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But because of the stature of the work of art that it is, rather than merely demolish the old order and make us long for its return...

it instead REPRESENTS what it's like in a world where all the old certainties have died off. It glorifies (and should at the end kill off)

Tyron, the trickster with a heart of gold who, like all tricksters, thrives in uncertainty and chaos and confusion.

It plays on our desire for an easy return to order, but at every turn makes it clear that a new order is always hard-won...

And not so much in the actual fighting, because we all know Dany's not gonna have too much trouble crushing everybody with dragons..

But in doing the work to discover what the new reality should look like, I.e., Jon at the wall, Dany in Essos.

And I doubt it escapes anyone that the people who are creating the new world are a bastard, a woman, and a disabled person.

In other words, the Other. So what GoT does---and the real reason we're all so obsessed with it---is it reenacts and represents...