Game of Thrones

With only one episode remaining, it’s unlikely “Game of Thrones” will tie up every loose end for us.But doesn’t the show owe us some degree of resolution to its major mysteries, and a judgment on the new villain its onetime hero has suddenly turned out to be?

What’s going on in Daenerys’s head?

There are so many theories about why Dany “snapped” and scorched King’s Landing.People in Westeros might say it was because of a Targaryen predisposition toward mental illness (although most purported earlier examples had other explanations). The showrunners claim the havoc-wreaking was a spur-of-the-moment decision, but Dany actually telegraphed it in words and actions long before. Or maybe the cause was Varys’s poison, if it had the time to to take effect after all. (Basilisk blood, in the books, is easily hidden in cooked meat and produces violent madness.) Or it could be somehow connected to her ineffable, magical bond with Drogon?