Game of Thrones left a number of unanswered questions hanging in the air in its Season 7 finale, but one of the biggest that will need to be resolved at the beginning of the eighth and final season is, "What comes next for Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen?" That's a question that's hanging over the heads of all the actors involved on the series, as well.
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In the finale, the audience learns that Jon Snow is actually Aegon Targaryen, true born heir to the Iron Throne and son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, at the same time that he consummates his season-long romance with Daenerys Targaryen, who we realize in that moment is actually his aunt. Jon and Daenerys are on a ship heading for Winterfell to prepare for the Night King's invasion, and Bran Stark and Samwell Tarly are waiting for them to arrive so they can tell Jon the game-changing news. Just like every Game of Thrones viewer, actor Liam Cunningham, who plays Davos Seaworth, can't wait to find out what happens next.
"What’s going to be more interesting is Khaleesi's reaction to it. She’s about to be usurped because of his lineage. That’s going to be incredibly interesting," said Cunningham. "What’s going to happen when Daenerys when she finds out that she is no longer entitled to be queen? And what is going to happen with Jon Snow when he finds out that he is? And what’s going to happen when he finds out that he’s just fallen in love with his aunt? It’s extraordinary and this is all yet to be revealed in the new season. Where is this puppy going to go?"
Cunningham, for one, is looking forward to being there when Jon and Dany find out. "It’s going to be an interesting look on both of their faces if they happen to be in the same room when they find out. It sounds like he’s going to find out fairly quickly because if you look, Bran told someone that Daenerys and Jon are on their way," said Cunningham. "Logically, [it looks] like they’re going to find out sooner than later. I’m speculating on this obviously, but on the information we have already, that’s where it sounds like it’s going to go."
While Jon and Daenerys were having sex for the first time in her bedroom, the audience sees Tyrion in the hallway with a concerned look on his face as the gravity of what he realizes is happening sinks in. There were many other notable people on that boat -- from Jorah Mormont to Davos himself -- who might have walked by at the wrong moment, so we asked Cunningham why he felt Tyrion was the right person to see what's going on.
"Tyrion has been there from the get go. He’s the guy we follow. He’s such an important part of this," said Cunningham. "I think it’s only right that Tyrion would have been there. I never thought about that until you said it. It just seemed so obvious to me that he was outside. It just shows, because of the information that we got, that Tyrion doesn’t have yet, about Mr. Jon Snow’s lineage -- where we find this, as an audience and what I love about the writing of this show -- what we know, when Tyrion is standing outside the door, the audience knows more than he does."
If Cunningham had anything to say about it, he wouldn't have Jon and Daenerys treat the fact that they're nephew and aunt as too big of a deal.
"Listen, no body did it on purpose with the knowledge. I kind of thought if it was brought up and Jon Snow said to Davos, 'Why do you think this is that I’ve just fallen in love with my aunt?' I think Davos might turn around and go, 'Well, at least it’s not your sister,'" he said. "There are bigger concerns at this stage than this young lad and lass falling in love. They’ve got a much bigger problem which is the destruction of the seven kingdoms which is to come. I think they can put that on the back burner to take on this enormous task. That’s what I’m imagining."
At this point, Cunningham's guess is as good as viewers', as Season 8 still doesn't have a set premiere date (and could return as late as 2019). The cast hasn't seen any of the scripts for the final season, and don't even have a start date for when they will return. All they know is that when they go back, it will be for the end of Game of Thrones, which is an idea that has been slowly settling in for all of them for a while now.
"We have kind of been preparing ourselves since the beginning of Season 7 for having this beautiful gem of a project that’s going to be taken away from it," said Cunningham. "There’s nobody going into the last season going 'Oh my god, this is it.' We’ve been kind of doing that. We’ve been weening ourselves. In a sense we’ve been looking around, smelling the roses and kind of taking it in.
"The sadness is already kind of -- I wouldn’t say it’s gone to full bloom. It’s certainly growing. None of us want this to finish. But it’s a story that has a beginning, middle and end, and it has to come to an end and that’s the way we’ve been viewing it. I’ve put seven years of my life into it, but David and Dan have put 12 years. George R.R. Martin has put 25, 30 years into it. When you’ve got people as talented as David and Dan and George, they have other fish to fry and they have their lives to get on with as well. You understand it and it’s one of those things that could go on and the longer it goes on the more diluted it could have got. It’s best to leave this gem at the end of Season 8."
For more on Game of Thrones, watch IGN's full breakdown of the episode in this week's Dragons on the Wall. Plus, the showrunners break down why the Wall had to come down and what they were looking forward to in Littlefinger's death scene.
Terri Schwartz is Editorial Producer at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz.
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