That’s what I was always saying, as soon as I saw Eddard die, I knew it was over for the whole city, since also people cheered on it to happen and came to see execution personally. Idk why was everyone so shocked about it.
Well everyone in and out universe was bootlicking Dany so hard the reason for sudden change had to be huge. Actually, if you look at fandom, people think burning a city or two was just acceptable for monarch change to the one they like. Unlike for example, burning two feudal lords by Aerys, that was a big no-no.
What i meant was that Targaryen coin was pure Chekhov gun.
Yes, I get killing slaveowners and whatnot but the entire city? I wanted it to happen to all the Lannisters (except Tyrion of course) so bad, and people who helped them in war crimes, but all of the people in city, wtf? I didn’t care at that point, they already screwed everything since 1st episode of season 8, but hey, at least we got big dragon destroying everything action.
This is actually not that weird, if you paid attention to the books. What was the thing that Dany always did when seriously threatened? First the reason which almost never worked, and then violence. And not only did it worked, but for that violence was always loved because so it happens who she killed before was some of the worst people in the world, seriously Lannisters looked like saints compared to the ghiscari slaveowners, especially in the 5th book they are shown for how inhuman filth they are.
She was also pumped with completely false pro-targaryen propaganda since birth, but when she’s back she was not exactly welcomed by the people of the city who were completely tired and starved by war, and she literally came as yet another conqueror with an foreign army full of scary human automata not to mention Dothraki who had fully deserved reputation of worst human calamity in the world and fucking dragons (and it was not even the first time Targaryen ruler set up the burining of that city).
Also she was young girl whose life was one big string of traumatic ups and downs so no wonder that she snapped at the yet another “prophecied” mention of betrayal (read how she was completely freaking out about that prophecy in the book) and cruel and undeserved death of her best friend. Nobody accuse her she did burned the city with premeditation, but she did and even books are slowly build to that snap point (although it might look different in the book, if it ever get finished).
8 season was bad, especially the battle for winterfell, and the fate of Starks, but some things like the fate of Targaryens and Lannisters were done very good.
My biggest disappointment with entire book was that at first it was lovely tale of intrigue, politics, incest and all possible manners of backstabbing, but the moment they introduced magic everything started to sour a little, and when the prophecy hit even book went down the drain to completely hackneyed dark fantasy.
Both were new occurences. Nobody seen zombie for thousands of years (oh also the way they made those zombies speed like Usain Bolt in show was not cool too, in books they were clearly described as slow but very tough) and dragons for some 150, and as we are now in book 5th dragons are still out of Westeros and zombies are still unknown to most of it. I would argue that Red Priest magic of murders and resurrections is much more impactful on the continent so far (though also unknown to almost everyone since almost no one knows and/or believes in both).
Also, magical murder is not really that much different from poison, so it only soured it “a little”. What i mean is more the usual prophecy and apocalyptic danger takin over as main focus of story. Hackneyed.
That’s what I was always saying, as soon as I saw Eddard die, I knew it was over for the whole city, since also people cheered on it to happen and came to see execution personally. Idk why was everyone so shocked about it.
Well everyone in and out universe was bootlicking Dany so hard the reason for sudden change had to be huge. Actually, if you look at fandom, people think burning a city or two was just acceptable for monarch change to the one they like. Unlike for example, burning two feudal lords by Aerys, that was a big no-no.
What i meant was that Targaryen coin was pure Chekhov gun.
Such a poetic analysis.
Yes, I get killing slaveowners and whatnot but the entire city? I wanted it to happen to all the Lannisters (except Tyrion of course) so bad, and people who helped them in war crimes, but all of the people in city, wtf? I didn’t care at that point, they already screwed everything since 1st episode of season 8, but hey, at least we got big dragon destroying everything action.
This is actually not that weird, if you paid attention to the books. What was the thing that Dany always did when seriously threatened? First the reason which almost never worked, and then violence. And not only did it worked, but for that violence was always loved because so it happens who she killed before was some of the worst people in the world, seriously Lannisters looked like saints compared to the ghiscari slaveowners, especially in the 5th book they are shown for how inhuman filth they are. She was also pumped with completely false pro-targaryen propaganda since birth, but when she’s back she was not exactly welcomed by the people of the city who were completely tired and starved by war, and she literally came as yet another conqueror with an foreign army full of scary human automata not to mention Dothraki who had fully deserved reputation of worst human calamity in the world and fucking dragons (and it was not even the first time Targaryen ruler set up the burining of that city).
Also she was young girl whose life was one big string of traumatic ups and downs so no wonder that she snapped at the yet another “prophecied” mention of betrayal (read how she was completely freaking out about that prophecy in the book) and cruel and undeserved death of her best friend. Nobody accuse her she did burned the city with premeditation, but she did and even books are slowly build to that snap point (although it might look different in the book, if it ever get finished).
8 season was bad, especially the battle for winterfell, and the fate of Starks, but some things like the fate of Targaryens and Lannisters were done very good.
Agree, I just wish we got battle against King’s Landing before the White Walkers.
My biggest disappointment with entire book was that at first it was lovely tale of intrigue, politics, incest and all possible manners of backstabbing, but the moment they introduced magic everything started to sour a little, and when the prophecy hit even book went down the drain to completely hackneyed dark fantasy.
Wasn’t it the fantasy since the beginning? With zombies, dragons and all.
Both were new occurences. Nobody seen zombie for thousands of years (oh also the way they made those zombies speed like Usain Bolt in show was not cool too, in books they were clearly described as slow but very tough) and dragons for some 150, and as we are now in book 5th dragons are still out of Westeros and zombies are still unknown to most of it. I would argue that Red Priest magic of murders and resurrections is much more impactful on the continent so far (though also unknown to almost everyone since almost no one knows and/or believes in both).
Also, magical murder is not really that much different from poison, so it only soured it “a little”. What i mean is more the usual prophecy and apocalyptic danger takin over as main focus of story. Hackneyed.