Daenerys was always the villain! You were tricked...
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- the weekend show ep 13 | Everyone is pissed at the Game of Thrones writers because viewers did not expect Dany to go so evil ... at least so fast! But, she was always the secret villain of the show! We review the clues that were there all along, and how we were manipulated as viewers with red herrings (just like John, Tyrion, the Unsullied, and on and on).
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I realised she was evil after she started referring to herself by crazy titles and kicking down kingdoms without thought. The Narcissism was evident all along, people just didn't see it because they were her horde, they got caught up in her meglomania
that’s exactly what i thought too!!! i was so annoyed by people’s obsession with her because she immediately turned into a narcissist when she was constantly shouting “i am the breaker of chains” and demanding everything as her blood right. i expected to like her in the beginning but she was always a self entitled greedy person
Actually in the books it is Missandei who wants to go through all the titles and Daenerys thinks it is silly. Now in GoT (which I argue is a different story) we don't see a scene indicating that but we had seen multiple where Daenerys displays empathy or sympathy for other people, thus making it unlikely she is a narcissist. Also recognizing that Daenerys has a bloodline claim and would be at least a marginally better ruler than the other rulers around (in this cause the main other candidate is Cersei as Jon removed himself from the running) is hardly getting caught up in "meglomania".
Lachlan, in case you didn't notice bloodline claims are how alot of things got arranged in terms of medieval or fantasy (which is based on medieval) settings. So having a bloodline claim doesn't make one insane, just as typical as the next noble. If it wasn't for bloodline claims (or at least believed bloodline claims) and some battles going a certain way then the Starks would not be in charge of Winterfell when season 7 started. But I don't blame the Starks for that. Most nobles in Westeros that have some piece of land somewhere hold it because of a bloodline claim.
Also something that is ironic that I've seen is that multiple youtubers I've come across said they didn't like Daenerys since season 1. But found they sympathized with or for Dany in season 8 because of how out of character the character assassination aimed at Dany in season 8 is.
@@pplr1 The fact that you think a 'bloodline' claim is recognisable in making a more valid claim to leadership or that it gives anyone a right to power over others or that you think 'do what I want or I'll burn you' is anything close to a sign of a good leader is the whole point of her story and why she was the narcissistic tyrannical villain all along who only slid under the radar because fans bought into her megalomania.
Dany and Cersei are the same except Cersei is more honest about her ambition and what motivates her.
The comparison is made even more clear by the Starks 'bloodline claim' which they view as a duty. George had Ned saying 'he who passes the sentence swings the sword' for a reason.
The Starks understand the power they hold. They understand they are in service to the people whereas Dany believes the people are there to serve her, to die for her, to kill for her, to make her dreams come true so she can feel better and more powerful.
She spends season one convincing Drogo to start an unnecessary war because she thinks she is owed power and glory. She burns the woman who was raped because the Dothraki were gathering resources for HER war. She basically wets herself with pleasure when she hears Drogo going off over how he's going to rape, enslave and murder every man, woman and child who stands against her.
She spends season 2 demanding entrance to other cities and threatening to burn them to the ground unless she gets her own way. She gathers a slave army, slaves who have no other viable choice of freedom since they don't have any independent structure or resources and she collects them to fight, kill and die yet again for her unnecessary war.
She gives Missandei two choices; stay a slave or come to war and work for me and then the writers have the nerve to have Missandei talking about how she 'chose' her.
And even when she kills people who by a lot of standards deserve to die, she does it in the most horrific, bloodthirsty way because she ENJOYS it. She enjoys starving people, scorching people, slaughtering people... the same way she smirked when she saw the the Northerners were afraid of the dragons flying over them. She took pleasure in their fear and displaying her power over them.
She takes over a kingdom without any sort of plan to re-structure it and is so oblivious to the fact that the people she freed were actually real people with real needs that they end up BEGGING for the right to sell themselves back into slavery.
She compels slaves to rise up against the masters while it will get her the access to the kingdoms that she wants but when one guys takes it upon himself to rise up against the master, she has him beheaded for it.
She brags about how she has men who are willing to die for her and her throne and her ambition.
And this is mostly through the earlier seasons so nobody can use the excuse that the writers dropped the ball.
She has been power-hungry, bloodthirsty and hypocritical since day one and has been willing use real human people (in fic world of course) to serve HER purposes, to make HER the most powerful, to make HER dreams come true, to give HER the power that she feels is owed to HER simply because she was born into a certain family.
Cersei is the honest tyrant. Cersei plays into how we as viewers want to believe we would react when faced with a duty to criticised question our leaders...that we would be able to spot another Hitler from a mile away but Dany is the honest portrayal of how tyrant gain support and power. They pretend to care or convince themselves they care, they have conviction in their own ideology though only as it serves them, they use charm, charisma, vulnerability, they cold read what is important to others, what drives others, what other would be willing to fight for, they manipulate, they shut down and destroy any who might speak out against them, they use others, they believe their ambition is most important above all others, that others are expandable to fulfil their dreams etc.
She is the perfect vehicle for how tyrants manipulate people and get a foothold in power because they're either delusional enough to by into their own ideology or manipulatibe enough to convince others to buy into it.
And it's even more clear in the books.
@@dani-ell-ah I'll number and quote you in my responses to make it easier to keep track of things. Part 1 of my response.
1. "The fact that you think a 'bloodline' claim is recognisable in making a more valid claim to leadership or that it gives anyone a right to power over others or that you think 'do what I want or I'll burn you' is anything close to a sign of a good leader is the whole point of her story and why she was the narcissistic tyrannical villain all along who only slid under the radar because fans bought into her megalomania."
No. I'm generally not impressed with bloodline claims but it would be missing a lot not to notice that in GoT society bloodline claims are what usually defines who is officially in charge. Interestingly enough Daenerys is the only leader we see introduce democracy to an area (Meereen in season six). Also considering Daenerys is a character that frequently let other people have their say in a situation means she is not someone who typically says 'do what I want or I'll burn you' and that actually misrepresents her character.
Also executions are common in GoT-including to enforce authority. Jon killed someone for refusing to obey his orders as the guy was apologizing and saying he would do what Jon wanted. Is Jon a "narcissistic tyrannical villain" with "megalomania"?
2. "Dany and Cersei are the same except Cersei is more honest about her ambition and what motivates her."
Easy to call bs on. Daenerys puts off gaining the 7 kingdoms in order to help other people. She turns down most of a bribe of gold and ships because she puts the slave's lives ahead of her getting the crown. Then in season 7 Daenerys helps make a truce in order to put the war with Cersei on hold in order to do the responsible thing and go protect Westeros from undead. Meanwhile Cersei lies about helping. The differences between them are pretty clear and one of those differences is that Daenerys care about what happens to other people more.
3. "The comparison is made even more clear by the Starks 'bloodline claim' which they view as a duty. George had Ned saying 'he who passes the sentence swings the sword' for a reason."
Actually Sansa, even before season 8 Sansafinger, was more ambitious than that. She suddenly approved of Jon leaving in season 7 after he said she could be in charge.
In season 8 Bran arguably manipulated the situation to kill hundreds of thousands of innocents killed just so he could get Jon and Dany out of his way. Now maybe this is just the writers being incompetent (again) but Mr. "Why do you think I came all this way?" looks very suspicious.
It is interesting that you mentioned duty however. Because while she is pushing her family's claim Daenerys often tries to do what she sees as her duty to people around her-including trying to do right but the people of Meereen even if it comes at personal stress or unhappiness for her.
4. "The Starks understand the power they hold. They understand they are in service to the people whereas Dany believes the people are there to serve her, to die for her, to kill for her, to make her dreams come true so she can feel better and more powerful."
Pretty sure I just disproved this claim as I already mentioned Daenerys showed she tried to honor her duty to others.
Additionally in the season 8-with all its character assassination of Dany-this claim of yours is disproven about Bran and Sansafinger. Sansafinger was anti-Dany even after most Northerners came to support of Dany as she had proven herself to them. So Sansafinger was being a stubborn holdout, and one without regard to the wishes of the people of The North. Bran is even worse, even if Bran isn't a scheming mass murderer (though season 8 details indicate he is) Bran shows no regard for if the people in his kingdoms live or die. For example he considers a meeting where the rebuilding of King's Landing (a major rebuilding effort thus important to the kingdom) and a spreading deadly disease (a threat to the lives of the people in his kingdoms) to be not worth his time.
5. "She spends season one convincing Drogo to start an unnecessary war because she thinks she is owed power and glory. She burns the woman who was raped because the Dothraki were gathering resources for HER war. She basically wets herself with pleasure when she hears Drogo going off over how he's going to rape, enslave and murder every man, woman and child who stands against her."
I notice you are doing some pretty heavy selective editing here. Mirri was burned because she poisoned Drogo into being braindead and killed Daenerys's unborn child. Now I can sympathize with Mirri because she suffered from the Dothraki herself and wanted to prevent a conqueror causing others to suffer. But Daenerys tried to save Mirri herself and others from being raped and put the respect the Dothraki showed to Daenerys herself at risk in doing it. That you mention Mirri was raped but not that Mirri killed an unborn child or that Daenerys tried to prevent Mirri from being raped is a very misleading way to put things.
@@dani-ell-ah Part 2
Six. "She spends season 2 demanding entrance to other cities and threatening to burn them to the ground unless she gets her own way. She gathers a slave army, slaves who have no other viable choice of freedom since they don't have any independent structure or resources and she collects them to fight, kill and die yet again for her unnecessary war."
This is actually has more than 1 claim but in each way you are being misleading or wrong. She threatens 1 city (not "cities") but only in a life or death situation-if she didn't get into that city at that time the she and everyone with her would starve to death. Also it was arguably a bluff because the city guards could kill her right then and there. Now I won't say it is a good thing but it was something done out of being in a dire situation that was life or death for both her and her friends.
Additionally this is evidence the books and show are 2 different stories because in the books Daenerys is welcomed into the city when she arrives and there are no threats whatsoever.
To say her army is a "slave army" is very wrong and it is easy to disprove. The very first day she got the UnSullied she told them that they were free and every single one of them could leave if they wanted to. They chose to follow her. Plus for many of the slaves she frees she does so without the expectation that they will fight for her.
Now your argument that they was no "viable" way for them to exist without her is actually a sneaky way to avoid giving her credit were credit is due. The former slaves could've tried to sail off somewhere or become farmers in some relatively unvisited piece of land but the larger ending of slavery would not have happened at that time without Daenerys. Her army was the only one going through Slaver's Bay and liberating slaves. So the primary hope of ending slavery comes through her. That isn't making others slaves but it is recognizing how vital her efforts are. There have been prior slave revolts but the masters proved they could defeat them (possibly with their own actual slave soldiers). So Daenerys being there is giving the slaves a real chance-very different from her supposedly enslaving them when the truth is she did the opposite.
7 "She gives Missandei two choices; stay a slave or come to war and work for me and then the writers have the nerve to have Missandei talking about how she 'chose' her."
This comment is both wrong and ridiculous. Technically Missandei was given to Daenerys as a slave. But when Daenerys ends slavery that applies to all slaves in the area Daenerys has some control or influence over-thus it applies to Missandei as well. If Missandei wanted to she could have picked a new career. That line in season 7 you are critical of is actually mostly in line with earlier seasons. The writers were ridiculous in season 7 (and more so in season 8) but that line was not. After slavery ended following Daenerys became Missandei's choice.
8 "And even when she kills people who by a lot of standards deserve to die, she does it in the most horrific, bloodthirsty way because she ENJOYS it. She enjoys starving people, scorching people, slaughtering people... the same way she smirked when she saw the the Northerners were afraid of the dragons flying over them. She took pleasure in their fear and displaying her power over them. "
The smirk in season 8 was likely part of the character assassination that season 8 was loaded with. One does not blame the character for the character assassination done against him or, in this case, her.
Now she feels she is bringing justice by doing cruel things to cruel people that still doesn't translate to harming innocent people-that is something she made clear she opposed.
Also is this concern over cruelty done to cruel people based on double standards? What were your thoughts on Sansa feeding Ramsey to his own dogs? She smirked so she clearly enjoyed both that Ramsey was dying and that he was suffering. Arya enjoyed what she did to the Freys-including feeding a man 2 of his own sons. Based on what you already said about the Starks this seems like a double standard.
9 "She takes over a kingdom without any sort of plan to re-structure it and is so oblivious to the fact that the people she freed were actually real people with real needs that they end up BEGGING for the right to sell themselves back into slavery."
No they don't. In that very conversation the old former slave who admitted he was too old to change mentioned younger former slaves were happy and glad to have future where they choose their own careers.
Daenerys even tried to provide food and shelter for former slaves came up. When she first hers of gangs stealing from former slaves her first response to say she will make those shelters "safe" for people. That shows Daenerys is willing to listen to the complaints others have and to try to adjust if something isn't going to plan. Additionally that she does care about the people under her-unlike Bran.
10. "She compels slaves to rise up against the masters while it will get her the access to the kingdoms that she wants but when one guys takes it upon himself to rise up against the master, she has him beheaded for it."
Flat out wrong. She assists the slaves in rebelling. She makes it clear to them that it is possible and then provides the weapons for it to actually be successful. Plus she sticks around for a bit to ensure slavery doesn't come back.
The guy who was beheaded was executed for killing someone who was already a prisoner and with whom Daenerys had agreed with Sir Barristan would have trial.
I can sympathize with the guy who killed the prisoner because he had been a slave and had suffered during his time as a slave but at that point the prisoner wasn't a master. So what the guy who was beheaded had done was commit murder while going against what Daenerys had already agreed would be done. Daenerys didn't want to have him executed but felt she had to in order to uphold the law.
I think the point of GoT is that everyone is the villain. The that the show poses to everyone is How far will you go for power or revenge? Arya goes full on murder pillage and we think her actions are justified because the writers emphasise so much how evil the people she killed are and in our minds we think her actions are justified. I think the point is that they are all villains
Yes, this is actually why I love the series so much. All characters have good and evil traits. Especially Ned And Arya Stark are often seen as 'good', and Sansa was seen as superficial and stupid. When in reality, Arya Stark was kind of a brat, and very disrespectful to her sister, just because they were different. And though she does have trauma as the reason, she is 'worshipped' for going on a killing spree. Ned Stark beheaded a terrified man, said all the 'righteous' words. But he actually did a lot of questionable deeds himself. Sansa may act a bit superficial in the beginning - but she is literally 13 years old (a child), and as the eldest daughter of a noble house, she would have literally been raised to marry a rich lord, and learned the skills she would need to be his lady. In many ways, Sansa is the one with the least amount of negative traits, but because she is forced to run from psychopaths, and grey rock through life, she gets the most hate.
Sansa may be the only true 'good' character in GOT - and Geffory and Ramsay the only true 'evil' one. The 'good' and 'evil' characters paired up - coincidence? Hmm...
You don't understand at all. There are few villains as far as the books. Everyone is an individual that does good and bad and grows to be better or worse it's not Star Wars there is no good or Badi in a cruel world, people find their own way to adapt to it.
@@HereIAm247 Huh? Ayra was Graped and Tortured and is completely traumatized lol.
Sansa was always the brat... hello half brother
Rob Ayra Bran Rickon... hello brother.
jon is a bastard - sansa
jon is our brother - the other siblings.
euron greyjoy was the scariest guy in all of game of throne who every single person feared including kings landing.
this was a guy who went to valiryia took the dragon horn which bind blood and dragon together and is the only person in the history of westeros survived.
the problem is the show left out loads of shit and like GRRM said it should've been 10 seasons not 8.
