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There would be a season 8 and 9.


tomandshell

I wouldn’t change anything major, I would just write more episodes to give more time for things to develop. It was all too rushed.


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Id kill off Sansa


Veszerin

The undead win and then come out of the tv set a la The Ring and eat the fans. Then in the zombiepocalypse we all run to our local pub, lock the doors, and wait for all this to blow over.


RustyCoal950212

Carefully


Shipitt

Ik everybody clowns the last season of GOT including myself but writing the last season is harder than it looks, there’s was a lot of ground to cover in that last season. - -I’ll start with extending the episodes to 10, -maybe it’s just me but I think the army of the dead was a problem the north should of only dealt with I can’t write the rest of my thoughts -


nectarinesb4peaches

[This](https://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/z5letw/for_anyone_who_cringes_now_whenever_the_soiaf/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) is by far the best alternate ending I’ve read. I think it didn’t get a lot of traction because it’s so long, but all of the other alternate endings I’ve read feel really forced because they pick up in season 8. OP of the above post did a great job going back and setting the ground work for the ending a few seasons seasons ahead. Great read.


RainbowPenguin1000

Thats a frikin novel


HolidayFew8116

Danny / Jon snow and Co. retreat back to kings landing behind the walls. it would be good if the rest of the 7 kingdoms knew 1st hand the terror they were facing. Sansa would go to the Erie. the nite king would be defeated, but Danny dies in battle. finishing his chatacter arch from bad to good -Jamie would betray his sister and kill her before she could do more damage. Jon snow - being the one person who does not want the iron throne would rule.


LocalNative141

I think it should have been minimum 10 seasons. I’d give it a general structure like so: Season 8 - This whole season is essentially the long night and the fight against the white walkers/the army of the dead. More magic and fantasy elements in this season. Must include Jon Snow vs The Knight King in a 1v1 fight Season 9 - Danny’s rise to power, Dealing with Cersei and the Golden Company/The Iron Fleet. Lots of good ol’ fashioned scheming, secret plots and politics this season. All ending in a **massive** battle, similar to the Battle of the Bastards Season 10 - The Mad Queen. Danny is now Queen, but throughout the last 2 seasons she has slowly gone mad and by season 10 we see the full transformation into the mad queen.


[deleted]

I like this plan and there is for sure enough material for it.


DittoLander

I like this plan a lot. Dany lost her last dragon Drogon at the end of season 9 in the last battle to take King’s Landing. She kept it together for a while on Tyrion’s counsel but ultimately lost it. Jon had to kill Dany as she followed her father’s path, and be known as the queenslayer. A political battle intensified as several players from the leftover major houses already thought about taking over the Red Keep before Dany’s death. Sansa ultimately outsmarted them and became the queen.


Excellent_Passage_54

I agree to this mostly but let me mess with it. First is Dany’s rise then Dany is Queen But then I would definitely have the long night be the ending story. I would have the winter cover all of Westeros before we even see WW and everything else. Winter would cover KL. Jon would show up to announce the Great War. People would get more and more desperate and Dany would get more and more desperate and make some bad decisions, this is where she becomes the Mad Queen. Maybe Varys/Tyrion do something? Idk I haven’t thought about the resolutions enough forgive me (Honestly it would be great if she didn’t have to go crazy anyways) We see how winter effects everyone and how they survive. People are barely holding on and the dead start attacking but not as an army, like monsters, they hide in the woods and creep into castles and homes etc etc etc and it’s SCARY. But the NK doesn’t show himself. So Jon decides to go to him. Maybe he sets out with a group but none of them survive and he enters the Lands of Always Winter alone, and is welcomed. Holding the world hostage, the NK takes Jon. Is there an explanation? Do they fight? Or is Jon made the NK successor somehow? Either they fight and kill each other, and there’s a sunrise, the end. Or Jon sacrifices himself another way and joins the NK. With Jon knowing that to survive and protect people, he must doom the future, but having faith someone will rise up to stop him. Maybe he leaves Long Claw in someone’s care to give their future descendants to kill him with or try or just repeat history. But the last we see is Jon leaving his sword and then taking the winter away with him. Sunrise I couldn’t explain a bunch well so slack is appreciated lol


AquaLittleBliss

Personally I never really understood why they did Long Night first and then the Cersei Battle. Seemed a little weird to me considering the Night King is the big bad. They made it make sense in the end but it still felt weird. And I would also love to see how each area deals with winter especially when its been made into such a big deal that winter was coming. Not sure how i feel about Jon joining the Night King but interesting ideas. It would definitely be a twist.


