Warning: spoilers ahead for the House of the Dragon season 2 finale. It’s impossible to overstate just how devastated Game of Thrones fans were with the finale of the show when it aired in 2019. While viewers still aren’t over their dire disappointment five years later, revelations made in the House of the Dragon season 2 finale have rubbed even more salt into the wound.
Game of Thrones spent years building up the mystery of who would finally end up on the Iron Throne, with many predicting that Daenerys Targaryen ( Emilia Clarke ) would reign victorious over her enemies. However, in the finale, the beloved Mother of Dragons bafflingly descended into madness, burning hordes of innocent people alive in King’s Landing despite her reputation as a saviour and ‘breaker of chains’. Her lover and nephew Jon Snow ( Kit Harington ) subsequently stabbed and killed her to prevent her from committing any more atrocities, before Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) was eventually chosen to rule as the King , which many deemed utterly nonsensical.
One of the reasons why fans felt so disheartened about the finale was because George RR Martin, the author of the A Song of Ice and Fire book series, hadn’t finished writing the story yet...
meaning that the show’s creators had to come up with their own ending. It also felt very rushed, given the final season consisted of only six episodes, one fewer than the penultimate season, and four fewer than the rest. In Game of Thrones, fans l.