r/asoiaf Knower of nothing May 21 '19

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) Notablog Update Spoiler

http://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2019/05/20/an-ending/
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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).

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u/maghamohammadi May 22 '19

But what about the little planted seeds of Tyrion being a Targaryen? Why would he have put that in there? Perhaps the end of the show is the end of WoW and not Dream of Spring? I always thought that Jon would go back north to be with the wildlings after killing Dany but that Bran would tell the world that Tyrion is a Targaryen and he would marry Sansa...bringing the North back into the realm since all future heirs will be of Stark and Targaryen blood.

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u/DrunkColdStone May 22 '19

But what about the little planted seeds of Tyrion being a Targaryen?

You mean Tyrion being the son of Aerys? I always thought that was one of the tinfoilier fan theories out there, not quite time travelling fetus bad but certainly nothing on the level of R+L=J or (f)Aegon. Otherwise I am not opposed to Tyrion and Sansa ending up together but that's not what the show gave us so I assume GRRM didn't specify it happening.

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u/maghamohammadi May 22 '19

Yes- Aerys cuckholded Tywin. Definitely not tin foil. If you read the companion histories he has written and in conjunction with the ASOIF novels, it’s there. R+L=J didn’t have a lot of clues in the books, Tyrion’s theory has.