(Except for Tyrion so easily finding his siblings under the oddly fine layer of rubble that didn't really crush their beautiful faces, just left them doused in a white chalk of death?) Dany's speech was scary! Jon murdering her was unexpected, since he seemed like a dunce five minutes before.
In fact, the whole episode was fine right up until the Drogon melted the throne. If the dragons were smart and had personalities all their own all these years, the show needed to show us that, build it up, not just tell us once!īut I agree that Dany's speech was powerful. But, just in Drogon's defense, didn't Tyrion say a few seasons back that dragons are pretty intelligent? I think it is possible that Drogon saw the Iron Throne as the thing that lead to his mother's downfall-he's clearly had a, forgive me, bird's-eye view of this happening for years-and in his grief he sought to destroy it.ĭreyfuss: That's another example, though, of them expecting a single line to justify a huge character and plot departure. To me that speaks to what feels so off about this whole season, which has careened from set piece to set piece without much apparent thought to how or why those things might happen within the established logic of the show. I would get it more if the throne was ancillary damage to a general rampage, but they shot it like an intentional dragon-choice. This is madness! The flying monster's mother gets stabbed and it takes out its frustration … on the symbol of power that led her to that fate? Has Drogon been spending his off hours reading Joseph Campbell? And then she died, which seems about right.īrian Barrett: This unfortunately gave way to one of the most profoundly absurd moments in recent television history, with Drogon deciding to melt the Iron Throne.
The speech scene, and the following scene with Jon, actually turned her into a fully realized individual. It's a shame, but I think this final episode was the first time I felt any real emotion for Dany beyond "yes, bitch!" or "well, damn!" in eight seasons-and she's one of my favorite characters. The sequence was also just well-shot (the perpetually falling ash was a rather unsettling metaphor for the aftermath of war) and after so many seasons of relative stone-facedness, I was glad to see Emilia Clarke do some real acting. Her speech to the troops at least demonstrated that she genuinely believed the only way to liberate the Seven Kingdoms was to raze them. One is the biggest gripes with the penultimate episode was that her turn to madness was unexplained-she just started scorching King's Landing even when she didn't have to.
Watercutter: I will say, as a plot point, I rather enjoyed Dany's Evita moment at the start of the episode.
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