Again, everyone who supposedly supports her from Westeros has betrayed her. Sansa who rules the North has not taken the knee to her and took steps that lead to a plot against her. John Snow, who is the other big threat to her throne also betrayed her and is responsible for undermining Dany by telling Sansa in the first place. The Iron Islands would be with Jon and Sansa. In fact, all of her Westeros Allies are really Allies by proxy through Jon Snow and Sansa, who she feels betrayed her. You say the lords know what happens when you betray her, but that didn't stop Jon, Sansa, Varys from betraying her.

What the big Dummy Jon Snow doesn't realize is, by telling his family about his heritage he set in motion a sequence of events that will inevitably lead to a war between Dany and the North. It has to happen. She could never rule with some war hero walking around with a better claim to the throne. For what its worth, history is replete of Rulers killing any minor threats to the legitimacy of their claim to the throne AND conquerors razing cities just to make a point.


Now was it a great decision? Of course not. But my point is there is a certain logic to it and it isn't outside the realm of what a person in her position would do (and historically have done). So I reject the idea that it "makes no sense".






>She won the throne (in every way except actually sitting in
>the chair) and THEN killed seemingly everyone in the city.
>500,000 to a million people. The common people.
>
>As Jorah told her "The common people pray for rain, health,
>and a summer that never ends. They don't care what games the
>high lords play."
>
>And the high lords? They're on her side. They told her in the
>previous episode that Dorne was with her, the Iron Islands are
>with her, The King in the North supports her. She already
>decimated the Reach. They faced her Dragons and saw what
>happens. She already took Casterly Rock, the seat of the
>Westerlands and she already took the Stormlands. (We don't
>really know what's going on in The Vale or The Riverlands at
>this point.)
>
>The high lords of Westeros already knows what happens if you
>defy her. So, the point of killing the common people in King's
>Landing? Because they didn't "rise up and overthrow Cersei"
>(who it was established through action and dialogue that they
>hate)?


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