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Jon does seem to be the obvious choice

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He's perfect really. One of the few people who doesn't WANT it. The moral embodiment of Ned Stark, the guy we were rooting for at the beginning. Even if they framed it as Him being king as a kind of punishment or burden of responsibility just like RB laid on Ned it would have made PERFECT GODDAMN SENSE JESUS CHRSIT

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I’m personally starting to come to the conclusion that there should be no one sitting on the Iron Throne at the end and that the Seven Kingdoms all revert back to being their own kingdoms at the very end of the story.

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I think the story of the world as a whole essentially points to that as the 'lesson'... anytime there is absolute power you will have people who are bad people (or turn into bad people) wielding that power eventually. But that there will always be someone sitting on an "iron throne" of some kind. But the series always forces you to take your medicine... bad things happen, people die, and the cycle of kings and rulers will continue on forever.

The publisher is leaving so much money on the table catering to GRRM. He is never going to finish the books. That’s fine. Buy the rights to the universe from him. Tell him no other writer can directly use any POV character other than interacting with new characters. All other characters in the series are fair game. Allow one book to come out at a time, and that becomes Canon and that writer owns his new POV characters in that universe.

In other words, a new character can witness the burning of kings landing, and even talk to Dany, but it can’t be told from Dany’s POV because that is GRRMs voice.
Arya could roll up and stab the POVs friend but we may never know why.
There are many ways to do this, I want GRRMs lawyers.

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In my honest layman’s opinion, dealing with Cersei after the Night King was always fricking lame and a let down. In my personal rewriting, Dany and Jon deal with Cersei first. Then they get their asses kicked all the way down south until making a last stand around Harrenhall or somewhere around there. The long winter has set in, fricking spiders the size of dogs are invading and all sorts of supernatural shite. It’s like -30 below and dark everywhere the Night King has conquered. And this takes places over months. Westeros is just bleeding men and resources, things are truly dire. Then Jon truly becomes Azor Ahai and they beat him with the help of the dragons and everyone else in the whole world. Make it a true underdog story, frick Cersei being the final bad, it was always meant to be the Others and the Night King.

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all of this! Instead we have a cozy fire sit around straight out of a shitty CW show and a fight against the Night King and White Walkers equivalent to the 24 hours of Le Mans. Complete and utter bullshite. End a season with all hope essentially being lost and the final season being the long and drawn out months to defeat them.

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Of course it is.
It’s not a coincidence that Bran is the first pov chapter in the series.

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People always like to mention this and it's always been kind of silly to me. Like it's always made out to be some big surprise that the first chapter starts with Bran. Even if it is Bran, "I will make the FIRST chapter about the person that ends up on the throne!! Muahahaha" is not something a brilliant writer (when he writes) like Martin has as some got ya moment.

I asked who ends up on the iron throne if ChatGPT wrote a song of ice and fire and it said no one ends up taking because the throne is melted down. And then asked ChatGpt what happens to Bran in its version of a Song of Ice and Fire?

In my version of A Song of Ice and Fire, Bran Stark’s story wouldn’t end with him on the Iron Throne — because that would contradict almost everything his arc stands for. Here’s what I’d do with him:
?? Bran the Greenseer, Not Bran the King
By the end, Bran fully becomes the last greenseer, more akin to a spiritual guardian or ancient force than a political ruler. His humanity gradually fades as he merges with the Weirwood network and the collective memory of Westeros.
?? What That Looks Like:
Bran retreats north of the Wall (or deep into the Heart of the Forest), far from the realms of men.
He becomes something like a living myth — a seer and watcher who guides people through visions and whispers in dreams, but doesn’t interfere directly.
His role is not to rule, but to remember. He guards the memory of the world, so its mistakes aren’t repeated.
?? Why This Works:
Bran’s arc is about transcendence, not leadership. From the moment he falls and begins having visions, he’s been moving away from human concerns like vengeance, power, or politics. His transformation into the Three-Eyed Raven is a loss as much as a gain — of self, of family, of emotion.
Giving him the throne, like in the show, reduces his character to a plot device: “he knows things, so let him rule.” But knowing the past doesn’t mean you can lead a fractured kingdom.

?? Final Scene?
Bran is shown through someone else’s dream — maybe Arya’s, or a future child’s — as a boy sitting beneath a vast white tree, eyes white with power, whispering stories no one remembers. Not a king. A keeper.

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You sure he’s a brilliant writer?

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Yes.

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Benioff and Weiss figured that out. It was clunky as hell and no one here has ever considered them brilliant. But they still did it.

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Yea I'm not putting dumb and dumber in the same category as GRRM, that's just ridiculous.

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A brilliant writer who doesn’t seem to want to write.
ASOIAF - unfinished
Fire and Blood - unfinished
Dunk and Egg - unfinished

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Never excused his laziness. I can't stand the dude. I've had a disdain for him for quite some time. He's a POS. But that doesn't change the fact that what he has put out, has been great.

He's one of the greatest living fantasy writers. That is virtually impossible to argue. Fantasy is a thriving genre and thankfully there are quite a few very proficient fantasy authors that finish their stories, but just because GRRM hasn't (and won't) finished his story, doesn't mean what has already been written wasn't brilliant.

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I don’t know, I think his career will be re-examined in the future.

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Ok.

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I think it’s a LOTRs homage with rape, masquerading as some gritty fantasy.
It has a dark lord for crying out loud.

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If we are discrediting fantasy authors for having homages to Tolkien then we might as well never give any fantasy author any credit from here to eternity. that's not a negative.