colafitte said:
None of them have dragons. I'm pretty sure Sansa and Arya, at some point in her stories would liked burn KL to the ground too. Nobody has the power Dany has in this story, so no one can be compared to her. You can guess Jon and Bran wouldn't do it, in any cirucumstances, but the rest of the Starks.....mmm. Besides all of this, Dany has the arrogant gen of the Targaryen. She sees herself as a superior being to others. She was stolen of her birthright. She has grown living with resentment. Daenerys has been shown multiples times not differentiating fairly who are true enemies or not. Like when she considered Ned Stark as guilty as Robert Baratheon for assassinating her family, something that Jorah had to convince her was not fair because Ned would have never killed a baby, and that he wasn't even in KL at the moment. Daenerys has barely shown mercy against her enemies throughout the story. It was just that until now, Daenerys' enemies and the audience enemies were the same. It's more a problem of hipocresy of the audience than anything else. We like to critizise and judge others severely because we like to be right until another one does the same against us. That's why is so dangerous a leader/revolutionist character like Daenerys. In the end she decided Cersei, KL population and anyone not supporting her are going to be her enemies. If you are not with me, you are against me. Not middle terms. Absolutism mentality. |
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.
