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She's definitely messianic, but when has she indiscriminately slaughtered innocents? This argument that it was well presaged is nonsense.
We could look at Tyrion. Strangled a whore, murdered his father on the toilet, lit conscripts on fire. Varys attempted to poison Dany when she was a child (and later on in this episode). And those are the good guys. There wasn't anything preparing people for this kind of curb-stomp. The bells were ringing, men had dropped their arms.
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The Tarleys tried to kill her and her men. We accept their actions because it was war, and so they were offered an option to avoid their fate. They declined.
The episode with the slaves killing their masters is hazy. From what I recall, she was genuinely concerned for those oppressed. I don't recall if she anticipated the consequences of her actions, but I doubt she celebrated the violence and carnage.
After the episode, the showrunners said maybe she doesn't turn her dragon into a WMD if she's loved in the north, or loved by Jon, and so on. One could always argue for rapid onset madness. We're typically surprised when someone shoots up a school (99.9% of other kids who showed the same signs do not become mass killers).
Martin long ago said one character who was a good guy would turn bad, and she always the number one suspect, so I'm not shocked. But I don't think it was properly set up. Even at the beginning of the episode, Varys says he's not sure how her coin has landed.
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Yeah, and in a boxing match, one combatant should be brought up on charges of initiating violence. The Targaryen children were shuttled off to the easy because of orders to have them killed. Both sides were prepared for that battle; there were even first generation anti-dragon balistas.
Not to get technical, but the arguments in this thread suggesting the signs were all there are retarded. Virtually every character is morally compromised, but that doesn't mean atrocities of this type and on this scale were entirely predictable. In addition to what was mentioned earlier about Tyrion and Varys... The Hound has done his share of killing. Jorah Mormant took slaves (and facilitated the assassination of a child). Jaime pushed a kid out a window and maybe raped his sister (among other things).
Someone earlier said people could make excuses for Daenerys. Absolutely. What excuses can be made now? There's almost no moral ambiguity. The person below who imagines a scenario where Euron kills one of the dragons, which sets Dany off, is far more believable.
That's what is great about the Dany character. There is always excuses for her past violent behavior so it doesn't appear out of the ordinary so she has support.
"But I don't think it was properly set up."
Someone suggested a different setup. Instead of the dragon being killed by the weapons on the ship, she and Jon ride both dragons and take out much of Cersei's defenses. The bells ring for surrender and Dany is satisfied until Euron fires an arrow at Jon's dragon from a hidden place. Dany sees her dragon and Jon die and that propels her attack on the citizens.
She still wants to rule with fear, but her present behavior isn't as jarring.
Lol wtf? That sounds awful. Thank god the show writers didn’t go that route.
sharewell i thought she had morals, the actress sure fooled me
shareThe only thing that held her back was her counselors but once she lost trust in them it was back to slaughtering as she did the Masters.
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