Jon Snow and Daenerys Targarye
A Stoic Commentary on Game of Thrones
SPOILERS ALERT! This article contains a number of spoilers about the last season, and particularly the last episode, of the television series Game of Thrones. If you have not watched the series yet, and plan to do it (as you should), come back after you’ve done it and we’ll talk.
So, with a few months delay, I finally caught up with the last season of Game of Thrones. When the show first came out I was reluctant to watch it. I don’t need yet another television series to be hooked on, I thought. And I hear that there is a lot of unnecessary violence on the show (not true: there is violence, but it’s perfectly situated within the plot and the setting of the story, and therefore not “unnecessary”). Besides, I prefer sci-fi to fantasy (still true).
Nevertheless, after a couple of false starts — watching the first episode, then letting it go, then watching the second episode and letting it go again — I got into this strange tale based on George R. R. Martin’s book series, A Song of Ice and Fire. I presume you know the basic plot (if not, check here before continuing), and I certainly don’t have the space here to provide a synopsis of the complex story, spanning eight seasons and a whopping 73 episodes, featuring a very long list of interesting characters.