People forgot, or overlooked the fact everything Daenerys did was with the goal of getting the Iron Throne. She never settled down enough to set a working system. She came. She saw. She conquered. She left. Did she really need to go to Westeros when she could have stayed in Slaver's Bay and turned things around for the better and have the genuine gratitute of the people?
She says "my people are waiting for me". They weren't. They aren't slaves, and her family has the most terrible reputation. Then, she comes with Fire and Blood like Aegon, when there is an established order, unlike the time of the conquest.
Everything she did, she did for herself and her heritage, and because she is a woman, her actions were hailed as girl power, only it was dragon power. She was stupid enough to take Olenna' advice, when all the the pld woman wanted was revenge. It was terrible advice.
Westerosi are slaves. Except it's called serfdom.
Also THANK YOU for calling olenna out. She's terrible.
I loved Olenna, but her bitterness towards Cersei made me laugh.
I'm thinking "bitch, it's karma!"
@@janellejulianajoy Killing Joffrey was karma, I agree.
But she is purdy.
And we now must feel bad when Dany kills Lannister soldiers when the stark did so for the seasons for completely shallow reasons of vengeance and after the Lannisters burnt people with wildfire and wiped out the tyrells and starks. The Tarly’s got what they deserved for killing olenna.
I've read the books.
I know the "Witch" in season 1 gave very specific instructions that were not followed, but Danny burned her alive anyway.
After that she became a fairly typical Targ: A brat that think they are right cuz they can burn anyone who disagrees.
I forgot that. Thank you for mentioning. For me the first time I got suspucious was how she looked at her brother dying with this look on her face and the flat tone of voice.
Daenerys since Season 2: I will burn King’s Landing to the ground to take the Iron Throne.
Daenerys late S1-S7: Solves every conflict with people who get in her way with ruthless murder, fire, and blood for vengeance. Doesn’t usually seem to feel a ton of remorse. Never listens to her advisors when they try to give her advice about tempering justice with mercy and being more patient with enemies and opposers before jumping straight to murder as a solution.
Daenerys Season 8: Burns King’s Landing to the ground when the people feel terrified of her, rather than blindly loving her, and get in her way.
Daenerys stans: Khaleesi would never do that! That’s so out of character! The writers hate women!
Me: Have we been watching the same Daenerys for the past 8 seasons?
Season 3: Jorah: “If you want to sit on the throne your ancestors built, you must win it. That will mean blood on your hands before the thing is done.” Daenerys: “The blood of my enemies not the blood of innocents” she feels remorse for crucifying ALL the masters after realizing not ALL wanted the children crucified. That’s season 3 Daenerys. Also everyone in this fantasy world kills their enemies, Ned stark, jon snow, even the guys largely known as the more moral guys in the GoT universe. They just do it with swords, Daenerys does it with fire. Also why didn’t Stannis try taking the throne by asking nicely instead of waging war? How about Robert? Why didn’t jon take back winterfell in another way that didn’t involve war? Why did Robb and catelyn wage war? It’s only wrong when Daenerys does it by your logic. You think every fray had a part in the red wedding? Robb went back on his promise. Yet Arya kills every single one. Most characters in GoT have narcissistic murderous tendencies haha
@@elizabethstarke9390 spot on!
@@elizabethstarke9390 But the person Dany should have "revenge" on is no one. Her father was mad, which she accepts, so why is she salty they killed him? What WERE the people going to do - raise the children of the mad king so the Targaryen incest dynasty lived on forever? Uh. No. The reason why GRRM probably wrote the book in the first place was to get out of the Targ dynasty after hundreds of years of horrible dictatorship ruling.
@@queenb2450 Exactly. On the show, Daenerys did start out as a genuine victim with a tragic background. She had every right to feel angry with her abusers, to escape them, and defend herself from them. She became increasingly evil when she took it too far by repeatedly making the decision to deal with her anger, desire for power, and past trauma in a needlessly cruel and vengeful manner instead.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to defend yourself from an abuser, escape them, or take them down because they are causing you and/or those you care about unnecessary pain. However, when you’re attempting to eliminate that cycle of abuse, tyranny, vengeance, and violence with *more* of that shit to try get ahead or hold onto security, then how are you really being any different from the monsters who terrorized you because they claimed it was “necessary” and “for the greater good?”
You’re not actually breaking any cycle of abuse or crime that you claim to be fighting against anymore in this scenario. In actuality, deep down, you’re being a coward emotionally/morally by continuing to perpetuate the cycle of toxicity to hold onto control, to hold onto security of self and loved ones, and/or to get revenge because it’s *easier* than taking the *risk* to *deal* with openly arguing against, calling out, negotiating, reasoning with, and/or escaping from those abusive, corrupt, deceitful, manipulative, and terrifying forces in your life instead.
It’s toxic to completely refuse to accept the possibility of being hurt, being in danger, failing, and/or losing. That’s how a victim of traumatic abuse, crime, exploitation, manipulation, oppression, and tyranny can go on to become just as bad, if not worse, than those who hurt them and/or those they care(d) about.
That’s where Daenerys went wrong. A similar thing happened to Anakin Skywalker, the old Jedi Order, and the old Republic in the prequels of Star Wars. They were victims of abusive and corrupt authority within broken systems. They had good reasons to feel afraid, angry, insecure, lonely, and oppressed because of them. Rather than actually taking the risk to *deal* with overcoming those issues in a brave, honest, and healthy manner, they went on to enable and perpetuate the same abuse, crime, elitism, oppression, tyranny, violence, and othering within these systems that they claimed to be fighting against to try to hold onto control and personal security at all costs under pressure because that was easier than risking losing it by doing the right thing.
Doing the right thing is always going to be harder than doing the right thing, especially under the pressure and trauma of abuse, exploitation, lack of support, manipulation, oppression, and tyranny. That’s why it’s not fair to blame it on *just* Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda, the Jedi elders, Padme, Daenerys, Jamie, Tyrion (in the books), and Cersei for growing up to be the horrifying disasters they did. They didn’t create all those shitty circumstances that abused, hurt, murdered, and/or endangered them and/or those they cared about. They had valid reasons to feel angry, misunderstood, oppressed, and terrified of the authority figures and enemies around them who hurt them and/or those they loved. However, they did still have an option to risk doing better because they had consciences. They knew right from wrong, but repeatedly chose wrong because it was easier and safer to survive and/or move on (or at least pretend to move on). They couldn’t bear facing the natural consequences and risks of being a better person that would have come from dealing with their harsh realities, choices, and trauma openly. Instead, they chose to obsessively dwell on being secure, taking control, and/or get revenge at all costs.
@@Schoolgirl325 which makes Dany an even BETTER villain because it makes her story super tragic and up there with Anakin! The general audience are too dense to see that but GRRM subverted our expectations in the best GRRM way. Idk why people actually were stupid enough to believe Jon and Dany would have at all a happy ending. Jon would defend his family (Sansa, Arya, Bran) over some stranger aunt that forces him to bend the knee.
i’ve been telling people this ‼️😭 they tried to make her out to be a a white savior and “free the slaves” but turned right around and mentally enslaved them herself all the murder and fire she’s unleashed before burning the capital she’s always been a monster tbh
You’ve been dumb
Yeah it was the white skin that got me
@@thedropbear574So you think skin colour matters? Interesting.
What is with the race obsession? You types keep racism going 😂
Aerys: Burn them all!
Danny: No problem dad.
She's just being a dutiful daughter.
Its still out of character and character breaking. The actual character Daenerys both had to come to terms with that her father was a terrible king (which she did) and that his actions shouldn't be repeated (something she easily did).
Dani is like the American government. She's got dragons (nukes), thinks it's her job to save everyone (regime change in foreign nations with dictators/sketchy leaders), and claims she's rightfully the top of the food chain
They also have a point, contempt and complacency doesn’t overthrow Dictators.
@@m.c.martinDictator=someone we dislike. The US is not about helping people, that is what people gotta realise, it is lies and about power. This is why Angela Merkel could rule indefinitely, but never be called out, but not a Chinese leader.
Like many others have said, her downfall and "madness" makes sense as a storyline, but the execution was terrible.
Actually it doesn't. Daenerys as a character was shown to be able to suffer and stay sane. She wasn't a perfect person but she is a sane one. Moreover one of the writers directly told viewers Daenerys is "not her father" nor "insane" nor "a sadist" in an Inside the Episode in season six. What happened in season 8 is they tried to contradict their earlier storyline in multiple ways for multiple characters. Varys, a seasoned spymaster, forgot how to be sneaky. Tyrion had long forgotten how to be smart despite showing it earlier. And the writers forgot that bells don't mean surrender in King's Landing and that not only did Davos say so in season 2 but events proved him correct.
It isn't just that the execution is terrible, it is, but the direction they tried to take things was illogical and contradicted by what had come before it.
@@pplr1 That's why I said "madness". Since she is traumatized, lonely and stressed I can somewhat understand her becoming cruel. A lot of characters have done that already, so it wouldnt be surprising for her to do so. The meaning of the bells did change a couple of times+dumb and dumber wanted to quickly wrap up the season so they could move on to their next project. That's why everything feels sloppy in this season.
@@random_meta They really did. Though speaking of being sloppy there is that is another reason why season 8 may have been what it was from a story perspective. Evidence has come to light indicating the earlier plan for season 8 itself was for wildfire to destroy most of King's Landing. Mix a fire breathing dragon doing battle in to a city laced with wildfire stashes put there with the purpose of destroying the city and it isn't hard to see how a tragic disaster occurs on accident.
I suspect the writers realized Jon probably wouldn't agree to an assassination attempt over something Dany never wanted to have happen in the 1st place. So rather than drop a scene that they couldn't justify happening they decided to shoehorn it in with character assassination. That is bad editing of one's story.
And D and D have done major last minute changes before. You may not have heard but they filmed a miscarriage scene for Cersei in season 7 but then cut it. That kind of change would have ripple effects with any characters she interacted with later like Jamie, Tyrion, and Euron.
You are correct that a situation can make people be far more cruel than they usually would be. However if Dany wanted to be cruel to someone then a person to be cruel to is right there yet season 8 portrayed Dany as ignoring Cersei during the ridiculous city burning. Don't forget how long it took Drogon to even get to the Red Keep and then he flies away from it after finally getting there. That just doesn't make sense even from the understanding that someone has hit a point where he or she wants to lash out.
Thank you for trying to explain your earlier comment and referring to how people can be hurt emotionally. Yes people can be, but even that doesn't go to what they portrayed for this character in season 8.
@@pplr1 I was so pissed over that season, I've tried to justify it so many times.. I agree with your perspective. Btw, have you heard of the theory that Bran is the villain? Controlling people just so he can have the throne? (From the ending we got, personally I'd rather have that kind of twist ending)
@@random_meta Thank you. And I've heard of "evil Bran theory". Now evil Bran theory may have the strength it does because the writers were so inept that they didn't realize they were putting evidence in season 8 that makes Bran look guilty. However if one takes season 8 seriously (not something I recommend) then the evidence is there to make Bran look like a betrayer and mass murderer. It was Bran who pushed Jon's linage more than anyone else. He pushed Sam to tell Jon when Sam was getting cold feet and also just happened to be in an anti-Dany mood (allowing Bran to use Sam in 2 ways at once-to both complicate things between Jon and Dany via Jon's linage and also use Sam to badmouth Dany early on). Then it was Bran who said that Jon had a choice about his linage in front of who Jon thought of as his half-sisters when that isn't the kind of thing people have a choice about and isn't something they would let go if they heard a hint about.
Then there is that Bran can track 1 guy on a horse (Jamie) coming North from King's Landing which means tracking Euron's fleet should have been easy for him. So did Bran not warn anyone about that it would be armed with anti-dragon weapons and be near Dragonstone because Bran wanted another dragon to die and Missandei to be executed in front of Dany?
Was Bran trying to make Dany break mentally because he knew King's Landing would burn as a result and that would serve to get both Jon and Dany out of his way at the same time?
Did Bran not tell others that Jamie pushed him out of a window not to actually save Jamie's life but to make sure Jamie died at the most useful time. If Jamie dies at Winterfell for trying to kill a Stark child it is harder for Tyrion to blame Dany for his death. If Bran really wanted Jamie to live then why didn't he back Brienne up when she caught Jamie leaving?
There are a few more things but yes season 8 has evidence that Bran was manipulating people to cause King's Landing to burn. He is like an evil version of Dr. Strange (who could see multiple possible futures and tried to manipulate events to make a particular one happen-in Endgame that Thanos was defeated). Plus after he became king both the biggest rebuilding project in Westeros and the spread of a deadly disease are things he treats as not worth his time so neither the welfare of his kingdom nor the lives of his people are portrayed as things that matter to Bran.
Bran is not impartial as some claim but indifferent. An impartial person is valuable because they do care about things like being fair and other things will not interfere with that concern so their judgement will likely be just. An indifferent person may not care about being fair or just. So Bran's actions as king lend themselves to the latter.
She never tricked me. I always saw her for what she was. I was paying attention. So when Dany burned the city down, strangely enough, it was horrific but I also felt her catharsis because this is what she was about from the beginning and what she wanted to do all along finally, the facade was dropped and the dragon revealed.
Except not a single time did she say she was going to burn down King's Landing in specific and multiple times she did show she didn't want to hurt innocent people and followed up those statements with actions that proved she was speaking honestly. The facade wasn't dropped with season 8, it was made there. Or it was just one of many screwups and contradictions-like saying bells mean surrender when season 2 showed they don't in King's Landing and it did so very clearly.
@@pplr1 she said multiple times how she desired to burn kings landing down
@@pplr1 : Did it ever occur to you that those claims that she "didn't want to hurt innocent people," were just part of her manipulations? I don't buy those claims for one moment.
@@thekittenthatwantschicken8018 Where? I would like to see the season and episode mentioned where supposedly "she said multiple times how she desired to burn kings landing down". If you really want to prove it find a link on youtube to a clip. As things are I call bs because for part of season 7 she went against the idea of attacking King's Landing specifically in an attempt to avoid harm. And even when she did come up with something to attack herself it was to attack the "Red Keep" rather than the entire city.
@@Chocobear555 Already tested that theory a long time ago. The often the people she said it to were already on her side so she didn't need to say it to win them over (such as with Sir Barristan or Jorah). Also she tended to back up those comments with actions such as-but not limited to-chaining her own dragons despite the pain it caused her in an effort to avoid harm to innocents.
That isn’t the problem. Everyone and I mean EVERYONE in GoT has done some really F’d up stuff in the series. The problem isn’t her descent into evil but how fast they went about it.
The 8the season should have been entirely about her descent into madness, instead they did it within 5 episodes.
Also burning regular civilians was VERY out of character for her, especially as she was staring down Cersi in the red keep and could have just flew over there and burned her to a crisp.
Let’s not act like her cross over to evil was well planned and paced well. It wasn’t.
THIS!
Did you even watch the video?
The entire series was her descent into madness
Nah they did it within seconds lol
@@artizonartizon3912 if you think Danny was after season 1 then maybe you’re also mad
I think it's too harsh to say that she was 'always' the villain. I think it's more accurate to say she always had the potential to become a villain and most/many people missed the foreshadowing because the surface narrative tended to portray her as being heroic and in the right (up until the last episodes her most evil moments involved her being ruthlessly violent towards evil characters who arguably deserved it).
