User blog:HighComs/I can think of someone else who didn't want it...

[some thoughts ot expand and develop]

Bran, Jon or Dany?
In The Bells, when remarking about Jon's lack of desire for the throne, Varys told Tyrion "has it ever occured to you that those who don't seek power are more suited to it" (paraphrasing). It incredibly ironic that Tyrion later tells Bran "I know you don't want it...but..." So Tyrion remembers (?) Varys words of wisdom, selects a person who doesn't want it, and who has a good story, basically forgetting Jon snow had been saying he didn't want it all season and who had an epic story of resurrection and time beyond the wall. (Perhaps the writers were blinded by it's repetition, but they were clearly saying something; they were arguing for Jon, through Varys, but Varys was assassinated. Tyrion, argung for Dany, then made the error of not raise the marriage idea with Dany - which T and V had discussed on the boat - which may well have saved both J and D from tragedy. So the writers wanted T and V to fail to council D, they wanted J to be ruled out, for D to die, for tragedy to prevail. They just got there in a clunky way.

Dany
Another irony is that, In the end, Dany wanted to share the throne, but only after she obtained it: Varys had doubted that she would share the throne, and so favoured Jon. Tyrion believed in his queen if she had the support of her advisors (which she tragically didn't in the end). So, if D had been councilled about marriage to J, and said "yeah, I will share the throne once I have it, and won't murder thousands of people" then tragedy would have been averted. No one was bothered about her "minor" war rimes up until that point; every backed her and bent the knee. King's landing was a step too far: a tragically avoidable genocide, forced by the need to ensure tragedy - the ruin of both Dany and Jon, in favour of Bran.

Martyr
If Dany had to die, to break the wheel, then her death at least we can see it as a self-sacrifice for the good of the realm, which actually elevates her to heroic/martyr type status. She didn't kill herself, but ensured her demise by being unwilling to compromoise. That unwiullingness, however brought about the end of the wheel, and of herself.

Jon or Bran
I think Jon should have been made King, and Bran his advisor/hand/new role. Tyrion's judgement went out of the wondow in the last few episodes. As Varys says in the same scene, "you've drinking a lot". Perhaps that was to indicate his mind, which Dany spared him for, was addled and not as good as it once was. At least that would account for his poor decision making in the end.