Warning: spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones season 8, episode 5, “The Bells.” In Game of Thrones’ penultimate season 8 episode, Daenerys Targaryen takes King’s Landing cleanly, with minimal use of force - and then she decides to burn it to the ground, massacring everyone she can see. Everyone wants something from her, and with the show’s new rushed dynamic, which completely eliminates travel and recovery time, there’s never any chance to sit with her emotions. She’s learning that she can’t trust anyone, so she doesn’t have anywhere to turn. This is a lot for anyone to take on, but it’s remarkably worse for Dany. In “The Bells,” Daenerys is angry for a lot of reasons: her boyfriend is her nephew, that same nephew has a claim to the Iron Throne she’s chased for years, she’s lost two dragon children, and her inner circle is either betraying her or has been murdered. Woeful goodbyes come and go in the blink of an eye.Īnd pent-up fury unleashes itself in the worst possible way. Hushed discussions in dark corridors are about illicit affairs, forbidden romances, or the passing-on of terrible secrets. Practically every conversation is about preparing to kill or accepting death. GIF: HBOĪside from the phenomenal post-Battle of Winterfell episode where everyone gets drunk and hangs out together (it’s like Cheers, only set in a much friendlier place than Boston), Game of Thrones doesn’t devote much time to letting its characters simply talk about non-political or non-war topics. No one on Game of Thrones is processing their feelings, and the result of that is, well, this: Drogon burning King’s Landing while Cersei watches.
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Tyrion’s need for affection from whomever he serves, to know that he’s wanted, comes from years of childhood abuse that a good professional could help him navigate. Euron Greyjoy’s testosterone-fueled aggression screams of someone who should have seen a therapist at some point as a teenager. Cersei and Jaime’s disturbing incestuous relationship, which brought them to the crypts of King’s Landing, should have been examined by a children’s psychologist when they were young. Arya’s unwavering mission to kill whoever she must to exact revenge on a few select people could probably have been worked out with some deep behavioral therapy sessions. Many of the violent scenes from the series’s penultimate episode, “The Bells,” like the highly anticipated fight between the Hound and the Mountain, come from years of people stewing over their family issues instead of confronting them.
One of the dragons needs feeding or Bran is out in the Winterfell courtyard unnerving people with weird statements and stares again, and someone needs to get him indoors near a fire. Think back to every episode this season: how often do these people, who are dealing with incredibly traumatic, stressful situations, really sit down and talk about it? Not often. It’s easy to snort over the idea of Mad Queen Daenerys sitting down with a patient, sympathetic professional ear once a week or Euron Greyjoy spending the occasional 60-minute session working through his feelings. Game of Thrones’ final season has shown, more than ever, that most of the show’s characters are in desperate need of some one-on-one time with a therapist. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single person in want of an Iron Throne must be in need of therapy.
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