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Balrog0 posted...

What parts of the ending did you like?

I did like Dany's transformation even if on the surface it seemed a bit forced. When you think about it, Dany and Cersei were pretty much the same except they came from different circumstances. Cersei was born into privilege, Dany was sold into bondage on the other side of the world. Dany fought to establish herself as a force of power, Cersei fought to keep what she had. Both talked about burning cities to the ground. Both were extremely devoted mothers. Both were married to kings and were responsible for their deaths. The main difference between them is that Dany was never really presented with the hard choices, she pretty much got to where she was by slaughtering her enemies while liberating people in the process and gaining allies.

It's easy for us to think, and more importantly for Danaerys to think, that everything she did was out of altruism and that she was a liberator at heart due to her experience as a Dothraaki love slave. But she was always about destiny and revenge against her enemies from the beginning. Tyrion put it best when he said "everywhere she went, evil men died, and we cheered her for it." She got more powerful but also more corrupted the closer to the throne she got. With all that positive reinforcement as well as being a bloodborne ruler who is literally fireproof, wouldn't you think everything that you did must be right and justified? And then she got to Westeros, where it was the first time she had ever seen defeat. She lost two dragons, one got shot down right next to her, lost most of her armies, most of her navy, her most loyal bodyguard and friend, the lords and advisors were starting to doubt and question her methods and her claim to the throne, and her handmaiden best friend was beheaded right in front of her. I think it became clear to her for the first time that it was never about being a liberator or a good queen. I think even Drogon was starting to sense what she was, which is why he wasn't angry with John and torched the iron throne instead.

Aside from that I liked how Brienne completed Jaime's entry in the big book of deeds, cause I remember Joffrey mocking him about that after he became a cripple.