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Originally Posted by Buehler445
This occurred to me during the episode also. And pretty much this is what the Dothraki do.
But that aspect of the episode was pretty powerful.
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I love the broad strokes of what this story is going for. Wholesale sacks of a city have happened throughout history. From historical examples like the Sack of Rome, to modern examples like the Rape of Nanking, and the Battle of Berlin (some accounts listed that women got raped up to 30 times by Soviet troops after the city fell). We're seeing a show pull no punches when showing the horror of what war truly is (even if the "good guys" win). I was telling a buddy that if we got the main beats to this episode at the end of Season 1 (the Starks team up with Dany and the Hound to deliver justice to the evil Lannisters!) we would have been ecstatic. I admire that this show showed the true costs of what it takes to bring an entire dynasty to heel.
However, I truly wish they used what little of the time code they had at the end of a truncated Season 7 to giving Dany more development in this regard if this was her outcome. I think this was always there, from the outcome of the Qarth storyline, her execution of the masters in Season 5 without due process, her promises to the Dothraki to conquer Westeros in Season 6, and even her demands to have Jon bend the knee at the beginning of Season 7. I think if there’s anything that I’d change - it’d be to continue ramping up that intensity through the end of Season 7. Instead they delved into her vulnerability and explored her own self doubt about her worthiness for the throne, which twists the knife for the viewers - but is a hard heel turn to fully pull off an appreciate in the span of five episodes.