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Story, plot line, and character development are what made this show great, though. If I wanted to see carnage and action I'd watch a Michael Bay movie.
Yep she shoulda just taken Drogon and burned the red keep to start with. Then she could have united all of Westeros and fought the NK with everybody.
Strongly disagree. Many people who have paid attention, included the Ringer critics and other, criticized the choice to have her fly off the handle like she did. Burn the red keep? Sure. But not murder thousands of innocents.
Well, yeah.
Here is a piece that expounds on the point you are making. I agree with a lot (but not all) of it:
several times in the show she either did make really bad decisions or was talked out of them. At the end of last weeks episode when miss sandy's head got cut off, they focused on her face for like 7 seconds. It was obvious from that she wasn't taking this well. Then to begin this episode, we're told she won't eat or talk to anyone. I'd say that was pretty clearly her having a breakdown. Not sure why people think this was a big deal
The throne didn’t mean much if she was only going to hold it for a short amount of time before the zombies showed up. And notwithstanding the fact that it was in her long term interests to stop the WWs in the North, she still worked hard and leveraged that into the North bending the knee. Nothing about her behavior there was inconsistent with her general fixation on being queen.
lots of people have breakdowns and want revenge against those who wronged them without making a deliberate and conscious decision to kill thousands of completely innocent people that just surrendered.
If she takes King's Landing first there is no need to go North to get a souvenir to bring back, Rhaegal doesn't die, and the Night King never comes South.
Yeah, lots of family types I bet, daughters who dressed up as Dany for halloween etc. Not too happy with their favorite character just torching thousands of innocents. It was glorious.
miss sandy said "dracaris"- apparently our queen took that to heart. I think it was premeditated the moment sandy's head and body fell to the ground.
Agreed but they didn't have time. Way too much to cram into 1 season however the signs were there.
I think that was meant for Cersei. Not every living soul in the city she was going to rule.
She couldn’t quickly take the city that quickly without doing more or less what happened in last night’s episode, and at that point she wasn’t ready to go there. Though the NK ultimately uses Rhaegal to get through the wall, the characters considered the threat to be imminent and we have to assume he would have found another way through.
She wasn't going to be loved so she was going to be feared...her words. Yeah she took it to the extreme but other Targaryens have in the past.
Except she wasn't queen and could have been. If she had a laser like focus on the throne the smart choice, the easy choice to make is to attack KL first. Cersei doesn't have near the strength she had after the Battle of Winterfell, it would have been a cake walk. Hell Dany took the city last night with a 1/4 of the troops and 1/3rd of the dragons.
I disagree, see above. Further, if she takes KL she can hunker down and meet the NK on her terms rather than rush North and throw together some half ### battle plan that gets most of your strength destroyed only to force march everyone back down to KL to fight a battle against an entrenched foe. It gets back to tactics which the show has demonstrated they don't really care much about.
There was going to be no one left in King's Landing to fear her. I know, she had a history of mental illness in the family which is why she killed thousands of innocent people.
circumstances change.
But she heard bells!!! Oh, the BELLS!!!
Grey Worm put some work in. Seeing it to AC/DC.... priceless
It has to be Jon. It's their story, fire and ice, everyone else is are just participants.
Not gonna lie, kinda wanna go kill some Lannisters now.
This is one episode vs. the 70ish that come before it. I couldn't care less what is "true" or isn't. I just want a story that cohesively makes sense. The writers have nailed a lot of character/character interactions. However, without the source material they lost their grip on the overall plot and story progression quite a ways back.
I don't think that's confirmed.
The WWs were only going to get more and more unstoppable as they collected bodies coming south. Rushing to meet them in the North made sense - I agree the tactical decisions they made once there left much to be desired. But then again, apparently Dany had a huge reserve of troops we didn’t see on screen in episode 3.
No question it will be John. The writers have bent over backwards to make it happen. Will be interesting to see how it plays out. Maybe he does it after she orders Tyrion executed.
And, I do not think it can be said definitively that she made up her mind to kill every soul in King's Landing based on the dialogue BF quotes.
