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You know, I'm not convinced many fans turned on Dany. I think they turned on the creators more, because Dany's burning King's Landing was some out-of-the-fucking-blue nonsense bad writing.

It really wasn't out of the blue. We did an office pool at my work. Out of the 30 people that participated, 14 of them said Dany would go Mad Queen on everyone.

Me too! King's Landing isn't even the first city she seriously considered burning to the ground, so I always thought she had it in her, but I thought there would be more build-up, you know?

She just seemed to go dracarys on a bunch of people for no discernible, or logical reason. I still see people debating what she thought she gained by killing a good chunk of King's Landing's population like that? Especially after she already won so completely.

What other time did she go dracarys on someone without reason?

I think she said something about killing all the people in that one city who wanted to go back to being what they were before she freed all the slaves.

She burned a man alive and fed him to her dragons when she had no evidence he was guilty of the crime he and a group of others were being accused of. She literally said moments before that maybe they're all guilty, maybe they're all innocent, but she was going to let her dragons decide. She had no interest in justice, she was just flexing on the other Meereen nobles and bringing them to heel through fear.

She also burned the Tarleys alive because they would not bend the knee instead of sending them to the wall as was custom. This of course happens during the time she burns hundreds of foot soldiers alive as they are trying to escort food.

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man people who pretend it wasn't dogshit writing just so they can feel smug are so obnoxious

THIS.

Also, guessing a female character who obtains an enormous amount of power is going to "go bad" is not exactly a testament to your ability to parse a text. It's more like a testament to your having seen/read any other stories in which women obtain enormous amounts of power.

It's only a slightly iffier bet than betting the male and female leads of a story are eventually going to fuck.

It's more like a testament to your having seen/read any other stories in which women obtain enormous amounts of power.

The whole of the text is showing how destructive the relentless pursuit of power is. You don't need to go outside of this canon to theorize that Dany could become a villain. And lol at jabbing at her ending as somehow being anti-feminist, as though there weren't a fuckton of male characters who did horrible things in pursuit of power (as opposed to, what, two women?) or female characters in power who didn't go bad.

There's actually a lot of analysis out there about how women in fiction are presented as more irresponsible with power than men, which inevitably affects how we view women in power in real life, but go off I guess

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If you reach any more you'll fall over. Oh, wait...

+1 Right???

It can be dogshit writing and still telegraph Dany's endgame clearly.

Never since the Harry Potter/Harmonian days have I seen a group of fans try so hard to ignore the fucking obvious. The ending was telegraphed. The deeper meaning was all in your head and the obvious cliche is where the story was headed all along.

Jesus christ.

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God yeah

I think most fans realize Dany got a raw deal.

As someone who has hated Dany for about 7 seasons, I was ecstatic.

Having not watched the episode, I choose to believe she did in fact aim for the Keep, and by doing so ignited the wildfire Cersei had strategically planted around the city, thus pinning blame on Dany for the destruction of King's Landing while giving Cersei the final moment of mad genius and victory she always wanted.

That's not what happened though. She did ignite caches of wildfire by accident, but they were almost pitiful in effect next to her carpet bombing King's Landing. And she deliberately zigzagged so she could kill as many civilians as possible.

I didn't say it was what actually happened. I said it's what I choose as my fictional imagining because I think it would have been better for both characters' arcs. Calm down.

Damn, I like that version of events so. much. better.

Right? I wanted Cersei to DO something, especially if she was going to be the final threat, and it's not like she wouldn't have gone to those lengths. She had the means and the time. Such a brilliant villain and so wasted by the finale.