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I think the ending with Dany being carried by the freed slaves is supposed to have totally opposite meanings for those who have read the books vs. those who haven't. Those who haven't see it as Dany gathering power and building influence.

If you've read the book and look at the faces of the slaves and Dany in the last scene, you can see that she is getting too absorbed in these city-state liberations and losing focus on her big picture. Even when she tells her dragons to go fly and then goes to crowd surf in the slaves is foreshadowing how she becomes more focused on the slaves than the dragons and her destiny. Telling the dragons to go fly could foreshadow her later loss of control over their activities.

I know the above doesn't really add anything new, but I thought it was interesting how that scene could be seen totally differently by different people.