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Dany 'turning evil'/'going mad' had been telegraphed for quite a while now. I think most people entered the season wondering when it would happen and this season gave enough clues to it. The season also piled on the grief, loss and insecurity onto her as well losing two of her long-term friends/allies and another dragon.
I think she went from 'might be mad' to 'genocidal rage' a bit too quickly though.
I can understand people loving Dani and being upset by what happened but in terms of my realism factor ask yourself what you would have done in that situation. I have been having a GoT lunch with a friend every week this season so we can talk about the most recent ep and what we want to happen in the next ep. To put things in perspective, after ep 4 and Missandei dying, bearing in mind that I had no idea what was going to happen in ep 5 and often what we want to happen doesn't, I told my friend how I felt and that if I was Dani I have been screwed over enough by trying to do the right thing and I would execute Tyrion and burn Kingslanding to the ground. It isn't very often that things have gone the way I wanted them to in GoT but I was overjoyed when she lost it and levelled the place. It is in keeping with her primary goal of breaking the wheel anyway. Kingslanding was the symbol of everything that was wrong with the world and she has got rid of it. They surprised me a bit at the end by finding representatives of the noble houses to sit on a council because I was expecting one of the Starks to kill Dani and the Starks to rule Westeros from Winterfell but how it ended is good enough for me.
Game of Thrones has picked up a record number or 32 Emmy nominations this year and I am absolutely thrilled. It has really bugged me in previous years when it has not been nominated or won categories such as best drama but you can understand why, it can't win every year (even though I think it should have). As with LOTR at the Oscars, they have waited till the last season and I think it is only proper that such a phenomenal series gets the recognition it deserves.
Really bizarre. I know it is peanuts to them but if they had already filmed it I would love to know how many $millions they have thrown down the drain.
On the upside though all is not lost, another prequel series has been given the green light.
I wonder if it will be based on "Fire & Blood" (just finished it), which is also described as
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Set 300 years before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire, Fire and Blood is the definitive history of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn, and chronicles the conquest that united the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule through the Dance of the Dragons: the Targaryen civil war that nearly ended their dynasty forever...
... Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen – the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria – took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire and Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.
What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why did it become so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What is the origin of Daenerys’s three dragon eggs? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel
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Yep, it is.
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.... the series is set 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones and focuses on the tale of the House Targaryen.
Written by Condal and based on Martin’s Fire & Blood ......
I guess they decided they only wanted one prequel, and one set thousands of years ago was going to be too far disconnected from the original.
The House of the Dragon is only set 300 years in the past and will have more familiar family groups.
yeah makes sense. Given the massive fan base which they will want to maintain I think the more "normal" people will find it easier picking up a new series if they can relate to it. If you start fresh in a new time period in a different kingdom, different houses, different technologies and languages etc it may be too much for traditional viewers and only appeal to the true scifi/fantasy fan and they would see the viewing figures shrink.