(When Tyrion tells him of his fate, Jon’s response echoes what we’re all thinking: “ There’s still a Night’s Watch?”)

As the result of a compromise between the Unsullied - who want Jon’s head because he killed their queen, Daenerys - and the Starks, Jon is exiled to the Night’s Watch. (Bronn, the Master of Coin, is presumably finding a budget for the construction of a new, wheelchair-accessible throne, since Drogon melted the iron one.) Arya Stark is sailing westward to explore the world beyond “where all the maps stop.” Sansa Stark is the Queen in the North, leader of a region that is once more an independent kingdom.Īnd Jon Snow, the man who was briefly known (to a select few) as Aegon Targaryen, does not get to choose his own ending. The youngest of the Stark clan, Brandon Stark, is serving as the ruler of Westeros: Bran the Broken, First of His Name, King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Six Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm. The end of the series’ final episode showed us the fates of the four surviving members of House Stark. Let’s take a trip back through time to break down what it all means. And in a meaningful bit of parallelism, the show reminded us of the origins of the people of Westeros. The series finale, “ The Iron Throne,” and the pilot episode, “Winter Is Coming,” both focused on the nexus of the show’s drama: the North. In fact, the show literally ended in the same place it started. Game of Thrones’ eight-season saga is now finished, and in a practice that is not uncommon in prestige television, the end of the series harked back to the beginning.

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