Game of Thrones is better than its fans think.

Sometimes, frankly, we need to ignore the fans, give them what they need, not what they want.

Game of Thrones fans were even more obsessive and unbalanced than a lot of the other fan bases, i.e. Star Wars and Star Trek. They howled that the series failed to tie up the loose ends of the hundreds of minor characters in the books, and they demanded that the producers go back and re-do the final season, to save Dani’s life.

There’s a lot of stupid stuff going on here.

First, the producers resolved to create something that the visual arts need a lot more of, complex female characters. So Dani, the fire queen, had two very different sides. On the one hand, Thrones showed you a plucky little blonde with cute boobs that everyone wanted to root for, because she was sold into marriage, abused by her brother, essentially raped, lost her husband, lost her baby, but showed off her Broadway-like pluck by using her dragons to free slaves. She had one WAY-TO-GO scene after another, walking out of the fire, Dracarys, the dragon ride, the sex with the hot nephew. The show begged you to root for her. How could you NOT root for her? In other words, Good Dani.

Then the same character was raiding Xaro’s mansion, sacking Astapor, sending loyal servants on a suicide mission, buying slaves, allowing slaves to fight to the death, burning ships, giving the Iron Islands to homicidal pirates, crucifixions, slaughtering refugees from Casterly Rock, roasting two Tarlys alive, roasting Kings Landing, giving Grey Worm the green light to execute prisoners, and plotting to incinerate Winterfell and every Stark in Westeros because they JUST WON’T OBEY.?In other words, Bad Dani. The more power she got, the worse she got. The producers showed that Good Dani and Bad Dani were the same person, but the fans didn’t get it.

Second, let’s be grownups and understand that not everybody gets a happy ending. If we insist on sunshine endings, Rick Blaine gets Ilsa Lund, Scarlett gets Rhett, Charles Foster Kane keeps his wife. Life-saving reprieve for Han Solo and Captain Quint and McMurphy in Cuckoo’s Nest and Leo in Titanic and Janet Leigh in the shower. No Holocaust in Schindler, no bombs in Doctor Strangelove, no murders in Goodfellas or Double Indemnity. ET doesn’t leave Elliott. And storytelling is totally ruined.

It's a war, people die. A few Starks and other fan favorites made it, the girl who cooked the capital didn’t.

Third, let’s accept that the best writers ignore our expectations and throw something new at us, on their best days. If you reject that kind of storytelling, you get the bland dreck of J.J. Abrams who made Star Trek and Star Wars dull and repetitive, you get the repetitive pursuit of magical doohickeys in the Marvel films, you get the godawful writing of James Cameron and George Lucas, you get the juvenile nonsense of Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith.

We can’t let idiot fans drag down the art form.

Jack is a writer with 29 feature screenplays and a series completed, almost all of them with female leads, three under option. Check them out on this site and let’s get one filmed! https://threewibbes.wordpress.com/