EPIC baddies deserve epic deaths! They’ve earned it. Measure for equal measure.
For example:
1. There is no cinematic poetry when Queen Cersei, who was responsible for the beheading of popular Ned Stark, her counterpoint in GOT’s moral fulcrum, would die whimpering in the arms of her lover/brother. Whimpering was uncharacteristic. It was so not her. This is the same woman who endured the walk of shame head held high and delivered the kiss of death to Tyene. Shame. To be buried under the rubble of the Red Keep was not her lot. She deserved more! For all the pain she caused, it is karmic symmetry for her to have a catastrophic end. That queen b*tch deserved a dire, nuclear destruction! Destruction that’s on the scale of the bombing of the Great Sept of Baelor. Shame. Missandei cried “Dracarys!” before Cersei had her head cut off in front of the Dragon Queen / best friend and her barfy BaeWorm. DRACARYS it should have been!
I can picture it now: crouched in the middle of the Red Keep’s map room, in tight, resigned embrace: the ashes of the lionine twins, dissipating, with just their golden manes floating in the snow of dust. Cue in GOT theme in four voices.
2. Deus ex Arya? Nah! I would have wanted the Night King torched by dragon fire. Torched by, not one, but two ! (insert Count Dracula laugh track) So ok, fine, Drogon’s wasn’t enough. I get that. He’s too formidable and pivotal a nemesis to kill with just one magical creature. But to shatter because of Valyrian steel? C’mon! He lanced Viserion from the sky then resurrected it from the icy waters north of the wall. He also smirked and walked away from Drogon's pyrrhic breath! He’s surely more unbreakable than death by a simple prick of that pointy end. But with Rhaegal joining in the fun, after disposing of his blue-eyed brother Viserion, the Night King would have made a really toasty zombie! Apocalypse for the mighty undead who marched to annihilate the living with eternal winter. No less. See? Epic death.
3. Arya deserved a literal stab at Cersei’s manipulative heart. It would have been sweet justice. It would even out the score in the first season when she witnessed her father’s beheading. Plus, Cersei was on her list. At least, let her tick the murder off that list. Arya earned it. She trained for it. She bled for it for seven seasons! And then while nearing the top kill on her hit list, only to turn back after being told off by Sandor. Was that a Jedi mind trick, Clegane? And, was the Night King even on her list?!
(To be continued)
