YouTuber Rewrites GoT Ending And People Say That This Is How It Should’ve Ended
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YouTuber Rewrites GoT Ending And People Say That This Is How It Should’ve Ended

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It’s been almost a month since the Game of Thrones finale titled The Iron Throne aired, and yet, it seems like people will forever be bitter about it. As plenty of articles, tweets, Game of Thrones memes, and plummeting ratings proved, season 8 of the iconic series turned to be a complete disaster, and many blamed the show’s bad writing for what some could call a dumpster fire of a finish. Screenwriter Daniel Whidden of ThinkStory was one of the people sympathizing with that idea, and when following the back-and-forth between angry fans, he decided to make a video about it as a reply to “write a better one if you can then” counter-argument.

“I’m a screenwriter from Toronto and have worked in Film and Television for about six years now,” Whidden told Bored Panda. “I felt that GoT season 8 was rushed and clunky and that it deserved a better ending,” he added. The man also says that he drew some inspiration for his take from Lord of The Rings, citing “an almost insurmountable foe and unique, empathetic characters” as its key feature. However, the majority of the framework came from books on screenplay structure. “Screenplay writing is often heavily structured, and as such, I looked at what Benioff and Weiss did and contrasted it to paradigms like the 3 act structure (Syd Field) and theories on character development (K.M. Weiland),” he elaborated.

After season 8 finale aired, Whidden took to YouTube to create his own version of the events

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Watch Whidden’s video below to see how he re-imagines the final season

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Whidden explains in his 16-minute-long video that he was deeply disappointed “with how the final seasons shaped up” and pointed to the fact that he wasn’t the only one mentioning the petition to remake Game of Thrones season 8 gaining over million-and-a-half signatures as an example. He also mentions that the reason he is rewriting the season is, in fact, his undeniable love for the HBO series and him wanting the characters he’d been following for years to get better than what they’ve got.

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The video is divided into two parts: Whidden’s two major critiques to the show and the actual rewrite of the final season. He also points out that his focus is more on the overall story rather than a scene-to-scene approach. The screenwriter’s main two issues with the show lie in the way the writers dealt with the Night King as well as where the character’s arcs went. Although, arguably, that wasn’t the main focus of everyone’s attention. It was Whidden’s rewrite of the final season that likely brought the 4 million views and 156k likes that the video now has.

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Whidden’s re-haul of season 8 begins with episode three, titled The Long Night, as he says that it’s where things started to go downhill for him. In the ThinkStory version of the Long Night, much of the battle goes the same, with the combined forces of the unsullied, Dothraki, Northman, and wildlings facing against the Night King’s army of the undead. Except for the very ending that would change the rest of the story. In this version, the Night King emerges victorious, and the survivors of the Battle of Winterfell are forced to flee.

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He also adds some plot twists on how the battle rolls out. The women and children that were originally in the crypts are placed in the Great Hall instead and would later escape through the underground tunnels, leading to them having to fight through the horde of the dead and giving Sansa and Tyrion some suspenseful as well as heartwarming moments. This would allow Arya and Jon to help them out while Dany fights the Night King in a dragon-on-dragon battle, and Theon protects Bran.

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Bran would finally use his powers to help the allies out and warg into Viserion, the zombie dragon, to fight alongside the living, while Jon battles the Night King in a swordfight after Daenerys dismounts him. Despite everyone’s best efforts, the Night King wins, and everyone flees to King’s Landing, where Cersei now holds all the cards.

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Whidden’s fan fiction changes many character’s fates as well as actions. His Game of Thrones ending has Jon killed to save the realm, Daenerys killing the Night King, torn that she had to sacrifice the man she loves and the father of her child. Arya gets to use her face-changing abilities, Sansa securing her seat as Warden of the North, Jaime coming face to face with the evil that his sister was and killing her. It also gives closure, or at least an explanation to characters like Ellaria, who was more or less forgotten in the series.

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For a more in-depth take on the re-write of the final season, watch Whidden’s video below where he explains his choices and decisions and why he thinks his version is better than the original.

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In an interview with Bored Panda, Whidden also explained the key features that left the fans disappointed. “The biggest mistake I think fans were upset about [were] the choices some of the characters made and how their arcs didn’t [live] up to the potential that was built up over eight seasons,” he said. The screenwriter also points at the victory of the Battle of Winterfell as another major letdown. “When I look back at the season, the most epic part to me was that episode, when it should be happening near the climax of the season. So they lost a lot of tension there with the Night King dead by episode 3,” he concluded.