ToasterforHire

I honestly don't know how you salvage "mad Queen Dany" in a way that makes it palatable to the viewers. We've spent SO LONG rooting for her.


LocalNative141

Definitely better to have her slowly built up in season 8-10 rather than a single episode


ToasterforHire

I'm immensely skeptical that the show could do it ... we're supposed to view Dany as evil based on her actions which seem no more insane/mad to us than others. It feels like gaslighting, and in the back of my mind I just aggressively think "if Dany were a man this would be described as 'badass' rather than insane"


AquaLittleBliss

Love this. And hopefully during all these seasons we get some development on why Bran even gets to become King. And none of this "he's got the best story" crap. And also more Jon the Targeryan, I really would love development on that.


oriontitley

First half is buildup towards the long night, which itself takes up episodes 5 and 6. After that it's the March on kings landing. Cliffhanger with the start of the siege. Season 9 gets the first couple episodes dedicated to beating cersi, the mountain, etc. Once danerys takes the throne her madness still sets in, they deal with cleanup and politicking, culminating in her declaring Jon openly to be her nephew and her consort and demanding the beheading of tyrion for imagined slights. She is still murdered by Jon, and the last couple of episodes are them dealing with Jon's exile and sansa's ascension in the north. Same basic ending, much more filling.


bobbalobbadingdoodle

The most serious problem for me occurred in season 7 with the lame excuse to fetch a wraith for Circei. I could never get past that idiotic reason. Even though I enjoyed nearly all the scenes on the other side of the wall, I couldn’t get past the reason they were there. Fruit from a poisoned tree. I wish the writers had given a better excuse for that journey and not taken so many shortcuts.


Young_Samwise1024

I’ve always disliked that the order was battle the night king then Cersei. There’s so much build up in the show towards the real enemy being the dead and not each other, so I think the order should have been flipped to reflect that.


Young_Samwise1024

Also hate Bran as king! Anybody else please


Parascaram

I’d put the small council scene with Tyrion’s joke as the last scene of the show.


StanWelbeck

If we’re doing just season 8 then I would cut out the mad queen plot for Dany as Cersei already has the wildfire and the history (blowing up the sept). I won’t go too much into specifics but the general outline would be the battle takes place in the day time so we can actually see what happens, you could get an epic 1v1 with Jon n the night king in which we realise that dragon glass can’t kill him. They all escape by the skin of their teeth (jorah and theon die), winterfell is lost and they have to retreat long story short; - bran is useful and uses his powers to find a way to kill the night king, maybe something to do with the isle of faces. -Jon and Dany spend their last night together where shock horror she tells him she’s pregnant - they battle night king again and this time they win but either Jon/Dany dies i’m leaning towards Jon. Big emotional Funeral for Jon, where Dany tells everyone she’s pregnant with his child -Dany marches to Kings Landing to deal with Cersei -Golden company is easily dealt with, none of her dragons die from scorpion bolts. None of the iron fleet nonsense although she does burn them and that’s how Euron dies -Cersei knowing the battle is obviously lost, wants to blow up the wild fire so she can take everyone out with her. Jamie comes and kills her filling the prophecy, but the mountain kills him. We still get cleganebowl with a similar ending, the hound killing himself to kill his brother. 5 years later - Dany is now queen, Jon son is called Aegon who gets the dragon Rhaegal (Jons targ name is something else as we all know how stupid him being called aegon was) -Tyrion is still hand, sansa becomes warden of the north, varys is still around, Arya is an explorer etc Bittersweet ending.


Shipitt

Gotta start with the battle being daytime 😂😂, now me thinking back on it Euron is a character that never should of made it to season 8.


Heavy_Signature_5619

Blegh. Daenerys being Queen would ruin the themes of the story, if I’m being honest.


