How many kings or queens had he betrayed up to this point? Counting spouses, the number is erring toward the double digits. Varys hastening his betrayal rings true, as does Tyrion confessing the Spider’s treacheries to the Mother of Dragons. These machinations, not unlike a Cromwell currying favor from one queen to the next in a mercurial Tudor court, become the last acts of a desperate man. He revealed too much of his plans last week to Tyrion Lannister who remained a loyal Queen’s Man, even if his longtime friend had not. We do not know if he actually is able to share any of his messages of doom and gloom that reveal Jon Snow is a Targaryen-I suspect he did-but he’s apparently resigned to the fact his fate is already sealed. Lord Varys believes that his queen is a threat and is working to undermine her.
Taken in a vacuum, the early moments of the episode play with actual proper political intrigue of the medieval variety. This journey into night begins bleakly with a foreshadowing of what is to come. But even as I type that, I am going to grapple with whether the showrunners earned reaching the moment where Daenerys turned the city built by her ancestors to ash, and a hero’s journey revealed itself to be a tragic villain’s descent. While I’m fairly certain the details are off, I can’t help but recall what a certain bastard of Winterfell (no, not that one) once said, “If you wanted a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention.” In my mind, this is the most purely George R.R. Martin imagined for his “A Song of Ice and Fire” series when he revealed the characters’ fates to David Benioff and D.B. Much of the debate to come will be about whether Daenerys Targaryen should’ve become the fabled “Mad Queen,” and if this is indeed the ending George R.R. Certainly longer still than what’s taken to write this review, but here we are with an ending that I am fairly convinced is a bitterly true one for the series… but also an unearned one for the final season.
This is an episode we’re going to be discussing and processing for a long, long time.
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