On reflection Danerys going mad was the best twist in the whole series, people think there was no build up to it, thing is it wasn’t obvious and it was subtle but looking back you can identify it, no one had a scooby of course, myself included.
People talk about character build up and pacing, in reality the beauty of what thrones always did well. Is that anything, could happen to anyone at any time and it did up until the end.
Another aspect I liked was that nothing was fair, John should have been King, nope. Danerys could have been queen, nope. They both live happily ever after, nope. Give it a randomer. And it ends poorly for the main hero’s, you were pulled into likening. Thrones gave us what, thrones is. Innocent, evil, fair, unfair, tied up, loose ending it plays on your own concepts of these thing and your loyalty to characters.
It’s also not the end in my opinion, the whole thing is set up to come back in a few years. Someone, maybe Robyn Arran, knocks of Bran, Sansa goes ballistic, war happens, Arya returns, Gendry stakes a claim, the Iron Born get up to shenanigans, Dorn pushes an angle, Bronn gets in the mix. Tyrion head north to find John, Drogon turn up , up there. Your all hooked again.
In between, we will have the next book/s.
