Game Of Thrones Season 8 Breakdown: What The Ending REALLY Means

8. "The Shield That Guards The Realms Of Men"

In the end, Jon probably wasn't "The Prince That Was Promised" but he was more important than that. He was the protector of men - as Tyrion so aptly put it "the shield that guards the realms of men."

He could be the only one to kill Dany in the end too. He was her blindspot having wilfully ignored the fact that he was the one who betrayed her in the first place but by an ironic twist of fate, Jon was only able to get close to her because of his Targaryen blood. Despite how much he sought to defy his "true nature," he wouldn't have got past Drogon guarding his mother and master were it not for his true lineage.

In the end, that was where the scene of the dragons accepting Jon and the dragon riding was leading. Not to a confirmation of the Three-Headed Dragon but to amplify the tragedy of what Jon had to do. As Tyrion told Jon "sometimes duty is the death of love" and that love was shaped perfectly to lead to the moment that he stuck his knife in her. He was unwittingly, heart-breakingly bred to be the one to kill his love.