"TV Couples We Wish Never Got Together" - Jon Snow and Daenerys

[JamesG]

Like its literary source material, "Game of Thrones" is full of icky dangerous liaisons, sometimes within family members. As a reminder to that point, the show's first episode ends with an illicit tryst between siblings Cersei (Lena Headey) and Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau).

The show's last eyebrow-raising romance is between Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) at the end of the seventh season. What makes the coupling uncomfortable is that the show's sixth season reveals Jon is Aegon Targaryen, Daenerys' secret nephew, which even he was unaware of at the time.



To be clear, the relationship between Cersei and Jaime is no less gross than Jon and Daenerys', but the way the Targaryen royal embarks on her last romance was worse. When the truth of Jon's parentage was revealed, Daenerys insisted on continuing their relationship, undeterred by the familial connection.

The moment was meant to stir the moral conflict within Jon about siding with Daenerys further, but surely, her razing of King's Landing could've accomplished that sufficiently. "Game of Thrones" took its time in making Jon and Daenerys a couple, but the ugly truth behind it made it an awkwardly unnecessary development.

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