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

7. The Iron Throne Is No More

There was a great reading of Dany leading into the finale that said she was basically Game Of Thrones' version of Gollum and that her quest for the Iron Throne was a mirror of that tragic creature's burning need for his "precious," It's an allusion that rings particularly true now that the show is over, Dany is dead and the Iron Throne is destroyed.

Dany was blinded by her quest for power, just as everyone else who sought any sort of power in this universe has been. If a character looked towards anything more than "the good of the realm," they got precisely what they deserved because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That's another thing George RR Martin and JR Tolkien agreed on.

Had the Throne been allowed to persist as a symbol of power, it would have also been a trophy to be sought like the Ring of Power. The only option was to destroy it.

The Iron Throne was ultimately also a symbol of power through bloodshed, which is not in line with the ideal world built out of the ashes of Dany's brief reign. It had to be destroyed and the destroyer of the throne is a big deal too...