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- Warning: Spoilers in advance for "Game of Thrones".
- Some fans think that Daenerys will finally be a villain in the HBO series.
- But the last episode, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms", contained much more evidence that she was rather a tragic Shakespearian hero.
- The revelation of Jon Snow's Targaryen filiation could make him make devastating choices because of his internal conflict over the comfort of love compared to his desire for the Iron Throne.
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A long-debated theory among "Game of Thrones" fans states the prediction that Daenerys Targaryen will become the ultimate villain of the series. The latest episode of the HBO drama, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," provided believers in this theory with a new fuel for their interpretation of Daenerys' actions as a "Mad Queen."
But things are rarely so simple in "Game of Thrones".
Instead of Daenerys becoming a "diabolical" queen, it is much more plausible that the series has made her a tragic hero. His interlocking desires for the iron throne and his love affair are opposed and the cost may be his life.
To find out more: Full Explanation of the "Mad Queen" Theory
In spite of all his happier moments filled with tears, "A knight of the seven kingdoms" ended on a bitter and disturbing note when Jon Snow left Daenerys Targaryen enter the revelation that had him stumbling around Winterfell.
Jon avoided his queen all day, attempting to pretend normality and failing dramatically until she found him in Winterfell's crypts and that he was disclosing the truth about his filiation targaryen.
Just as Jon did in the first season of season eight when Sam told him the news, Daenerys was literally shaken when he learned that Jon Snow – the second man in the world to whom she has full confidence – is really Aegon Targaryen, the sixth name and legitimate heir of the Targaryen dynasty.
She is visibly angry and her anger is perfectly understandable given the series of events that led to this moment.
Daenerys has no place in "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"
Looking at (and looking at) the episode, it is clear that the emotional gravity of this down payment is doing almost everything possible to show to how Daenerys has become even more isolated since his arrival in Westeros.
Despite his allies, despite his love for Jon Snow, and despite his years of work, winning the loyalty of the most powerful army that Westeros has seen for a long time, Daenerys has found himself without a trusted person to whom he has Address on the eve of a battle where most of our characters are waiting for them to finish.
All around Daenerys, deep links, sometimes several decades long, exist between the Westerosi.
The episode begins with the trial of Jaime Lannister. Daenerys is in the foreground at the high table. In the place where Jon Snow once stood while he was crowned king in the north, Daenerys is now sitting as his queen.
This is his first time at Winterfell, and everything is going badly from the beginning. Jaime refuses to apologize and Brienne (whom Daenerys barely knows) speaks for his defense, bringing the lady of Winterfell Sansa Stark around. In search of support, Daenerys tries to get Jon involved, but he sleeps behind the wheel.
Daenerys is clearly embarrbaded by the way Sansa has turned the conversation around so that Jaime stays. She seems even more embarrbaded when Sansa walks away from the table without looking back. And then Jon also avoids his eyes and pbades near him without a word. Daenerys is left standing in front of the northern leaders without support, and she picks them up later in Tyrion down the hall.
Later, Jorah finds her alone, standing in front of a fire and looking morose. He urges her to make peace with Tyrion and Sansa. Daenerys goes off to find the lady of Winterfell. They seem to bond … at first. But Daenerys did not explain Sansa's desire to protect and direct the North as a kingdom separate from the realm that Daenerys wishes to govern.
Their meeting ends with a new wall erected between them, then comes a new blow to the sense of leadership of Daenerys.
Daenerys is troubled by the arrival of Theon Greyjoy at Winterfell, although she seems delighted by the sight of another ally sworn to serve her. But then, Theon turns to Sansa and says that he wants to fight for Winterfell. Daenerys witnesses their embrace and finds an unparalleled emotional devotion that Greyjoy never showed him. Theon perhaps serves Queen Daenerys, but her heart is with the Starks and the North.
The memory of Ned Stark and the fight for the North are at the heart of the emotion of the upcoming Battle of Winterfell. The Hound is already fighting for Arya and now he finds himself protecting his home. All Theon's bow has moved away from Winterfell and Starks and is now back in their arms and their service. Ser Davos found a leader in Jon Snow after the defeat of Stannis and Tormund will follow his "little raven" in all fights.
Jaime and Brienne seem to be there mainly for each other at this point, but Brienne is above all loyal to the Starks. The Knights of the Valley, the last brothers of the Night Watch, all the Wildlings – they are there because of the Stark House.
Why Daenerys is fighting?
Throughout the episode of Sunday, Daenerys seems to realize how weak his connections with northern leaders are and how isolated it is from the reason why everyone came to Winterfell to end his life. In this darkest hour before the battle, she has no one to spend her last moments with (we'll get back to Jon in a moment).
Missandei and Jorah are undoubtedly the two closest people to Winterfell Daenerys, but their last pre-fight moments are shared with Gray Worm and Sam, respectively, rather than with their queen.
During the war headquarters meeting, Sam and Bran talk about the night. King wanting an endless night and erase any memory of humanity.
"That's what death is, is not it? Forgetting or being forgotten," Sam said at the very moment the scene was unfolding on Daenerys.
That's what everything comes back to, really. What is everyone fighting for ? Earlier in the episode, Daenerys said she was fighting "Jon's War", but does that mean more than that? Stannis brought his armies north once to help Jon Snow and Night Watch when Davos made him understand that he was to save the kingdom to win the throne and not to save him.
Is this what Daenerys thinks she is doing? If that were the case, the events of Sunday's episode apparently would have pushed this motivation to the bottom of his mind. At the moment the horns of the war were sounded, Daenerys suffered the shock of Jon's sonship and seemed angry at the order of succession to the iron throne.
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