It is a little know *fact* that this same issue kiiled the major plot twist in Lucas' 2nd and 3rd Prequel Star Wars movies.
Jar Jar Binks was a *very* obvious copy of the *Mule* from Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. The Mule is introduced as a *clown* with the same clumsy bizarre clown look as Jar Jar Binks, to the same team of 'heroes' at the same point in the narrative. The Mule/Jar Jar, because of appearance, speech pattern and clumsiness, is taken as harmless.
The original 'Star Wars' took all of its themes from existing works as well- as film scholoras know. So borrowing The Mule was similar form for George Lucas.
But then the problem...
The Phantom Menace was childish, and aimed at young children. A little kid in the pod race. Funny frog people and robots speaking in high pitched cartoon form. Lots of bright colours. And Jar Jar Binks was sold as the child's friend- and marked as such in the usual merchandise.
When Lucas explained that Jar Jar was actually a Sith mastermind- and the reveal would be the prequel's "Luke, I am your Father" moment, the people around Lucas said "but George, we marketed TPM at little kids, and sold Jar Jar as the safe happy little guy from that movie. The parents will go *beserk* if you turn around and make Jar Jar the very devil himself. You cannot be this irresponsible when TPM was derided by all adult fans for pitching to the very young- a choice you made"
So the plan to have the big Mule like reveal for Jar Jar was dropped, and the prequel movies lost their only plot twist. The fight between Jar Jar and Yoda is swapped for a fight between Yoda and dracula.
Now decades later and WB (yes HBO is WB in disguise) was so clueless, it made exactly the same mistake. Dany- the fan favourite among fanboys and girls, and a role model for mid-to-low betas and below, suddenly becomes evil because to the zero-talent hacks who write this show, *this* is 'fanservice'.
Everything sh-t in Season 8 (ie., the whole of the events in season 8) has been 'fanservice' in the opinion of David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. So utterly thick and clueless are this duo, they truly thought each of these events that have horrified fans would be adored by the same fans.
You think the studio heads did not see how sh-t the scripts were? Of course they did. But David Benioff and D.B. Weiss reassured the heads that this is what the *fans* wanted. So the studio said "fine- you clearly know your fans- and if your fans want this sh-t, why should we deny them".
When Lucas was told *why* he couldn't have his 'Mule' plot device with Jar Jar, he got it. He changed the next two moves to accomodate. You see George is a proper, educated writer. Perhaps not a great writer, but he understands the trade and craft rules.
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are pure Human waste. No talent. No ability. No decency to crack open a book on the rules of writing narrative. And no clue about how their audience actually thinks- their *worst* crime. Today, only extreme alt-left trade outlets are defending GOT. Now defending two *white males* from rightful attacks by women and 'black' people (and men and 'white' people). Which shows the true purpose of the alt-left media outlets.
