(06-19-2019, 10:08 AM)irukandji Wrote: I'm not so certain that Dany looking upon herself as a goddess is such an irrational thing though. How could she be in command of three dragons and not look upon herself as being specially gifted above the people?
It's not actually. Someone like Dany believing she's a goddess is one of the most reasonable things in the show. Being invulnerable to fire and hatching three petrified dragon eggs certainly would inflate my ego. She didn't get all of those titles for nothing.
In the end, this is what made her so dangerous as power that can't be questioned always is. But that wasn't her character until the very end which is why the narrative surrounding her fell apart. I think it would've been better to have more of a gradual build up and have another season of her being a tyrant to really land. That could've been an entire final season in itself instead of breaking her down in the span of a few episodes.
In this world, there are several people that could've been deified in the eyes of the people. Jon for being resurrected, Arya for killing the Night King, Bran for being the Three-Eyed Raven, Red Priestesses like Melisandre, and others.
It just seemed like Dany was treated like the dangerous one ever since she came to Westeros while the others weren't. It kinda feels like she was just seen as the foreign invader. I could see the characters seeing her that way but I think the audience was supposed to as well. Cersei was closer to a "Mad Queen" than Dany was throughout the show but it's Dany who will forever be known with that title.