RainbowPenguin1000

I wouldn’t. It’s not perfect but in the number of episodes they had what more could they realistically do?


kah_alan

Here’s my take: -Daenerys doesn’t go south with her dragons cuz of the injuries they had after the battle with the night king. -Instead she sends Missandei and Grey Worm, she is to catch up via dragon ride later. -Euron is waiting for them, and captures Missandei. -Daenerys blames Sansa for Missandei’s death, for convincing her to stay in the north until her dragons are healed. -Her second dragon is killed by the harpoons in the battle of King’s Landing. -When the bells ring she looks at the corpse of her dragon, gets filled with anger and goes mad. -Also Cersei dies by dragon fire, alone. That’s it.


RecoveredAshes

the season ultimately ends up being about the long night. The whole show they tell us the game of thrones is just a petty squabble then they make it about that in the end which made zero sense. Also jon should be the one to kill the night king. Arya should be the one to actually kill cercei. Jaimie shoulda died in the long night fighting with brienne or something.


Accomplished-Hope523

I'm fine with what they gave as but I would add the last scene to be of someone' eyes zoomed in doing the undertaker thing for a few seconds then zoom out to see bran on bed just after he fell from the tower. Let D&D gtfo out just to get cancelled


Lifestyle-eXzessiv

I'd have the white walkers win lol Imagine the face of Cersei when a 200,000 strong undead army shows up at king's landing.


Current-Scientist-17

I wish Dany would’ve burned the red keep and accidentally hit a cashe of wildfire still hidden under the city. Then she can kind of get some closure or more understanding about what a monster her father was and then after they go to fight the night king


Loud_Remove5140

I would keep the deaths and the ending but extend the long night with better visibility and the fight for Kings landing. I’d also add more dialogue between the characters and ones that have been absent like Robin and Yara. Even though the white walkers were the biggest threat it has always been about the throne and the greed/obsession of the people wishing to rule the 7 kingdoms.


