Quote Originally Posted by boost View Post
You're using the annulment as a lynch pin that it is not.
How is it not a lynch pin? Revealing that fact dramatically changes the trajectory of the main character's story arc.

You're doing this because you find it distasteful that the story might go in a direction that doesn't serve your ideas about fairness.
It really has nothing to do with fairness. It's more about consistency. Does the 7-God religion allow annulments, or not? If the answer is no, then it's no. But what we're being told is that the answer is "no, except when it helps us milk an extra season out of the show". It's insulting to the viewer's intelligence.

Are you familiar with the phrase "jump the shark"?

In the same way that any ending in which Dany is not the supreme leader of Westeros bothers you, I'm skeptical of any ending that's essentially "lolallweneededwasawoman!"not being absolutely one dimensional and ill fitting for this show
You must be watching a different show. If "lolallweneededwasawoman" were the goal here, then the show would be over today. Cersei already broke the glass ceiling. And if you think Dany winning it all is "one dimensional" then again, you must be watching a different show. We've spent 7 seasons following her from adolescence and watched her mold her self into a mature, just, and careful ruler. She could jump on the back of Drogon and conquer the whole world TODAY if she wanted to. We've watched for years now as circumstances have tried to deter her from the high road over and over and over again. She has wavered, learned from her mistakes, made sacrifices and demonstrated incredible wisdom at almost every juncture. She is clearly the one best suited to rule, and it's not even close.

Giving Jon a piece of that....seems pretty one-dimensional. Sword-wielding hero fights war and claims throne....haven't we hard that one already??

I could be wrong, and I could find a Dany-wins-it-all ending satisfying, but it seems all too straight forward. Again, themes of unfulfilled prophecy, destiny detoured, and so on have been packed into this series.
Fair enough, but that's not a reason to take the plot through twists and turns that border on absurdity. Maybe Dany doesn't win it all. Maybe she dies in battle. Bummer ending, but reasonable. Maybe she wins it all and then says "Jon, you keep the seat warm for me, I'm gonna ride out the winter in Essos where the weather is nice". Maybe she wins it all and then destroys the iron throne, returning the realm to the original 7 kingdom structure it had before Aegon. Maybe she has a kid with Jon before she dies and Jon has to raise the kid to be king. Maybe they have a kid, then Jon dies, and she has to raise Jon's son to be the next King.

There are lots of possibilities that do not include Dany just surrendering half of what's she's worked for to Jon just because we found out about some silly annulment buried in some poop jokes.