He cares more about the survival of his species and all living beings than who gets a crown. And if their combined might fails to thwart the Night King at Winterfell, Jon could hastily team with the only living army who can battle the White Walkers. In such a context, she is actually going to as likely find her inner-fire. I have mused in the past that Daenerys Targaryen is not going to take well the news that Jon is her nephew, and thus has a better claim on the Iron Throne. One possibility (don’t laugh) is Jon Snow. And on the off-chance that the Night King defeats Winterfell, Cersei will take on the Dead and living alike, sipping from a chalice of wine and with a malevolent smile across her face. History will see echoes, with a Mad Queen sitting above a city she is ready to torch rather than surrender. After Jon and Dany’s forces endure the Night King, they will be made to fight for the Iron Throne against a rested and formidable military might in King’s Landing. Game of Thrones isn’t Lord of the Rings, even with an existential threat like the White Walkers, the show benefits from being about the weaknesses of human integrity, and none of the living monarchs are weaker of integrity than Cersei Lannister.
The other, I’d estimate, is a battle for the Iron Throne. While the first is almost certainly the long teased Battle for the Dawn at Winterfell-where else would the White Walkers be headed when they marched south of Eastwatch?-it will not be the only one.
We know there will be two major, separate battles in Game of Thrones Season 8 that will be parted by an episode (director Miguel Sapochnik, helmer of “The Battle of the Bastards,” is directing the third and fifth episodes of the six-episode season). However, I do not think this will be how it ultimately plays out.
Read more: Game of Thrones Season 8 Predictions and Theories She could even enjoy a sweeping victory if the Night King can take out Dany’s other two dragons. Personally, I can imagine a scenario where right after Jon and Dany’s armies (barely) survive the Night King’s onslaught, and Winterfell lies in ruins, Cersei and her army march on their shattered forces. … Probably not, but that’s why she is gaining a big advantage by dooming Winterfell to what is sure to be an apocalyptic battle that’s deprived of its promised forces. Will it be enough to break Daenerys and the North’s unified power, complete with two dragons? And for Cersei, that advantage will come in the guise of replenishing her forces by buying a new army of sellswords from the Golden Company. So just what will that end look like?Īnd can you fully blame her? Daenerys barbecued a third of her army in season 7, why should she team with Dany before getting the rest smoked? While the White Walkers are an existential threat, one doesn’t need to go to Game of Thrones’ medieval inspiration to seek out leaders who ignore forces of nature in favor of short-term advantage. Which will make her dangerous until the very end. She is the last living member of Game of Thrones’ ensemble who still wants to play that damned game. Aye, if I had to wager, she should even outlive the Night King on that count. And now she is wielding it as the series’ ultimate Big Bad. In fact, she has kept herself adjacent to the Iron Throne’s gravity, or at the center of it, the whole series. Yet now here she sits, broken over the loss of her children, somewhat beaten over the fear of a bleak future, but not defeated. The result was a patriarchal and insidiously misogynistic shaming in the streets, and what appeared to be a complete defeat. Her shortsightedness even eventually led this queen mother to invite the wolves in Sparrow clothing into her orbit in a desperate bid to hang onto her fleeting power. Indeed, the woman who inadvertently coined the name of the television series-“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die”-has struggled mightily at the game, and gone from long-suffering and put-upon wife of a raging fool to chief architect of his death, and then a helpless check on her son.
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However, it wasn’t until recent seasons that this took the shape of genuine control, and even some fairly cunning game moves after a series of tactical errors that nearly cost her everything. Which is all the more impressive since she has, technically speaking, been in the same location the whole series: a gilded cage that’s nestled next to a seat of power. Perhaps no character this side of the Narrow Sea has seen her fortunes change so rapidly on Game of Thrones as Cersei Lannister.