While some would argue that the foreshadowing in earlier seasons perfectly set up Dany’s Mad Queen pivot, you’d have to perform some Olympic-level cherry-picking in order to claim that as evidence of strong writing. A significant portion of the Game of Thrones fanbase is understandably upset, after investing so much time and emotional energy into this show, only to watch it faceplant spectacularly at the finish line. More than anything else, “turns out, it didn’t matter” was the running theme of “The Bells,” an episode that tossed aside seven-and-a-half-seasons of careful groundwork and character development in favor of unearned shocks, dizzying twists, and hasty resolutions. The bells did indeed ring, but Daenerys torched the city anyway. In scene after scene, we see Tyrion plead his case to Daenerys, Grey Worm, Jaime Lannister, Jon Snow, and Davos Seaworth, repeating his mantra of, “If you hear the bells ring, they’ve surrendered,” so many times that we half-expected him to self-actualize into a bell and ring himself. Poor Tyrion Lannister spends the first thirty minutes of “The Bells,” the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones, doing everything in his power to prevent the slaughter of the innocent people of King’s Landing. Note: This post contains major spoilers for the fifth episode of Game of Thrones Season 8, “The Bells”
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