"The universe is made of stories, not atoms."
Daenerys did not go mad.
What she did was totally sane and rational.
It’s what America did at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Hence the imagery, which deliberately evoke nuclear destruction.
Demonstrate the capacity for huge violence, to take complete power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZnQP5RZ8A8
Daenerys did not go mad.
What she did was totally sane and rational.
It's what America did at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Hence the imagery, which deliberately evoke nuclear destruction.
Demonstrate the capacity for huge violence, to take complete power.
— Damien Walter (@damiengwalter) May 14, 2019
Writer and storyteller. Contributor to The Guardian, Independent, BBC, Wired, Buzzfeed and Aeon magazine. Special forces librarian (retired). Teaches the Rhetoric of Story to over 35,000 students worldwide. View more posts
Damien Walter