No one can still in denial about what Daenerys is after she just burned a million women, children and men with impunity.

There's also no way we can blame this on bad writing, because it's not. It's the culmination of years of hollow morals. And it's also brilliant. It's horrific, tragic, and brilliant. And it's high time for a lot of people to wake up and look critically at what they've been stanning, because the point of this story is very much about them. It's about anyone who has uncritically stanned unchecked, destructive power.

I really need to talk about a scene from last night's episode of Game of Thrones. This is one of the most shocking pieces of dialogue that the show has ever offered up. I'm talking about Dany's willingnes to commit genocide: I feel I need to preface this thread by saying that I think Dany is probably the best character on GoT. She's not my favourite, but very few of the others are as beautifully realised as she is. The last two seasons have not changed that view. They have just reinforced it.