What do you think about what's going on with Game of Thrones? Or should I wait and ask this in a week?
Well running on my longstanding theory that the story is supposed to be a critique of the audience and their naive understanding of power politics and the way they expect it to be validated in fiction, all by way of a critique of the characters they identify with
It’s hard to miss that Dany was like, the good multicultural I Care R2P Yass Queen leader who assembled a multinational coalition for an overseas expedition to depose a cruel and halfassed ruler
And in the end an arrogant sense of her own power and an airpower-first force structure leads to a campaign of overkill that completely crushes the existing regime amid massive civilian casualties, with absolutely no reason to believe this will lead to a friendly, less cruel, or even minimally functional regime replacing it