GoT's Daenary's character getting the "Aggressive Woman" treatment.
The article below points out her dilemma. Episode Eight shows Dany being snubbed by the people she saved because she's a foreigner. She loses half of her army, two of her dragons, her best friend, her best advisor and we're not even giving her a chance to feel anger. Instead we're ready to right her off as "The Mad Queen." It's a good article.
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Why Daenerys Becoming The Mad Queen On 'Game Of Thrones' Isn't As Simple As Some Fans Might Think
But in Season 8, the show reduced Daenerys to her most vulnerable. The selflessness she displayed by abandoning her mission and joining forces with Jon to save humanity was never thanked. She is still unwelcome in the North, still looked at as a foreigner. Four episodes in, she has lost two of her dragons, whom she considered her children; her most trusted advisor Ser Jorah, her closest confidant Missandei, and a good chunk of the army that pledged its allegiance to her not for money or out of force, but because she earned it. Yet the show insists on painting the anger she feels, the vengeance she undoubtedly craves, as a sign of madness. Does this hit awfully close to home?
In "The Last of the Starks," with Jon’s parentage out of the bag thanks to an incredibly uncharacteristic and petty Sansa hinting at it to Tyrion, all of Daenerys’ surviving advisers are starting to consider Jon Snow a better option for the throne. He’s level headed, they say. A Targaryen and a Stark, he will be the one to unify the North and the South. But the underlying reason is more sinister. “He’s a man,” Varys says, “which makes him more appealing to the Lords of Westeros.” Varys is adamant that it is in fact a lack of interest in ruling that makes Jon the better ruler. Where was this forethought by the famed master of whispers when he rallied to get Daenerys on the throne in the first place? By positioning Jon as the more acceptable ruler, the show is dialing back to its patriarchal beginnings, undoing the heroic character arc of Daenerys Targaryen.
Game of Thrones has always served as a high fantasy mirror to our contemporary times. The patriarchy, the class separation, and fascist policies of the rulers makes the show feel relevant to the present day. But propping up a male candidate to the throne over a woman who has worked her butt off to get here feels like an especially Machiavellian scheme. By projecting Daenerys as too emotional, unpredictable, and uncontrollable for the throne and Jon as too tempered, the show reminds us of the mental gymnastics people go through in the real world to declare a woman unfit for power. (Nevermind that Jon has, until now, displayed no actual ruling caliber.)
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Daenerys certainly has the fiery temper of the Targaryens — especially given all the inbreeding, there is cause to believe that she could come untamed. But in "The Last of the Starks," she was remarkably reined in. She agreed to the peace talks, and resisted from storming the capital. After the deaths of those closest to her, it's understandable that she would now seek revenge. And if we see that next episode, it will be vengeance rightly served.
https://www.bustle.com/p/daenerys-isnt-the-mad-queen-on-game-of-thrones-shes-just-rightfully-angry-17611691
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