Dany going mad wasn’t the problem, her suddenly burning down KL after she won the war made no fricking sense. Her descent into madness felt out of nowhere and way too sudden. She literally put her life on the line just two episodes ago to save the world. Now after she won the war she decides to kill everyone? No sense at all

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Posted by OMLandshark

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Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:02 pm to dawgfan24348

If I had to take a guess how it goes down in the books, first off Dany will clearly be on the edge of madness upon returning to Westeros, and won’t be the biggest surprise to everyone.

But how it could make sense is that Dany comes back to King’s Landing pissed that they didn’t send forces to fight the Others. Instead of Cersei being on the Iron Throne, it is Aegon and Arianne. Dany demands an unconditional surrender from Aegon, and even if he’s about to do so, the small folk of King’s Landing refuse. They will openly tell Dany that they’ve had enough Mad Kings and Queens and instead want the Heir of Rhaegar to be their king.

Well Dany will not only know that Aegon is a fake but that Jon who is in her army is the actual Heir of Rhaegar, so she loses her shite and entirely snaps about them being ungrateful for saving the realm, and proceeds to burn them all to the ground. And Aegon and Arianne and the others (save for Varys who escapes) die in fire, and House Martell is extinguished save for Doran who lived long enough to see the extinction of his house.

That works much better than what happened in the show.

This post was edited on 5/12/24 at 10:04 pm

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Posted by AUCom96

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Posted on 5/13/24 at 6:41 am to dawgfan24348

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Dany going mad wasn’t the problem, her suddenly burning down KL after she won the war made no fricking sense. Her descent into madness felt out of nowhere and way too sudden. She literally put her life on the line just two episodes ago to save the world. Now after she won the war she decides to kill everyone? No sense at all

Not really defending it, but it also wasn't far out of character. She was understandably nuts and had always dealt with that by destroying what opposed her. She came from a genetic line known for violent tyranny and she was riding around on a weapon of mass destruction. She was a tyrant. She meant to be a tyrant...a benevolent tyrant, sure, but all tyrants have violence in their back pocket at any time if they want to stay in power.

All of this was rushed and compressed into far too small of a space. Honestly, I pity the showrunners. Martin won't finish his story and also likes to sneer from the sidelines. They had probably been given a timeline and just going on notes, any ending they came up with would have been bad.

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