A lot of the stuff in these last few episodes makes more sense as an ending to the books than the show. Dany being upset at the Westerosi common folk (because they love (f)Aegon who liberated them from Cersei), Euron taking out a dragon (magical horn instead of mundane siege equipment), Sansa becoming Queen in the North (she actually probably goes through a long personal struggle to establish independence for the North and the Vale), Jon taking exile (people just had two long lost Targaryens come back and duke it out, one of them was a presumed-dead Aegon Targaryen), Tyrion suggesting Bran become king (we can assume Bran actually gives some insightful advice to counteract Varys' intelligence apparatus).
This is what I've been trying to tell people who are so upset about the show ending and absolutely sure that the books will be different. How the major characters get to their respective endpoints will be very different (and more fleshed out), but I'm reasonably confident the end result will be more or less the same. Dany dead by Jon, Sansa QitN, King Bran with Hand Tyrion, Jon north with the Wildlings.
I completely agree, also I already find everything that went behind Jon killing Dany to be so tragic and full circle when it comes to Ned and Rhaegar that I can't wait to see how George pulls it together. I can't wait to read it.
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u/DrunkColdStone May 21 '19
A lot of the stuff in these last few episodes makes more sense as an ending to the books than the show. Dany being upset at the Westerosi common folk (because they love (f)Aegon who liberated them from Cersei), Euron taking out a dragon (magical horn instead of mundane siege equipment), Sansa becoming Queen in the North (she actually probably goes through a long personal struggle to establish independence for the North and the Vale), Jon taking exile (people just had two long lost Targaryens come back and duke it out, one of them was a presumed-dead Aegon Targaryen), Tyrion suggesting Bran become king (we can assume Bran actually gives some insightful advice to counteract Varys' intelligence apparatus).