GoT season 8 final episode 6 tonight. (spoiler discussion) Fin. The end... for ever. D&D can burn in the seven hells.

[Scoobes]

Neodegenerate said:

DonFerrari said:

Some times people just snap. They have been coping with it for a long time without much hint that they were on the verge of break and them they just snap out of sudden.

Still it was possible to see the traits of her being tyrannically power since first season. As someone said we just didn't see her before killing innocents by the thousand without much as a reason. At least Jon Snow kept being the dumbass he is by doing nothing until it's too late.

I agree that sometimes they snap, but historically on TV shows they have shown the cracks in the armor.  3 episodes ago she was fine with doing whatever it took to protect Westeros.  Now she is taking the scorched earth approach with nothing more than the "look back and see why it might make sense" commentary after.

The cracks have been there since Season 2 and arguably since Season 1 in terms of a lack of empathy. Everytime she gets close to losing it however, she's had advisors to bring her back from the brink and the love/adoration of her followers. 

In the last 3 episodes she's lost her most trusted advisors (and one of them basically told her to show no mercy before her death), her last advisor she's lost complete faith in, her popularity if non-existent, her claim to the throne has been superseded by her lover who is now no longer her lover due to the incest thing, and her second dragon (who she treats as her children) has been killed off. 

And to top it all off, if she'd just attacked Kings Landing when she first arrived in Westeros she would have been sitting on the Iron Throne already.