Lords of Kobol, hear my prayer...

We're supposed to see Dany as "mad" or "bad" and all of her previous brutal actions are evidence of this, etc. EXCEPT every other character on the show (even the "good" ones) has done just as bad.

Exactly. Trying to claim that it's foreshadowing is pointless because, in that case, you could replace her with any other character in the series and that statement would've qualified. And it's true that the show framed Dany as being a hero from the beginning, she made some missteps along the way but that's part of the hero's journey. Pulling the bait-and-switch at the very end to "subvert audience expectations" is not clever, it's just insulting, to the characters, the intelligence of the audience, and to narrative storytelling as a whole. Furthermore, everything that happened in the last season made me dislike the Starks and the way they were portrayed. I didn't expect them to be best friends with Dany, but considering the harrowing journeys they went through I can see them empathizing with one another and understanding that they have common goals and similarities. And yet somehow it turned into pitting girls against each other thing, which I hated because it really made no sense. They truly tried to alienate Dany as much as possible so she could be viewed as "the dangerous other" so that her death would seem like a karmic victory, not a tragedy.

Then again, we know that Dumb and Dumber just never were fans of the books. They outright admitted their incompetence in a proud manner, never truly understanding the characters or the point of the story. And it makes the series wholly unwatchable after the result of the eighth season.

In a way it makes me angrier knowing that the show was handled by these two clowns in the first place. This is a very dense series that needed people who knew and understood the point of the story to make it work. And yet, with everything revealed about how they got the job, how despite their inexperience with running a show and refusing to have anyone else write for the show besides themselves they couldn't just fire them for whatever reason, and they got recognized for something becoming so worldwide popular only for it to foil in the latter seasons, which by that time they were so done with it and didn't care whether they haphazardly ended it because they got their money, their recognition, and wanted to do other things that would bring them more money. This was merely a networking opportunity for them, nothing more, and it's just so infuriating how little care they placed into it. We were all fooled by that first season, and although I stopped watching a couple of seasons into the show, I can't help but feel bad for those who stuck with it until the very end, despite the bad writing and horrific direction, hoping that somehow it all works out in the end.

I'm just glad that Emilia Clarke still defends Dany, and has been quite supportive of the fans who were displeased with the final season (unlike some of the other actors who act like fans who have voiced their displeasure of the direction of the show in the final season to be "entitled"). You can tell that she was deeply affected by what happened to her character, and it makes my heart hurt for her knowing that she was finding strength and courage in Dany only for that 180 to happen. I'm happy that she's able to find that positivity with other fans who are supporting her, and I will always love Dany no matter what. She deserved better, and I'm glad that a good chunk of people out there agree. Even people who weren't initially Dany fans ended up being upset over the way her character was handled.