Quote Originally Posted by boost View Post
I really like that arc.

Which makes me wonder if "this doesn't have a happy ending" is reverse foreshadowing, or maybe even it's sorta directed at the audience, and not even about Theon, but about the show as a whole.
Could be either. I do suspect that the whole story doesn't have a happy ending. My pick for the winner of the game by the end is somebody that we haven't yet seen as a player (or at all), doesn't deserve it, and constructs a lie about why he/she is the rightful ruler in the same way that the show has pointed out every previous ruler has. The endgame is the same as the beginning and every other point: chaotic and illusory.

I've been considering going so far as to say that Dany doesn't even make it to KL. I think that would be good because if she does and she has her dragons, it's kinda the end of the story. So I have something like her rising up in Essos, conquering a lot of peoples and looking unstoppable and charismatic, but then her dragons start dying, and she goes batshit. I could enjoy the overall Danaerys story if she gains all the power in the world without "gaining all the power in the world"


On a different topic, I want Jaime to be back in KL more than anything. More than I want to know what's going on with Theon or Gendry or anybody. There's been a lot of growth in Jaime's story, and seeing him with his family and without his hand is curiously the most exciting thing for me. I'm assuming Bolton does send him back. I don't see why he wouldn't. Jaime's arc is constructed in such a way that he needs to return anyways


My read on Theon is that his father knows and approves of the torture and it's a part of forcing his son to be true "iron born". Yara probably knows but doesn't approve