A “Game of Thrones” Exercise: Completing Character Arcs, Increasing Excitement

This reimagining for the end of Game of Thrones picks up after Daenerys’ speech before her armies, the most visually and dramatically satisfying moment in the final episode of the final season. This reimagining is an exercise in making everything that follows that moment just as satisfying from a storytelling perspective, complete with action, romance, and tragedy, elements painfully lacking from the real finale.

What if?

• Tyrion stabs and kills Daenerys, redeeming himself for being her advisor, avenging his siblings’ deaths, and becoming the Queenslayer to his brother’s Kingslayer.
• Grey Worm charges Tyrion, but Jon acts quickly, intercedes, and cuts Grey Worm down — the noble soldier defeats the ignoble one.
• Seeing his mother slain, the dragon goes berserk. He spews fire at Tyrion, but Jon pushes him out of the way just in the nick of time. Jon is caught in a stream of flames. But, miraculously, he is unscathed. His Targaryen blood saves him. He cannot be burnt.
• Tyrion and Jon run for it, and the armies give chase, but the dragon, in its fury, is laying waste to everything around it, including Dany’s armies who get caught in the firestorm, their weapon of mass destruction turned against them.