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Originally Posted by Sharp
The thing was the last targaryen... Burn them all... Was legitimately mentally ill and with a history of insanity and sadism. Dany arcing toward that to make her a villain isnt the issue, I honestly think it could have been a good move fo the character if I were done well. My issue is with how she turned on a dime
I understand that her advisors being picked off (jorah/missandei) or losing her trust (tyrion/varys) would enable the worst to come out in her, but she's still proved time and time again she's been on the side of the people. Cersei even seemed to want to undermine it. The speculation was actually that cersei was going to destroy her character by making her look insane by tricking/provoking her into doing something so destructive.... But instead of being the cunning manipulator who managed to be queen, she was practically the declawed victim... But that's my gripe with cersei
For Dany, to echo what people here already said, she didn't really seem amply set up to murder civilians like that. I would've believed her going straight for Cersei (assuming cersei was going to go down like a joke) and killing the civs in the red keep, but this was just for the sake of the cinematography
It did look cool
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I disagree with her turning on a dime. It was something you could see brewing for a long time, ever since she came to Westeros. The Westerosi people are not her people, this was the whole point of every scene where shes talking about how they love Jon but dont know her. She knew once the news broke about Jon that this was really her only option if Jon wasnt going to marry her.
As far as Cersei, she did play that card, her plan was to force Dany to do what she did. Once she did, its like oh shit she wasnt playing im fucked. It was foreshadowed, once again, in the scene with Jon, where she says that Cersei sees her mercy as a weakness. She probably feels that way about the entire country at this point. Cersei overestimated her fighting force as well, the dragon destroyed her defenses in like 2 minutes (which btw their plan for this on both sides was far better than the Battle of Winterfell)
They could have done many things that are stunning visually. I think we are just disagreeing on the character development, i think it was a fine transition. I can see where people may think it wasnt, but i was ready and accepting for any option. I think a lot of people wanted it to go down a certain way, and now that it isnt they wanna blame the writers.