Honestly the ‘prediction’ to the Game of Thrones ending was kind of a gaffe that was more of a guess than anything, but by season 5 it might have been seen that the show was bound to do something to really piss off the fan base. Parks and Recreation was a hilarious show that was bound to do or say something that would make a prediction about how the show would end, and as Kara Hedash of ScreenRant tells it, the show did manage to at least give some hint that something would happen that might be highly disappointing. He said,
During the season 7 episode “Leslie and Ron”, Ben, April, Andy, Donna, Tom, and Jerry (Larry/Terry/Garry) decided to lock Leslie and Ron in the old Parks Department office overnight. The group hoped that the pair would be forced to work out their issues so they could go back to being friends. After they were trapped in the office, Leslie pleaded with Ben to open the door. She also interestingly proclaimed: “Game of Thrones is on tonight, it’s the series finale! Khaleesi is marrying Jack Sparrow. God, that show has really gone off the rails.”
While the Jack Sparrow marrying Khaleesi comment didn’t come true, Euron Greyjoy did show up, he’s kind of a pirate of some sort, and he did end up shacking up with a queen, just not Daenerys. That kind of blows the whole idea that the show predicted the end of GoT in a way, but enough people are willing to say that they predicted it that it’s become a thing.
Parks and Recreation ended in 2015 while Game of Thrones didn’t end until just this year, and a lot of people are still remembering just how both shows ended since it was an emotional time for some people, especially when it comes to GoT. The fact that the show did run off the rails as predicted is kind of interesting, but without any further knowledge of what was going to happen it’s fair to say that shouting out just anything that might go wrong was a shot in the dark that did manage to hit something. Let’s face it, a lot of us didn’t think that GoT was going to end the way it did and were rightly shocked by what happened. Kings Landing burns, Daenerys is now the Mad Queen, proving that madness runs in her family line, and Jon ends up killing her to save the rest of Westeros.
Drogon shows up, thinks the pointy thing in the room hurt his ‘mother’, or so it’s believed by some, and melts the Iron Throne in retaliation before picking up Dany’s body and flying off. Bran becomes the king by unanimous decision, the Starks return to the north, and Jon goes back to the Wall, while Arya takes off on her own. It’s an ending with way too many questions that simply beg an answer that we’re not likely to get it seems since there’s no talk of a show that might be following on the heels of GoT, at least not at this point. If George R.R. Martin had finally focused on his books and given us a different ending it might have been nice, but as it was the ending felt rushed in a way that was an attempt to get it over and done with.
It’s funny when you think about it, but Daenerys was perhaps one of the weakest people in Westeros since without her dragons and without her army behind her, she was little more than a young woman with an iron will but a soft body that could have been broken down in a big hurry. In truth, Tyrion probably could have taken her out had he the mind to do so, without the army she had at her back of course. Yet thanks to the power she commanded she was considered to be one of the toughest characters in the story. Jon Snow, for all that he was a great swordsman and capable commander, was hampered by a constant need to act on his morals and not bend in any way, which was frustrating for a lot of people since it meant that he created his own pitfalls and rushed into them headlong. For all the truly strong and capable characters that existed in this show there were so many others that weren’t worth much when it came to a straight up fight between two combatants. In fact Grey Worm, the deadliest of them all probably, was hampered by his need to follow a leader, at least until the end of the show.
The ‘prediction’ in Parks and Recreation was more comical than it was accurate and this was obviously on purpose since by season 5 we still didn’t know exactly what was going to happen on GoT, but there was a chance that it was really going to make some people mad since the decisions to kill off a few characters in the books so early on had already proven that much. Both shows were highly regarded by their fan bases, but thankfully Parks and Recreation ended on a pretty good note while GoT…sigh, could have been epic from start to finish with only a little more effort, but felt like a piece of luggage that was hastily stuffed into a suitcase and shipped off at the last second. Matt Miller of Esquire would probably agree in part.
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