Thousands - if not hundreds of thousands - are dead, either turned to ash or crushed beneath the rubble. She becomes a faceless beacon of terror, lighting up a city with dragonfire. revenge? Fear? To feel something? It’s not immediately clear, and the camera never cuts back to Dany again. These people pose no immediate threat to her. It cuts to the people running from the dragon on the streets below.Īnd then, instead of attacking the Red Keep, Dany begins to attack the people in the streets indiscriminately, burning soldier and civilian alike. It cuts to Tyrion Lannister watching with dread. The episode cuts to Cersei Lannister, the queen for a few moments more, watching with grim inevitability as the dragon flies toward her. She takes to the air on Drogon’s back, and we are led to believe she’s flying to the castle. She looks upon the Red Keep, the castle her family built, which she was smuggled out of in her mother’s womb, the building she believes to be her birthright. She is near tears, exhausted and overwhelmed. The camera holds on her face for a long, anguished moment, as actress Emilia Clarke rolls through everything from triumph to gutted despair. She hears the tolling of the bells - the sound she’s been told, over and over again, means surrender, acquiescence to her rule. At the start of Game of Thrones’ penultimate episode, “The Bells,” Daenerys Targaryen sits high above the streets of King’s Landing, on the back of her beloved dragon Drogon.
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