Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik addresses controversial Daenerys Targaryen scenes
Daily MailExactly one month after the series finale of Game of Thrones, one of the show's directors, Miguel Sapochnik, addresses the controversy surrounding Daenerys Targaryen and her destructive decisions. Thrones director: Exactly one month after the series finale of Game of Thrones, one of the show's directors, Miguel Sapochnik, addresses the controversy surrounding Daenerys Targaryen and her destructive decisions No question: Sapochnik, 44, who directed the third episode of Season 8, The Long Night, and the penultimate fifth episode, The Bells, revealed he did not question her dark turn at the end of the final season 'The way she has treated humans, and the conviction she has, means that conviction is eventually going to fall afoul,' Sapochnik said. Director: The death of Missandei seemed to signal the start of Daenerys' descent into madness, with Sapochnik revealing that he wanted to juxtapose Daenerys' downtrodden state with Tyrion, who has made many mistakes himself No question: 'She’s not questioning herself anymore, which is the difference between somebody who, I think, has kind of lost their mind,' the director said In the episode, Daenerys had agreed to hold off her attack if the bells in the city had been rung, to give people time to flee the city. Weiss explained in a previous interview was a, 'symbol of everything that was taken from her' Cut back: Sapochnik added that, once the destruction had started, he decided to not cut back to Dany, for a very specific reason 'At that point, you don’t need to see her,' the director said, 'We decided not to cut back to her.