Again, I feel like the writers failed miserably.
They set up Daenerys’s decent into madness all season, relatively well for the most part, and then they just absolutely fail in the most pathetic way to execute it.
And they failed so miserably by making it such a cakewalk to crush the defenses.
The dragon-killing scorpions we’ve been so concerned about are now just completely useless.
The golden company is a total joke. The iron fleet is a total joke (hey, flying the dragons high is a pretty good thing to do, I’m glad we’ve figured that one out).
The numerous lines they’ve thrown in about the odds being back to 50/50 are just completely out the door I guess.
Despite them setting up her decent into madness, Daenerys had absolutely zero trigger to go off - she had just won the easiest possible victory imaginable, there was nothing there to push her over the edge.
They needed Daenerys to be desperate, to be losing, to see Jon about to die or something - and then from that place of desperation to snap and go on her rampage.
And even then, just straight up blasting fire at normal folks in the streets is still a stupid thing to do even in rampage mode. Fly to the Red Keep.
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So, let me get this straight- Jon has to pull his troops back because Daenerys was destroying the city too much for them to continue their attack? I genuinely don’t understand the dynamics there - what happened to the report that the Unsullied had broken into the Red Keep? What happened to the Lannister soldiers surrendering? Why were people even still fighting in the streets? It feels like the issue was 100% Daenerys riding around basically burning her own troops and knocking down buildings for no reason... again, after completely failing to set up why she was triggered to do that.
Bonus notes:
How in the hell did Jaime and Euron end up in the same place? So, so stupid.
Why did Arya leave the Red Keep and not stay with Sandor? As is typical, that completely ignores 7 seasons of character development and feels completely out of character for her. Her character either stays to kill Cersei or stays to help Sandor, or both.
Jaime doesn’t love Cersei anymore, I don’t care what this stupid show tries to set up... their reconnection absolutely ruins his story arc in a horrible way.
The Pompeii scene with Arya in the streets is supposed to be powerful, and visually it is - but it’s another thing that falls completely flat because they failed so miserably to set up why Daenerys would go on a rampage in the first place after easily winning the city and sitting there in victory... and then beyond that just burning up the entire city and her own troops instead of just flying to the Red Keep to confront Cersei.
And then beyond that, why Arya just completely gave up on her mission and her friend, the two most important things to her as set up by the entire show, and was just running around with folks in the streets to even be in that position.
I do not understand what they’re thinking.
