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Chapter II, Part 70: A Tale of Ice and Fire
Hamburg, 22.12.1944, 10:00:

Peter Dinklage, now Peter von Dinklage, sat in the Abaton restaurant of the movie with the same name. Now there were few other people in it. Why he and the others had been affected by the Event he didn't know. However, he added the "von" to the name to cope better with this situation. His family in the US had just deleted the von, as they didn't want to be recognised as German Americans too soon, just in these days. He had added it to get less problems. Not for any reason he was playing the "imp" in the series. Suffering dwarfism meant also in UT USA social problems. Here, among DT even more. So he tried to mitigate these problems with the von. He drank some coffee and waited for the others. He didn't need to wait much longer as Tom Wlaschiha and Fatih Akin came in simultaneously.

Both sat down and after some small talk the director said:

"Well, I also have no idea, why some were affected and others were not. But I think, we don't want discuss that here, do we?"

"No." Peter said. "Tom and I, in the name of some others, want to make a deal with you. Do you know the series Game of Thrones?" [

"Yes, of course!" Fatih answered. "A great series. But I don't know, who owns the rights to it."

"We do." Tom said. "We, the main cast of the series, who were affected. We founded the Game of Thrones Realisierungs-GmbH and bought the rights form the Treuhand."

"The price was substantial, but not as much if we were still in 2014." Peter added. At least for us. We want to finish the series."

"And I shall direct them?" Akin wanted to know.

"Yes. You shall be one of two. Or three. It's too much for just one director." Wlaschiha explained. Akin nodded.

"As far as I know there are four complete seasons. And the script for the others?"

"Well, Herr Akin," Peter said, "we got the scripts for season 5. We think, we need three more seasons to finish it."

"We finished a first version of the next seasons." Tom interjected. In season 5 Tyrion flees to Essos after killing his father and eventually becomes the Hand of Dany. Stannis loses against the Boltons and is killed by Brienne. Sansa is married to Bolton Jr., who rapes her. Arya starts to become a no one. Theon and Sansa fare able to flee from Winterfell, now occupied by the Boltons. The Lannisters got problems with the High Sparrow and the Martells. Jon is stabbed by mutineers. In season 6 Jon will be revived by Melisandre and punishes the mutineers. Ramsay Bolton kills his father, step mother and brother to become Lord of the North. Sansa, rescued by Brienne, reunites with Jon, who finally can beat Ramsay Bolton, who is killed by Sansa. Bran and Meera flee back south and eventually arrive there. Bran has some visions of the past, including that Jon is the nephew of Ned Stark, not his bastard son. Cersei let the Sept of Baelor explode with the High Sparrow and Margaery. Margaery's death leads to Tommen's suicide.

In season 7 Arya, who came back to Westeros with the full knowledge of being a no one, kills Walder Frey and poisons many of his family for the Red Wedding. Cersei takes revenge on the Sand Snakes and Olenna Martell, but loses the following battle. Jon meets Dany and both fall in love. Jon finally manages to capture a wight, but his group is surrounded by the undead army. Dany rescues them, except Jon, who is rescued by Benjen Stark. Viserion is killed by the Night king and then is resurrected. Littlefinger is finally caught and executed for his deeds. Yara is captured by her uncle Euron and Theon manages to build up a party to rescue her. In the end Dany tries to make a truce with Cersei because of the Wights, but Cersei betrays her. Jamie therefore leaves her. It's revealed, that Jon is indeed Aegon Targaryen, the rightful heir to the Throne.