She was a villain all along even if she didn't realize it. The reason people get raped and murdered by Khal Drogo's people is because of Dany's desire to conquer Westeros. And she doesn't even comprehend that. She says in episode 10 of season 1 that "those who have harmed you will die screaming," but to her not helping her is harming her. She threatens to burn them alive for not wanting to help her not once but twice. She demands help because she is the "mother of dragons," but people aren't obligated to help because you have magical creatures. And her being ruthlessly violent towards evil characters arguably "deserve it" makes her no bettet than said evil characters. She burn and feeds people to her dragons with no trail and with zero evidence as to them being guilty or innocent. If this was Queen Cersei or Melisandre y'all would call them the most evil c words ever. She was ALWAYS the villain who THOUGHT was a hero.
@@tsxtina2919 The series did a bad job depicting Dany's dark side. In the books, her internal struggle and crazy tendencies are A LOT better developed.
The problem with discussing foreshadowing when it comes to the tv series is because it isn't there or was faked foreshadowing. A Red Priestess supposedly repeating a line she told Arya seasons ago that was actually told with the intention to foreshadow something different and actually had somewhat different wording is faking foreshadowing. The writers had no intention of having that line mean Arya would kill the Night King when it was first added to the script. They changed the wording in season 8 to emphasize blue eyes because the emphasis was not there in the earlier season. The writers of the show are making things up as they go and then trying to trick people into believing this has been thought out for a long time.
What they referred to as foreshadowing in the show isn't. Drogo killed Daenerys's abusive brother for not only threatening to kill Daenerys and his unborn child but doing so after pulling out a sword to do it with while standing in what is functionally Drogo's court. Ask yourself if most Westerosi kings or lords would have let him live after he if he pulled a stunt like that in their courts. This is creating a double standard in order to pretend there was foreshadowing when it wasn't really there.
Now Daenerys could end up as a villain except the situation in the show not only doesn't push her towards that but both the situation and her character's development take her in the opposite direction. Daenerys's time in Meereen shows her repeatedly expanding the liberty of the people living there-generally not being tyrannical. The situation in Westeros is one where people should arguably welcome Daenerys. There is no FAegon that may be more popular than her and pressing his own claim. Instead the only person with a claim to rival hers abdicates in her favor. Meanwhile Cersei is unwanted and unpopular-many in Westeros would give Daenerys a chance just to be rid of Cersei Lannister.
Season 8 tries to ignore the situation that developed in Westeros and the characters that are in it-not take them to a logical conclusion for their journey. Being contradicted by earlier seasons is something that happens for more than just characters. Season 2 told viewers through Davos that bells don't mean surrender in King's Landing and events show him to be correct-show it very clearly. Thus multiple aspects of season 8 are contradicted by rather than supported by seasons 1-7 of GoT.
So not only is the foreshadowing actually rather lacking for season 8, but the logic of the situation-which is more important-goes against it.
Nope, she was a villain. Everything she ever did was to get the iron throne in honor of her psychotic tyrannical family. And she did everything to get it. From brutality to nice deeds. Good deeds don't take away the evil and selfish intentions.
estecyprus33 So when Jorah is telling Daenerys to forget about freeing slaves and just head right to Westeros because she will get the crown faster her decision to stay and free more slaves is out of "evil and selfish intentions"? That sounds like the opposite of truth.
Also I already pointed Daenerys herself not only freed slaves but expanded the rights of the people of Meereen before making the place something of a democracy. Not exactly "tyrannical".
The problem with proclaiming show Daenerys the villain is that the argument for it is largely based on falsehoods rather than examining the show. Was Daenerys perfect? No. Was she average or even better than most rulers in the tv series? Yes. Would she have been more or less a decent queen if she ruled Westeros? Yes.
Now if you want to oppose everyone that has a claim to land based on their "family" then I'm for it. That includes all the Starks, Lannisters, and on (including the lower houses like the Tarly family). If not then you're engaging in double standards and most specifically placing them against a character who was either average or better than average-thus without a sound moral argument for such treatment.
We were tricked into thinking of her as the "victim overcoming odds" hero but really Dany is an example of the victim can be a monster too. Its poor timing that Martin started this in the 80s but the show is in the 20s. A time when victimhood is supposed to mean unquestioned innocence and being morally right.
Excellent point. Even worse, not only do we now fetishize victimhood, but we also fetishize blind ideological obedience. That is why Dany's brand of ideological purity ('they can live in my new world or die in my old world') never rung any alarm bells with many people. Many had absolutely no problem praising upon Dany ('she is my queen forever!') the kind of praise dictators are accustomed to getting.
@@SerbAtheist True. The idea of parental minded people in positions of power knowing how we can, and should, live our lives better then we do has sadly become very normal.
I'll disagree Ryan. It isn't just that Daenerys dealt with suffering or overcoming odds, it is that she actively is concerned about the plight of people other than herself and has shown a willingness to put her goals and even herself at risk in order to assist others.
Hi SerbAtheist. I think you miss the context of that comment. It wasn't blind obedience Daenerys was requiring but the end of slavery-something that had existed in that society for a long time so ending it was a major change. But that change is far from blind obedience and while the the fantasy or medieval setting lends itself to bloodline based military dictatorships and thus the idea people had to have blind obedience Daenerys is actually a positive change from that due to her recognition people have individual rights as displayed in Meereen.
I wonder how much of the effort to defend season 8 stems from a devotion to thinking the writers are always right even when the story they create lacks logic and is contradicted by the storyworld as already created and is sometimes contradicted by the various comments of those specific writers.
Blind devotion to writers could explain some of the embrace of season 8 by those who do it despite its apparent flaws-both those flaws that are damaging to many characters and those that stick out as wrong for the setting (such as soldiers yelling "fire" to launch scorpion bolts rather than saying "loose".)
Ryan, SebAtheist has probably heard me point this out but there is evidence that the nonsensical burning of King's Landing was a change made by D and D after season 8 was starting to be made. There is evidence indicates the earlier plan for King's Landing was that it would burn but due to wildfire. Computer effects people were told the plan then later told to change the scenes to "not wildfire". Link: th-cam.com/video/3qACpk4xWJg/w-d-xo.html
This is just 1 bit of evidence wildfire was the earlier intended way King's Landing would burn, there are other bits but I think this is important because it shows someone was directly told to change their part of making season 8.
Now if D and D are changing around decisions as large as why one of the most important cities in the series burns then there is a good argument they left GRRM a long time ago and this wasn't part of his plan nor theirs. Did D and D even have much of a plan if they were changing things around as important as this? And yes it can be proven that D and D have changed things from GRRM's story look at the differences between book and show Tyrion and Eurion. In the books Tyrion is arguably headed towards villainhood to at least some degree after he murderred Shae without remorse (not defended himself against and had remorse still as in the show but murdered after she simply talked to him and said the reason she testified against him was out of fear of one of his family members). Here are some links on that.
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th-cam.com/video/7INXNKbIXi0/w-d-xo.html
GRRM may not be perfect himself (he is human thus not likely to be), but please don't put the faults of D and D on him nor miss the possibility that they were simply ridiculous changes D and D made themselves. Saying season 8 was somehow GRRM's plan does that when we, as viewers, don't know what GRRM is planning and may not without the remaining books.
@@pplr1 I wasn't criticizing Martin just saying it was bad timing socially. To paraphrase the Hound screw the writers. I have no loyalty to them. The story of Damy being an entitled tyrant goes back seasons. Let me in or I'll come back and burn it down with Quarth. Sell a dragon to get Unsullied then murder the man she sold him to and take tge dragon back. Accept gold to leave a city alone and still take the city. Live in my new world or die in their only with slavers. Bend the knee or burn with the Tarlys. Live in her new world and no one else gets a say in the final conversation with Jon. She was never an honest actor and always an entitled tyrant.
@@ryanphillips4218 Thanks for the reply. That scene outside of Qarth was arguably an invention of D and D. If you check the books Daenerys was actually welcomed into the city and people there were happy to see her. The visions in the House of the UnDying were also very different. Though the magic users there still wanted to trap Daenerys to use her and her dragons to fuel their magic.
Now what Daenerys did to the slavers that were selling UnSullied was very deceitful. Yet it also helped make Essos a better place through ending slavery and also putting a stop to the process of making UnSullied which involved not only enslaving people but having every UnSullied kill a baby as part of their training. So the slavers built a business on mass suffering and death, deceiving them is very easy to argue a lesser evil or greater good type event.
Daenerys didn't accept the gold to leave the city alone. She kept the sample they brought which was bit greedy or petty of her but she turned most of it down and the boats that would come with it. The gold we saw her keep was only a small amount of the total the slavers offered her. What they offered her was essentially a bribe to give up fighting against slavery-she was making fighting slavery the basis of her campaign at the time. If you rewatch the scene you may notice that the demand she gives them in order for there to be peace is for them to free all their slaves and give those slaves some belongings or property (not her). Thus she actually did say she was willing to not attack their city but only if they stopped practicing slavery and gave the slaves something.
Now the bend the knee or die is something that actually was like what a dictator would say. The problem is we are in Westeros at the time where bloodline based dictatorships are the social norm. So what she said was actually within social norms for Westeros. Especially if you remember that the people she was talking to were part of the military force that had just attacked an ally of hers and kept no prisoners alive when they did so-even Lady Olenna was executed. Now Lady Olenna was given a nicer execution because Jamie was involved but it was still an execution she had no way out of and if Jamie wasn't there Lady Olenna probably would've been tortured before she was killed (as Cersei had wanted). So Daenerys was still offering Randyll Tarly more mercy than he and the army under his command offered others. It was Randyll Tarly who turned down not just 1 but 2 chances to live, chances Lady Olenna was never given.
Perhaps Randyll was given harsher treatment due to attacking one of Daenerys's allies as Jon was never harmed despite refusing to bend the knee for much of season 7.
Live in her new world or die in their old one was a reference to telling slavers they weren't allowed to start practicing slavery again. Not exactly a bad thing, nor a sign someone is actually a tyrant as slavery itself is a tyrannical practice denying people their own liberty.
The season 8 comment to Jon is arguably just part of season 8's effort to character assassinate and not something that Daenerys would say. Daenerys frequently made it so other people could choose. Not only did she end slavery but in Meereen she officially recognized that people could pick their own careers even if those career choices made her uncomfortable. This is recognizing a level of individual rights. To top that off she transitioned Meereen to a democracy in season six-specifically saying the "people" would pick their rulers there. Now this is probably closer to a constitutional monarchy where the Mayor would be elected and they may have a parliament while the royal family still exists but it is a lot more freedom than people there or in Westeros were typically given. Thus the opposite of tyrannical.
Now Daenerys can be dishonest like with the slavers. Yet she is also willing to be very honest. Her campaign against slavery was an honest one. When she promised Jon she would help fight the undead she honored that promise. Compared to some of the other people in Westeros Daenerys was actually acting pretty trustworthy. Considering that all the characters of Arya and Sansafinger actually saw in season 8 was Dany honoring her promise they don't have good reason to distrust Dany in season 8. That Sansafinger (I use that word for her because it can be debated if this is the same character as Sansa from earlier seasons who could be dishonest herself but often against dishonest and cruel people like Joffery) become an oathbreaker in an attempt to undermine the Dany-Jon alliance actually speaks to Sansafinger's own untrustworthiness and (yes this is the right word for it despite the line D and D put in Arya's mouth) stupidity. I say stupidity because Sansa herself warned Jon near the beginning of season 7 that Cersei would try to kill them both. So a Sansa that gives this warning to Jon in season 7 should be happy to find Jon is on good terms with someone who can protect them from Cersei. Even worse if Sansafinger had been successful in breaking up the Dany and Jon alliance that could put Jon in a three way war where Jon has the smallest army and Cersei the largest-potentially giving Cersei a chance to win and signing off on Jon's and Sansafinger's own death warrants.
This gets even worse. Since Sansafinger had done this after Dany had helped the North fight the undead thus gained the respect of many Northerners Sansafinger herself is a stubborn holdout as many of the people of the North now appreciated Dany even if they liked Jon more. Plus Sansafinger would damage a favored position the North would have thanks to Jon if Dany did become Queen of the 7 kingdoms. The North could use being in a favored position since it sometimes had to deal with food shortages anyway and aid from other kingdoms would be useful. Now not only did Jon abdicate-making Dany the legit heir-but if Sansafinger was serious about pushing Jon's claim then she should've mentioned it during the council where they were picking who would be king (same issue goes for Bran). A Sansa who was once eager to marry Joffery cannot really claim to honestly be a longtime fan of independence for the North earlier.
What D and D did with Sansa or Sansafinger is have her be called smart while she was trying to commit one of the worst political and strategic blunders of season 8.
Anyway I went on for a bit about Sansafinger, but look back to each of the things you mentioned about Daenerys. Many of them can actually be used to make the case that Daenerys is a source of increased liberty in GoT rather than decreased. Or at least Daenerys is marginal improvement over many other rulers in GoT's bloodline dictatorship based society.
She was a conqueror all along, and thats not a compliment, she wanted power for power itself, and had this strong feeling of destiny and greatness. She always claim that she was a super important woman, and only she should rule westeros even nobody wanted her in westeros. She did good things that were most of all great gestures, why would someone who claim carry about people would take dothrakis to westeros, knowing their culture and behaviour? Why dothrakis should die so some girl can sit on a throne in other continent?
It's not sorprise so often people end up following tyrants as long they say they are acting in order "to free people" and for what is wright. No tyrant ever was very successfull by saying that they were egomaniac murderes people!
Are we really that stupid and easy to fool?
Yeah dude. Just look at the 20th century alone, with the most horrible dictators promising people their ideological utopia.
And we haven't exactly changed for the better.
Her fans outed themselves in the most pathetic way possible.
Yeah and in a parallel universe (here and now)ant Russians believe they are liberating Ukraine with Putin "freeing" the Ukranian ppl...meanwhile they aren't asking to be freed by anyone. He is the tyrant, yet there are those who believe he is a hero.
Well, I don't see anyone complaining about Aegon the Conqueror and his sister-wives, Rhaenys and Visenya. How do you think they conquered Westeros? giving flowers? No, they brought the six kingdoms of Westeros to their knees and brought them Fire and Blood. That's the Targaryen motto. They are conquerors, and that is what conquerors do.
@@MikeSW Nothing about that is a bad thing in the world she lives in!
Yep, because she was a victim of rape and a victim of abuse by her brother, she became power hungry and volatile because of not dealing with her trauma and choosing to take it out on other people who didn’t deserve it. Power became a high for her because in the past she didn’t have it.
This is spot on. The trick was always making us feel like the people she killed "deserved it", but you'll notice that as the series goes on, those justifications become weaker and weaker, and start being questioned and faulted more and more.
Season 1: Viserys and Miri Maz Dur... Viserys was terrible and threatened her and her child, Miri Maz Dur left Drogo catatonic and (maybe?) killed her baby?... but okay.
Season 2: the warlock definitely deserved it, he was holding her prisoner, murdered the thirteen with Zorro Duck Sauce... Zorro Duck Sauce betrayed her and was responsible for killing her Dothraki entourage, as was Doreah, so sure... lock em both up to die.
Season 3: Astapor slave master was a slave master and a dick, so sure, burn him and his ilk. We're definitely seeing a pattern form by this point, where murderous vengeance via capital punishment for any perceived crimes is a pretty wanton habit, but y'know... what "hero" doesn't have their "edgy" side? And look, the brown people are praising the pretty white saviour! Isn't that great? (Actually, many people criticized this as being a negative, racist image... hmm... could that have been the intentional point, that Daenerys is becoming a fucking colonialist? Gee, I wonder if her trying to take over cities and impose her preferred way of life on cultures she doesn't understand or even really have enough interest in other than to prove she can conquer and rule... will lead to any unintended negative consequences... that brings us to...)
