Originally posted by ares834
She is insane. She snapped. They "woke the dragon" so to speak and she wanted to rage, and burn, and destroy. And so she did. The fact that she appears to have a fondness for innocents is irrelevant because, let me reiterate, she is insane. Now perhaps they didn't tease her insanity enough, that is fair. But it being OOC really isn't in this case.And no, the "only justification" isn't because of Missandei's death and Jon rejecting her. There were numerous factors contributing to her snap beyond that from betrayals, to learning she is not the rightful heir, as well as the death of two of her "children" and her closest friends.
N1gga, what? A couple things:
1. You're trying to throw out 8 seasons of complex character development by just calling her "insane". That's like saying that the Night King isn't an underwritten villain with no motivation, he's just "demonic".
2. You're saying that a variety of factors led to her death, yet you can't specify which one. Fiction tends to work via cause and effect/action and reaction. Dany's reaction here is entirely unprovoked considering the city surrendered. You say that she snapped because of deaths and betrayals, but she has faced deaths of her friends/dragons and betrayals before and never has she turned into a genocidal maniac. When Khal Drogo or Viserion died and when Jorah was revealed to be a spy, she never took out her rage on innocent civilians for the lulz. As far as her illegitimacy to the throne, anybody with a brain would know that the cure for that is secrecy and good publicity, which she was already doing last episode when she gave Gendry Storm's End. The only other factor is Jon not giving her dick, which, not to sound like an SJW, is kind of a misogynistic assertion that a female leader would destroy her entire political reputation and commit horrific atrocities just because of dem pesky feminine emotions.
Like I said earlier, there are ways to depict her as villainous, such as attempting to kill those who expose her secret, but an outright massacre does not seem like a decision that her character would make and instead feels like the writers trying to subvert expectations for contrived shock value.
Originally posted by Jmanghan
Dany started becoming insane in Season 7, but shes always been slightly unhinged and quick to anger.
Being angered at incompetence isn't the same as massacring the families of a surrendered enemy. And like I said earlier, as far as her execution of the Tarlys, they were enemies who refused to surrender, no different than Jon executing Olly. There was never an indication that she was a monstrous mass murderer