In Season 8 that secret is revealed and leads to tensions between him and Dany. Jamie knights Brienne before in the battle of Winterfell the Night King is killed by Arya and thus also his whole army. Theon, who had rescued Yara, and Jorah die in this battle as well. Dany legitimises Gendry. She then returns to Dragonstone, where her fleet is attacked and destroyed by Euron. Missandei is captured by Euron. Rhaegal remains with Jon, as he had been wounded and could not fly too much. Missandei is beheaded by the Mountain, after Dany refuses to surrender. Arya and the Hound enter King's landing to kill Cersei. Dany finally attacks Kings Landing, burning Euron's fleet and the Golden Company together with Jon riding Rhaegal. The city falls and the sound of the bells starts, which indicates the surrender of the city. Dany wants to carry on, but Jon convinces her to stop, to the very dismay of the Unsullied. Cersei wants to light up the sea fire below the city. She is intercepted by the Hound and Arya. Arya kills Qyburn, but is wounded by him. The Hound and the Mountain have their Cleganebowl, in which the Hound is mortally wounded, but manages to burn his undead brother with fire. Cersei can escape, as Arya can't follow her. Shortly after she meets Jaimie, who wants to flee with her. But she wants to light up the Sea fire, so Jamie kisses her and stabs her with a dagger into the heart. He then is attacked by Euron, who is slain, but not before mortally wounding Jamie.

In the last episode Jon and Dany have a long debate, in which Jon says to her, that she would become a monster herself, the same kind of monsters she wanted to fight. She is frightened, when she sees the truth in this. She said, she would meet with the others soon after. She reveals John, she's pregnant with their baby. Shortly after, standing in front of the throne, she says, she would abdicate in favour of the true heir to the throne, Aegon VI. Targaryen. Jon initially refuses, but then accepts and sits down. Dany, wearing a coat of purple colour, wants to give him the coat, as part of accepting him as the new king and at that moment she collapses. The child comes too early. Sam can either rescue her or the baby, but she refuses to be helped. Instead she decides that her baby is to live. Jon is shocked. The baby, Lyanna Targaryen named by Dany, survives. Her mother does not. Lyanna gets the name the purple born. At the moment when Dany dies Drogon and Rhaegal keen in grief. Drogon, enters the throne room, which has no roof due to the fighting. He softly grabs Danaerys' body and flies away with Rhaegal.

After his coronation ceremony Jon introduces a new system of choosing a King. The High Lords of the kingdom, Stark, Arryn, Greyjoy, Tully, Lannister, Targaryen, Baratheon and Martell, will elect a king in a similar vein to the Holy Roman Empire.

Later Jon is seen to discuss things with the Small Council, including Lord Davos as Master of the Ships, Bronn as Master of the Coins, Tyrion as Hand, Bran as Greenseer and Master of the Whisperers, Brienne as lord commander of the Royal Guard and Sam as Grand Maester. Grey Worm, who was offered to be Master of War refuses and decides to go to Naath to liberate the country. So this office and the Master of Law are still vacant. Arya sets sail to explore the unknown areas west of Westeros."

"That's a surprising ending." Fatih exclaimed.

"Yes." Peter agreed. "It's bitter-sweet. Like George wanted. We had no idea how exactly he would have written the ending so that is why we sat together to flesh out a rough outline of the last 4 seasons. But the general plot is not final, some things could still be adjusted.

"Bitter-sweet indeed." Fatih repeated. "You know, that I am only one piece in this puzzle. We need more."

"Money." Tom remarked.

"Yes. And I have some contacts..." Fatih said.

Afterwards they were talking for some hours, until the cafe was too full and loud to have a quiet conversation. They departed to come and meet again the other day.
 
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This is the first new update. I will add three more updates to this chapter and then start the next one dealing with Japan.
 
Well... someone has to do it right.

What happened to Arya after the final battle? You don't say anything about her after that. Does she go Columbus like the OTL and find an ISOTed Italy?
 
Arya sets sail to the west like "OTL". I didn't want to change much, only the parts I felt, that were wrong. Wrong IMO. I wanted to write something on my own, but I simply have no time, so I made this addition to this story. And to be clear, I made some exception I originally didn't want to do. And although I can't rule out further exceptions completely, say never never, I won't do in the foreseeable future. So, please, no questions for any other ISOT of people not affected.
 
