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Game Of Thrones’ Big Problem isn’t Plot — It’s Pacing
Just one episode left. Game Of Thrones’ controversial final season has been beset by criticism, and with just the finale to go, it has reached its endgame (and it wasn’t the one I predicted).
The writers revealed their hand in the penultimate episode “The Bells” which saw Daenerys finally break bad and become the Mad Queen — a long-held fan theory come to fruition.
This has divided fans. Many saw this coming and see it as a natural development for the show. Others — those who perhaps held on to the hope that Dany really would be the “breaker of chains” and the good, just ruler the people of Westeros need — were devastated as a fan favourite character became the series’s ultimate “big bad” villain, ahead of the Night King or Cersei.
The idea of Dany going full Mad Queen makes sense for the themes of the show. It feeds the ideas that there are no winners in war, that power corrupts, and that good people don’t always make good leaders.