Season 4: Crucifies 143 slave masters, because they crucified 143 slave children. Except, as we learn later, not all of them were party to that. This is the halfway point of the series, and it's the point at which we're first blatantly told: DAENERYS' ACTIONS ARE NOT ALWAYS JUSTIFIED! RED FLAG ALERT! RED FLAG ALERT! SHE CRUCIFIED A MAN WHO WAS INNOCENT OF THE CRIME HE WAS CRUCIFIED FOR BECAUSE SHE ACTED TOO IMPULSIVELY AND VENGEFULLY. Hizdahr spells this out for us. The season ends with her locking up the dragons that didn't kill a child because Drogon did kill a child. It's not like her sense of "justice" was ever very sensible. I mean, at the end of the day, dragons existing is just a dangerous thing. They're like the nuclear weapons of the story. It'd be better if they just didn't exist. But hey, Dany needs them to conquer with, so...
Season 5: Won't let the people she's ruling commit capital punishment, so in order to discourage them from committing capital punishment, she punishes the guy who commits capital punishment, by... committing capital punishment on him. When this results in a riot, she just flees to the security of her massive pyramid that she sits at the top of... not like sitting atop a pyramid is a symbol of tyranny or anything. And when the people revolt against her, we're meant to see them as bad for being violent. Only Dany is allowed to be violent because she has good reasons for it. It's not like someone taking over your city and authoritatively imposing an entire change of culture would ever be considered a valid reason to commit violence. Only wanting the Iron Throne is!
Gee it sure would be nice if the show would have spelled out these concepts of "So your reasons are valid and theirs aren't?" in a conversation between Daenerys, Hizdahr and Tyrion right in the middle of the climax of the season.
Season 6: Burns an entire hut full of Dothraki so she can gain power. Threatens to burn Astapor and Yunkai to the ground and Tyrion has to talk her out of it. Breaks up with Dario and "felt nothing". Sails towards Westeros like the Spanish Armada against England. We should have known she was doomed.
Season 7: Denies the North's freedom, after claiming she'd be open to it when she said the Iron Islands could be free. But she didn't need the Iron Islands. The North is too big a kingdom to lose, and her ego simply won't allow it. She's comes off unhinged as she walks towards Jon with crazy eyes, going off on a very narcissistic egomanical rant, and declares she was "born to rule the Seven Kingdoms"... the brainwashing of what Viserys did to her shines through. She sounds just like him. She's every bit as hellbent as he was, to the point that she's not recognizing how much she's stepping on the toes of those around her who would otherwise be her allies, and pissing people off.
She burns the Tarlys just for refusing to kneel. There's no moral justification here. She's JUST relying the traditions of Westeros at this point and not behaving differently than any other tyrannical ruler. Just straight up executing people for nothing more than refusing to kneel. Anybody who's still defending her at this point is HUGELY missing the point of this entire story.
Season 8: Continues to refuse the North's freedom, which is the big no-no with Sansa that I feel like people just completely miss and seem to have no idea why Sansa and Arya hate Daenerys so much. IT'S BECAUSE SHE TOOK AWAY THE NORTH'S SOVERIENGTY! Jon kneeling to her was not just a relationship development between them. It wasn't just a scandal or some shit. It was the end of the North's freedom that they had JUST won back from the Bolton's. Sansa explains this to Daenerys: "What about the North? It was stolen from us, and we took it back... and swore that we'd never bow to anyone else again. What about the North?" ... and Daenerys just straight up rejects her. This was the irreparable rift between Daenerys and the North. Yet everybody seems to think the opposition to Daenerys in Last of the Starks just comes out of nowhere, and they should be appreciative because she helped save them from the WWs... like come on, that was in her interest too. It's not like she just did them a favor or something. The favour she could have done them... was giving them their freedom.
And then the rest should be self-explanatory. Once Jorah is dead, Daenerys is lost. That was always gonna be the case. He was her Jiminy Cricket. Without him, she had no conscience. Tyrion tried, but she stopped trusting him because of his conflicts of interest, which is what was holding him back the whole time (he didn't just "get stupid" like people seem to think. He was conflicted the entire time). Missandei could council her as well, but then she dies too, and dies telling her to use dragon fire. I don't know how anyone can think it came out of nowhere.
I wish I could like this 1000%. Yes, she cracked in Season 8, but it also makes complete sense why she did. She lost one of her "children" in her dragons. She lost Jorah. She lost Missandei. And she knew she was about to lose John to his family. So she was already veering toward villain and then she lost everyone else she cared for in S8. So, ya, she snapped. I also think it's very GRR Martin to take someone you'd been built up to love and rip her down to size so I hope he doesn't change that part in the book.
Let’s NOT act like seasons 5-8 are written well tho 😂😅 Yes George said she will eventually turn evil however the WAY she turned evil in the show as just awful
You are doing an incredible job of covering for D and D’s terrible writing lol. When she kills the 143 nobles and learns not all we’re guilty, she expresses remorse for her mistake, not very mad queen of her. When she commits capital punishment on the guy who committed capital punishment, yeah sure you could argue it’s hypocritical, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to say honorable characters like Jon would’ve done the same, he literally clapped Janos slynt for disobeying orders lmao. Also Danny talks about how she imagines the throne room in the pyramid of mereen was built to intimidate the common men and demonstrates by walking down the steps that she has no intent of using it like that. For that reason gonna have to hard disagree on the pyramid being a metaphor for tyranny, I just saw it as a strategic move to hole up in there during the riots. As for the Dothraki in S6, I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. She was going to be sentenced to live out her days with the other khaleesis in some shithole hut, a display of force was her only way out of that. They couldn’t fight the whole khalasar so it had to be something she did. You see it as tyrannical I see it as self preserving/serving. Her refusal to acknowledge the north’s independence is the only one of the instances you listed that I can accept as evidence of her madness
@@kennyjohnson8055 the writing took a nosedive after season 4, the book material is what we care about now
@@Jermrants I’ve just ordered the first book after my 4th rewatch of the show and I couldn’t be more excited. I’ve been wanting a deeper dive into the characters and Idk why it’s taken me this long to do it. How do you like HOT D so far?
People always fall on the messianic figure philosophy.
Just the weak and stupid ones.
Freeing slaves and making people, who never knew anything else than slavery believe, they have been freed, is not the same. Because how would they ever know? And there's that underrated moment, when she realizes it: At the party after the long night, where she actually gets to see free people (the free folk) for the first time. And she, who had the talent to quickly adapt (to the brutal oppressors and enslavers that the Dothraki were as well as to the customs of the slave masters of Slaver's Bay) just can't handle it. Eating a horse's heart? No problem. But getting drunk with her brothers in arms? No way. She preaches freedom but burns those, who refuse to bend the knee. And now she's confronted with those, who'd rather burn than kneel. And she feels the need to protect the lie, she tells herself, from crumbling.
This is great info!
I think you're right. That being said, with the Dothraki, she soon became Khaleesi. She had a title of her own. She took part to events of which she was the center of attention. With the Northerners, she was in a society made for men, lead by men. Jon Snow was "The King in the North", no title for her. She, who was the Breaker of chains and this and that, in the North she got stripped of all that authority and became nothing more than the pretty woman with Jon Snow. No one cared who she was, nor everything she accomplished. She lost two of her dragons to their cause, no word about that either when everyone got drunk with the brothers in arms. Once the help was done, to them, she was just an outsider they were glad to forget. You're a great leader, great conqueror, but then you become just the wife of Jo Blo, who is the only one who is celebrated? He's the only hero of the evening? Of course, no way.
And how free are they really when they have no food, no money and nowhere to go. How much choice did they realistically have. At the point where she "freed" the Unsullied there was still slavery going on in all the other slave cities, so what would have stopped other slavers from capturing them if they had come upon some Unsullied on their own. Their strength was in numbers.
When she burnt Sam's dad and brother alive, I have no idea how people thought that was a boss move. It was supposed to show the stupid audience that burning people alive because they won't bend the knee isn't the way to go
And maybe I’m dense but I think her actions where no worse than other leader in the show besides Jon snow. Everybody was killing everybody . Though this is a fictional world, but throughout history rulers and conquers aren’t so kind to the the people they ruled and conquered so me personally didn’t see her as villain.
Yeah i always wondered about the unsullied...it seemed like a heroic moment when she "freed" them but in reality they just transferred masters.
It seemed like a "heroic" moment because it was one. They got the ability to walk away if they wanted to. If they tried while under an actual slave master they would've been tortured and killed. Not so with Daenerys. This is further born out by when Daenerys goes around freeing other slaves for the sake of ending slavery and helping those slaves themselves..
Thank you another person said it, they where never free just became slaves again and this time they chose it.
@@naleybaby Not even close. They picked their commanders from amongst themselves. They had the option to leave if they wanted. And Daenerys did what she could to increase the respect they had for themselves such as telling them to pick whatever name they wanted since they had been given names to make themselves feel like dirt.
@@pplr1 oh, hello a sad person answering everybody. Nobody agrees with you. The show is finished. Daeneris was always crazy. You lost, deal with it and go home now
@@YanaPetruk Actually a lot of people agree with me. From a number of the people who signed a petition to redo season 8 to just people that are rightfully critical of season 8. 1 of the GoT writers themselves said Daenerys was not "insane" in season six. So not only are you "sad" (to borrow your word for it) enough to reply to me about something a few years over but you still managed to be wrong when you did it. Speaking about being wrong. I someone doesn't want someone else to not point how and why someone else is wrong about something they wrote in a comment then they shouldn't put out comments that are wrong about something. Thought it may also help if that person didn't fall for a video that is wrong about many things in the 1st place.
The series has no heroes every plot relevant characters is a asshole in some way. The show only has villains and no heroes so pointing out Dany miss deed and ignoring every else’s is very strange. Especially regarding Arya who by the end is the most sadistic character apart from Ramsey yet end with no consequences. No one has any noble intentions in the series apart from fight zombies and only Jon really cared about that problem to begin with.
Arya do be crazy huh? Baking people into pies to feed to their father is one of the most disturbing things done on the show when you think about it. And it takes so much time and work just for the disturbing and cruel nature of it. And she just gets to walk away scott free, no consequences for a single one of her actions. Crazy man. I'd say brienne, Sam and gilly, podrick, davos, and jon are all pretty pure good guys though. Maybe gendry too but he's more neutral.
Brienne, Sam, Gilly, Davos, Ned, and Measter Aemon were all pretty good people
@@roll14tiderollapart from Ned no one had power out all them
Fangirling focused on her was such that people were just cheering for her no matter what and were blind to her doing atrocities and threatening such.
I know this is old. But I wish I can across this year's ago. Finally, someone sees what I see. The whole time, I kept saying, she does not feel for the slaves. She simply hates the masters. And has a goal, a selfish goal, in mind. She even says,"fear it is then", when everyone loves Jon, but not her. There is hints all the way. Just have to hear what she says, and what she is taught, by her advisors
She does not feel for the slaves? She postponed her invasion of Westeros and stayed in Essos to govern just to make sure the slaves stayed free, was willing to follow Meereenese costumes for peace sake even if it meant giving up power, then also locked up her dragons the moment they killed one innocent child.
They tricked us by pinning her against bad people. The last season showed her evil character, she didn’t know how to turn it off and show mercy anymore.
Whats more disturbing is the people who still don't see it when when pointe out to them.
Bariston Selmy tried to tell her too: you keep winning and more and more you're gonna think you're always in the right.
I wasn't mad that she turned evil..I just felt like, we needed two more seasons for it to play out..a gradual transition lol..
Same. When you think about it, she had lots of indicators that her morality was all virtue signaling, but it was done so hastily.
her morals and jugement started tipping back in mereen, but i agree. there should have been 10 episodes for EVERY episode. i hated how they shortened the final seasons🥲
@@kesslerstarr7036there’s 8 seasons of her being talked out of her true ambitions by Jorah,Sir Barristan, and Tyrion. By season 7 and 8 they were all gone and lady Olenna told her to stop fucking around and burn them.
you're just mad that you hadn't notice it sooner and was rooting for her
Eh, I’m fine with the build up. I just wasn’t a fan of what tipped her over the line given she had towed the tyrannical line for so long.
I don't think she manipulated others willingly. I think she was an entitled narcissist who believed herself to be noble and magnanimous, and therefore she wanted to be loved and worshipped. But when she got to westeros she realized that she wouldn't be loved and worshipped so she literally said "if it isn't love, let it be fear". In The Bells she realized that she was fooling even herself and went "F it! Y'all bitches gonna fall in line"
And the fact that 3 years later TONS of people still do not believe that she would be capable of doing what she actyally did just proves how much of a genius GRRM is - just look at the real world political landscape right now and GoT basically turns into a documentary. I think in a few years people are going to look back and give this ending the credit it deserves (even though there were a lot of issues with the writing)
Absolutely spot on. I caught it several seasons ago. The point about the Mad Kings reasoning for wanting to burn KL wasnt emphasized on the show. That was a mistake in retrospect. It wouldve brought things together nicely.
And, to anyone that doesnt believe that this is where it was going the entire time. George Martin was quoted some years ago on the subject of complex villains that "The villian is just the hero of the other side." Daenerys is, literally, and figuratively, the other side of this story.
It wasnt mishandled, imo. It's called inattentional blindness.
Why would Dany even try to gain favor from her husband by learning how to make him "happy"? Whoever gave that idea? Why would she talk to Jorah about things that Viserys should be the busy knowing? Those are the first red flags for me... but she's still my favorite character though cause she's like an optical illusion. Though I still think Bran is the real villain.
Sometimes the greatest evil comes in the most beautiful of packages. -Marian Erway
This comment got a bit long but you may find some value in it. There is evidence for "evil Bran theory" in season 8. The writers may be so inept they didn't realize they were putting it in but there are indications that Bran manipulated events to cause the burning of King's Landing as a method of getting both Jon and Dany out of his way. Bran is the 1 who pushed Sam to tell Jon of his linage just when Sam was in an anti-Dany mood.
Bran also kept quiet about Cersei and Euron's planned naval ambush near Dragonstone when it is clear that Bran's magic powers should have made that something easy for him to know about-after all Bran tracked 1 guy on a horse (Jamie) coming North from King's Landing so a fleet should be easy for him to watch. Did Bran want both another dragon and Missandei to die in front of Dany?
Bran's conversation with Jamie may have been intended to make Bran look better by showing that Bran didn't want Jamie to die. But it clearly showed that Bran knew he could manipulate the situation by purposefully withholding information from others-thus making the lack of warning about Euron's ambush all the more questionable.
Also Bran may have not been trying to save Jamie's life but just have him die at the most useful time. If Jamie dies in Winterfell for trying to kill a Stark (pushing a Stark child-Bran-out of a window) then Tyrion really cannot blame Dany for it. And that doesn't help Bran. If Bran wanted to manipulate things then he wants Tyrion to blame Dany for Jamie's death which means Jamie would have to live long enough to rejoin Cersei and die with for that purpose to be served. If he wanted to save Jamie he could've backed up Brienne.
By even saying "Why do you think I came all this way?" Bran evil admitted to Tyrion that he came to the ruins of King's Landing planning to be King.
Like I said, the writers were so inept they may never have realized they were putting evidence in season 8 that makes Bran look guilty. But those details are in season 8.
