Betting odds I made for who will control at the end of the upcoming season. Who do you guys got/do you think these are relatively accurate?
My personal choice is no throne.
I think "No throne" is inevitable at the end of the show, but I think it will survive this season. The whole message of the series seems to be that whoever sits the throne does so uneasily, as there will always be people schemeing to usurp it. The cameras could close at a character sitting on the throne, but one year later the realm could erupt in another war and the character be dead and without heirs. Such is the game of thrones, not "you win or you die": you die trying to take the throne, or die trying to hold it. And it never ends, no matter who has the throne at any given moment.
Take Robert Baratheon, for instance. He led a rebellion against the mad king; slew the dragon prince in single combat; married the most beautiful woman in the land, whose father coincidentally was also its richest man; won a vault full of gold left over from the previous dynasty; and inherited a kingdom at peace. That's a conventional Happy Ending if I ever saw one, probably the best ending anybody could ever wish for. But although happy, it was not the ending: Ten years later, he had grown fat, the realm was bankrupt, he loathed his wife (who in turn plotted to kill him) and the whole kingdom descended into chaos and war. Something similar could happen to whoever "wins" at the end of the TV series. The Game never ends.
So I think that for the series to have closure in the end, the wheel must break, the Iron Throne be destroyed, and possibly King's Landing along with it. The Targaryens invaded not one kingdom, but seven, and only held them together with the threat of dragons. But now both the Targaryens and their dragons are nearly extinct, regionalism is rampant all over Westeros, and the influence of the Iron Throne has dwindled to almost nothing. The age of Westeros united under one throne is over, the best one could hope for is a sort of union of seven thrones. With each throne not representing that much power, the game of thrones would also be weakened sevenfold. With its prize being one seventh of what it used to be, and the cleverest players split across seven different Games, each dynasty should have an easier time holding their thrones in the long run.