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Here’s how people reacted to Whidden’s video

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Sean Matherne
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Although I do like this ending a lot better, I have a huuuuge problem with it: how can Arya use Jamie's face while he is still alive? I was under the impression that the person had to be dead in order to use their face. Wasn't that the point of cleaning the bodies of the assassinated?

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Jessica Schwarz
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought so too. But when Arya killed the Faceless Man in Season 6, and she started removing all of his faces, wasn’t hers the last one she sees?

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MidgetDogg
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it's time people move on from this. It's JUST A TELEVISION SHOW!!!!

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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m with you MidgetDog. I love the books and enjoyed the show for the most part, but some people got outraged. If you don’t like something nobody is forcing you to read, watch, or participate. I feel like fandom culture is really toxic nowadays.

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Randy Dhuyvetter
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People really need to stop bitching if a series doesn't go the way they want it...

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NotMe
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They can complain if they want, but what they need to stop is calling the producers idiots and collecting signatures to re-shoot the entire season.... And also, don't expect shounen/hero-type of endings because that's what you like 🙄

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tehbonz avatar
B
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It started off so well, ended up a Game of Moans...

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Something
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They really should just film a new version and deny that the old one ever happened.

klynch4 avatar
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife
Community Member
4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I understand that there will always be shows and books that don’t end the way people want them to. However, people who signed the petition to remake/refilm the eighth season don’t seem to grasp how much time and money goes into producing a show. Nobody owes anyone a new show. If you didn’t care for it that is perfectly fine, and that is why fanfiction exists. I’ll be waiting to be burned alive now by disgruntled GOT fans now.

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tris avatar
Anna Ledwońska
Community Member
4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is cheesy as hell. Well I prefer already done version... Read about real kings in world history, They were more crueal than in GoT, made more stupid things, and life is not like in Disney fairytale, ppl... Sorry but I do not like this new fanmade version at all... In real life it woulld be even more sad I suppose. like Cersei and evil Dany split world in half and killing all the enemies and their offspring just in case... Gosh - how I hate stupid happy endings in the movies...

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Emma Hunter
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like most things except Danny should die or returns to the other land (I can't spell so it's the other land).

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Walt Crumb
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, I like some of your ideas...and obviously there are an infinite number of storylines that could've played out....one thing, unless I heard you differently, you said arya is poisoned impersonating Jamie..that means that she would've had to kill him or at the very least, cut his face off...might work, but would've changed your ending a little. ..lol...my thought is the Jon and Nightking should've battled it out...and Jon shouldve been the Iron King and Erxces taking a knee..

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Ana-Maria Z
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4 years ago

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idrow avatar
Id row
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't go in intending to watch the whole thing, but got completely sucked in. I found myself yelling, "Yes!" several times and laughed at the unexpected shot of Flanders' a*s. This guy needs to be hired to do a rewrite, although without the death of the 2nd dragon. This used to be a series I could re-watch over and over and I actually watched it all the way though 6 or 7 times before the finale. But that last ep ruined the entire series for me. I can't even re-watch it anymore knowing what happens in the end. This is the ending the fans deserved. I'd just love to know why they rushed everything so much, why they got so sloppy in a race to get it wrapped up.

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Hippielove
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you. Now I can be at peace and move on from that terrible ending.

blugeagua avatar
blugeagua
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even though the season was c**p, the only thing they got right was showing what a tyrant Daenerys was. She had shown herself time and again, season after season to be power hungry and selfish. And she had always enjoyed burning people alive who didn’t agree with her. She was ALWAYS a psychopath. And it’s made even more clear in the books. It’s obvious that she was meant to be the true big baddie of the series, even more than the Nights King. And the show should have ended with Sansa and Jon as a couple being King and Queen in the North together. They literally set them up with having a lot of romantic tension between them and they never delivered with it.

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Naomi Armitage
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WOW. I just randomly watched this video on YouTube, before I even opened a tab for BoredPanda. That's not creepy at all.

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ToHimIBelong
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bull crap! Don't kill off either one of 'the' 2 main characters, i.e. Jon, or Daenerys! They had their bittersweet throughout the entire show, and terror, and battle after battle all throughout the damned entire series! They deserved to LIVE and BE HAPPY. Seems people have forgotten that happy endings are real, and not always about murder, slaughter, killing, dying, self-sacrificing bullshit!

