Why did the bells trigger Daenerys?

Daenerys Targaryen's decision to destroy King's Landing was a reaction to hearing the bells of surrender ring. The episode's director says she did it because the relatively bloodless coup was not "enough" for her and she felt "empty" in that moment.
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Why did Daenerys burn Kings Landing after the bells rang?

When Daenerys burns King's Landing, she isn't going mad, not really. She is giving up on her lifelong dream, accepting that she will always be hated, and simply choosing to destroy her enemies instead, to cow them into permanent submission the way Aegon the Conqueror once did.
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What did the bells mean in got?

Game of Thrones season 8 featured Daenerys' attack on King's Landing, with the bells supposed to mean surrender - but that wasn't always the case.
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Why did Dany go crazy in got?

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We were asked to believe that Daenerys was mad because they were telling us she was, but the audience knew better. She could have taken a dark turn somewhere down the line if there had been more time and more build-up.
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Did Daenerys hear the bells?

At the start of Game of Thrones' penultimate episode, “The Bells,” Daenerys Targaryen sits high above the streets of King's Landing, on the back of her beloved dragon Drogon. She hears the tolling of the bells — the sound she's been told, over and over again, means surrender, acquiescence to her rule.
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Why did Daenerys ignore the bell?

Daenerys Targaryen's decision to destroy King's Landing was a reaction to hearing the bells of surrender ring. The episode's director says she did it because the relatively bloodless coup was not "enough" for her and she felt "empty" in that moment.
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Did Daenerys go mad in the books?

In the show Daenerys went mad. Of course the show did stray away from GRRM books, especially once reaching season 5 which loosely follows A Dance with Dragons. I have seen some people say they believe Dany will go mad, but most of those readers have admitted to hating her.
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Why can't Daenerys get pregnant?

What has Daenerys said about her inability to have children? Dany saw Mirri's prophecy as a curse, and believes she will never be able to give birth to human babies. Instead, she considers her dragons to be her children. When warlocks of Qarth steal her dragons, Jorah tries to convince her to leave them behind.
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Was Daenerys pregnant with Jon Snow?

Game of Thrones Daenerys Targaryen was pregnant by Jon Snow in finale ending | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV | Express.co.uk.
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What did khaleesi whisper to Jorah?

Daenerys later tells Jon that she was never able to love Jorah the way he loved her, but sends him away with the knowledge that he was truly the only one she could ever trust.
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Why do targaryens go mad?

House Targaryen carries the trait for insanity in its bloodline. Over three hundred years of heavy inbreeding, marrying brother to sister whenever possible to "keep the bloodline pure," resulted in many of the medical problems seen with incest, particularly mental instability.
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Why did Cersei ring the bells?

The week's penultimate episode of Game of Thrones is called "The Bells" because of the bells that ring throughout King's Landing to signal the city's surrender.
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Why did varys leave his rings?

Varys was indeed trying to poison Daenerys, so he may have shed his rings for the same reason he burnt that letter -- to hide the evidence.
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When did Daenerys start going crazy?

40 Times 'Game of Thrones' Foreshadowed Daenerys' Mad Queen Transformation. Game of Thrones surprised virtually no one in Season 8, Episode 5 by turning Daenerys Targaryen into a bloodthirsty “Mad Queen.” But what caused this transformation?
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Why did Drogon burn the Iron Throne?

Drogon knows Jon killed his mother, but instead of taking revenge on him, the dragon turns his wrath on the Iron Throne and melts it into molten slag. According to Djawadi, it's intended to represent Drogon destroying the thing that led to his mother's downfall.
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Were dothraki wiped out?

Later in the episode, it was also confirmed that the commander of the Dothraki had been killed as he was resurrected as a white walker.
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What happened to Daenerys and Khal Drogo's baby?

Rhaego was the son of Drogo and Daenerys Targaryen. According to a Dothraki prophecy, he would have been the Stallion Who Mounts the World. He was stillborn after being involved in a blood magic ritual.
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Where did the Drogon take Daenerys body?

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss revealed that Drogon flew Dany's corpse to her true home of Volantis.
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Why does Jon Snow have black hair?

Well, a Game of Thrones fan has put that knowledge to good use (by which we mean extremely nerdy use) and made a pedigree chart explaining why Jon Snow's hair is the black shade of his mother, Lyanna Stark, instead of the Targaryen white-blonde of his father, Rhaegar Targaryen.
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Is Jon Snow immune to fire?

No, Jon is not immune to fire. Remember in the first season, when a wight attacks Castle Black and tries to kill Lord Commander Mormont. Jon throws a lantern at it, and burns his hand in the process. Jon tried to shout, but his voice was gone.
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Was Daenerys baby a dragon?

He was inhuman, hideously deformed and covered in dragon-like scales. He had the stub of a tail small leather wings, reminiscent of a bat. Rhaego was stillborn. During her fever dream, Daenerys Targaryen sees her son tall and proud, with Drogo's copper skin and her own silver-gold hair, violet eyes shaped like almonds.
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Why is Daenerys immune to fire?

TARGARYENS ARE NOT IMMUNE TO FIRE! The birth of Dany's dragons was unique, magical, wonderous, a miracle. She is called The Unburnt because she walked into the flames and lived. But her brother sure as hell wasn't immune to that molten gold.”
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Is Daenerys bald in books?

8 She Was Bald In The Books

In both the book and the series, she comes out covered in ash and with her clothes burned away. In the books, her hair is also scorched off her head, and she spends much of her journey to queendom bald, slowly re-growing her white hair.
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Why did Daenerys lock up two of her dragons?

They can't be tamed. Which is why they're locked up. Season 4 sees Drogon kill a small child. Dany, fearing that this could happen again and to appease the people of Meereen who are now fearful of them, makes the decision to lock her dragons up.
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Why does everyone hate got season 8?

It was rushed

Everything in season eight seemed to be happening too quickly and it would often feel like three episodes worth of information was being crammed into one feature-length episode. A side effect of this was that we weren't able to enjoy the big pay-off moments in the way that we had done previously.
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