![]() ![]() The dragons have always embodied might and terror and awe, bereft of any moral direction. Daenerys emerging from the ruins, framed by Drogon’s wings then the dragon emerging from the snow, to asses Jon and finally grant him passage to Daenerys’ inner sanctum. But my word, what a first third! Game of Thrones was at the pinnacle of its visual powers last night. #Game of thrones s08e06 stream seriesLast night’s series finale, “The Iron Throne,” was an awkward mishmash of an episode - one third cohesive storytelling and two thirds unstructured wrap up of the series’ various threads. Usually, the people most likely to triumph in the game are the ones who take the actions that threaten some future monstrosity. The central point of Game of Thrones has always been that how you win power is as important as whether you win it - because how you win it presages how you will wield it. The White Walkers were often compared to climate change, but they could really be equated to white nationalism or any other rising threat that, in its very existential danger, conveniently allows us to set aside the question of how we will live among one another once the threat has passed. If you believed it, if you truly believed it, wouldn’t you kill whoever stood between you and paradise?” That many of the show’s fans feel angered and betrayed by Daenerys’ collapse into villainy is itself a testament to how thin and blurry the line is. She believes her destiny is to build a better world for everyone. “And she grows more powerful and more sure that she is good and right. “Everywhere she goes, evil men die and we cheer her for it,” Tyrion observed. ![]() After burning a whole city, you either convince yourself you did the right and necessary thing or you go mad. It makes sense that Daenerys was unreachable and implacable in the end. But line them all up and you see what’s coming. As Tyrion noted last night, Daenerys left quite a pile of bodies behind her over all the seasons, each one justifiable as rough justice in isolation. But the memory of the earlier seasons’ storytelling is still there - lending depth and power to the finale. The criticisms are true, to an extent: A television show of rich construction and deliberate pacing transformed into something more rushed and roughly sketched. I wish we could’ve gotten more from Daenerys Targaryen this season, some deeper glimpse into her own pain and contradictions. Now that the whole scope of the thing is laid out before us, there is a kind of terrible majesty to it. ![]()
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