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Olga Posedaru
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This ending was good, but i think the YouTube channel Hello Future Me did a better rewriting, less of a shock factor and more of our old GoT characters.

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James Vanderyajt
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Daenerys can't have kids and Jon Snow should end up as king. And Daenerys should live up to her development, being just like her father. And even if they had a kid, he would be a bastard because Daenerys and Jon never got married, giving the boy no claim to the throne.

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HU3Y2739
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So much closer to what i had in my head. I saw the night king getting all the way to kings landing, that was such a massive mistake. When jamie was heading back to cersei in kings landing i thought he was gonna kill her too after seeing what she really was. loved your idea of the sea freezing over and euron getting annihilated

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Michael Nielsen
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I loved the whole series. I was sad they killed two of the dragons though.

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Care
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm fully convinced that George R.R. Martin is just hanging back, and soaking in all of the fanfics that are better written. He won't have to ever worry about writer's block again!!

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IdilS
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This version would have been worth to watch. I could slap the keyboard on my a*s a few times and still write a better ending than the original final season.

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Just Me
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They should have stayed close to the writing in the books .Like the beginning of the series. It would have lasted at least a decade. The series could have stopped until the books were finished. Everyone would have been older anyway. The series could have picked up from there. The writers thought that they could do better?

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Arthur Stulz
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thats just not possible. At the rate GRR Martin is writing, Arya will be in her mid 30's by the time he finishes the last book. A book that hasn't started cuz hes been writing the 2nd to last book longer then the shows been on the air

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Rhonda Wandler
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Since the entertainment industry is supposed to strive to keep us entertained by this point why wouldn’t a remake be made? I really like your story! And of course we could see some of the secondary characters shown using their scholastic knowledge too. Rather than such long bloody battle scenes.

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TheExtremeSmell
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4 years ago

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I think Jon still should of stabbed Dany at the end. But more of stabbin kind of way. The baby making kind.

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Sean Matherne
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Although I do like this ending a lot better, I have a huuuuge problem with it: how can Arya use Jamie's face while he is still alive? I was under the impression that the person had to be dead in order to use their face. Wasn't that the point of cleaning the bodies of the assassinated?

ganzlieb avatar
Jessica Schwarz
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought so too. But when Arya killed the Faceless Man in Season 6, and she started removing all of his faces, wasn’t hers the last one she sees?

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midgetdogg627_op avatar
MidgetDogg
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it's time people move on from this. It's JUST A TELEVISION SHOW!!!!

klynch4 avatar
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m with you MidgetDog. I love the books and enjoyed the show for the most part, but some people got outraged. If you don’t like something nobody is forcing you to read, watch, or participate. I feel like fandom culture is really toxic nowadays.

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randydhuyvetter avatar
Randy Dhuyvetter
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People really need to stop bitching if a series doesn't go the way they want it...

fiendhunter_mx avatar
NotMe
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They can complain if they want, but what they need to stop is calling the producers idiots and collecting signatures to re-shoot the entire season.... And also, don't expect shounen/hero-type of endings because that's what you like 🙄

Load More Replies...
tehbonz avatar
B
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It started off so well, ended up a Game of Moans...

breakmyheart avatar
Something
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They really should just film a new version and deny that the old one ever happened.

klynch4 avatar
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife
Community Member
4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I understand that there will always be shows and books that don’t end the way people want them to. However, people who signed the petition to remake/refilm the eighth season don’t seem to grasp how much time and money goes into producing a show. Nobody owes anyone a new show. If you didn’t care for it that is perfectly fine, and that is why fanfiction exists. I’ll be waiting to be burned alive now by disgruntled GOT fans now.

Load More Replies...
tris avatar
Anna Ledwońska
Community Member
4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is cheesy as hell. Well I prefer already done version... Read about real kings in world history, They were more crueal than in GoT, made more stupid things, and life is not like in Disney fairytale, ppl... Sorry but I do not like this new fanmade version at all... In real life it woulld be even more sad I suppose. like Cersei and evil Dany split world in half and killing all the enemies and their offspring just in case... Gosh - how I hate stupid happy endings in the movies...

emmahunter avatar
Emma Hunter
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like most things except Danny should die or returns to the other land (I can't spell so it's the other land).

