Wrong. The entire feudal royalty is out to kill her. They will keep on plotting and scheming against her unless they are so scared ****less, and their own armies and citizens are so scared ****less, that they wont dare to **** with her.aTmAg said:Pffft. Up until now, Dany has been pretty smart (way smarter than Jon Snow). You don't waste a million people because they "might" rebel. You take out Cersei, her army, her castle, etc. And THEN if the civilians start a revolt you roast them. If you can wipe out armies in 20 minutes, you can easily wipe out civilians if the need arises.Champ Bailey said:aTmAg said:And so she kills a million civilians, that had nothing to do with any of that, after the battle is won?Champ Bailey said:aTmAg said:Please. They? The civilians didn't murder her entire family. They didn't kill all her friends and her "children". They didn't make her brother bang Jon's mom. None of this comes close to explain why she'd burn a million civilians after the battle is won.Champ Bailey said:aTmAg said:No they aren't.Champ Bailey said:bobinator said:
UThis 'rule by fear' thing is the lazy bit.
She could have ruled by fear by simply melting the red keep for everyone to see. Or taking the city and then killing everyone wearing Lannister armor.
But instead she goes all the way to 'I need to kill everyone in this city' which again to me is just lazy. They laid such complicated groundwork for this character, and then at the end she goes completely off the deep end for no particular reason.
No particular reason? The reasonings are 8 seasons in the making.
These people have benefitted off the power her ancestors amassed centuries ago after they betrayed them. They murdered her entire family and have tried to kill her since the moment she left Westeros using this power that was stolen from her. She lost all her friends along the way, had sacrificed two of her "children," for this cause, and right at the end it turns out that even her central belief that it was her destiny by right to take the throne was a lie due to Jon.
GRRM may have better explained it (in books or his mind), but the show sure as hell didn't.
She talks about it at Winterfell when she sees Jon getting all the love for riding her dragons. She feels ostracized and separated from the people, even though they would have all died without her. And they don't giver her any credit for it.
Yes. She explains it to Jon. She people to be obedient to her out of love. After Jon denied her advances, she chose fear. Destroying the red keep gets rid of Cersei, but it doesn't stop revolts happening by troops and houses still loyal to her.
Her burning Utica to the ground ensures that everyone is afraid of her and what she can and will do. Similar to the Tarly's, but on a much bigger scale.
The lords of the west had their servants/lower class fully under 'useful idiot' supporting roles.
The way to undermine that useful idiot role, and break the wheel of the lords' game, is to demonstrate to everyone on the continent that if their lords try anything with her they will all burn. So the people wont follow them against her.
Thats what she means when she realized that jon/sansa/all the lords had put her in the position where 'fear is all she has'