About Daenerys.. She was pretty and the people trying to defend season 8 often try to use that as an excuse for others supposedly not noticing her faults but this claim is actually false. Daenerys repeatedly tried to help other people-that is one of the things people noticed about her. Her character wasn't pure but she often tried to leave other people in a better position than they were before-thus freeing all those slaves.
Daenerys may have been very dishonest with the slavemasters that were selling UnSullied in Astapor but by doing what she did she put a stop to the mass murder of thousands of babies that had become routine there. She also stopped slavery which saved who knows how many from not just forced work but torture and death-remember the tortured slave she tried to give water to when he had been hung in the sun to die there.
Daenerys wasn't just pretty, she actually left Essos a better place than it was before she came along.
Also I'll point out the plans earlier plans season 8 itself had wildfire destroying King's Landing so that wasn't part of some long plan the writers for the show had but a last minute change likely done for the sake of shock value and character assassination.
No joke, there are multiple pieces of evidence that indicate the plans for season 8 were to have wildfire destroy the city. If you want I can dig up a link but one of the computer effects people even flat out said a scene from King's Landing with buildings burning was originally supposed to be "a wildfire shot" but they were told to change it to "not a wildfire shot". This means people were directly admitted a change was made.
Finally!! People that know bran was evil!!!
Yeah I’m also of the Evil Bran Ilk.
At least the way the shoe did it- seemed he could have been warning people before stuff happened but didn’t AND it seemed he could have warged dragons but never did. He could have done a lot more - but didn’t - because it was all going to work for him to be in power. He even says “why do you think I came all this way?”
I mean instead of the John Snow spin off why don’t we see his character evolution?
Dany is a narcissist, has been from season two. She has no long term strategy for any city she has conquered. Her only goal had been reaching Westeros to claim a throne that was stolen from her crazy ancestors. And people will say we crucify her because she's a women. The difference between her and other characters is that they can admit that they are power-hungry and/or just plain evil, eg. Ramsay and Cersei. They don't act self-righteous.
I only saw season 1 and I thought she was the most crazy and evil person.
I am surprised that people are surprised :D
This is why Cersei is my favorite. I love Dany as well as I can accept the fact thT she isn't perfect and she had a dark side.
I'm telling you being a Cersei fan makes you upfront and brutally honest about any character you love.
#CerseiDidNothingWrong
Its funny that you say that people wanted the story to develop more. George R.R Martin wanted 13 seasons and was very upset. The show runners admitted they rushed it so they could go work on starwars. Starwars saw the work on got and decided it would not be a good idea. Emillia clarke hated it. Kit said it was disappointing ON LIVE TELEVISION.
Correct. They couldn't cut the story that much without making major changes so this isn't even GRRM story at ths point.
It doesn’t matter what the actors think, they’re biased to their characters and don’t fully understand the story. This isn’t a tropical fantasy story with a happy ending.
Jordan samuel. The ending can be tragic. But it shouldn't be littered with plot holes, out of character actions, and logic failures by the writers to get it there. Saying people are unhappy just because there wasn't a happy ending misrepresents the problem-and diverts criticism from where it belongs.
@@pplr1 That’s a different argument altogether regarding plot holes because the writing was indeed rushed and not of the highest quality. I’m not saying people are upset because there wasn’t a happy ending I’d rather say it’s because they completely misunderstood many of the characters and Daenerys is a massive example of this being true, as is Jaime.
What In your view are the out of character actions though?
@@ItsSVO "What In your view are the out of character actions though?" Thank you for asking and I'll add that is a good question because-if we were debating or not-it actually focuses on asking what points did someone else notice and then thinking over if there is something to those points. I'll run through some of the characters (some may surprise you and some not) and number them (not saying most in or out of character with each character but simply keeping things organized).
1. Daenerys, season 8 Dany is not Daenerys flat out. Daenerys can be irritating or entitled but she means it when she said she doesn't want innocents to die. Also she has shown she is very willing to punish those she sees as guilty.
So season 8's burning of King's Landing is character breaking in not just 1 but 2 ways. 1st random people on the street (innocents) are targeted. 2nd Cersei (who is guilty of many things) is ignored rather than punished-did you notice how long it took Drogon to even reach the Red Keep-and then once he is finally there he flies away while most of it is still standing. That is ignoring (not punishing) Cersei (who is guilty).
2. Varys "kinda forgot" how to be sneaky. Varys has been a spymaster for years yet lets himself get caught in season 8. This is not the Varys who had an escape plan for both himself and Tyrion to get out of King's Landing when he was betraying the people in charge there at the time. Varys repeatedly limits risks to himself in the early seasons of GoT and-to those he is willing to be honest with-makes no bones about it and he is often cautious and only makes a move (if he does) when he thinks it is the correct time to and he is unlikely to be harmed. This Varys would not decide to send notes all over Westeros proclaiming Jon is king without even bothering to get Jon to agree to it. This is also not the same Varys who would try to poison Dany when the likely result of a successful attempt would be that Cersei continues to rule and Jon becomes a hunted man (Cersei would kill Jon).
3. Cersei she is cruel and scheming as a person, yet has no grand plan to defeat Daenerys other than sit in the Red Keep and hope her army wins for her?
4. Tyrion, he started GoT as a smart person and-as well as reading many books-could figure things out. Even in season 7 when his military planning didn't work out he was still able to talk with both Daenerys and Jon and get them work something out on the dragonglass (which Daenerys ends up giving to Jon for free). If he was in season 8 and heard there was a linage issue he would've talked to both Jon and Dany directly (not just Varys and then do nothing) to see if he could work things out.
5. Jon he may not have been brilliant but Jon was a man of both principles and action. If a bunch of Lannister soldiers surrendered to him them he would likely accept their surrender right then and there. If season 8 Dany had told him surrender was not to be accepted then he wouldn't have stopped fighting them in the 1st place long enough for them to decide-as a group-to drop their swords.
6. Sansa or Sansafinger (I am using 2 different but similar names to refer to possibly different but similar looking characters). There are people who question Sansa's honesty or loyalty to Jon from earlier seasons since she never told him about the Knights of the Vale when she knew he wanted more men before the Battle of the Bastards. But Sansa was not suicidally stupid like Sansafinger is in season 8. Season 8 Sansafinger decides to start bad blood with season 8 Dany when season 8 Dany is a vital ally in currently trying to save Sansafinger's homeland from frozen undead. Even worse Dany and her army is the only thing keeping Cersei too busy to kill off Jon and her (Sansafinger).
Sansa told Jon that Cersei was a mortal danger to both of them near the start of season 7. Jon wants to get allies to help against the undead. Sansa is worried about Cersei. A successful alliance between Jon and Dany helps deal with both problems.
But Sansafinger becomes an oathbreaker (was Ned Stark not her father??) to Jon (of all people) in order to spread word of his linage when he doesn't want her to and not long after hearing that Cersei has reinforced her army so it is as large as Jon's and Dany's armies combined. If the alliance between Jon and Dany breaks down then Cersei has the largest army in Westeros.
So by trying to break up the Jon-Dany alliance Sansafinger is both really stupid and trying to get herself and Jon killed (likely by Cersei). And Sansafinger cannot even claim it is because she found something out about Dany since Sansafinger never bothered trying before starting bad relations with her. Additionally Northerners had grown in their respect and acceptance of Season 8 Dany after the battle with the Night King so Sansafinger isn't really representing them either. Sansafinger is just being a stubborn holdout-and a suicidally stupid one at that.
7. The Dothraki, Daenerys is their current leader and the 1 pushing them towards reform-thus no more raping or slavery for them. Their warriors were made bloodriders to her which grants them more status but if someone actually does kill Daenerys it obligates them to hunt down that person and kill them. (This custom may help make Dothraki leaders be more assassination resistant since even a successful assassination won't help the person behind it for long when it comes to lifespan.)
This means if something happened to season 8 Dany the Dothraki would either kill Jon or go on a raping and pillaging spree since their main reformer is no longer there to continue to encourage them stay reformed rather than go back to their old ways. Maybe both would happen.
8. Grey Worm and the other UnSullied they follow Daenerys because they like and approve of her. If someone tries to harm her they would step in. If someone was successful they would probably avenge her. And they wouldn't care about a bunch of Northerners who are fewer in number than they are anyway.
Plus if Missandei told Grey Worm about the bad mouthing Sansafinger was doing of season 8 Dany and that Sansafinger considered loyalty to both her and Dany to be divided loyalties that were too distant to be reconciled in the crypts while Dany and the UnSullied were out risking their lives to help fight undead that may motivate Grey Worm to think there was a plot against Dany in the North and he may march the the UnSullied right back to The North to topple Sansafinger after having killed Jon.
9. Arya, she has wanted to kill Cersei for a long time now. If she went south to do so and left before an army that took time to get organized then she wouldn't be too slow to get to King's Landing until after that army did when she left 1st. Also she probably would not decide to give up getting revenge just before she reaches Cersei after she has already killed a bunch of other people already while getting revenge.
I'm sure there are probably more that I could talk about but this has gotten to be a long comment already and I've given you a number of things to consider with just it as it is. If you respond and agree or disagree please keep the numbering for the sake of better organization.
I know what the writers were going for. But she does not go from average narcissism to killing a whole giant city in 2 episodes, that doesnt make sense.
Correct. Even worse for the claims made in this video is that the earlier plan for season 8 itself was for wildfire to be what destroyed King's Landing and season 8's writer changed things. Yes, commentary from computer effects people is evidence that a change was made and an earlier plan for season 8 was for most of King's Landing to burn due to wildfire, they were told the plan then later told to change the scenes to "not wildfire". Link: th-cam.com/video/3qACpk4xWJg/w-d-xo.html
This is just 1 bit of evidence wildfire was the earlier intended way King's Landing would burn, there are other bits but I think this is important because it shows someone was directly told to change their part of making season 8.
This means there was no grand plan to have Dany go bad and the writer likely made that change for both shock value and in an failing attempt to cover plot holes-an attempt that created more plot holes.
Except she didnt. She didnt have a problem with mass murder before at all. The difference is just that when she killed all slave owners without any trial or chance for redemption, they viewers were led to believe that they all deserved it, and therefore didnt mind. When she burned the city she too believed that they deserved it for supporting Cersei. This time we just didnt agree with her moral reasoning, as the people of King's landing and their conflicts with the rulers were explored much more in depth, so we know that they arent all guilty.
She did it before, just at a smaller scale, with a little more of her sanity left. And she already threatend to burn down entrire cities back in season 5 or so.
Polynomdivision That actually isn't true. "She didnt have a problem with mass murder before at all." Daenerys herself specifically said she would get her crown back but not by the blood of innocents. And she repeatedly tried to live up to that saying. Other things you said aren't true or misrepresent the context as well. I'll go through some of them below.
"killed all slave owners without any trial or chance for redemption"
Where? In Astapor right after she got the UnSullied she did. But that was both in a win or die situation and after she had seen that the slave masters there had made killing thousands of babies something that is routine. A harsh way to put an end to an atrocity but it was an on going atrocity that she ended.
In Meereen you were just flat out wrong. When she took the city in the show most of the former slave owners lived. She had many of them executed but in exactly the same number to the number of slave children they had killed in similar fashion. Thus she was trying to avenge an atrocity. Any former slave masters beyond that were lived and she was willing to treat as citizens of the city as shown that Hizdar had the same ability to make appeals to her that every other citizen of Meereen had.
When a former slaver city started going back to practicing slavery Jorah convinced her to give the slave masters there a 2nd chance to give up slavery and she did-indicating both that she did give them a chance and redemption and that "all" of them had not been killed.
Now in 1 of the many places the show breaks from the books in the books Daenerys involved other people in picking which slave masters in Meereen should be executed. They didn't do that in GoT. Additionally in the books Hizdar is a dishonest jerk trying to undermine Daenerys's efforts to end slavery and his mom is likely a leader of the Sons of the Harpy-that is another difference between show and books.
In the show as far as we know Hizdar is sincere when he said his father opposed the mass murder of slave children. That creates an issue Daenerys in the show has to face about group punishment and if she mistakenly mixed in some of the innocent with the guilty. She relented and allowed Hizdar and all the other families of the slave masters she had executed have their bodies back when she had planned on leaving them as the mass murdered slave children had been left hanging.
The 1st time someone in the show actually suggests a trial (this is Sir Barristan) she agrees. So the lack of trials is actually a bit wrongheaded put just on her since if Sir Barristan had spoken up earlier he may have ended up making sure only those slave masters who were part of mass murdering children were executed.
There really isn't much of a legal system in GoT and real trials don't happen for most people. The closest we came was the trial for Tyrion and that was put on by Tywin to create a public spectacle and show trial rather than a real trial since they had already manipulated the witnesses to put blame on Tyrion before the trial was held. Thus about the most honest trial someone in GoT may get is a 1 minute conversation with Ned Stark before he decides if he will cut his head off-and Ned Stark (seen as honorable in the show) did.
Also in none of those situations did Daenerys kill the slaves for the actions of the slave masters. Thus people should not expect random people on the streets of King's Landing to be killed for the actions of Cersei Lannister.
I'll try to be shorter with some of the other things you said but there was a lot wrong with that comment.
"When she burned the city she too believed that they deserved it for supporting Cersei."
No she didn't. Despite the nonsense that is season 8, season 8 Dany had already been told the people of King's Landing hated Cersei. Viewers of seasons 1-7 know that Cersei and the people of King's Landing have a dislike for each other.
Season 8 Dany even told Jon they were innocent in the only season 8 episode six discussion with Jon.
Now like I said before the earlier plan for season 8 was for wildfire to destroy the city. But when season 8 Dany takes off after the battle her plan may have been to attack only the Red Keep with Cersei in it. Don't forget Cersei was purposefully packing the Red Keep with civilians with the intention of using them as human shields. If that was part of the wildfire plan and the writers of season 8 had stuck with that plan season 8 Dany would still be sane. But when they made that change then that makes season 8 Dany insane with remarks that don't make sense.
"she already threatend to burn down entrire cities back in season 5"
Actually that was worse than a threat. It was part of a plan she told Tyrion as a pro-slavery fleet was trying to burn down Meereen (notice the bombardment of flaming objects). And he talked her out of that based on moral reasons alone-specifically with the points of knowing she didn't want to be her father and that innocent people will be hurt or killed if entire cities are burned down. That was 1 of the few times Tyrion actually did talk her down but he used her own morality to do it. Show Daenerys never mentioned burning down a city again afterwards.
She only didn’t commit mass murder before because she always had an advisor in her ear talking her down.. but on the dragon all alone where no one could reason with her her nature took over
@@pplr1 you’re taking a villains word for things. Hitler thought what he was doing was right and benevolent too, does it make him right? Absolutely not.
After watching the first 3 episodes of the House of Dragon it's hard to disagree - Daenerys is unaware of the true purpose of the throne, which is to protect people of the world from the Whitewalkers. she speaks about the birthright (which is a dangerous concept in itself, as much as the "blood" is), she is megalomaniac (even with her lover, Jon, she titles herself "queen"), doesnt flinch from violence a bit, from a certain point she stopped questioning her motives. even freeing the slaves was made without deep thought about the means of production in the social environment. her dragons seem to be wiser than her. overall: a traumatized person with dangerous toys.
I don't care what the shows say, I care what George RR Martin's final word in the books says, and that's it. And the means of production in Essos are not just slaves, the people of Essos have great economic power in other areas as well. How do you think her ancestors (Aegon, Visenya and Rhaenys) conquered the seven kingdoms of Westeros? Giving them flowers? No, they brought Fire and Blood. Aegon called himself The Conqueror, so is that megalomaniac of him too?
