'Game Of Thrones' Fans Are Angry About This Scene In The Final Episode All Over Again
You'd think that the months since the Game of Thrones season eight finale would have given everyone who temporarily lost their marbles over it time to settle themselves and maybe become more circumspect.
But then there was Seth Rogen going in with both feet on it and the final indignity of a Reddit campaign to make showrunners DB Weiss and David Benioff the first Google result for 'bad writers' and you realise that this is an eternally burning hatred.
Now there's even more anger about the way that the last season played out. The full script for the final episode of Game of Thrones is online as part of its submission for the Emmys, and you can have a read of it here. That script clears up a fair few points of contention among fans, but it's the scene in which Drogon melts the Iron Throne which has incensed them.
"Drogon's huge brow lowers and his pupils dilate as the worst is confirmed. His lips raise over teeth as long as short swords. The dragon rises up on his hind legs, towering over Jon. In a beautiful, terrifying tableaux [sic], he roars to the sky, the embodiment of rage.
"He looks down at Jon. We see the fire build up in his throat. Jon sees it as well. He prepares to die. But the blast is not for him. Drogon wants to burn the world but he will not kill Jon. He breathes fire on the back wall, blasting down what remains of the great red blocks of stone.
"We look over Jon’s shoulder as the fire sweeps toward the throne - not the target of Drogon’s wrath, just a dumb bystander caught up in the conflagration."
A dumb bystander. Nobody was really expecting the Iron Throne to break into a song and dance number in the Jim Henson style, but "a dumb bystander" does feel a little bit dismissive.
"We look through the blades of the throne as the flames engulf it, and blast the wall behind it. We see the throne in the flames, turning red, then white, then beginning to lose its form.
We get tight shots of the details melting in silhouette: the armrests, the iconic fan of swords on the backrest."
As you might expect, this has gone down quite badly with the fandom, who had taken the emphasis on the Throne's melting to be a nice bit of symbolism in a generally just quite alright final episode.
"Drogon confirmed to be ignorant of the metaphorical subtext that the throne stands for," said u/DextroPhilia. "If the fans still enjoyed the series this would give enough material for at least 3 theory discussion threads!"
"I can't believe the Throne was just 'a dumb bystander'," agreed u/Sormaj. "There's even less substance to that terrible final episode than I thought."
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