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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.

The same Tarleys who betrayed the Tyrells? Boo hoo. And Dany gave them more than enough chance.

How did they betray the Tyrells? The Tyrells were dead. Olenna is a Redwyne by birth, she didn't inherit Mace's lordship of the Reach because inheritance doesn't work that way. The Tarlys were sworn to the Iron Throne and the Lord Paramount of the Reach. Cersei, legally or not, occupied the Iron Throne. The Lord Paramount of the Reach and his heirs were dead.

Also, Dany didn't say shit about the Tyrells when she burned the Tarlys. She said it herself, she burned them because they wouldn't bend the knee, not because she was avenging Olenna or anything like that. I personally don't care about the morality of that act, it's war, whatever. But oof, what a bad PR move when you're trying to lose the shadow of your crazy pyromaniac father. The same crazy pyromaniac father whose burning/strangling of another prominent lord and his son eventually led to half the realm rebelling and overthrowing their house.

God you Dany stans are scary. You really think the end justifies the means,even when the end is wrong too. You are all closet fascists - the sort of people who vote for fucking Trump and Farage.

Are you forgetting who Randyll was? Why should I care about an abusive father?

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Who was that?

A Meereenese nobleman. I don't know if the dude ever had a name. Just search YouTube for "Dany feeds a man to her dragons" or some similar search term.

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

Yes, there is. And it's largely irrelevant to this canon, where there are many more men being equally, and often more, irresponsible than women with power. So I'm not sure this is the gotcha you think it is.

It's not irrelevant just because you refuse to listen to another perspective.

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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.

So was the finale good/consistent writing or dogshit writing, then?

God yeah