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Shame of Thrones: the worst sin committed by GOT

Written by Tashi from the blog Tashi's TV on 21 May 2019
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Please note: this article contains spoilers for the Season 8 finale so don't read on if you don't want to be spoiled.

Oh Khaleesi, Khaleesi, Khaleesi.

I won't betray you like EVERY single being on the Games of Thrones finale. Even your own darling dragon Drogon believed your death was somehow justified when, in reality, the end of your story was composed by a team of writers who couldn't - and wouldn't - let a woman come out on top.

This is how I'm feeling... that Khaleesi wasn't allowed to become the great liberator she was destined to be because the writers had too many men lined up for the job.

Bran, Jon Snow, Tyrion and all the other men sitting round that final table were presented as the noblest of souls, in Stark contrast to Khaleesi who ended up making the Night King look like a fairy-tale.  

The real problems on Game of Thrones started in one particular moment: the moment the show called Daenerys "Dany".

She'd always been Mother of Dragons and Khaleesi Breaker of Chains, pronounced and announced in the grandest of ways because that's how she rolled.

But then suddenly, out of nowhere, people started calling her Dany, a diminutive, "cute", buddy-buddy nickname which lowered her status and created a weird over-familiarity by those who used it.

What made her treatment ludicrous and truly unrealistic is how easily her devoted forces accepted her death!
 

It's insane to believe that Grey Worm, the Unsullied and the Dothroki, who loved her like a God, would have been so blasé about her murder. The fact that they didn't go on an all-out rampage against the new order was pathetically convenient and insincere.

Same thing with the handling of Cersei, who just happened to end up in the one good arm of Jaime under a pile of rubble after shedding a tear.

One tear. From Cersei, puhlease. Suddenly she was vindicated, given a "soft" death that suggested the show wanted us to feel for her. Wanted us to empathise because: "Look! She loves a man. She really luvs her bruv, even if it's a sicko set-up, at least she has a heart."

The evil that Cersei got away with was a travesty, made worse by Khaleesi receiving the punishment instead.
 

The most crushing thing is that Khaleesi was such a feisty, empowered shero and the show took that away from us. She wanted to free people - and did!

Another thing that seriously irks me is the meaning of her madness.

Her father was The Mad King and she went nuts too - what does this mean?! That you can't fight your genes? That madness runs in the family so get yourself a straight jacket if you've got nutjobs in your genes?

What it comes down to is that it was deeply disappointing to suffer the destruction of such an inspiring, beautiful and well intentioned female character.

It's my firm belief that this was the show's biggest sin. Do you think so too?
 

Shows in this post: Game of Thrones

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3 Comments

Muhle10
21 May 2019 14:45

Tashi i was also surprised at how men suddenly became decision makers, we had Arya who killed the night king, sasha who refused to bow to anyone, Daenery and Cersei, and they had a lot going to right another season, their wars wld have been exciting, they ran with this women in power theme until suddenly all was thrown out of the window. We had missandei and the lady knight as well. But my heart pained for Jon Snow, he spent his life fighting for people only to be thrown back to thewoods no power, no heir, no wife. The ending was not as good as i had anticipated. Poor poor ending Even a remake of season 8 wont do any good, i might choosenot to even watch it, they have tied upthe storyline as well. But i think they killed toomany major characters from season 1 to 5 and there were no characters to killotherwise who werw they going tokill. I think Drogon burnt the throne in anger as it was responsible for her death,the waythey potrayed her shesuddenly became so power hungry thatnothing else mattered.

Muhle10
21 May 2019 14:47

The Starks though deserved the peace they have now, they went through hell. But i didnt see Bran being king but some seasons back when he survived the night king i thought maybe thats why he survived. But had dismissed it. And his response why do you think i came? I thought was ridiculous

Tashi
22 May 2019 10:13

>>Tashi i was also surprised at how men suddenly became decision makers, we had Arya who killed the night king, sasha who refused to bow to anyone, Daenery and Cersei, and they had a lot going to right another season, their wars wld have been exciting, they ran with this women in power theme until suddenly all was thrown out of the window.<<

Very true Muhle - and with Arya no-one even acknowledged what she'd done! She literally saved the entire world and yet she received nothing in return for it - she should have been knighted at the very least. 

Instead the knighthood went to Brienne.. why?... can only be because she has masculine qualities that the men could see as being "worthy" enough. That scene where she was knighted... why didn't Arya get that too?!


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