If only Viserys told his someone else about the dagger, he might have stop all this madness.
Well, the point of the bells and her turning mad - in my opinion - is simply that she realizes that she is for once not welcomed and celebrated as a deliverer, but that she actually is seen as the dangerous and evil conqueror or usurper (something that she thinks of Cersei). The people of Kings Landing are afraid and hiding / running from her, not like the Yunkaii slaves coming forth, calling her Mhysa. So she in turn decides "no, I am not the enemy, they are" - and this is something she has done very often, SHE decides who is good and who is bad and there is no changing her opinion (in the earlier seasons "her" villains were slavers, so it was easy for the audience to cheer her and neglect that fact. Generally, slavers ARE bad, but she never even considers the individual or anything, she just declares them as evil and burns them).
Additionally, I always thought it kinda funny how people called Viserys cruel and evil, while simultaneously cheering for Daenerys. True, we only get to see Viserys in his later "mad" days, though his story is more complicated than that (and yes, he IS cruel). But as soon as he was dead, Daenerys picks up everything he said and repeats it, bullshit birthright here (though Viserys' claim was better, since he was at least crowned as king by their mom after Aerys died) and hurrdurr I aM tHe DrAgOn narcissism there.
If you remember that scene Daenerys decided the slaves should be freed long before they started to cheer her. Her own guards didn't know what to expect. You may be well intentioned and trying to make up excuses for the writers or find logic for yourself where they didn't provide it. If she wanted to rule via fear then Cersei had to die terribly and in public (not that Dany wouldn't want that for simple revenge). Instead Cersei was ignored.
If Dany wanted crowds to cheer her then she would've waited for them to assemble to do so, she was not portrayed as doing that in season 8 but just opting to burn the city because.. a reason really wasn't given.
And the conversation with Jon in the episode after it in season 8 just made her appear out of touch with reality. Something that could be an actual reason except that is contradicted by earlier seasons showing that the actual Daenerys can suffer and stay sane.
Tyrion's speech to Jon was not only illogical but disgraceful if you realize where the writers stole from to write it. The illogical part is that Tyrion tried to claim punishing "evil men" for doing evil things results in targeting innocents who haven't. The claim is illogical.
But the poem they borrowed from when coming up with the pattern of speech was Niemoller's First They Came which was about Nazis oppressing and murdering groups of people. The narrator (and thus others) allowed the Nazis to do it because the groups of other people were different in some way-this could be political party, religion, or ethnic group. Point is they were always generally innocent but that they were different meant that their suffering was accepted by the narrator until the Nazis came for him too. So the writers arguably tried to put real world innocent victims of the Nazis on a similar moral level as fantasy rapists, slavers, and child killers. That is arguably a disgrace.
@@pplr1 This is sad. I hope you don't defend despots in real life just because they're pretty.
@@cortster12 I don't here nor in GoT. Do you? A lot of those who defend season 8 overlook that making Bran king creates a surveillance state. Specifically a bloodline dictatorship since democracy was laughed off and the only way someone gets to be one of the oligarchs that picks who the new dictator is whenever the king dies is to be part of the richest and most powerful families in Westeros-the people who laughed off Sam's idea to give everyone including commoners a vote.
One other thing. Those that like to criticize Daenerys often ignore or overlook that in Meereen she transitioned the place to a democracy back in season six. She specifically said the "people" would pick their "rulers". That sounds like it includes commoners and the former slaves she played a major part in freeing.
So it is a real good idea to ask if the defenders of season 8 defend despots. The answer seems to be yes.
Now I've already talked about illogical and out of character with relation to season 8 and Dany. But that those who try to defend season 8 resort to misrepresenting Dany and often try to overlook the dystopia season 8 creates is a warning about how little they pay attention and how little they recognize and value freedom.
@@pplr1 I, uh, don't disagree with any of this as I also disliked season 8. So yay?
@@cortster12 Then yay. Though you should probably be more careful about making comments similar to what you did earlier-it seemed to be implying I liked the Daenerys character just because she was pretty rather than that she tried to help others and actually created a democracy. But, beyond that, a simple yay works.
She didn’t “convince them “ that they are free…. She did free them. She specifically said that all those who wanted to leave could leave, and no one would stop them. They CHOSE to stay because she freed them. I would have done the same. If all you know is violence, wouldn’t you want to commit violence for the only person who has treated you as a human? They literally didn’t know how to do ANYTHING else. Her decent into madness definitely was more gradual than most people think, but she didn’t start evil. I’ll agree that her turn at the end shouldn’t have been as shocking to people if they were paying attention, but this is an L of a take.
they don't understand the concept of freedom. So no she didn't free them cause she knew they would not leave since they know nothing else
@@thekittenthatwantschicken8018 She did free them, they could have left and nothing would have been done about it.
no they couldn't they didn't understand the concept of freedom they would not know what to do with themselves@@voluntarism335
@@voluntarism335 you don’t understand
For those of you still not convinced she was always A villain, as I see comments that say she COULD have been. No. There was a HUGELY UNDERRATED SCENE, where Dany killed a possibly innocent man, burned him alive - after BARRISTON SELMY died by the sons of the harpy. Do yall remember that scene? It was when she was Queen of Mereen, after she took everything, and REALLY dishonorable in Barriston Selmys memory - because Barriston Selmy kept begging Dany to give people fair trials. So WHEN HER ADVISORS ARE ALIVE, SHE SHOWS MERCY, AND WHEN HER ADVISORS ARE DEAD DANY WANTS TO ALWAYS PRESS THE NUCLEAR BUTTON. When she was at the 13 in front of Qarth, Jorah tells her to please calm down and don't threaten to burn them. When Barriston Selmy dies from sons of the harpy SHE DOES burn an innocent man alive. We see the scene of Princess Shereen burned alive and NO ONE, absolutely NO ONE supports Stannis after words because it's so horrible burning people alive. When Jorah dies, there's only Tyrion left to check her worst impulses that REMEMBER 👉she's already given into that impulse burning that man in mereen just to intimidate people after Barristons death, remember that, she's already given in 👈 and now the last words of Missendei was "Dracarys," so the LAST ADVICE from one of her counselors Messendei before was to burn kings landing down - and no one has ever pushed her to burn the place down, they've all restrained her. So she gave into what she's already done before, and the guys in the video were correct how she's conquered so much she doesn't know how to turn it off and doesn't know what mercy is anymore. When SANSA asks about the North, Dany pulled her hand away from Sansa angry - which shows Dany isn't a leader, and always WANTS to go nuclear When things don't go her way. Even with the subtle talk with Sansa. The conversation didn't go her way so she wanted to destroy her on instinct. She was no leader, she was a villain that REALLY exploited people's feelings to satiate her own goal of the iron throne. Edit: and don't forget the witch who "healed/killed" Khal drogo. The way Dany burned this woman, was actually really brutal if you remember key elements of what happened FROM THE WITCHES PERSPECTIVE. Khal drogos army r*ped and murdered her village FOR DANYS THRONE 👉remember ser Jorah told Dany they were brutalizing that village FOR Dany to get back her father's throne- this was AFTER Drogo said he's going for the Iron Throne for Dany. 👈So REMEMBER that perspective too of the witch, Dany never freed her and after asking the witch all these favors, the witch was put in the position to HELP the only 2 people Khal Drogo and Dany who were directly responsible for these massacres. So from the witches perspective, she was a slave to the TWO people who were directly responsible for this sh*t, and when she retaliated against Dany.......AND THIS SENTENCE IS LITERAL 👉Dany burns her own slave alive, she literally DOES burn the witch as her Master for not doing as she pleased. AND REMEMBER, THE WITCH WARNED DANY that death would be cleaner. AND ONCE AGAIN, The witch told Dany only death can pay for life, and Dany after learning she won't die but someone else will 👉SAYS OK TO THAT. 👈 AND RIGHT AFTER THAT THE DRAGONS WERE BORN, and I totally agree with this video that her beauty and the dragons awe-struck the audience into forgetting WHAT SHE JUST DID BURNING HER OWN SLAVE AFTER SHE DID WHAT DANY TOLD HER TO. Dany was just upset she didn't listen to the witches warning, AND YALL FORGET THE WITCH DID WARN HER. Sir Jorah told Dany not to do this, and SHE DID IT ANYWAY. Dany ordered that stuff knowing the price, and burned her own slave anyway for being too tricky. She was always A villain, and one scene later everyone was star-struck by the dragons and her beauty and OVERLOOKED her actions. She was always A villain even season 1.
Was it ever written that she was not a villain. There was no trick, just as was said, they showed us the whole time. Daenerys was clearly a psychopath. Ya'll got played. They're all villains in Westeros.
Perfectly put. The point with her character was always, very clearly to me, that it doesn't matter what good she did because she did it with the end goal of getting the throne.
Her personal advancement and power was always her singular focus. Freeing slaves in hopes that they'll fight for you, bragging about how men are willing to die to help you achieve your aims, even believing that being born 'right' gives you a right to exercise you will over those of a 'lesser' status than you.
GRRM is anti war and anti inherited claims to power. His answer to who deserves the Iron throne was always that there shouldn't be an iron throne in the first place so Dany and Cersei being the most obsessed with it tells you everything about their characters.
Good deeds done for self serving purposes lose their value.
What's more important? Freeing slaves or claiming the iron throne?
What is worse? Slavery or not having the iron throne?
What was more important to Daenerys and what was worse to Daenerys? That's the answer there.
This is great info!!
Aside from freeing the unsullied, how does freeing slaves and staying in meereen help her with the throne? She never, not once, frees slaves with the intention of having them fight for her. We're in her POV in the books, we know her thoughts and motivations. While some of the freedmen become fighters for her, majority of the freed slaves are drags on resources. What would be beneficial is to kill or otherwise get rid of the slaves that can't fight if the only reason to free them is to have fuel for her army. Does she do that? No. When freed slaves come to meereen to seek her out and for help, dying of the pale mare disease quarantined outside the city, she goes out to them to help them, risking herself in the process. How does that help her get the throne? When one peasant child is supposedly killed by drogon (there are doubts in the book and in real life theories that this was even true) she locks up her dragons. How does that help her get the throne? Once she has the unsullied and she offered gold and ships and the means to go back to westeros, she turns it down because slaves would not be freed. How does that help her get the throne? How does stopping random lazereen women from being raped help her get the throne? It does the opposite since those women were supposed to be sold into slavery so they could buy ships to go to westeros.
I'm not against dany doing something terrible to win the throne and become a villian. But its diengenuous to say every good thing she did was only in service of getting the throne. She's the human heart in conflict with herself. She wants to good, she wants to help people, but she has the power and means to do it the brutal easy way and is constantly fighting the urge to do that because she wants to do good. She has good instincts and acts on that (slavery is wrong, killing children is wrong, etc.) Directly in contrast with her goal of taking the throne time and time again.
@@chandrawagner4061 she literally calls the unsullied fat slaves who can’t ride horses therefore they’re not worth buying as Jorah first suggests. She’s only interested in them once she devises a way to get them for free.
@@ItsSVO ya, that really doesn't have anything to do with my comment. I said "aside from the unsullied" implying yes, freeing unsullied or even buying them, the whole reason she was there, was because she could use them. My comment was about how other good things she does doesn't benefit her at all and even her mental process is just "I need to do this because it's right" not "doing this will get me the iron throne".
@@chandrawagner4061 of course her mental process is “I’m doing this because it’s right” I’m sure hitlers was the same, the reality is her actions are in most cases done to get her more power and ultimately with that power the iron throne regardless of how she personally justifies each one.
I don't think she was a villain the entire time, nor did she transform into a villain. She was doing what she thought necessary to gain control after having enough bullshit from other villains in the GOT story... which there were many.
A true hero wouldn't stoop to the level of the villain.
Exactly I still don't think she's a villian as well. Westeros is cruel she couldn't win her throne with kindness & sweet words. And unlike what the video said the throne was her blood right.
Thanks for making the video, you guys were totally on point with all the stuff pointed out throughout the show abt Dany’s turn! Still can’t believe many people were never clued in to her true nature
No. She had a complex look to herself. She could do great things and questionable/dastardly things, but they all had a cause and effect. She was not always having the Mad King’s genes in him. Will people with a brain get this straight in their heads. She does fucked up things, but only for reason. Missandei didn’t push her, it was D&D’s execution that was the main villain of the story.
Captain Marvel Wilson shut up. You’re wrong. You’ll always be wrong and nothing you can say will change that so just keep your mouth shut, child.
@@GreatOldOne9866 you know you are just being rude?
As a great fan of the novels, I can just say that the Deanerys in the books is much more complex than the show's. Most of the thing they are blaming for in this video just didn't happen, not yet at least, but that's why many people like me continued believing in her.
@@Alessandro-hw3bx I serve crueler forces than you could ever imagine. I am eternal.
I just finished rewatching seasons 1-7 and I’m struggling to re watch it because I see how terrible a person Daenerys is from the start. She’s always seems like an entitled slave master. I agree with you guys 100%
ACFAviator Then perhaps you weren't paying attention. The person you called a "bad egg" from the start is one of the few who actually both wants to and does actively help other people. Now not only does she put a stop to the mass murder of babies that has become routine in Astapor and free what is likely add up to over a million of slaves if not more but she goes on to do what she can to make sure they and commoners have better lives and more say. Specifically that "the people" in Meereen will pick their "rulers"-meaning she is giving them a level of political power they likely haven't had before.
Thus leaving something better than most of the peasants in Westeros get.
Also if you guys payed close attention to the video here on youtube and GoT seasons 1-7 you may notice how often the guys that made this video either were flat out wrong in what they described happening or misrepresented the situations Daenerys was in thus her decisions.
*Mass murderer
Finally! I see people that actually paid attention to her behavior since the beginning. When I see people complaining that the show ruined her character I think to my self ‘don’t you see the contradictions between what she preached and what she does’. The personality cult that she wanted and the ‘it’s all about me’ self centered behavior made me doubt her since the beginning. What would have been of her without her super power of not burning and her dragons …… nothing
CC Accept multiple parts of this video are flat out wrong or misrepresent what happened. Also what the actual character Daenerys preached about not wanting to hurt innocent people/civilians she repeatedly tried to live up to. Thus showing there was no a contradiction. She did it even if it made her weaker or put her at greater risk. An example is when she chained her dragons in order to try to prevent them from hurting any other civilians in Meereen. That is far from the only example.
Also when Daenerys said she intended to fight slavery she did it. So again there is not a contradiction.
No one wants to find out they were rooting for Hitler. Yet, people want to know how people can be duped into the worst behavior.
Villain or not, you have to give credit to the fact that she started out with absolutely nothing and climbs her way to the top. And as far as she knows for most of the show, she’s the last of her name. Given what I’ve seen on HOTD, her family has always relied on support to maintain the crown. Dany pops up and just takes over everything. That’s impressive.
Anybody with dragons can do the same... Not impressive
@@24framedavinci13 clearly that’s not true otherwise dragons wouldn’t have went missing for as long as they did and her family would have had greater numbers.
I always knew she was a villain!
Yup. It's pretty obvious to people who aren't enthralled by her.
that's why anime usually explain everything, because a lot of viewer can't think for themselve
Thinking for yourself involves looking at the facts and trying to figure out what they mean. This guy made up his own and ignored the facts as presented in earlier seasons when they didn't agree with claims he was pushing. Slavers were crucified directly as punishment for the crucifying of slave children-it wasn't over someone's ideology like the video maker claimed. The video maker here was just making stuff up to suit his argument.
