moonlitgleek:

Can somebody please explain to me what breaking the wheel even means? They keep throwing out that phrase without ever telling us what they actually want to do. It’s all vague but apparently breaking the wheel is better so we should root for it. Also, Aegon Targaryen built the wheel, but what Dany is trying to do isn’t at all different from what Aegon did so, what are they talking about again?

It’s incredibly vague. It refers in some way to the Westerosi power structure, at least as it was organized under the Targaryens and since, although whether that’s the Iron Throne or monarchy period or feudalism period is unclear.

We did actually get our first actual hint as to what it might mean when Tyrion suggested shifting to an elective monarchy. Maybe “breaking the wheel” = constitutional monarchy?