This episode had some problems just like most do...but it was fine. GoT fans are basically becoming insufferable and just looking for a reason to whine.
I whined non-stop about the white walker episode this season because it was so fucking bad, but people seem to be whining about this episode more despite it being superior in every way, and we could actually see what was happening on this one.
This is a pretty dumb PoV.
ShatteredElysium posted...
The Daenerys stuff is fine, the seeds have been there a long time and it's only them rushing this last season that makes it look rushed. When you take everything as a whole compared to her previous behavior, it makes sense.
It doesn't though. It's cherry picking bits of her previous behavior while ignoring the swaths of other things. I mean, Dany has been entitled, naive, and has thought she's invincible throughout the show. Most of her big displays of power throughout the show are based on those. We shouldn't believe she LIKES carnage. That was never a displayed character trait.
We know she took advantage of harsh punishments, but for the most part, the show framed them as being necessary. When she originally freed the Unsullied, that wasn't an act of madness, it was her making a reckless play because she believed she'd be fine.
Dany has often shown love of strangers and care for their safety beyond what is appropriate. Burning the city is out of character for her. Full stop. And it's tacking on a "mad" qualifier to her without earning it. Missandei's execution wasn't the lynchpin which made her go mad... she didn't make that decision until the city surrendered.
That's what we were given. Dany decided to kill millions of innocents because the city surrendered and she won.
Yeah, this is like World of Warcraft writing, where you have a character that has been portrayed as ruthless and definitely not a nice person suddenly leap off the slippery slope and go full Hitler. With the explanation that they went mad. At least WoW uses the excuse, lol they were corrupted by the Old Gods! Does this writing team have any connection to Blizzard? ---
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