@@pplr1 she just had 300 random slavers executed. Didn’t even try to conduct an investigation to see who was actually responsible for the crucifixion of the children. She also had some guy fed to her dragon and even admitted she didn’t know if he was innocent or not and she didn’t much care.
@@edienandy It was actually 100 some, the exact same number of slave children who were crucified. Show Daenerys made an assumption that all Meereen's slaver masters were in on that atrocity. That her assumption was wrong was dealt with in that season with Hizdar, book Daenerys tries to include other people from Meereen in deciding who among the slave masters should be executed in that way so she doesn't make the same mistake and we see a change from the books (1 of many).
In the story that is the show (not the books) she does it as collective punishment. But, like I said, that is because she assumed (wrongly) they were all in on that particular crime against humanity.
Trying to punish a crime against humanity-in this case the mass murder of children-isn't a sign someone is evil or insane. Oddly enough neither of the more experienced knights with her think of holding trials or an investigation in the show at that point.
The guy she fed to a dragon was from amongst the group of what could be thought of as the usual suspects whom she was trying to scare into not orchestrating attacks on her troops. She had been told by not just 1 but 2 of her advisors that this particular group of people were arranging the Sons of the Harpy attacks on her troops thus likely not "innocent". Did you notice there were zero, as in no, random people off the street in that group? That group was chosen for its likelihood to not be innocent according to what she was told.
@@pplr1 cool story
@@edienandy ASoIF is a cool story. Too bad the makers of GoT decided not to follow it.
Robert in season 1 told Ned she was a threat to Westeros. Ned dismissed it along with every other advice given to him.
Yeah, he wanted to kill a teenager. Something she never tried to do. But no one wants to say Robert is evil.
@@kevinstfort yeah as the audience we align morally with Ned initially. It’s only in hindsight that we see what kind of story is unfolding. I’ve never read the books, but the whole ice and fire theme works as the 2 threats making its way to Westeros.
@@CPKerney there's this thing called the Pact of Ice and Fire in the books. Essentially it's the Starks and Targaryens uniting and dealing with another threat. Something that Rhaegar was (allegedly) interested in.
Ned was always an "Honorable fool"
This video is so terribly reductive and lacking any kind of nuance. Whatever you think of Daenery's journey, the FACTS are that the last season plot twist was written terribly, hastily and with extremely lackluster foreshadowing.
I know I'm late to the game, but looking through the comment section, I feel like I still need to say it:
You do have some good points, but you also very much demonize her and leave out or twist details about how she responded to people, or how people responded to her.
Just one example:
Of the 13 in Qarth, she only directly had a hand in the fate of 2 of the 13, yet somehow you still portay it as if she is the one who murdered them all.
The first 11 were assassinated by Pyat Pree (the warlock) on the council, who was in league with Xaro Xhoan Daxos (the guy who let Daenerys into Qarth), so that the latter of the 2 could be crowned "King of Qarth".
In this plot they also kidnapped her dragons, and the second of last council member (Pree) was burned for kidnapping her dragons and trying to hold Daenerys prisoner.
The last council member "died" when she locked him in his own vault as punishment for his lies and betrayal.
Fair game, the death of the "king" and the 2 remaining council members may have doomed the city, but SHE did not do anything to harm the other 11. She may have threatened them when they didn't let her into the city, but other than that, the 11 died because others saw Daenerys as an opportunity to further their own goals.
She threatened them first. Plus we knew they were bud guys already.
She did threaten them first, which allowed Pyat Pree and Xoros to see (and convince others) that she was the right catalyst to get their coup rolling. That doesn't make her at fault for the their plan, and several of the deaths she's responsible for seem perfectly justified. Ultimately, she is one of the biggest villains because she gained enough power that when she got pissed, she made everyone feel it. Others tried that crap too, but how much power you have determines the difference between low-life criminal, tyrant, or super villain. We see a lot of tyrants and thugs, but Dany is the one who gained enough power to become a super villain
@@xuexxiong @Heather
Oh she threatened them did she? She threatened then with a starving army and dragons who had shown no ability to breathe fire yet. And was, rightfully, called out by the 13 as being unable to do shit. Her threats were empty and done out of desperation to save herself and the people following her.
I am not trying to say, that Dany wasn't overall a villain in the grand scheme of things. But using Qarth as an example of this is a demonization, cause the (introduced) people in Qarth wanted to use and manipulate her, and were very close to getting their way.
I don't see a need to twist this part of the story against Dany, when she has shown enough examples of being the villain, with Qarth not being one of them, maybe even just showing a reason for her world view and therefore reason to be a villain
She seemed suspect to me when she didn’t bat an eye when her brother was murdered. I know he was an asshole but she didn’t seem to care at all.
I agree with this. I'm doing a re-watch of the series right now and I pointed out that line about burning Qarth down to my mom the other day. She's watching for the first time. Yeah, Dany has been the villain the whole time!
That line about Qarth doesn’t exist in the books.
@@ousseynougueye5949 did he say he was reading the books?
YES thank you! I feel like I was going a bit mad thinking this. I think the whole white saviour story with Daenerys will age very poorly. Still not over it a year later!
Thanks for saying what I always thought - she was always awful. She was a tyrant from the start.
When I told people that this was her character the entire time they scoffed at me. She threatened to burn everyone. The only reason why she didn't is because the cooler heads around her would talk her out of it.
I never liked Dany since season 2
Well I am agree that Daenerys always showed a ruthless behavior with her enemies but she has mercy with the weaks, something the Lannister never does for example, and of course she had ambition for the throne. The question is, who is not in George RR Martin’s novels?. Maybe the Starks because the North, as Dorne, believe they have their own kingdom and rules but the rest of the families in Westeros are ALWAYS plotting for more power around the Iron Throne. My point is that I am ok with the idea of Daenerys becoming a tyrant because she is good conquering but not ruling but for that you need time, not 2 episodes… 😅
we weren't tricked. we were rob of a good transition. a good narrative that would justify the sudden switch. a good story telling that would tie up and end the saga in a satisfying manner.
Another good point that I've seen is that freeing the unsullied and all the slaves was a complete power play that seemed noble but in reality is manipulation at its best.
People view Dany as being someone who frees slaves. If your a slave who has nothing (especially the unsullied who have no family, no allegiances, no legacyy), being freed isn't all its cut out to be. At least as a slave, you have a purpose.
Dany may have "freed" all those people but for what. They still have no money, no land, houses or material wealth, no formal education or major skills. Dany may be freeing them from the slave masters, but she knows that without those slave masters, they have nothing. If they don't want to starve or be killed, their only option is to join Dany. She didn't free those slaves. She gave them illusion of freedom whilst really depriving them of any choice but to come help her on her conquest.
And if you even dare revolt against her, you are immediately killed. Mirri Maz Duur proved this. She was a woman who was living a fulfilled life in a community. It wasn't until Drogo's Khalasar showed up that she found herself being threatened with rape, pillagement (don't think that's a word but we're going with it) or death. Dany's like "I rescued you". Yeah from a danger that only began when you showed up. Even if we believe that Mirri Maz Duur deliberately acted in spite to kill Drogo and Rhaego (Dany's unborn baby) , she had every motive to. Dany (the supposed breaker of chains), killed a woman for trying to revolt against the people who took her captive and ruined her life.
Yeah. From the end of series one, it was pretty clear that Dany was a villain in disguise.
I just wanna say one quick thing. It’s not madness. It’s grief. In the books she was 13 at the beginning so what you see is a young traumatised girl doing her best and doing the only thing she knows is right
Her first impulse was always to burn everything down. But every other time, she had someone to temper her impulses. At the point she made the decision to give into those impulses in King's Landing, there wasn't anyone there to temper that. She was alone, and she felt that loneliness keenly, burdened by all she had lost.
Exactly the difference between her and John, when John took in the wildlings he protected them and refused the order of stannis to help him fight, the only point at which John asked the wildlings to fight was when he realized that the Boltons and other Northerners were planning to attack the wildlings.
Agree. The backlash to season 8 is just butthurt people who named their kids after Dany lol.
Even people who didn't like Daenerys knew season 8 was bs and a couple of them explained why. Specifically they knew it had been well established she didn't want to hurt innocents yet season 8 tried to portray Dany as targeting them and not going after Cersei. Yes not going after Cersei, the Red Keep was ignored-it took a long time for Drogon to reach it and then he flew away after finally getting there while most of it was just fine. That is flat out ridiculous.
There are a bunch of other screwups in season 8 but that is a major one as it relates to Dany and multiple people who said they don't like Daenerys (so I'm pretty sure they didn't name any kids after her) saw it and said so.
Butthurt people? The writer of the books. The cast, the creator of the new starwars who was supposed to work with d and d after they'd rushed got saw it and decided working with these two was a bad idea. They were afraid the same thing that happened to season 8 was gonna happen to starwars.
I think the reason it felt like she became a villain extremely suddenly was because around the end she was surrounded by good and rational characters and it always seemed like she was asking and listening to their advice. Plus these rational, intelligent and good characters were giving her their full trust and support. And she did all those crazy things outside of westeros when she was starting out as a young ambitious princess who had been thrown out of her homeland when she was a baby and then sold to a bunch of savages. So even though she did a bunch of crazy stuff at first, when tyrion and lord varys (I’m not sure if I’m spelling their names correctly) she mostly listened to their council. And then all of a sudden she killed varys and destroyed the city, not listening to john or tyrion.
You guys definitely need more subs.
This and the similarly undiscovered gem @Hill'sAlive are my favorite GoT channels, although props to Glidus and Preston.
I saw this very early in the show. A lot of people didn't like it when I pointed it out. She also neglected the dragons soon as she captured Mareen and put mothering on the back burner locked up the dragons when they were eating whatever and whoever. People were blinded to that saying how there is no controling them which isn't the case it's consistent work., The power was more important and getting the Iron throne
She locks the dragons away because she doesn’t have the control over them that she needs and is trying to appeal to the concerns of those in Meereen. Dragon pits were used by generations of Targaryens before her for this very purpose, they only held power for as long as they held the perception of control over the dragons.
You argue that it takes consistent work to have control over the dragons but these are three giant creatures and the first to grace the world in 145 years, there isn’t a person alive who knows how to control them and Daenerys realised this very issue when she employed a dragon pit in Meereen to contain them.
Book-Daenerys has only just shown dominance to her eldest and fled with him whereas show-Danaerys has some unexplained connection with Drogon and somehow assumes automatic control of all three later on in the series.
None of this translates to her suddenly deciding to attack innocent bystanders and burn all of King’s Landing street by street after she is offered her enemy’s surrender
I was almost four years late but my respects to him, he is one of the few people who saw the show objectively, he had pretty solid arguments, I loved his analysis.
I've seen many reviewers who did a better analysis and would be willing to share links if you want some. I pointed out some of the many flaws in this video some time ago as well. You may be late getting here but you didn't miss as much as you thought you did.
@@pplr1your danys biggest fan. There’s 2 sides to this.
It's funny how he just glosses over the fact that she freed the Unsullied and they chose to stay so he just continues on like they have no choice in the matter, it's funny how he forgets the Starks kill their enemies. It's funny he forgets the millions of slaves she freed .... Bullshit Danny is a villain. She's a conqueror, a warrior and a fighter. That doesn't make her evil. Season 8 was a mess that should have never happened
Man this vid pissed me of these to r trying to be smart to me there both straight thick
You are not being rational. Let me guess: "All women are queens" 😂
It was a game of throne and do you expect her to play fair like the way she did in essos in westeros it is violence and marriages and people were to afraid to marry her plus people were jeolous of her and feared her As Dorne once said NOT EVERYONE GETS TO RIDE A DRAGON
People's reactions to Danys downfall is not entirely unlike the reactions seen, when a cult with a charismatic guru-leader falls apart and the nature of the whole thing is exposed. The disbelief is very similar. The difference is that, here, people can blame it on the writers and say that it was just bad writing because they weren't spoon-fed all the necessary information to automatically reach the right conclusions in time, while, with the cult, you have to face the fact that you were led to blindly believe in something about reality that turns out to be untrue which will inevitably have a deep impact on your whole life.
It isn't lacking of spoon fed info but that prior seasons contradict it. Contradict not lack highlighting. Even worse is there is strong evidence this was a change to the pre-existing plans for season 8 itself were King's Landing was supposed to be destroyed by wildfire, not a 1 dragon who just fought most of a major battle himself without a nap or lunchbreak following. The blindness here is the lack of critical thinking for those who still defend season 8.
We know D and D (GoT's writers) often play around with things and make changes so it isn't even like they were staying consistent with an original story.
Instead they likely did this for shock value and in an attempt to cover some plot holes that only created other ones.
Spot on
VoluntaryismIsTheAnswer If you're going to say it is "Spot on" then you have to explain the contradiction with the earlier plans for season 8 itself being for wildfire (not dragonfire) being what wrecks the city. That was the plan changing from it (as was done in what aired as season 8) is not building up to something.
Emilia is so captivating. Vulnerable, and encouraging, then strong and decisive. If she was my girl I’d probably “not see the Nazi” in her 🤦♂️
I realized she was a villians after she wanted to watch her bother die.
Arya - murders all of House Frey during a feast, including those innocent of the Red Wedding
Sansa - lies to protect a murderer from execution in order to benefit herself, feeds her abusive husband to his dogs
Jon - executes a child who was coerced by Night’s Watch leadership to kill their Lord Commander for what they perceived to be a violation of their sworn oaths, murders a woman in cold blood on the advice of a prisoner and his own belief that she’ll go on to do evil things
Robert - orders the murder of a innocent girl because he doesn’t want her to produce a son and possible heir
Catelyn - cuts the throat of an innocent bystander to spite her child’s murderer
Tyrion - murders a woman who cheated and lied in court about him, murders his father for calling her a whore and for pursuing him to take the fall for his nephew’s death
Jaime - betrayed his oath and killed his former king in order to spare the city while also smashing in his cousin’s head with a rock in order to create a deception and escape
Theon - has two innocent boys murdered and burned in order to pass them off as the Stark children
None of these characters are viewed as villains but Daenerys is already a villain for watching her abusive brother that traded her off to be the property of a warlord in exchange for his army’s support be executed for violating rites, stealing and threatening her and her unborn baby with a sword?
Thank you for expressing my opinion on Daeni. I never liked her and I always thought she was the villain I thought I was alone on this opinion.
If you really think about it this series is all about misleading. We are led to believe Ned is our protagonists of the entire series. He was clearly the main character in the 1st season, but it was never intended to stay that way. Then by extension we are led to believe Rob will take he's place and avenge he's father. Then as soon as we meet the Lannisters we are led to believe they killed Jon Arryn for some secret they have that can get them killed. Of course by the end of the episode we know the secret. That along with the letter from Lysa Arryn tellings us the Lannisters killed her husband we are led to believe they are evil. We are led to believe Melisandre and Cersei are evil women because they are ruthless. But people are only paying attention to what they are doing. Not to WHY there doing the things they do. Melisandre wants to safe the world and Cersei want to protect her family. Neither of those motivations are evil. And it's motivations NOT actions that make you evil. Also we are led to believe that Cersei just hates the Tyrells for no reason and people completely ignore the fact that she has 100000% right in not trusting them. They are NOT trustworthy. They helped people because it got them good pr. They took an interest in helping Sansa because it got them the key to the north. Not because they actually cared about Sansa. And this one people completely over look because of who they did it to. They killed Joffrey because they couldn't control him and on a hypothetical that he might hurt Margaery. And if you don't think they wouldn't get rid of Cersei and Tywin then you weren't paying attention. And of course there's Dany who had been saying since season 1 episode 10 what she intended to do to the people that "hurt" them. Them she doubles down in season 2. All because she believes she is entitled to rule because of some birthright. Which is complete hypocritical bs.
