We were presented with a character who had spent most of the series saving people, destroying a city that was trying to surrender because she wanted revenge against two people (Euron Greyjoy and Cersei Lannister). The change was too quick, her shifting attitudes switching far too swiftly. However, Daenerys’ turn from well-intentioned saviour figure to dark and destructive Evil Queen was, as has been observed many times before, rushed to the point of not making any sense. (Let’s not start on A Song of Ice and Fire’s problematic approach to genetics, there isn’t time!) Daenerys also thinks and talks a lot about why her father, Aerys II Targaryen, went destructively mad and whether she is prone to the same thing. There’s her ruthless actions as Queen, a particularly grim moment being the crucification of 163 Grand Masters in Meereen (an inversion of the historical Crassus crucifying the survivors of Spartacus’ slave revolt in Roman history). There are plenty of hints throughout the story that she may be headed down a dark path. We have reason to believe, based on prophecies from the books, that Martin’s intentions for Daenerys’ character arc are in broad strokes similar to the TV show. Game of Thrones was built around a single, central question: who will sit on the Iron Throne? When the answer to that question proved unsatisfactory, the lengthy journey to reach an answer that was a total let-down left a bitter taste in the mouth.Įven more frustratingly, the storyline of those last three episodes, and indeed Daenerys’ storyline throughout Seasons 7 and 8, was horribly rushed. There’s a reason that show’s final season didn’t just leave viewers to drift away, but left some too upset to want to ever revisit.
One show, however, has a final season so poorly received, it retrospectively tainted what came before and left some fans reluctant to ever rewatch: Game of Thrones. Was that it?” following their finales.įor the most part, fans of the above will probably be happy to rewatch some of the earlier seasons, but stop before the end. True Blood, Lost, How I Met Your Mother, Dexter… all left viewers with a distinct feeling of “huh.
There are a handful of shows that were once extremely popular, but took a sharp turn for the worse towards the end. Warning: contains spoilers for the Game of Thrones season eight.
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