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Originally Posted by smokew11
all of these complaints are character development. There's been more than enough foreshadowing to show that she could have gone either way at the very least, but more likely going mad. I always thought she'd break bad- you can't "break the wheel" by conquering a city with dragons
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I just disagree on the way she went mad. She could have gone mad on Sansa and the North. That would have been a great plot line. I would done it this way.
1. Sansa and the North refuse to bend the knee(happened anyway and now there are 6 kingdoms.
2. Jon tries to temper Dany
3. Mini-skirmishes with the North and threats
4. Some kind of popular movement in the North that disrespects Dany
5. Dany does something rash and starts a war with the North
6. Jon tries to convince her to grant the North independence and Dany goes crazy
7. Jon kills Dany
It would have taken 3-5 episodes but it would have been good. I feel the series was heading this way but it took the easy way out and spent 10 minutes with Dany on her dragon roasting the city that did nothing to her and that she had just one.
We could have gotten a normal series with the same ending without the rushed timeline and the stupid stunt of her going crazy. 9 or 10 episodes would have been great and we didn't need 45 minute battle scenes. Varys spend almost no time scheming. Cersei sent a bunch of people North to assassinate and all we saw was Bron and nobody died.
The scenes between Dany and Jon while Dany was threatening Sansa and the North would have been great and filled with tension. We didn't even really get a "what the fuck was that all about" scene after Dany roasted the city.