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waltcrumb avatar
Walt Crumb
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, I like some of your ideas...and obviously there are an infinite number of storylines that could've played out....one thing, unless I heard you differently, you said arya is poisoned impersonating Jamie..that means that she would've had to kill him or at the very least, cut his face off...might work, but would've changed your ending a little. ..lol...my thought is the Jon and Nightking should've battled it out...and Jon shouldve been the Iron King and Erxces taking a knee..

ana-mariaz avatar
Ana-Maria Z
Community Member
4 years ago

This comment has been deleted.

idrow avatar
Id row
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't go in intending to watch the whole thing, but got completely sucked in. I found myself yelling, "Yes!" several times and laughed at the unexpected shot of Flanders' a*s. This guy needs to be hired to do a rewrite, although without the death of the 2nd dragon. This used to be a series I could re-watch over and over and I actually watched it all the way though 6 or 7 times before the finale. But that last ep ruined the entire series for me. I can't even re-watch it anymore knowing what happens in the end. This is the ending the fans deserved. I'd just love to know why they rushed everything so much, why they got so sloppy in a race to get it wrapped up.

cynalinduza avatar
Hippielove
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you. Now I can be at peace and move on from that terrible ending.

blugeagua avatar
blugeagua
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even though the season was c**p, the only thing they got right was showing what a tyrant Daenerys was. She had shown herself time and again, season after season to be power hungry and selfish. And she had always enjoyed burning people alive who didn’t agree with her. She was ALWAYS a psychopath. And it’s made even more clear in the books. It’s obvious that she was meant to be the true big baddie of the series, even more than the Nights King. And the show should have ended with Sansa and Jon as a couple being King and Queen in the North together. They literally set them up with having a lot of romantic tension between them and they never delivered with it.

naomiarmitage avatar
Naomi Armitage
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WOW. I just randomly watched this video on YouTube, before I even opened a tab for BoredPanda. That's not creepy at all.

tohimibelong avatar
ToHimIBelong
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bull crap! Don't kill off either one of 'the' 2 main characters, i.e. Jon, or Daenerys! They had their bittersweet throughout the entire show, and terror, and battle after battle all throughout the damned entire series! They deserved to LIVE and BE HAPPY. Seems people have forgotten that happy endings are real, and not always about murder, slaughter, killing, dying, self-sacrificing bullshit!

55354aa189b8b avatar
Olga Posedaru
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This ending was good, but i think the YouTube channel Hello Future Me did a better rewriting, less of a shock factor and more of our old GoT characters.

jimmyvanracing avatar
James Vanderyajt
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Daenerys can't have kids and Jon Snow should end up as king. And Daenerys should live up to her development, being just like her father. And even if they had a kid, he would be a bastard because Daenerys and Jon never got married, giving the boy no claim to the throne.

hu3y2739 avatar
HU3Y2739
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So much closer to what i had in my head. I saw the night king getting all the way to kings landing, that was such a massive mistake. When jamie was heading back to cersei in kings landing i thought he was gonna kill her too after seeing what she really was. loved your idea of the sea freezing over and euron getting annihilated

michaelnielsen avatar
Michael Nielsen
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I loved the whole series. I was sad they killed two of the dragons though.

carolynrehmer avatar
Care
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm fully convinced that George R.R. Martin is just hanging back, and soaking in all of the fanfics that are better written. He won't have to ever worry about writer's block again!!

idil-sonmez avatar
IdilS
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This version would have been worth to watch. I could slap the keyboard on my a*s a few times and still write a better ending than the original final season.

xeofirexeochange avatar
Just Me
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They should have stayed close to the writing in the books .Like the beginning of the series. It would have lasted at least a decade. The series could have stopped until the books were finished. Everyone would have been older anyway. The series could have picked up from there. The writers thought that they could do better?

arthurstulz avatar
Arthur Stulz
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thats just not possible. At the rate GRR Martin is writing, Arya will be in her mid 30's by the time he finishes the last book. A book that hasn't started cuz hes been writing the 2nd to last book longer then the shows been on the air

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Rhonda Wandler
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Since the entertainment industry is supposed to strive to keep us entertained by this point why wouldn’t a remake be made? I really like your story! And of course we could see some of the secondary characters shown using their scholastic knowledge too. Rather than such long bloody battle scenes.

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TheExtremeSmell
Community Member
4 years ago

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I think Jon still should of stabbed Dany at the end. But more of stabbin kind of way. The baby making kind.

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