It’s said that when a Targaryen is born, the gods toss a coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land: madness, or greatness. And in the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones, “The Bells,” the world finally saw that madness take hold of our purported hero, Daenerys Targaryen.
This character turn sparked instant debate and backlash for the most-watched episode of the HBO series. How could the woman who was set up to be Westeros’s savior, who learned from past tyrants’ mistakes and who outright said she would not burn King’s Landing turn so quickly on all of the morals she held dear? How could the daughter of the Mad King who promised to break the wheel, to be better than those who came before, become the same evil that these characters have fought so hard to destroy?
Source: IGN.com GoT: Daenerys Targaryen Has Always Been a Mad Queen