Wild Game of Thrones Theory Perfectly Explains Characters’ Stupidity in the Finale

Summary:

• In the Game of Thrones finale, many characters acted much less sensible and consistent than in previous seasons.
• Lords and ladies of Westeros drank a lot of wine, and before the discovery of sugar, it was sweetened with lead.
• Over time, lead accumulates and poisons its consumer’s mind, leading to terrible effects like we saw in the show.

So, remember how we all really didn’t like the ending of Game of Thrones and called out Benioff and Weiss on their terrible writing? All the characters went completely whacked, with the smartest or most principled of them doing the exact opposite of what they would have done previously; they were forgetting everything all the time, either… Overall, that was a massive mess.

In a desperate attempt to make peace with the Game of Thrones ending, we’ve found a peculiar theory that perfectly explains everyone’s erratic behavioral changes.

If They’d Only Stopped Drinking Wine…

Let’s get this straight: Westeros lives in never-ending European Middle Ages, and in the Middle Ages, there was no sugar in Europe. This posed a major issue as wine, every noble’s favorite drink, doesn’t work without sweeteners — and you’ll be surprised to learn what was used to sweeten wine before sugar was discovered.

Lead. Yes, the highly-toxic substance with accumulative poisonous effects.

In the Middle Ages, wine was brewed in cauldrons: it was kept there boiling for a long time because the medieval folks realized that led to it becoming sweeter. They didn’t know the reason for the pleasant taste, though. Boiling wine dissolved lead from cauldrons and mixed with it, resulting in a sweet and extremely poisonous beverage.

…There Would Be Fewer Stupid Decisions

In Game of Thrones, lords and ladies loved wine no less than their real-life counterparts, and some of them, like Tyrion and Cersei Lannister, barely had any scenes without a glass. Others drank pretty consistently, too: civil wars, political intrigues, and the total chaos led to stress, and stress led into wine’s embrace.

By the finale of Game of Thrones, most of its lords and ladies, the main characters, have already consumed unholy quantities of wine — meaning, unholy quantities of lead. Lead accumulates in a person’s body, slowly poisoning their brain until the full effect kicks in, and that could be exactly what happened in the show’s finale.

Tyrion Lannister became much dumber than he used to be; Daenerys Targaryen went murderous against her previous principles; and most other characters degenerated. That wasn’t just the bad writing — that was also the bad wine.

Source: Reddit