Game of Thrones final season [spoilers]

[Homeless Nutter]

Anyone that didn't see Dany going bonkers a mile away must've forgotten how she pulled revenge and scheming in effing season 1.

Revenge and scheming are not the same as madness.

Really, rewatch the highlights of Dany's rulings and decisions. She's a populist tyrant wanna-be from day 1.

Populism and tyranny are not the same as madness.

This narrative that she was somehow molded into this bitch queen strips her of own volition and responsibility. That's my hot take.

She doesn't have her own volition and responsibility - she's a fictional character. That's my hot take. And my narrative is that her turn to evil was written poorly. I'm guessing - mainly, because the writers wanted it to be somewhat surprising and shocking - at least to some viewers - despite having clumsily and vaguely telegraphed it in the previous episode. And because they're trying to cram too much story developments into the last few episodes.

The problem is - Daenerys doesn't come across as psychotic. Narcissistic? Sure. Dumb/naive? Why not. Paranoid? Yes. Cruel, sadistic and a bit psychopathic? By our modern standards - yes, but so do most characters in GOT, who seem quite desensitized to suffering. The "Mad Queen" theory has been around for years and there's enough set-up in the show to build on, but this raving lunatic burning civilians for no good reason came out of the left field. Daenerys had every right to be p*ssed off and vengeful, as well as afraid of being betrayed and rejected. She had reasons to want to inspire fear in people of Westeros. But we didn't get a good reason, why she would seemingly lose her sh*t and do what she did - except for "Targaryens are crazy". Maybe they'll explain, or justify her recent actions in the finale, next week, but I'm not holding my breath, that it's going to be a very good explanation.

If she accepted Cersei's surrender and then took her revenge on Lannisters, in cold blood - even destroyed the Red Keep - and started acting like an unhinged tyrant, that would have been a better fit for her character, in my opinion and could have accomplished the same, in terms of making her the antagonist, the "Mad Queen". Or - if King's Landing absolutely needed to burn - she could have been acting irrationally at least since the beginning of the season. Her father, the Mad King didn't become mad on the day he was killed by Jamie. But that would require more plot development, than just showing her with bags under her eyes a few times and then going into a murderous rage, because her handmaid died and her nephew/boyfriend won't f*ck her anymore...