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Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) has won the Iron Throne. On paper, it's about as happy an ending as 'Game of Thrones' could possibly muster — but the surface details leave out all the fire, blood and character assassinations along the way.

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00:00Okay, I only have three words for last night's episode of Game of Thrones.

00:03Shit. Went. Down.

00:05But not everyone was happy about it.

00:07The penultimate episode of the HBO fantasy series titled The Bells focused on the

00:11last war, aka Daenerys Targaryen taking down Queen Cersei and the Lannister army

00:15and claiming the Iron Throne. Now watch out because we have major spoilers ahead.

00:19The original plan was for Khaleesi's army that included the Dothraki and the

00:23Unsullied to march toward King's Landing and seize fire once they ring the bells

00:27and surrender. To everyone's surprise, it didn't take long for the Lannisters to drop

00:31their weapons and surrender. So it looked like they won the war and all was well.

00:35Except things got personal. In a shocking twist, Khaleesi decided that no,

00:41surrendering was not enough for her, climbed up on her dragon and proceeded to burn

00:45the entire city down, civilians and all, Mad Queen style.

00:49There was a lot of blood, there was even more fire, and the episode saw the end of some

00:55major characters, including Varys, Euron Greyjoy and the Hound in the Mountain during

01:00their highly anticipated and epic Clegane Bowl.

01:03One of the more shocking deaths was Cersei and Jaime Lannister, who found their way back

01:07to each other amongst the rubble and tried to make a run out of King's Landing, only to

01:11realize that they're trapped in the tunnels. Viewers were probably expecting a more

01:15vengeful death for Cersei rather than the siblings holding each other as the tunnel

01:19collapses all around them, burying them in the Red Keep. But it was only fitting that the

01:23Lannister siblings came into this world together and left the world together.

01:26So with everything said and done, to say it was a pretty dramatic episode would be a

01:30severe understatement. But not everyone, and by everyone we mean social media, was

01:34thrilled about how it all went down. A lot of Game of Thrones viewers were not happy

01:38about Daenerys' sudden descent into madness, and a lot of people called it

01:42character assassination. Many blamed creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss for the

01:46character treatment of many of the series' powerful women, including the Dragon

01:50Queen, Cersei and Sansa among others.

01:53At Sara So Witty tweeted,

01:55weird how a show with no female writers or directors didn't do justice to their

01:59female leads.

02:00At Sonya Saraya wrote,

02:01if you go back right now and watch the first four seasons of Game of Thrones,

02:05Dany turning insane makes no sense. She faced so much hardship and held her own.

02:10And Pony Wazik wrote,

02:12The criticism for how the women in the show were written follows recent backlash for

02:25season eight's fourth episode, The Last of the Starks, in which Missandei, one of the

02:29few persons of color on the series, was brutally beheaded and killed off the show.

02:33Alright, for more updates and insights on the episode head to THR.com and until next time

02:38for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.

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