But we're not taken along with the narrative. This season (and last?) we've had some key plot memes in flashing lights with big signs saying 'important plot point', whilst other times we're left guessing and having to fill in major gaps ourselves because the writers have neglected to follow the gradual and careful story exposition that characterised the earlier seasons.
See I agree with this wholeheartedly. Its not been written as well as it might have been.
BUT, as you've explained above, its still all there if you or I as the viewer chooses to see it and is able to make their peace with it being hurried along.
All the motivation, all the beats, all the theory and logic behind her demolishing KL and the innocents she took out...they
are there.
If the show's style would have allowed for a 'nam style flashback for her in the moment where the bells were ringing of the moments where she'd lost her children, her lover, her friends, the attempted poisoning of her in the days before, her sacrifices not leading her to being accepted or loved just before she went and burned everyone then I'm convinced there'd be less annoyance with it.
Its why so many of the alternative scripts or when people throw out their own ideas you see so many of them saying Rhaegal should have been killed in episode 8 just as the bells were ringing or some equivalent. Because of the short hand overt motivation it gives her to sack KL there and then in anger, its easy to grasp and hand fed. That would *actually* be lazy writing though.
This season's issue might actually be that its not as overt as it needed to be if you're going to hurry things along in this manner.
