The Mad Queen?
HBO
It’s been an up and down season for Game of Thrones. A dragon was killed in ways that frustrated and annoyed everyone, everyone got extremely angry when Jon Snow didn’t pet Ghost and then the internet found a coffee cup on set and went buck wild.
This episode was all about the insane carnage.
OK, goes without saying but…
It started early with the burning of Varys. And the burning just didn’t stop.
The question going in was simple: Was Dany about to become the Mad Queen, or was it all just a big swerve?
Yeah, they answered that pretty definitively.
Daenerys Targaryen basically set all of King’s Landing on fire. The Bells rang out for surrender but Dany wasn’t trying to hear that noise.
Yep, Dany basically burned everything down and killed thousands of people. Not sure if King’s Landing as we knew it even exists any more.
It’s a nice little throwback to this:
The carnage was insane and dramatic and very Game of Thrones, but did it make sense? Hmmmmm…..
Even if Dany was pissed and wanted to destroy Cersei why wouldn’t she just go straight to the Red Keep instead of zig zagging destruction through the city IT MAKES NO SENSE #GameofThrones
— Jenna Guillaume (@JennaGuillaume) May 13, 2019
I’ve been working very very hard not to do any spoilers but I will say this: I look forward to reading the book and seeing how #GameofThrones really ended.
Because this isn’t it.
— Steve Spohn (@stevenspohn) May 13, 2019
Thoughts? Well, Mad Queen Dany is bad and everyone should feel bad. Very disappointed we spent a decade watching a really great female leader emerge, with a very cool and consistent “break the wheel” message only to have it completely turned around at the last, crucial minute. Not sure it entirely made sense, but I sure had a lot of fun watching it all unfold.
I do get the sense that a backlash to the backlash is imminent.
That game of thrones episode was wild
— timthetatman (@timthetatman) May 13, 2019
Next week is going to be extremely interesting.
Meanwhile…