Oh wait, was Drogon melting the Iron Throne supposed to highlight that the game of thrones ended with Bran’s weelchair as the seat of the ruler?
That’s dumb as hell
Also as symbolism, wasn’t the thing that you could cut yourself on it if you sat wrong, so it symbolized how a monarch’s power base was force of arms but that same force could threaten them if they weren’t always cautious? So is that supposed to no longer be true?
Eh. On the one hand – yes, that probably was supposed to be part of the symbolism, since I’m pretty sure this new Elector Count system they’ve adopted is supposed to be read as an uncomplicated-if-incomplete Good Thing, a Step Out of Darkness Towards the Light of Democracy. Sigh. (Poor schlubs, they had to deal with a massive audience that was loudly thirsting for the wheel to be broken and palatable contemporary norms to take hold, despite the rampant stupidity of that narrative in context.)
On the other hand, good symbolism is multi-stranded, and the symbolism of the Iron Throne is very multi-stranded.
It’s the icon of Targaryen dominance over Westeros, so having it disappear with Dany’s death is sledgehammer-level Appropriate, and having it destroyed by a dragon – the actual engine of Targaryen dominance – is Ironically Appropriate.
It’s the prize over which everyone has been fighting, the obsession for which Dany sacrificed her soul, so having it melt away is a nice dark shot of “oh, yeah, all this violent ambition is kinda stupid and pointless in the grander scheme of things.” And of course there’s the “Drogon knew what really killed his mother” take.
Etc.