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Faelco 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.

Yes, the books might end the same way, and that's not the issue here.

If you add an entire season showing a progression to the Mad Queen, it can be good. You could even do the same type of scenario, but with one factor making her snap. An example would be to kill her second dragon during the attack instead of during the previous episode. Make them kill Rhaegal just before the bells, and I would understand if she snaps and doesn't let them surrender. But the way they did it, it makes no sense. Even with some foreshadowing, you need one push to make her become mad. There was no push during the battle, she became mad alone on her dragon because of bells. Ridiculous.