Rewrite Season 8 with me


Episode 1: Jaime bangs a wall

We open on Jaime who has just found out that the metal hand he wears is actually a commonly owned sex toy.

Jaime, who cannot bear the shame of being Jaime Dildohand, has decided that he must become a hermit, and he flees the Targaryen camp to live the rest of his life in the woods.

He finds an abandoned shack and makes it his home.

Meanwhile, we cut to a bunch of important people in King's Landing talking about how Danaerys said a bad word when she managed to stub her toe, on the way to a big speech she was supposed to be giving in one of her fancy outfits.

Back at Jaime's hermit shack, Jaime has only been there a few days and, being the horny gent he is, has realised that it is gonna be tough out here living on his own without a woman, especially without a woman who is genetically very similar to him.

We see a montage of Jaime chopping wood (with his shirt on, maybe another shirt on top of that one for good measure) and as the days go by he gets more and more desperate to bang someone who is very closely related to himself.

Eventually, he is out pondering fate's cruelty when he sees a hole in a rough stone wall that reminds him of his sister's vagina. He has a whatever they use instead of lightbulbs in Westeros moment and ten seconds later he is pounding away.

Close enough, he thinks. Jaime is just getting his rhythm when who should be riding along the road? It's Arya Stark. What is she doing here?

We don't get to find out because Arya's horse freaks out at the sight of a metal-handed pervert banging a wall and it bolts, throwing Arya off.

As Arya lands her back shatters into a thousand pieces. She begs Jaime for help.

Jaime tries to extract himself from the wall, but he is too engorged and the head is too wide to pull out.

"Ermm, just a minute" he says.

Hours go by and Arya is exhausted from swatting away all the birds that are trying to peck out her eyeballs. She pleads with Jaime who is too embarrassed, considering his new reputation, and keeps making excuses.

We fade out, and back in to Arya's rotting, eyeless corpse. A moderate breeze brings the stench of decay to Jaime's nostrils. The disgusting smell of Arya's putrefying flesh makes the blood exit his gentleman's area and he is finally able to pull out from the wall.

He blinks. He looks around.

"Ehhh" he shrugs, and continues banging the wall.

Credits roll.

Episode 2: Title TBD

Danaerys dies offscreen of an infected toe.

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The rewrite should start with Season 7 - that's when the show started to fall apart. Dany should have attacked Kings Landing and taken over the Throne, before they built all of the Scorpions. Dany becomes Queen of the 7 Kingdoms, During S7 Jons heritage is revealed as the true heir. Jon accepts his heritage, but he decides Dany should sit on the Iron throne and he will be King of the North.
Season 8 should have been about the battle with the dead - from S1 ep1 we learn about the dead - its the central theme of the whole show - "Winter is coming" code for the Night King is coming. That should have been the final battle.

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You didn’t even care to actually read the original post, did you?

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no not really, I scanned parts.

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@gater, That sounds about right. To continue...

In my version, that would give Danny and Jon enough time to have fallen in love in a more believable way while keeping some time to build up a mature conflict over Jon being a Targaryen. Also, Danny may or may not be expecting their child.

The final battle with the Night King would have taken 3-4 episodes. The armies would have been losing badly until Sam tells Jon about the Azor Ahai prophecy in the penultimate episode. It would state that Azhor Ahai sacrificed his beloved wife, Nissa Nissa to create the famous sword, Lightbringer, which was used to kill the Night King in the past. That means Jon has to kill Danny to create a new Lightbringer sword. It will be the only way to kill the Night King. Jon refuses but ultimately Danny finds out and seeing that the world is at stake, she convinces Jon to complete the ritual. Or she sacrifices herself and it gives us a chance to see her one last time with her fire magic.

In her choosing to die we keep Danny's story arc consistent and also see her growth from being an ambitious conqueror to a courageous protector. Jon's story arc is to be the ultimate tragic hero. Through Danny's death, he once again loses all that he cherishes, the woman he loves, the family he could have had, and a chance at a happy life, for the sake of the greater good. He is the one who strikes the killing blow on the Night King because it is HIS destiny. (I just do not understand how the writers could have built up these legendary characters like Jon and Danny and then have Arya-Jason Bourne come in and kill the main villain and steal their thunder. There was no payoff. I would be alright with reversing the Azhor Ahai story and Danny killing the Night King and Jon being sacrificed, however, the narrative does not naturally lend itself to that version.)

My theory is that the story is more impactful when characters do not get what they want, but get what they need, based on the original characterization. This makes a more dramatic and memorable end. Jon reluctantly becomes the king of the seven kingdoms, which he never wanted. Despite his heroicness, he is ultimately allotted an unfair life of loneliness and responsibility, much like he was in the whole series. His watch does not end. Danny's entire identity was centered around being a powerful and honorable queen but ultimately relents under her own code of ethics and realizes that the greatest good can only come through her own death.

With this finale, both characters are given equal credence, their choices are consistent with their personalities, and their greatness is not diminished. They actually support each other instead of being pitted against each other, competing for audience attention and plot twists. We also get a classic GOT love story since it ends in tragedy.

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In the scene where Brienne pens the narrative, it becomes clear that history remembers Danny, the Mother of Dragons, as the Mother of the Seven Kingdoms. Jon Targaryen is remembered as the Guardian King of the Seven Kingdoms. The last scene could be a group of mason's building a stone statue of Danny and Jon, in the same city square where Ned Stark was beheaded. A large moving shadow falls on the statues and people look up at the sky but the audience does not see the dragon. It is clear the dragon is leaving Westeros, signaling the death of the last surviving Targaryen. Jon leaves no heirs and another game of thrones begins.

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WARNING, SERIOUS REPLY AHEAD!

I've posted longer versions of this before...

There should have been two more seasons. S8 should have been Jon and Dany vs. the Night's King and the Armies of the Dead, and it lasts a whole 10-12 episodes. Jon and Dany are in love and marry too quickly, there are hitches such as finding out they're aunt and nephew, but the real problem is that they plan to become king and queen and have totally different leadership philosophies. He is ethical, egalitarian by the standards of Westeros, and really only concerned with the North, she is much more ruthless, authoritarian, and bent on ruling all Seven Kingdoms at any cost. By the time they save the world from the Undead, in a proper heroic Fantasy-genre sort of war, they're at very much at odds and the other cast members are all choosing sides, because they are both known to be Targaryans with dynastic claims to the throne, and it's clear they can't rule together.

In S9, Jon and Dany manage to work together long enough to defeat Cersei, which is fairly easy because most of the Lords of Westeros despise her, and those that were nominally on her side go with the trend and side with the world-saving war heroes who have dragons when the chips are down. From then on it's all-out civil war between Jon and Dany, they each have half the cast and one dragon on their side, and this isn't the good-guys-bad-guys Fantasy-genre war of the last season... this is people we know slaughtering each other and innocent people, it's gritty, realistic, horribly dramatic and gut-wrenching, in true "GoT" style! It ends with Jon victorious and broken-hearted, he's killed his wife (who may have been pregnant), he just wants to go live with the Wildlings, but if he doesn't take the throne and keep it then all Westeros degenerates into a seven-way civil war. And he's being pressured to marry Sansa, whom he still thinks of as his sister...

There. Wouldn't that have been better than the mess they actually filmed?

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As bad as Season 8 was, yours is worse!

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Episode Three: Sansa buys some new shoes

Sansa buys some new fancy shoes, but they are a poor fit and she spends the entire runtime of the episode falling down stairs over and over.

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Okay, I guess I would hate-watch that.

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