(05-20-2019 06:42 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(05-20-2019 06:23 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  I would like to have seen Dany as the mad queen for a multiple-episode arc before she got got. But I also came in to the show very late so my emotional investments are wildly different from those of a plank owner's.

Im curious about that as well. It seemed her vision of how the kingdom would be ruled would be far more attractive than the road she was willing to travel to get there. The US literally fire bombed cities (Dresden, Tokyo, etc) along with dropping a pair of nukes in order to end WWII (both were considered ways of shortening the war or preventing the need to an invasion that would have killed even more). I suspect children and innocents were burned alive in those US bombing raids. Were Truman and FDR "Mad Presidents"? I doubt anyone thinks that. To me, it was never really established that she couldnt rule in a way that would create a better world. Hell, she continued to state that was her intention right up until she was killed. Nobody ever bothered to ask what her vision would would look like. It just seems like maybe that was a question worth asking before killing her.

I think it was the "little mercies" line that fixed it for Jon. At the point where she'd won, do we really have to kill more people? Once he saw that she was never going to be satisfied or even take a break and people were going to die everywhere till she had undone everything, he knew that couldn't be. Once Japan surrendered we didn't keep killing and destroying it. That would have been a mad President. Same with Germany, though they did hunt down nasty war criminals.

I was satisfied with the ending. I feel like it's over and I got closure on what was important to me. I feel like it ended the way it did because it had to end that way. And that's ok with me.