Let's Talk About Daenerys Targaryen's Ending On "Game Of Thrones"

    Lyanna Stark did not die for this. Warning: contains spoilers.

    Jenna Guillaume
    by Jenna Guillaume

    BuzzFeed Contributor

    Well. We knew it was probably coming, and here it is: in the Season 8 finale, Jon Snow murders the woman he loves, Daenerys Targaryen, and effectively ends the Targaryen line – his own family – forever.

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    Coming off the back of a completely unearned turn to the dark side from Daenerys, and retconning speeches from Tyrion that cast the very deeds that made him and everyone else believe in Daenerys in a negative light – not to mention the implication that if only the men had been able to control her, things would be different – it's less of a bittersweet ending and more of an extremely sour one.

    Daenerys Targaryen started her story being assaulted by her brother and raped by her husband, and she ended it by being betrayed and murdered by the man she loves – while he was literally kissing her. It reeks of misogyny, and comes as a final blow to all the fans who persisted with the show despite their reservations about its treatment of its female characters.

    To be clear – this plot could have been done in a way that wasn't so sexist and damaging. But it wasn't. And making Sansa Queen in the North, Brienne a kingsguard, or sending Arya off on adventures does not make up for the way the show turned its central female character, an abuse survivor, into a crazy person and a victim in the end, without giving her plot the development it deserved to make it make sense.

    Many Game of Thrones fans have been left disappointed. Here are some of their reactions...

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    irdis @DEClPHR

    RIP Daenerys Targaryen You deserved better 😪 #GameOfThronesFinale #GameOfThrones

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    rita @lidiasaguilar

    daenerys death was SO incredibly underwhelming, a character with eight years of journey, whose death had no impact. i didnt even cry one single tear please

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    Dany @queeendany

    SO WHAT LESSON WE LEARN FROM #GOT TODAY THAT NEVER TRUST A MAN. #GameOfThronesFinale

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    Celeste Ng @pronounced_ing

    Oh good lord is this really gonna be about a white man’s “decision” to “choose” to save the world from a violent irrational woman? I am going to be LIVID if that is where we end up in this ACTUAL world where white men irrationally are taking choices away from women

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    Avi 🌈 @avinesh_13

    Me after all these years, investing in supporting Dany, only to get this finale #GameofThrones

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    𝒟𝑒𝓋𝑜𝓃 @Emiliaofstark

    Dany began her story alone and then died alone

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    jasmine | mad queen stan 🔥 @fauxscal

    drogon is all alone in the world now that dany's dead oh nooo somebody save my boy

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    crossingwinter @crossing_winter

    In her first episode of #GameofThrones, #DaenerysTargaryen was molested by her brother and raped by her husband. In her final episode, she was murdered by her lover. Cool progression that.

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    Erika Clark Jones @UrbanMomJones

    Killed the baddest woman ever for this bumbling group of mediocres to rule? #GameOfThronesFinale #really

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    ℝίτα🐉||GoT Spoilers @JonxDanyy

    Daenerys lost: Her parents Her brothers Her home Her baby Her most trusted advisers Her best friend Her dragons Her people Her armies Was sold, raped, abused... but sure she doesn't deserve a happy ending because her last name isn't Stark. #GameOfThrones #GameOfThronesFinale

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    nie @beysdany

    Arthur Dayne didn’t die for this. He died so that the Targaryens could live.

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    ً @targarcyn

    the worst thing is that the writers are using daenerys killing slavers and rapists as a sign for her descent to madness. SLAVERS. AND RAPISTS. of all shows. im so over it #GameOfThrones

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    ً @emiliacIarked

    cannot believe they had so many opportunities with all these powerful women and they chose a male ruler with a WHOLE council of males... no words #gameofthrones

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    Rara 💫 @fireharwtt

    Drogon and Dany didn't deserve this. #Daenerys #GameOfThrones

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    Talia Lavin @chick_in_kiev

    what an arc daenerys had, from being felt up by her brother to stabbed by her nephew

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    Emmy Winner Emilia Clarke @daenerysDY

    oh my god I just had to BEYONCE REALLY IS A DAENERYS STAN AND EVEN WROTE A MF SONG ABOUT IT AND PLACED IT IN HER LEMONADE ALBUM she knew all along #GameOfThronesFinale

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