Didn't know that Peter Dinklage's family was German.

Germans were one of the big demographics of US immigrants, to the point of having their own ethnic Germania districts and towns of their own especially in the northern midwest until being forcefully anglicized during the World Wars, and during WWII also voluntarily to distance themselves from Nazi Germany. Add multiple generations of intermarriage since then and I'd be surprised if the majority of americans today didn't have at least one ethnic German ancestor. For example: Who's the most recent US ex-president with German ancestry? Barack Obama.
Also, fun fact I found just now: Apparently, Germantown, Philadelphia was the birthplace of the American Antislavery Movement.
 
For example: Who's the most recent US ex-president with German ancestry? Barack Obama.

Ok, people don't panic, that atomic-like mushroom over Western Europe wasn't a nuclear weapon, it was my mind blowing.

Now, speaking about GoT, what would be the downtimers reaction to the series? I'm not only talking about 'these scenes with less clothes' but the story, violence and such.
 
That will be part of the updates in the chapter after the war. Indeed some will think, they are "shocking".
 
Now, speaking about GoT, what would be the downtimers reaction to the series? I'm not only talking about 'these scenes with less clothes' but the story, violence and such.
I can comment on how the show would be received in the USA just by looking at the Hays Code (dunno what kind of film code was in Europe).
I'd reckon with the effect of the Hays Code still in effect (it did start to taper off in the late 1950s *coughpsychocough*) the MPAA will have one hell of an aneurysm after another. Whole dialogues and scenes would have to be cut or rewritten e.g.
(1) The relationship between Renly and Loras.
(2) Ellaria and Oberyn's relationship. It is obvious is Ellaria is an Indian (black or brown) and a relationship with a "white man" Oberyn. (OH THE HORROR! *rollseyes*).
(3) The countless number of times the words "hell", "god(s)" and "damn" has been used as curses.
(4) The Red Wedding.
(5) Many many scenes of implied prostitution.
(6) Countless scenes of pillaging, destruction of property etc.
(7) Countless explicit scenes of people being murdered and killed in pretty brutal ways (ALL THE BLOOD! O_O *MPAA pitches a fit*).
(8) That one scene of Ramsay's stepmum and stepbrother being....well hounded to death (seewhatididthere). No no to implied killing of children and "destruction of family values because you can't do anything bad to family".
(9) The Lannisters' intent to take over the throne and Cersei's various thoughts on getting rid of Robert and the successful "get Robert drunk to get him killed on his hunt" thing.
This is what I can list off the top of my head.

The show will be neutered to such an extent I'd say it will barely resemble (barring major plot points) the original show. Amusingly enough I see the show having far less censorship in the USSR.
 
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And probably the whole incest thing
Jesus Christ shouldn't have missed that big plot point. The lack of explanation of Cersei-Jaime will change whole episodes, characters, dialogues e.g. Bran's fall scene will be simply explained away as "oops he climbed that tower but slipped....or was he?". That scene can actually be salvaged by implying that Bran heard Cersei discussing on how to overthrow Robert.
 
Jesus Christ shouldn't have missed that big plot point. The lack of explanation of Cersei-Jaime will change whole episodes, characters, dialogues e.g. Bran's fall scene will be simply explained away as "oops he climbed that tower but slipped....or was he?". That scene can actually be salvaged by implying that Bran heard Cersei discussing on how to overthrow Robert.

Without that scenes very much of the story is not really explainable. However, the cultural clash will be substantual. Oh, the Churches will get their interesting days as well.
 
Wouldn't it be more likely that the MPAA would just look at GoT and basically censor it in its entirety, given how much it violates their code(s)?
 
Violation of Rule 4: Thread disruption.
Ok, people don't panic, that atomic-like mushroom over Western Europe wasn't a nuclear weapon, it was my mind blowing.