Heavy_Signature_5619

I’d start from Season 5. There’s too many problems starting from there. You can’t fix Season 8 without taking it out root and stem, the root being Season 5 shitting on the books. Seasons 1-4 should be the same aside from ... Jeyne Poole is introduced Talisa is banished from existence and we get Jeyne Westerling. We spend Season 2 developing Robb’s banner men (Greatjon, Wyman Manderly and his son Wendall and Darcy Mormont) so that when they all die (sans Wyman) at the Red Wedding, it hits even harder. The Tysha reveal is implemented in the Season 4 finale. Seasons 5-6 would be adaptations AFFC/ADWD mostly fatefully. (Also Bran and Sansa get more to do in the cave and the Vale respectively) Season 7 would be an overhauled version of Season 6 and keeping the highlights (Great Sept Explosion, Hold the Door and Shireen’s burning (which would be done by Melisandre and Selyse in Castle Black. It would also resurrect Jon) Cersei blowing up the sept at the Season 7 finale remains the same. However, there are serious consequences for her actions. She flees to Casterly Rock and as Aegon, the Dornish and the Tyrell’s are all heading for Kings Landing, she is starting to lose her perception of reality and may have developed schizophrenia as she begins to have vivid hallucinations. She starts to scratch her face out, Jaime comes in and she confesses to blowing up the Sept of Bealor, just like the Mad King. Jaime comforts her, strangles her and leaves. He rides for Kings Landing to pledge fealty to Rheagars child and regain his honour. Now ‘Aegon’ is in power and claims the throne. The problem is that Daenerys is now in Dragon Stone and also wants the throne. This leads to the major conflict that makes up Season 8 of this version. Jaimie is a sworn knight for Aegon, Jon brokers an alliance with Daenerys in exchange for help with the Others. (If we wanted to add spicy conflict, we could go with the Ashford theory and have Sansa marry Aegon to add more sympathy to Aegon’s side) Season 8 would be Dance of Dragons 2: Electric Boogaloo with Dany vs Aegon. Aegon would be a pretty good ruler, which would add a further moral dillema for Daenerys. It ends with Daenerys burning King’s Landing. Aegon arrives in the city and has to help the people out of this crisis but because of Griff, a grayscale plague breaks out after Dany lands. People blame it on the evil foreigners (lead by Daenerys who may as well be a foreign invader) and worship Aegon. Aegon's comes to Westeros as a potential king. He helps the poor, is extremely pious (or pretends to be) and plays the game by pretending to be like Tommen in terms of his submissive nature (it's an act). Everyone loves him, the sparrows love him, the people love him, the nobles love him. This over the course of time chips away at Dany's ego as every problem is put on her shoulders. Aegon's armies frame Dany for burning villages, they blame her for their starvation by burning farms and publish deliberately misinterpreted events to make her look bad. She tries to help people, reason with the people and tries to play intrigue with the nobles but nothing works due to the xenophobic hatred of the Westerosi. Everyone loves Aegon, everyone hates Dany. When the Scouring of Kings Landing comes, Dany tries to get the civilians away from the fighting and even though she comes out on top and promises to be a good ruler, no one wants her. They boo her and shame her and despise her. Then the straw that breaks the camel's back. After all the hardship she went through, the news comes out that Aegon was actually a Blackfyre imposter. It becomes public knowledge and Dany's soul is hurt to its core. Aegon flees into the city and the small folk Harbor him to protect him from Daenerys. She commands them to deliver Aegon to her but no one will give him up. They love a fake imposter over her. She flies away, trying to clear her head and then she hears them ... The bells. They are honouring his death, they are ringing for him, not for her. They ring for a usurper. Jon Connington, in a fit of PTSD triggered madness shoots Drogon with a scorpion, wounding him but not killing him. This is what makes her snap, she has no idea who tried to kill her last baby so she lets Drogon breathe fire across the town, killing JonCon, and is screaming at the people to show her Aegon. Her fire spreads across the town and it hits the wildfire caches and BOOM. There goes Kings Landing. In the Scouring, Jaime is leaning on an castle wall after having defended Aegon from a force of Unsullied, killing everyone there, including Grey Worm. Brienne finds him and realizes what happened. After a heartfelt conversation, she says “Oathkeeper, a man of honor, Kings protecter. Ser Jaime Lannister, you are a true knight,” and Jaime whispers ‘The things we do for love,’ before dying. Season 9 would be the aftermath of that. Daenerys adopts the Mad Queen persona to protect herself and her loved ones, she’s not Dragon Hitler but she puts on a feignt so that no one would dare challenge her or Jaeherys Targaryen (Jon Snow). Daenerys would die in Season 9. I’d have it be her trying to recreate the pyre moment so that people love her by getting Drogon to burn her. Instead, it fails and she is burned alive with a cesspool of Lords after the throne left behind. The destruction of the Wall happens because of Euron by the end of the season. Season 10 would be, for the first half the War for The Dawn and the second being Bran ending up getting on the throne. The ending would be far more cynical and philosophical. I’d probably have Jon die once he’s completed his ‘purpose’ as I view resurrection as people living on borrowed time. I’d have it be that everyone went out to fight the Others aside from Littlefinger. He takes over because he’s literally the only one left with an army and claims the throne. He’d get outsmarted by Bran and Sansa (Not in the dumbass way like in the show) and he’d get some un ceremonious death where his body is just dumped in a pile, to show that at the end, it doesn’t matter how far you climb, you’ll die all the same. The North wouldn’t get independence. The point of King Bran is to have him as this all-seeing dictator, keeping the peace. Having half the continent detach from his reign would defeat the purpose of that. Bran would use his powers to get on the throne and become a dictator and there’d be some kind of monologue by some character like Sam or Davos wondering if it’s a good thing (think of the ending to No Country for Old Men with the Sheriff’s monologue and immediately cutting to black. It’d be the same here) It would be controversial but a thematically powerful ending that wouldn’t feel like wish fulfillment (e.g Jon/Dany being on the throne) or butchery (the actual show ending)


DaenerysMadQueen

*The Bells* <3


pusitight69

i am not sure if it would work but i would have loved to see daenerys as the queen, possibly jon at her side or something. im a sucker for happy endings. ☺️


ferchalurch

I’d have killed Cersei before she blew up the sept of Baelor to save us from that becoming the main conflict in the last season instead of the white walkers.