Lady of Arryn tried throwing her through the fucking window of a cliff are you serious? And then was essentially ruled by the one person that caused her all of her pain in life.
Big difference between accepting help from family and accepting help from the person whose father burned your grandfather alive and had your uncle strangled as he watched.
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Except she didn't; House Lannister defies her. Sansa denies her rule. And the north follows her because Jon follows her, not because they believe in her.
She wanted the North's freedom. Dany wants all of Westeros.
So then you establish that and follow it. Explain or imply in some capacity why she felt she should leave all those people alive but raze the city and kill tens of thousands of innocents after an unconditional surrender. It is a huge jump for her character and requires a lot more than getting mad about losing some cock, some isolation, and talking about ruling through fear.
The death of Rhaegal wasn't pointless, how it happened was very stupid and it was irrelevant to the burning of KLs but the point was to make Dany even more fearful, isolated, and unhinged. Another straw on the camel's back.
Ah yes family that tried throwing you through the window of a cliff, only to then be ruled by LF (by proxy) who is responsible for all her suffering. Much better to trust these people then to trust someone she has 0 knowledge of, because, "shes not one of us".
Jamie. On the same episode a sell sword sent by Cersei threatens to kill him, he decides to go save her, only to die with her in the next episode.
Ruling through fear doesn't make sense when she has seen for 2 seasons now that her greatest threat does not fear death! He was introduced to her as literally dying for what he believed in! He stood up to the physical manifestation of death with the white walkers and rallied his bannermen without even trying.
No, she still had the Vale's support. Regardless of Lysa's insanity.
Or killed him during the battle of Winterfell when she should have in hindsight. The moment where she saves him from the zombies, she could have easily killed him and gone "oops went a little to close."
Yep. Effective autocrats rule through clientelism and trying to create sectarian tensions. She's doing neither.
This a hundred percent I feel like the mad queen was Telegraphed for a while. You have that targarian on the night watch said, "It's a scary thing when a targarian is alone in the world". She was finally alone in the world and snapped.
It's not GRRMs fault they decided to start making a show based on books that weren't finished yet. And it's also not his fault that they cut down the last two seasons which forced them to rush everything and butcher several characters along the way.
I don't think the fear was used to scare off Jon, rather any would-be supporters.
If you said "this incel school shooter did this because they did not feel loved" then that would apply more accurately. It very obviously wasn't about the sex in this case, and it's disingenuous to say is was.
yeah he's great. he can cobble together a whole episode to feel like the first 10 minutes of saving private ryan.
Thank you for the clarification, apologies if i was a bit aggressive :)
They were already scared and then they died scared.
Yeah torching a city for no reason makes perfect sense.
LOL literally laughed out loud at this. But yeah seriously fuck this show, I mean we all knew it was coming but once again D&D had to make it look so out of character, "I won, you surrendered, but I will burn you anyway"
