the concept of aemon learning about his family passing one by one via letters and then being notified that his only family member daenerys is alive but he can’t get to her in time to teach her and prepare her
Hotd is fanfiction and all, but enough people understand just how insidious it is to take a story where a woman becomes paranoid because of misogynistic usurpation, betrayal, and losing her children to war. And then make that into some 2d "mad queen religious fanatic". It's evil
there is absolutely no universe, no timeline or reality, no amount of writing, set up or foreshadowing that would make me be ok with daenerys going mad and being killed by jon
To prepare for their roles in Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke and Harry Lloyd read ASOIAF book multiple times to understand their characters :
“We're geeks, truthfully. We wanted to find out everything we could about the Targaryen family history, so we reread the books together.”