To be honest, I could have done without this. So little time to finish all those stories, and here we are with another hour of mayhem and bloodshed. Wish they would have used the time in a more intelligent way. That just for the beginning.
To be fair, we don't know George R.R. Martin's plans for Daenerys Targaryen. In the books, she's lost somewhere in the desert near Mereen for over 8 years now. And yes, she did have to live through a lot lately - losing two dragons, Jorrahs and Missandeis deathes, betrayal within and the news of Jon Snow having a better claim to the Throne. And that miserable string of madness in the bloodline.... Of course you can justify this turn of events that way.
Unless you can't, because it's an overly rushed turn, and it still feels out of character. This whole episode did not reap what has been sown. It just happens.
So this is the pivotal question about Kings Landings big finale: Can you arrange with the Mad Queen turn, of can't you? Everything else hinges on this question. That one single dragon destroys first a whole fleet and then a whole city made of stone - that some character arcs are finished in rather unsatisfying ways - that a city is burned instead of just the Red Keep with the evil witch in it - all this is secondary to the question of Daenerys change of mind.
I would very much like to hear what GRRM had to say about this. If he would have had a similar plan for the mother of dragons, well then it definitely stands as his right to choose where his characters go and how they live and die. Then you can put this final season away as the - not exactly - Hollywood ending of an outstanding story, less complex, less formed out, less intricate, more in your face. But did he? Have such a similar plan for Daenerys Targaryen?
I really hope we one day will find out. Lots of health to George R.R. Martin. Long may be write...
To be fair, we don't know George R.R. Martin's plans for Daenerys Targaryen. In the books, she's lost somewhere in the desert near Mereen for over 8 years now. And yes, she did have to live through a lot lately - losing two dragons, Jorrahs and Missandeis deathes, betrayal within and the news of Jon Snow having a better claim to the Throne. And that miserable string of madness in the bloodline.... Of course you can justify this turn of events that way.
Unless you can't, because it's an overly rushed turn, and it still feels out of character. This whole episode did not reap what has been sown. It just happens.
So this is the pivotal question about Kings Landings big finale: Can you arrange with the Mad Queen turn, of can't you? Everything else hinges on this question. That one single dragon destroys first a whole fleet and then a whole city made of stone - that some character arcs are finished in rather unsatisfying ways - that a city is burned instead of just the Red Keep with the evil witch in it - all this is secondary to the question of Daenerys change of mind.
I would very much like to hear what GRRM had to say about this. If he would have had a similar plan for the mother of dragons, well then it definitely stands as his right to choose where his characters go and how they live and die. Then you can put this final season away as the - not exactly - Hollywood ending of an outstanding story, less complex, less formed out, less intricate, more in your face. But did he? Have such a similar plan for Daenerys Targaryen?
I really hope we one day will find out. Lots of health to George R.R. Martin. Long may be write...