Liberation theology is an actual thing in our world-an ideology concerned with bringing Catholicism to the poor in Latin America by bypassing hierarchical power structures-but it doesn’t exist in Westeros for obvious reasons. If this is liberation, he doesn’t believe in liberation theology. Tyrion, who understands enough Valyrian to get the gist of what she’s saying, looks around the ruined city. Tyrion doesn’t believe in liberation theology. I wasn’t aware there was any other way for Dothraki to look. We have some badass-looking Dothraki in the mix. The Dothraki scream and raise their arakhs into the air. Just in case you didn’t know, the Dothraki are “badass.”Īnd here’s the scene as Daenerys speaks to her victorious army: Daenerys is doing mental gymnastics to confirm to herself that she’s a liberator, even as the horrible devastation of her war crimes are right in front of her. “They decided that regardless of civilian casualties they must bomb and shell the once placid river city of 35,000,” that story continues. major said about a decimated village in the Vietnam War in an Associated Press story. Here’s another ’60s reference: “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,” a U.S. The devastated city stretches out below her, but she shows no signs of ambivalence or doubt. This sentiment is echoed a few pages later:Īmidst the ashes of her conquest and the corpses of her enemies, Dany accepts the worship of her followers. The meaning isn’t exactly subtle-Daenerys has completed her transformation into a tyrant. “Her Satanic Majesty’s Request” is a reference to the 1967 Rolling Stones album Their Satanic Majesties Request. For a moment, Drogon’s unfolding wings spread behind her back, an unsettling image. When he nears the top he sees Dany, already dismounted, walking towards him. Here’s how the script lays out that moment when Drogon’s wings unfold behind Daenerys:ĭrogon lands out of sight beyond the top of the stairs. Here are 15 takeaways, thoughts, and notes from the finale script: Daenerys goes full evil. Weiss’s actual written words do reveal a bit about their thinking-and answer questions many fans had after the finale aired. For the most part, it’s exactly the same as the episode that aired in May, but David Benioff and D.B.
HBO nominated “The Iron Throne” for a writing Emmy, which means the script is now on the internet. And right on cue, we now have the script for the finale episode. It’s been more than two months since Game of Thrones’ finale aired, just enough time to go back and look at the show with some distance.
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