Agreed. I would love to see the Celtics either draft and stash a Euro,
Here ya go
The prophecy: In the House of the Undying in season 2, Dany has a vision of walking through the Red Keep’s throne room. The ceiling is broken open. Fans assumed the white particles falling into the room was snow and that winter had come to the south. In Sunday’s episode, Dany is finally taking King’s Landing and buildings are indeed being destroyed. But it’s not snowing. It’s raining ash from her dragon’s destruction. The season 2 scene is a vision of Daenerys taking King’s Landing only by becoming the “queen of the ashes.” In the same season she also literally declares, “When my dragons are grown, we will take back what was stolen from me and destroy those who have wronged me. We will lay waste to armies and burn cities to the ground!”
The Mass Crucifixion: On the road to Meereen in season 4, Dany finds 163 slave children crucified. She decides to crucify 163 masters in retaliation without regard for their individual guilt or innocence. Ser Barristan advises her to be more merciful. Later, a son of one of the crucified men insists his father was actually a good man who lobbied against slavery and didn’t deserve his fate.
Revenge for Ser Barristan. Also in season 4, after Ser Barristan was killed by the terror group Sons of the Harpy. In response, Dany brings three masters to her dragonpit. All swear they have nothing to do with the rogue group. She burns one of them alive to send a message to the others. Was the man guilty? Innocent? We don’t know and Dany didn’t seem to mind not knowing.
]The Mass Burning: In season 6 in Vaes Dothrak, as punishment for taking her prisoner and refusing her demands, Dany burns all the khals alive and has the remaining Dothraki promise — echoing Khal Drogo in season 1 — that they’ll “kill my enemies in their iron suits and tear down their stone houses.”
Meereen Revenge Plan: Also in season 6, Dany returns to Meereen and finds the city under attack from the slave cities. This is her first instinct: “I will crucify the masters. I will set their fleets afire. I will kill every last one of their soldiers and return their cities to the dirt. That’s my plan.” Tyrion talks her out of it.
Burning the Tarleys: In season 7, Dany is given the choice of killing or imprisoning Lord Tarly and his son Dickon after a battle and decides to execute both against the advice of Tyrion.
King’s Landing Battle Plan: In season 8, Dany is repeatedly urged to not attack King’s Landing to overthrow Cersei. She never seems to be entirely against the idea, but rather agrees with her advisors that it’s rather poor public relations strategy.
The show has pretty consistently shown that when Daenerys is angered she can rather quickly leap to “kill them all” as the best solution regardless of whether it’s entirely justified or not
https://ew.com/tv/2019/05/13/game-of-thrones-daenerys-mad-queen/
In Game of Thrones season 2, Daenery's handmaiden Doreah – a naïve, stupid girl – betrayed her with Xaro Xan Daxos – a wealthy man who seduced her with riches and a life of comfort away from the indentured servitude she faced working for Dany. In punishment for this offense, Dany locked her and Xaro inside his vault to die a slow death from starvation and probably madness if they didn’t murder-suicide themselves first. It made for great television and it’s doubtful anyone mourned either of those characters for long, but five seasons later Cersei did nearly the exact same thing with Ellaria and her daughter - and it was bone-chilling.
https://screenrant.com/game-thrones-daenerys-mad-queen-clues/
Daenerys offers one of her dragons in exchange for 8,000 Unsullied and the boys still in training (about 5,000). The offer is accepted
Daenerys meets with the Good Masters in a large plaza holding the entire force of Unsullied. She delivers Drogon and is given a scourge that symbolizes ownership of the Unsullied. Now their master, she orders them to kill all the Good Masters, soldiers, and slave overseers, spare the children, and free any slaves they find. After the sacking of the city is complete, she grants them their freedom and asks if they will fight for her as free men. After a few moments, they unanimously acclaim Daenerys as their leader and join her on her march.
Broke her agreement, did not free them out of goodwill but rather to get an army.
https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Unsullied
So plenty of hints about the mad queen if you were looking at the plot and not her looks. JK
The 163 crucified were Masters who benefited greatly from enslaving people. Even if some of them objected to the crucifying of the slaves, they certainly weren't good men. What was she going to do put all the masters on trial? She could have just left the masters fate up to their slaves and she wouldn't have had a problem with the masters anymore. Instead she takes a harsh middle ground, crucifying one master for every slave that was crucified. Putting the masters and slaves on equal footing.
Dany had tried to work with the masters after that but they supported the Sons of Anarchy and killed more of her men than just Ser Barristan. Burning one master was harsh but he was most certainly not an innocent having gotten wealthy off of slaves.
The Khals weren't innocents. They had most certainly committed much brutality to rise to the level of Khal. The Khals had taken Dany prisoner and were deciding her fate. I believe were up to raping her and letting their horses rape her too when she called them on being not fit to rule and demanded they follow her. When they obviously wouldn't, she killed them which was perfectly justified.
Burning the Tarleys was brutal but it is explainable and Lord Tarley was far from an innocent. He had also broken his oath to the Tyrells when he didn't follow them in supporting them in supporting Dany. He could have chosen to be neutral but he actually fought against the Tyrells and destroyed their house. Even so, Dany gave him the chance to support her and his son also had the option to support her. As for taking them prisoner what was she going to do with all their men? Show me the prisoner of war camps in GOT.
Doreah wasn't stupid and naive. She wasn't dupped and she wasn't an innocent. She was conniving and betrayed Dany who had treated Doreah well. The betrayal led several Dothraki being killed including Dany's other handmaiden and her dragons stolen. If Dany hadn't been able to defeat the Warlocks, she would have been imprisoned for life in the House of the Undying. I also had no issue with what Cersei did to Ellaria and her daughter. Neither of them were innocent. Whereas Ellaria killed Myrcella who most certainly was one of the few innocent characters in the show.
At least you didn't mention, Dany's brother's death. Who was one of the most vile characters and justly deserved his death.
I don't see anyone on here claiming Dany was good. She's certainly did a lot of brutal things but until Episode 5 Kings Landing her actions were explainable and justifiable from her perspective and they were also balanced by her good actions. They also weren't that brutal compared to some of the other brutality going on. She wouldn't have rated high on the villain scale and her brutal actions most certainly weren't madness.