re: Game of Thrones S8E5 "The Bells" premiered five years ago today...

The fact of the matter is I really don’t mind Dany burning down King’s Landing. Sir Too Fat to Write a Book has always said that he admires the Scouring of the Shire and wanted a similar ending tone to his novels, so I buy it that this is the end fate of Dany and King’s Landing. It makes sense (at least from the books) that could be the end of her character, but the show did nothing leading up to it making it a plausible end for the character.

It also doesn’t work given that all the named characters killed in it are murderous assholes and sociopaths. You’ve got the Mad Queen, Frankenstein’s Monster, Josef Mengele, and evil Jack Sparrow as its victims. Sorry, I don’t feel bad for any of these people and they all deserved death.

Guess technically Jaime dies as well, but it’s after betraying all of the progress of the character sleeping with Brienne, leaving her behind, dying with Cersei, and saying that he never cared much for the commoners, the later of which just seems to be an intentional spit in the character’s and fans’ faces.

The fact is Cersei is almost certainly on borrowed time in the show compared to the books, where the vast majority of fans expect her to be dead by the end of WoW. The Burning of King’s Landing would work if there were characters we cared about affected by it, but we don’t in the show.