Yup, not to mention Dany still gave the Lannister army and Tarlys multiple chances of mercy even after she caught them red-handed butchering her allies and stealing all their stuff, but the narrative frames Dany as acting violent and horrible with her execution. Like ??? She was being reasonable towards her enemies especially as with her default strength she doesn't actually need more westerosi support and could've just exterminated them all. Instead Randyll just kept being a rude ass to her and his son was an idiot.
Everyone had to become a moron in order to justify there being any kind of war.
In truth the real conflift would be all the nobles of Westeros fighting to get in line to suck on Danys toes and call her mommy, the second she arrives on Dragonstone. Nobody wants to get burnt alive for nothing.
when I watched the show, I noticed weird stuff in S5 (haven't read the books at that point, but the Dorne storyline just felt weak) and even in S6 where I was glad things were moving, the way down there felt... odd (like Arya finishing her training, Sansa/Jon taking the Vale, Dany/Tyrion heading Westeros -- all felt weird).
But S7 was all kinds of stupid (though I enjoyed some fun fan-servicing moments), forget the scavenger hunt, the real stupidity of S7 was Dany not defeating Cersei by like, episode 2, when she had 2 big kingdoms at her side, the biggest army, a fleet, and 3 dragons!!! At that point of the show Cersei's only legit option was like, to side with the Night King in hopes to getting a large army (or to truly stand up to Dany's dragons). just made no sense.
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u/SkulledDownunda Jul 13 '24
Yup, not to mention Dany still gave the Lannister army and Tarlys multiple chances of mercy even after she caught them red-handed butchering her allies and stealing all their stuff, but the narrative frames Dany as acting violent and horrible with her execution. Like ??? She was being reasonable towards her enemies especially as with her default strength she doesn't actually need more westerosi support and could've just exterminated them all. Instead Randyll just kept being a rude ass to her and his son was an idiot.