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CMV: There is no plausible ending for the "Song of Ice and Fire" series that isn't Daenerys on the Iron Throne.

First things first: I don't dislike Daenerys. I think that throughout the course of the series, she has grown as a leader and is coming into her own as a potential ruler for Westeros. Does that make her deserving of it, per se? That's a matter of opinion and it's not one that I necessarily prescribe to.

However, I do think that regardless of whether or not anyone else is deserving of the throne, be it Jon, Asha, or Arianne, there will be no one else who takes it because of the giant fucking deus ex we've watched grow through the span of the series.

I'm talking, of course, about the dragons. 

At the end of the day, if Dany has dragons, does it really matter how many men Jon has loyal to House Stark? If Dany has dragons, does it make a damn bit of difference what Cersei schemes and connives into existence? Of course it doesn't. Short of Jon going Azor Ahai on Dany's Nissa Nissa, she's the biggest OP that ever lived. You simply cannot defeat dragons in the War of the Five Kings.

Now, I know that there is at least one historical incidence of dragons being defeated. Aegon's Conquest indiciates that the defeat of the dragons, Meraxes' slaying in particular, is plausible, but within the context of the War of the Five Kings, it's just not going to happen.

Dany will take the Iron Throne with fire and blood. The Song of Ice and Fire is, of course, about Jon and Dany, but at the end of the day, fire will always come out on top. Does that mean that she'll be a good ruler? Probably not, especially if she has to burn Moscow to get to the throne. I do, however, truly believe it is the only reasonable endgame. CMV.
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Daenerys will rule Westeros, but not from the Iron Throne. This is the only reasonable endgame.

The lore of A Song of Ice and Fire is full of epic wars and kings and queens and conquerors of destiny. But it's implicit in the fact that *this* story is the one being told (as well as in its details) that this story is the "big one" - the one that will truly shape the fate of the world. Daenerys, or anybody else, simply ending up on top when it's all over and resuming business as usual from the Iron Throne doesn't mesh with that fact. The outcome of the saga needs to be bigger than that. It has to be both climactic and cathartic. It can't be merely a return to normal, it has to be a significant transformation.

The Iron Throne represents the cyclical evil of Westeros - it's *the* Throne in the Game of Thrones. It's the status quo. Daenerys (and Jon Snow) represent the opposite of that. They can't just win the game, that's not big enough - they have to transcend it.

They have to destroy the Throne, figuratively and literally.