Except that she burnt her enemies and promised to raze cities and armies since the very beginning. She's not ''mad'' (noone uses that word in the real modern word), she's a dictator and she always had it in her. Yes, the writing was still rushed and bad but it wasn't out of nowhere. She was just like any other character - obsessed with revenge and power-hungry, the only difference was having dragons which made her even more entitled. Also, please look on modern dictators and their ''commanders'' who raze towns and villages to the ground. They are not ''mad'' because they know exactly what they are doing, they just don't care. Daenerys stopped caring either. She never did it ''for people'' but for herself only.
Probably George gave some things to dumb and dumber that will happen in the books, but they could'nt make a reason for that and just said "lets make her burn kings landing, because.....yeah"
The only right choice to sit on the throne. Not f*cking Raisin Bran. To be honest, I think anyone would have been a better choice than Raisin Bran 🤦♀️
@@Adanu191 Way better leader, conqueror and a queen than half of the "main characters.". She was sabotaged, betrayed and manipulated almost by everyone in her council. if u read the books or even watch the show again you will realise how stupid ur comment is. It amazes me how people like you dont understand her character.😂
@@Adanu191 She wasn't. Inspiring perhaps, but she was overbearing, excessively brutal, and paranoid to degrees even the Mad King would've been proud of. She also had a tendency to grant herself increasingly grandiose titles and behave as if she ruled the world well before she even came close to doing so.
She was burning her enemies and promising to raze cities and armies in her quest for revenge and power since season 2 - and viewers were still expecting her to be some benevolent saint. Yes, the writing in the end was crap and it was all very rushed but it was not out of nowhere. Ultimately, she was just like any other character - obsessed with revenge and power-hungry, the only difference was her having dragons which ultimately made her even more entitled and arrogant than anyone else. She never did it ''for people'' but for herself only which is why eventually she stopped caring about ''collateral victims''.
It would've probably made more sense for her to kill innocents by accident, by doing something like burning down the red keep after they surrendered. She was shown to be ruthless to her enemies, but still wanting the best for the common people, so her just flying through the streets killing everyone doesn't make sense, so I think her targeting the homes of the royals would've been more in character, made more sense, and at least be a little more understandable, since they just killed one of her most trusted friends.
@@frogimation Maybe, but by season 6-7 she saw almost everyone as her enemy. And after Missandei execution common people of kings landing definitely was "her enemy"
@frogimation yep. If she had flown off WHILE the bells were ringing that would've been great. And it would've fit a huge theme in got too... sometimes, even though you tryto do things right sometimes....too little too late
What a terribly one sided and biased view of the character xD. If she cared nothing about the people, she would have kept the Unsullied as a slave army, not freed them. They would have followed her, no matter what. If she didn't care about the people, she would have bypassed the costly campaign in the Slavers Bay and sailed for Westeros at the literal perfect moment to take over the continent. (During the War of the Five Kings.) She literally screwed herself over by staying too long in Essos, because of the people. If she didn't care about the people, she wouldn't have idiotically locked the dragons away from circumstantial evidence at best, one that is clearly written as a Harpy plot in the books. If she didn't care about the people, she would have done the sensible thing and put the slavers of Yunkai to the sword as she should have, instead of leaving the city intanct and ripe for rebellion not long after. If she didn't care about the people, she wouldn't have tried to assimilate with the people of Meereen, and instead would have taken a much more hardline stance with the slavers and probably would have averted a larger rebellion. And if you are going try and quote fucking Geneva Convention to me by saying "She nailed people to the cross and executed slavers in cold blood" goddamit, its the middle ages, theres no monarch wo didn't do that. No ones claiming her to be the very imagine of purity and sainthood and if they are - they don't understand the character. But calling her "Only power-hungry and and obsessed with revenge" is such a simpleton way to view the character. I'd imagine the type of people who would view her like that also claim Sansa Stark to be the 'smartest character they have ever seen on screen xD' She has a ridiculous amount of faults, her upbringing meant she was never meant for ruling, she was forced to learn as she went and it lead her to loose her spine when it was needed - placating both sides of the Meereneese politics instead of taking a proper stance to achieve her goals. It had nothing to do with "Her stopping caring about collateral victims", she literally almost lost Meereen BECASUE SHE CARED TOO MUCH. Which is just another direct pointer to why her madness arc was a rushed, stinking pile of shit without proper buildup. Her entitlement comes from her advisors constantly trying to feed her whatever they believe she wants to hear, (to mostly get in her bed); IE, Jorah, Daario, earlier Viserys and his stories. But we already saw that starting to crumble when Barristan told her the facts. (A storyline that was conveniently cut short by D&D by killing Selmy early, when he should have been very much alive during the siege of Meereen.) Just as the quoted "burning cities to the ground" bs line was also a D&D invention, that never actually happened in the source material. If Dany actually WAS more ruthless, she would have achieved her goals much more easily, but in the end, she wasn't. Even in the garbage season 7 she should have given Jon and ultimatum to bend the knee or receive no help, instead the good-hearted fool only gave him a longer and longer leash like an idiot. She held all the cards and utilized none. Dont try to twist a character to serve your own views, its annoying.
@@katherine8604 The fact that you had to specify "men" instead of people or characters shows a not so subtle hint of sexism charging your comment. But you're still right. Wanna know the difference though? You don't see us men calling any of them saviours or heroes. Not the way women did with Daenerys to the point of naming their daughters after her. I never met a father who named his son Ramsay after Ramsay Bolton 😂
