I would have LOVED it if Drogon had flown right up to the balcony and TORCHED Cersei. Or if Cersei had done anything beside just stand there. Surprise Dany with some scorpions hidden in the Red Keep? Unleash a crazy Wildfire explosion somewhere? Release a tidal wave of Dornish Red to extinguish the flames engulfing…

You’re right.  She didn’t have to spare Cersei, but she may have thought that Tyrion was working against her and for his family in some way (and in a sense he was, when he released Jamie).  Still, I think the bells were a signal to her that she ultimately didn’t trust Tyrion’s advice.

I think the problem with the final series of GoT is that they’re trying to tell a 22 episode story in 8 episodes...

I cannot believe that they gave Cersei such a peaceful send-off (relatively speaking). She got to die in the arms of her true love. That was so ridiculously unsatisfying, truly unbelievable. The Hound should have stabbed her in the face as she was sneaking by on the steps and said “this is for Arya Stark.”

‘Massacre’ seems like a more appropriate term for this than ‘genocide’ 

I think Sansa could have warmed to her has Dany been able to allow the North to remain independent. This is the main sticking point for Sansa—that the North swore they’d never be under anyone’s rule again, that that’s what all of their houses have been loyally supporting the Starks to achieve. She wanted assurances…

I got more of a My Lai Massacre vibe. Except with Huey gunships and napalm instead of a dragon.

Thank you for this. I rewatched the whole series before I started watching this season. And if you watch like that you can see all of this coming. I blame most of this on sloppy writing and everything being sped up because of the smaller seasons. But the groundwork for all of this was being laid out in the earlier…

She didn’t have to spare Cersei. She could have happily gone full dragon queen on her alone.

You did not mind boning when she was handing over all her goddamn dragonglass for free, how bout that!!!

Sansa has always been a rather petty character, she just couldn’t express that for around maybe 3-4 seasons in the middle because of everything that was happening.

Many reviewers and many commenters seem to be upset that Dany went for the kill. Yes, being upset is valid but what is invalid is the notion that it doesn’t make sense. Not only what she did was wrong, insane and ruthless (and maybe futile in the long run even if she lives), it also still makes complete sense both psyc…

Probably because every outsider who’s acted friendly towards her has ended up being someone who’d betray her. She trusted the Tyrells and they used her to murder Joffrey, she trusted Littlefinger and... yeah let’s not even talk about what the show decided to do with her then.

It’s not she’s skeptical, she downright doesn’t want a foreign ruler. She doesn’t trust anyone else in power, especially someone, a Targaryen she doesn’t know. She’s playing Littlefinger’s little game in her head, and doesn’t believe Daenerys to be any better than the other options besides Jon, a family member. We…

“Perhaps it was always predestined that she would become the Mad Queen, but the character development in Seasons 5 and 6 has been so choppy and absurd that Sunday night’s episode felt like a rude fluke.”

I also like that it challenges us to wonder whether Cersei was the lesser of two evils. She was a monster too, of course, but don’t her cruelties look downright strategic in hindsight now? It’s much more complicated than CERSEI BAD, DANY GOOD. CERSEI PATRIARCHY, DANY FEMINISM. CERSEI MEAN, DANY NICE.

The bells didn’t make her go crazy. It alerted her to a choice:

I think it could’ve been clearer but I’d still argue it’s all there in the episode and recent seasons. Let’s look at just the last two seasons.

On the one hand, after thinking it over, I can appreciate that there was no way she was just going to win and “free” everyone. Like.... it was too nice a storyline for this show. It couldn’t happen. But on the other hand.

I agree that Dany’s plot was built up over many seasons, and it’s in character with consideration of the long arc... but the writers failed to effectively show her transition from rationalizing her acts of violence with rhetoric of being a champion of the oppressed, to just burning a city for funsies that had just…