It is too early to predict how long the Game of Thrones Nostalgia will persist among fans, before evaporating into nothingness. Indeed, that happens with most of the TV shows. They come on air, find extensive viewership, talked about for some time, and then eventually gone with the final episode. But would Game of thrones nostalgia, the creation of George RR Martin, will be as short-lived as most other tv shows, is a question only time will provide the best answer.
Since Bran’s fall from the tower, nothing has been the same. Neither Bran himself, nor the man who made him fall from the broken tower for the sin of witnessing the incestuous love. The end of the first episode was perhaps cruel, and most of the viewers must have decided the standing of each character, with Starks in their minds as the heroes, while the Lannisters as villains. But after the 8 years and the same number of seasons, it turned out that Game of Thrones transcended the usual bounds of stories or plots where there is a clearly drawn the line between the heroes and villains. Probably, that was the most beautiful part of the drama that captivated the world with record-shattering viewership in TV history.
From zombies, murders, burning corpses, beheaded torsos, deceits, conspiracies to sudden plot twists and regicide, what was not there in GOT, (except for stability), that kept mesmerized and captivated the fans, who continued to swell to an unprecedented level in every season that followed. Yet, another most significant characteristic of it was the fallibility of the characters.
Winterfell
The season one starts from the Winterfell, where House Stark is in charge, with Ned Stark as its patriarch. The man who helped Robert Baratheon achieve the Iron Throne, the ultimate pursuit for each of the noble families to attain. The rebellion of Robert Baratheon culminates in the regicide at the hands of Jamie Lannister, the member of the kings-guard, a man who was from now to be known, for good or bad reasons, as the king-slayer.
With Jaime’s sword in Targaryen king, whose madness could be matched with that of Roman Emperor Nero, the Baratheon-Lannister alliance follows, which puts Robert on the Iron Throne, with Cersei Lannister as his queen.
Arguably, the fascinating aspect of the whole drama is that no one is indispensable and that no character, howsoever important, is infallible. For instance, it takes the viewers 9 episodes to build up the character of Ned Stark, now the hand of the king (an equivalent to the prime minister of the king). And when he becomes the most significant man of the show, he is beheaded suddenly by the wink of Joffrey Baratheon, the successor to Robert as his heir-apparent, but actually the love child from the queen with her twin brother, Jaime.
Jaime Lannister
How Jaime’s character has evolved through the 72 episodes in which he lived, and the last one in which he was discovered in the rubble along with his sister and his lover for whom, ‘things he did for love’.
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The man who is known throughout the seasons as the king-slayer certainly deserves more than this. While as the member of the king’s guards, he kills the mad king and becomes the object of scorn for others who look down upon him as an oath-breaker, until he reveals his justification to Brienne of Tarth. He tells Brienne, his captivator, with whom he develops a special relationship over the period of time that defines his character in the later episodes.
Jaime reveals it to his captivator, justifying the infamous act of killing the mad king and explains that stabbing in his back was hardly justified by his own guard who had been under oath to protect him until the king’s madness had sadistically gone too far. The strange madness of the king in which he began to find pleasure in burning the entire city, the wish, however, was fulfilled by his own daughter Daenerys Targaryen eventually.
In the last season, when he meets Bran after 67 episodes, it mattered least between him and the man who had crippled him for life. But, indeed, here is another thing about the king-slayer who knows how to fulfill the promise by coming all the way from the Kingslanding to the Winterfell to fight against the dead army of the White Walkers. In doing so, he incurs the wrath of two queens, one his own, while the other whose father he had stabbed.
The Game of Thrones earned millions, or perhaps billions, of viewers, including me. The end of the greatest drama series of all time has left a wide gap and raised the level of future drama seasons that seems challenging to cope with. So, Game of Thrones nostalgia seems here to stay with us, at least for some time, if not longer!
