Game of Thrones: Why Daenerys As Queen Is the End Game
Spoilers for anyone who has not read A Feast for Crows or A Dance With Dragons, or the released chapters of The Winds of Winter. By now, viewers of Game of Thrones can see that the show's creators are beginning to shift the story toward its end game, toward the final Ice Zombie Apocalypse and One Who Wins the Iron Throne. The outcome of most characters is highly uncertain. Will Daenerys Targaryen fly her way back to the Throne on dragon wings? Or will Jon Snow forge his way to the Iron Throne through a phalanx of ice zombies? Or will it be stoic, meticulous Stannis Baratheon? Or (f)Aegon? Or Sansa Stark? Maybe some combination of the above, like Jon and Daenerys, or even Jon and Sansa.* Who do I think it will be? Daenerys. She seems like the obvious choice, which in the A Song of Ice and Fire universe usually means she is marked for death. And I would not at all put it past Martin or the show's producers to kill her off...