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Machiavellian on 16 May 2019
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colafitte said:
Faelco said:

Except that KL population is her population, her citizens. She considers herself as the Queen, and Cersei is just an usurper. So, those people are her subjects. She is fighting to free her subject from an usurper and get her throne back. It makes absolutely no sense to kill her subjects, even more before attacking the usurper. Or worse, ignoring the usurper to just focus on killing her population.

And the population is with no one, they will just follow whoever is king/queen. The only way for the population to not accept the new queen is if she starts to kill people blindly. Like she did. It's just a stupid writing made to make her hated and accelerate her obvious murder in the last episode. Lazy writing for hollywoodian "plot twist".

Before that, she also had Dorne, Highgarden and the Iron Island following her (and the North and Vale through Sansa and Jon). It's dead now, no one will follow her anymore (or only publicly). People don't understand that you don't reign with fear like that. This action did not create fear, it created hatred. Huge difference between respecting and fearing your queen (when she kills people who oppose her), and hating her (when she kills everyone blindly). That's the difference that will lead to her death, for no reason.

And she will say that she did it for the people of KL. For the "future generations" like she said before the attack.

And the population being with no one maybe it doesn't matter to you, but it definitively matters to Daenerys. That's what Tyrion was trying to tell her all this time, but in Daenerys mind, If the people don't fight against Cersei with her, then are part of the problem too. She literally says in the last ep when Tyrion tells her that the people don't care "it is my fault??" You have to take into consideration that she is sending a message, not only to KL's people, but all Westeros. Deny my right to be queen and you will burn too. This is necessary because I AM NECESSARY. Everyone fighting against me, or not alongside me, is fighting against the future of the 7 seven kingdoms. That's her mindset.

Look, i don't support how the tv show has done Daenerys recent arc at all. I do feel too, that everything was too rushed. But the hints are there, and it's probably how the books are going to end too.

Isn't this a reflection on current society.  Have we not killed innocents trying to get the so called villain.  Someone terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.  How many times has we seen people be ok with collateral damage.  I would say that Martin has done an excellent job of duping his audience.  He has shone many times Dany's nature but people were ok with it because as one person put it, it was against bad people.  People wanted Cersei to pay they wanted her to burn I do not know why they believe Martin would give it to them the way they envisioned.  It was evident that he was always moving the story this way where you have a teenage kid with anger issues and repeatable nukes under their control.  It was always going to end bad.