Now, speaking about GoT, what would be the downtimers reaction to the series? I'm not only talking about 'these scenes with less clothes' but the story, violence and such.

Germans from 1944 just murdered 2,8millions of polish jews and 2,8 millions of ethnic poles.Violence was something normal for them.Best,like Stauffenberg,belived that war crimes like destroing polish hospitals was good,and Poland should be "only" colonized.
Worst,like Himmler,wanted to kill 80% of polish population.

And you are asking about their reaction to some film?
 
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Likely. But there will be problems with it.
How so? Trying to look at things from their perspective, it'd seems like the easiest solution would be to simply not show GoT (and similar shows like, say, Spartacus). They'd have to be heavily censored, which would cost time and money and possibly butcher the story to the point where it makes no sense anymore, and the series/movies from uptime Germany are also in formats that aren't compatible with US (or other countries' in general) cinemas or the like, so there'd be more time and money spent either converting them or acquiring the necessary equipment from the FRG.
With all that hassle, I'd just kinda expect them to just forbid such shows in their entirety, and focus on other things - particularly since "German" things probably wouldn't be all that popular in the near future anyway.
 
How so? Trying to look at things from their perspective, it'd seems like the easiest solution would be to simply not show GoT (and similar shows like, say, Spartacus). They'd have to be heavily censored, which would cost time and money and possibly butcher the story to the point where it makes no sense anymore, and the series/movies from uptime Germany are also in formats that aren't compatible with US (or other countries' in general) cinemas or the like, so there'd be more time and money spent either converting them or acquiring the necessary equipment from the FRG.
With all that hassle, I'd just kinda expect them to just forbid such shows in their entirety, and focus on other things - particularly since "German" things probably wouldn't be all that popular in the near future anyway.
DVD copies will sell well on the black market.
 
DVD copies will sell well on the black market.
Why would they? It's pretty much what I meant when I mentioned the need to either convert them or acquire the necessary equipment; a DVD without a DVD player is useless, and a DVD player is useless without a compatible TV, neither of which would be cheap. (Same for alternate display methods such as laptops, etc.)

The proverbial 1% could probably afford that sort of thing, but the average US citizen is rather unlikely to for quite a while.
 
Why would they? It's pretty much what I meant when I mentioned the need to either convert them or acquire the necessary equipment; a DVD without a DVD player is useless, and a DVD player is useless without a compatible TV, neither of which would be cheap. (Same for alternate display methods such as laptops, etc.)

The proverbial 1% could probably afford that sort of thing, but the average US citizen is rather unlikely to for quite a while.
That is the problem with video storage in the 1940s. The first magnetic tape storage devices came about in the mid to late 1950s which is quite a while away and even then it was not as common or cheap as VCR was during the 1970s-1990s. One possible format that it could be stored and shown in is physical film and the corresponding projector in itself is bulky as f- and far too expensive for the average person in the USA.

Until Germany exports (come on that is the only way) the VCR the only places that could show GoT (or any OTL show) would be cinemas which obviously would still be under the strong grip of the MPAA.
 
Until Germany exports (come on that is the only way) the VCR the only places that could show GoT (or any OTL show) would be cinemas which obviously would still be under the strong grip of the MPAA.
Of course, you might get relatively rich folks who set up private screenings of Game of Thrones episodes, either out of the 1940's version of "bile fascination", or out of genuine interest.
 
Germany has many products to sell out of 70 years history. From the VW Beetle to modern high end computers. They will sell that stuff. Among them will be of course also entertainment electronics. And movies. And so on. That will cause problems. The USA will be in interesting times, as we don't speak about GoT alone. Ironically the western way of life, which is based heavily upon US culture, will be regarded as German culture. This includes also some points, that will cause problems in the USA. The southern states won't be very glad about the new German point of view regarding "races". Insofar they were much nearer to a certain Austrian, now lying in the Charité because of lead poisoning.
 
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