Having read a zillion takes, this comes closest to my thinking: the producers could make Dany's action--which 100% fits the show's larger themes--shocking, or they could make it understandable. They couldn't do both, so they chose the former.https://www.vox.com/game-of-thrones/2019/5/13/18617796/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-5-daenerys-targaryen-eyes …
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I think they could have done more of both. We should have understood why she was on the edge, but surprised at the form it took. (So help me, I ended up writing about the switch from sociological storytelling to a very personalized one as the issue: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/ … )
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I've been shopping this piece of yours to friends who are fans, really gets at the core I think of how the show slid off course. It's not just one clumsy action by Daeny, it's an abandonment of the show's framework for how characters were developed and behave.
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Thank you! Yeah, the numerous plot holes are blatant and annoying but fixing them wouldn’t fix what ails this season. The way some characters got plot armor is probably the biggest clue to the framework shift. (They don’t even do the plot armor part well, but I digress
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