10 Biggest Missed Opportunities In TV History

10. Daenerys' Botched Heel Turn - Game Of Thrones

Game of Thrones' eighth and final season is basically a comedy of errors - an avalanche of storytelling mistakes as showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss attempted to speed-run a full season's worth of story and character work in just six episodes.

There were many, many missed opportunities in the show's final stretch, but nothing more egregious than the botched presentation of Daenerys Targaryen's (Emilia Clarke) transition into the Mad Queen.

On paper, the idea of Dany's heel turn was perfectly fine, but it also needed to be built up and finessed over at least the course of a season, rather than feeling so suddenly thrown into the mix at the end as it did.

When Dany burned down King's Landing in the show's penultimate episode, it simply didn't feel earned - rather it came off as rushed, with Benioff and Weiss racing to tie up her arc in record time.

As character development it felt inauthentic to Dany up to that point, a fact made even worse by her abrupt death in the series finale.

Daenerys becoming a full-blown villain could've been incredible if given sufficient time to marinate, but it was painfully clear that those in charge just wanted to get it done as fast as possible and move onto other projects.