Game of Thrones spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight ordered to HBO series

[FPAlpha]

She was always nuts. She only got into the idea of being nice to people and protecting them when they started praising her and parading her around on high.
She freed slaves so they would worship her.

Exactly. From season one she is shown as manipulative. Back then it was a survival mechanism but she also used it to her advantage to further long term goals when she made Drogo fall in love with her. She loved him too but make no mistake - it started with her wanting control over his Dothraki.

Everything she did was not born out of altruism. Free the slaves? Sure, noble thing but you also gain a workforce and powerbase that is beyond loyal to you. Gain control of slave eunuch soldiers? Sure, noble thing to free them from their slavers but you also gain an elite fighting force that is also utterly loyal to you.

She was always a calculating person and the show never hid that, most people just stopped at the surface and only saw the positive sides but once she arrived in Westeros the veil started slipping and finally came off when she burned the Tarly's needlessly and allies started to abandon her. So her final turn during the assault on King's Landing was just the final step in a long journey.

 

[DigificWriter]

It feels like people desperately don't want to acknowledge that GoT's Showrunners intentionally and repeatedly gaslit the audience about the nature of Dany's character despite the evidence that they did so being clearly documented.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

She consistently punishes disloyalty severely and sometimes cruelly.
Up to Westeros people fall in line for the most part.
Once in Westeros, she recognizes the existential threat of the night king and put aside her ambitions for a moment.
But after that she goes right back to demand loyalty, except now the people defy her at every turn.
The North refuses her, Cersei’s forces deprive her of several allies and loyal servants, including her second to last dragon and the people dare to not welcome her with open arms.
She knows she will never get unconditional worship, so back to ultimate punishement she goes.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

It feels like people desperately don't want to acknowledge that GoT's Showrunners intentionally and repeatedly gaslit the audience about the nature of Dany's character despite the evidence that they did so being clearly documented.

Providing strong evidence of Danerys' true nature throughout the show since the beginning is not an act of avoidance. It's proving that there isn't any gaslighting at all.

The only desperation I'm seeing is your insistence of such gaslighting (without evidence!)...and your absolute refusal to say their names. David Benioff and D. B. Weiss!

 

[Nerys Myk]

Showrunners aren't required to be 'honest." Fiction and the promotion of fiction is misdirection, obscurification and manipulation.

 

[DigificWriter]

I refuse to name GoT's Showrunners because they're hacks who killed their own careers.

And the Season 6 example I cited - which is the episode where she kills all the Dothraki women - is just one instance where horrific actions taken by Dany were described as heroic in the Inside the Episode featurettes.

Others off the top of my head are Episode 6 of Season 1 where she baits Viserys into mistreating her in front of Drogo and thus causes Drogo to kill him, the Season 2 finale where she retrieves her dragons, burns the House of the Undying to the ground, and buries Xaro and her traitorous handmaid alive, Season 3 episode 4 where she 'acquires' the Unsullied, the Season 3 finale where she liberates Yunkai, Season 4 Episode 4 where she publicly executes the slave masters of Mareen, and Season 5 Episode 2 when she incites a riot in Mareen.

I could keep going, but I think I've sufficiently made my point.