That you praise Cersei while being critical of Daenerys is funny.. to put it lightly. For Cersei not to like anyone due to them potentially being untrustworthy would be the utter hypocrisy on Cersei's part. Considering that Joffery killed other people for his own pleasure the concern for that hypothetical is more justified than otherwise may be typical. Also unless you are against birthright as a whole in Westeros, which would put you against most of the characters (including when Cersei herself makes use of birthright based traditions-just because Joffery isn't the proper heir doesn't mean she didn't try to fake that he was thus still use birthright tradition) and the much of the society itself-then your complaints about Daenerys and her birthright is basically a double standard.
@TS Xtina brilliant observations
@@beastinsight9825 glad someone sees it that way.
@@pplr1 Dany has no birthright. She is a WOMAN. She has NO connection to Westeros. Jeffrey might have no birthright, but he does have a connection to Westeros and King's Landing. And Queen Cersei wants her children on the throne because in her head that means safety for her FAMILY. Dany wants the throne because she is a entitled brat. How about this I'll ask you a question and if you can answer with PROOF from the show itself. That means it has to be SAID on the show. Name a single person Dany cares more about than being the queen?? I'll tell you right now you can't name a single one. They even say it on the show all she ever wanted was to be the queen. Now you tell me if you are reading or watching a story where one character ONLY cares about power and not a SIGLE PERSON and another character only care about her children. Which one sounds more like the villain to you and which sounds like the hero? Face it you were tricked to think Dany was good and Cersei bad. Because the Lord's of Westeros are sheep. Obviously you are a sheep and didn't pay attention to WHY they we're doing the things they did. You only paid attention to WHAT they did. TRASH!!!!
@@pplr1 yep. Just as I thought. You can't name a single person she cares about more than ruling. But she's a hero right? LMFAO!
Aegon was a conqueror? And Dany is a villain? No, she was a conqueror as well
3 years too late but the problem was never that "it was foreshadowed and the haters just don't see it" its the lack of logic, the rushed pace of it all and hindsight to everything that went on behind the scenes. This probably will happen in George's books if he ever finishes them but we all know for a fact it will be more fleshed out and actually make sense instead of this poor excuse for writing. Only a fool or a liar can try to defend it.
Yes, she was always A villain. Not THE villain. Bran, who is the night king, is THE villain.
This just in guys. The book Danny will not go rogue killer. It was just the shitty show writers ending that made no sense. She was against slavery and that's about it.
Every character in this show was a murderer and terrible person. But she did more for the slaves and her people than any other person in the show ever did. If she was villian they all were. I’m not even halfway through the show and I quit after finding out she died and that the last season was rushed. Even the most “innocent” characters on the show like Jon snow double crossed the free people and murdered hundreds. After their leader offered peace he still planned to Jill them. There wasn’t one like able character.
Exactly, most of the people she killed deserved it and she's one of the only monarchs who really cared for the people. Them also mentioning her being emotionless whilst she watched Visery's die is so stupid because he literally sold her to the Khal and abused her for years. The ending just doesn't make sense at all
Pretty sure she was in a desperate situation and begging pretty please wasn’t going to get her anything. She had people with her she needed to find shelter for. Many of us throw empty threats to save face, so no. This doesn’t prove she was a villain at birth. Keep trying
I have been saying she has been crazy since Qarth
Yep, the first hint is the close up to her as her brother is killed. By the end of Qarth it was pretty clear she had no business sitting on the throne. Very well written fantasy in my opinion.
I didn't like her the moment she killed the which in season 1
Dany was definitely framed positively in the narrative when her intentions / actions were not good.
People looked at her “freeing” the unsullied positively because the says they’re free now ! She says that they can leave if they want to, they don’t have to follow her, or they can stay with her. But WHY would they leave when they are surrounded by a desert, without any way to feed, house themselves, or make a living. And why would they believe her when she says she won’t harm those that want to leave. In the same episode she walks past unsullied hung up on crosses to die slowly for very little infractions. How and why should they trust the woman who was going to be a master two minutes ago, to let them go happily?
I don’t blame her for what she did to viserys. But i definitely think him mouthing off about their bloodright and what they were owed her whole life affected her more than the audience realized. Also !! She burned the healer alive in the first season for Drogos and their child’s death when Jorah didn’t follow the healers instructions to not come into the tent. Dany shows her hand when she talks about being owed for saving the healer from the dothraki. And is surprised when the healer points out she was saved from NOTHING! and that the dothraki tortured her people. That idea of being owed for “saving” people definitely carries over to the unsullied.
Thank you. I was saying this about Danaerys, but some people really buy this savior conflict. She is a conqueror and a pillager. In the books and tv shows, that is what she does.
If you were saying what the video said about Daenerys then what you said was wrong. Now in the show that "conqueror and a pillager" as you put it left Meereen with a growing economy, an end to slavery, and a more democratic form of government with the "people" able to "pick" their "rulers".
My problem was not with the "reveal" that she was a villain, because as you've illustrated here, this was made clear a long time ago. I just hated how rushed her "descent into madness" was because they butchered that last season and finished it in a fraction of the time it deserved. Everything happened as it should've, but it happened way too quickly to be entirely believable. I expect that when and if George finishes the series, he'll accomplish the transition with much more finesse.
I always felt that she was the most evil character of the series and I watched only season 1 of Game of Thrones
Then you missed a lot that disproved that thought.
Yea, I laughed when right after she kills a bunch of Lannister soldiers with dragon fire and then tells the prisoners, "I am not here to Murder. I am here to save lives." Like what? Nah, You shot first, asked questions later.
still the most iconic character
Achieving her victory, instead of accepting it or even destroying Cersei in the Red Keep as an emotional response to her losses, she proceeds to burn and destroy - street by street - all of King’s Landing and those living in it.
You’ve talked about her threatening those in power, upsetting political structures, dealing out punishment and leading in conquest but how does any of this translate to her decision regards King’s Landing? When has there ever been an instance of or expressed interest in attacking innocent bystanders?
Daenerys learned the cost of war during her experiences with the Dothraki and was confronted with her own role in it by a woman she “saved”. From then on, Daenerys forges her path with allies that will not sack a city after she has taken it and assumes an army that will not engage in such practices.
Relying on a claim of insanity to explain away her sudden change is fallacious, as is arguing a slippery slope of aggression where the actions have in all circumstances remained consistent with the character’s moral logic and code of ethics.
when you are a conqueror ..you cannot be a hero...you need to be a villain....it was not her blood right ...she fucking earned it ❤
Completely disagree and I find this description very inaccurate. Daenerys was an epic and straightforward person in a pit full of snakes. She always wanted to do good and every time she saw the ugliness of peoples souls and the injustice around her it hurt her more and more. If we ignore the incompetence of the writers, the ending was caused out of frustration of losing every last bit of pure love around her.
Surprise surprise the supporters of stannis the mannis were the only ones who knew what Danny was the whole time.
In Qarth the 13th would let her and her people die of starvation for no real reason. She asked for help first then they were pedantic and made fun of her so then she went demanding. Then she was okay in the city trying to get a boat in a legit way only to be exorted to be wed or go to bed for a ship. Afterwards they manipulated her, stole her dragons and tried to chain her forever. So idk, stealing gold to get the ship seems okay to me after all that.
About her with the slaves she freed them and let them go only for them to worship her, they ended up fighting for her by choice, not fear or manipulation.
She at the beginning only wanted to go home, then she only wanted peace with Drogo, then they killed him, her baby and attempt to assassinate her with Jorah stating that they won't stop coming for her, which was true since Baratheon spent the entire season obsessed on killing her.
Also Daenerys was the only one to give a second thought about the invasion from the north.
And finally, every one who was a lord with a minor title to king pretenders used that style of long title naming so as to command respect, even Jon Snow did. And being ruthless is a given in that fantasy world. So yeah, not really much foreshadowing but coping with nitpicking. She took a twist from hero to villain in a 5 second window in my eyes.
Well done 👌🏼 Dany was alone and filled with rage. Her circumstances didn’t make it any better... She was molded by the Dothraki remember she’s just a child in the books... imagine being around that savagery? They left their mark on her. She became the dragon instead of finding happiness and fighting a real cause. Power is addictive and unfortunately it was poorly executed but this is what she truly wanted more than love or peace of mind or happiness just power. It was rushed. Jon was everything she wasn’t. She exposed herself when he confided in her and told his truth... she then viewed him as an enemy instead of supporting him.
That scene with Jon is arguably one more part of season 8's campaign of character assassination. Considering she thought she was the last of her family Daenerys would quite possibly be happy to find that she still has a relative alive somewhere-especially one that is a better person than her brother. There are other scenes in season 8 that are contradicted by earlier seasons such as the "they don't get to choose" line when Daenerys freed slaves, made it so people had the right to choose their own careers in Meereen even if those career choices made the ruler (her) uncomfortable, and then transitioned Meereen to a democracy (at least ito a form similar to a constitutional monarchy where the population elects local leaders and parliament) like she did in season six. Daenerys wouldn't say that and a frequent part of her character development is giving other people choices.
Oh and back to Jon's linage. Daenerys would want to keep dating him as that wasn't seen as a problem in Targaryen family history. The funny thing that D and D forgot is that Stark family history has plenty of cousins marrying and at least 1 uncle-niece marriage so would Jon, who thinks of himself as a Stark, be opposed?
This!
It's frustrating reading people saying that Dany would never do this. Who can utter that with absolute certainty when we've never seen her in this position before?! There is nothing to compare her actions to.
Jon was killed by his men, he faced some of the harshest things known to man, but overall he was still Jon. If Jon had staged a massacre, I would've been pissed as we've seen him at his worst and he never truly became bloodthirsty or bitter.
Jon is probably the only character I would bet my bottom dollar on in terms of not going postal.
I, too, believe it was rage. She isn't "mad", that's such a cop-out. She was angry and dejected and finally, she said screw it.
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Thank the gods I'm not the only one who noticed that Danny was insane. Everyone gave her a pass for killing a million people because she's a woman. She's pretty and the main character so no one cared about the evil she did. As soon as she burned the city, I KNEW Jon would kill her. I knew he didn't want to , but I knew he would. And I was glad when he did it. Because I would have done the same goddamn thing.
Honestly I don’t give a crap if she’s a villain. Calling someone a “villain” is truly in the eye of the beholder. She did what a lot of women (let alone most in the kingdom) were terrified of doing. No one believed in her, so yes, she used force and power to give people a reason to believe in her. Up until Season 5, I saw a powerful leader in her (not necessarily a noble one, but a powerful one) bc she had the guts to live to her potential.
A good villain is one every loves, you think they do good. Its like Superman and Lex Luthor, everyone think Lex is a good person and helping the world, when he is all about self gain and power. But because everyone in that universe sees him a somewhat of a hero superman can't bring him down without getting some kind of blow back.
lex luthor actually is a good guy in many stories like superman red son and injustice.
This is a little bit of an overreach. First off, she offered the unsullied freedom. They just agreed to follow her because they didn’t have much else to do. But she did offer them freedom.
The Dothraki were just warriors. They respect strength. When the new Khal threatens to rape her, she burns them. The Dothraki follow her because they think she is a god because what she did. By 2024 standards it seems cruel but in that time period that what it was. But if you were in that culture, that is how you would act.
She was kind of a brat eith Carthe yes but she didn’t cause any violence even when they said they wouldn’t give her ships. She didn’t take any ships until the big black dude betrayed her and the other 13 leaders.
And even if she was a little on edge and maybe a little aggressive in her conquest BUT it’s a far leap from obtaining an army to burning women and children alive.
Also she offered Sam dad and brother to kneel and they refused knowing it was death. Ned Stark choose a guys head off for ditching the nights watch. John snow chopped Janos Slynts head for being a dickhead for a minute but he is literally crying and begging for mercy saying he was scared and weak and John still killed him. Are they villains?
Side note, the worst part of the show is that the Dothraki and Ubsullied all die in the long night but somehow are all alive for next episode
I love see D&D apologists try to explain why D&Ds shitty writing actually made since…
The last 4 seasons of game of thrones were shit because D&D ran out of material and dialogue from Martin
The current success of HotD is proof of how shitty they were
The second time watching the show I came to this very conclusion. She was evil.
Yep, I'm on a re-watch as well. It's very clear that she's evil from season 1.
Her face when her brother is killed... She got off on it. Look at her face any time she burns something. She loves it. She's always been an extremist.
Rewatch closer then. And watch this video more critically. If you do you may notice multiple times the guys in this video try to rewrite GoT history to suit their argument. Just pointed out that they tried to claim Daenerys messed up Meereen (in minute 10). Yet GoT Meereen was left in good shape by Daenerys in season six. It had a growing economy, was still slavery free, and its people would now be electing their leaders (meaning Daenerys transitioned the place to a democracy). Daario was ordered to stay back to protect Meereen but not to rule it.
Also don't fall for the but her abusive brother died and she didn't try to stop it line. If you rewatch that specific scene she both called out pleadingly to her brother to stop and then gently pushed a handmaiden out of the way in order to get an innocent person (the handmaiden) out of danger and focus the danger and risk her brother represented on herself. That is taking on the danger herself for the sake of others.
If her abusive brother tried to pull that trick in a lord or king's court in Westeros (supposedly more civilized than Dothraki) of threatening to kill a lord's or king's wife and child in front of said the lord or king (and his men) the odds he would end up dead are very high. Her abusive brother got himself killed. And this is after he was beating Daenerys twice and both time she could have had a Dothraki kill him and she did not (the 2nd time she warned him not to again-probably since she was with child).
@@pplr1 I've watched the show 4 times now.
@@vladimirpoutine7522 Then you should've noticed.
@@pplr1 I should've noticed your opinion? WTF is wrong with you? Weirdo.
It doesn't really matter if Daenerys was good or evil the problem with the last season of GOT was it's pacing.. it went too fast to digest the actions of the characters they were rushed all other season of Game of thrones were so epic and than the last season was like - then this happened..
They tried to put the blame on Daenerys but it didn't worked it was a sh!t show regardless
So you blame the pacing for something that has been shown time and time again for eight years?
@@jjh2456 For such drastic action the build up behind it wasn't enough.. She was shown to be so clever throughout the season a girl who has nothing to a queen with her own army and three dragons how can she make such a mistake so close to achieving her goal no matter what you say it just doesn't make sense
The authors of this video tried to rewrite GoT history multiple times. Something else that doesn't make sense is that Daenerys was clearly shown as both someone who would try to not harm innocents and as someone who would go after those she felt was guilty. The ridiculous city burning in season 8 tried to portray season 8 Dany as ignoring Cersei (yup, ignoring-notice how long it took Drogon to even get the Red Keep and he flies away again while most of it is still standing) in order to supposedly go after random people on the street. That is character breaking in 2 different ways at once.
Great perspective! Glad I found your channel. Subbed😊
Yahoo could say what, there's a reason why the rating for the last three episodes continually dive-bombed 🤷🏾♂️😒
Imagine Cersei with dragons
Strongly agree! I never liked her. She was always entitled & stubborn