It’s insane because these are the exact same conversations fans of the show are having at the end of the previous episode! Jon then attempts to justify that she was under a great deal of mental stress from the loss of her dragon and friend, Missandei. Tyrion rebuts stating that people should be however judged by their actions and she has slaughtered more people than the Lannisters ever could in a single day. Jon still tries to defend his queen, arguing that she isn’t defined by her family’s history of fire and blood. Within that conversation, we see their back and forth wonderfully encapsulate the conflicting feelings they (along with us the viewers) have for Daenerys. While in captivity, Tyrion is visited by Jon to discuss Daenerys. Naturally, Daenerys has him locked away to await judgment. He refuses to be the Hand that brings ruin and death whenever the head chooses to go. He approaches Daenerys amidst the triumphant cries of the Dothraki and the droning of Unsullied spears to toss his title as Hand to the ground. He can turn away no longer when he facing such a personal loss. For the longest time, Tyrion has been a supporter of Daenerys despite the Randylls, Sansas and Varys of this world telling him that he’s wrong. Beyond the massive loss of life disturbing Tyrion, he finds his breaking point upon seeing the lifeless bodies of the only remaining family he had left. Her brutal massacre (because it certainly wasn’t much of a battle) of the city proves every one of his worst suspicions of the Targaryen to be true. Describing her as a “foreign invader, one with no ties to this land, with an army of savages at her back”. I couldn’t help but empathize with Randyll Tarly at the beginning of the fifth episode of Season 7 “Eastwatch”, the way he looked with sheer disgust at Daenerys and her army. The Unsullied “liberators” execute disarmed Lannister soldiers without hesitation and Dothraki hordes revel in the decimation of foe and innocent alike. A man walks by with his skinless back exposed, burned beyond repair. We see through Tyrion’s eyes the horrors inflicted on the people of the city. The streets that once filled with the hustle and bustle of life are now silent, smothered under a shroud of ash and dust. We see the aftermath of Daenerys’ rampage throughout King’s Landing and it is a terrible sight to behold. Who would sit on the Iron Throne? Would the world be a better place than it was before when all is said and done? What will befall the faiths of all those we hold dear? Will there still be a throne left? All those questions and more were thoroughly and beautifully answered in the series’ swan song, and here’s why. With all sorts of wild theories and plausible plot points some of us saw coming a mile away. For 9 years we’ve dreamt and envisioned how the war for the throne would have ended. So believe me when I say: This is how it should end. We love this show dearly but by no means would we ever pull punches on Game of Thrones, we’ll judge it by the high standards the show has set for itself since day one. We even wrote a whole piece on how the show was getting progressively worse season by season at some point. There were moments of rapturous greatness that renew my faith in the show and some moments in which this season left me underwhelmed. This final season of Game of Thrones has been a contentious, if not highly polarizing one. I’ll spare you the pretensions or semantics and get right down to it.
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