What was the plan behind killing her? Did Cersei think Dany would surrender after her death?
Surely the play should be to keep her prisoner in the red keep so Dany can't attack it with dragon fire lest she accidently burns her?
Was her death purely for plot detail?
They had no time to set up Dany's rage, so yeah, they killed her best friend to give an excuse for going ape-shit. It would make more sense to keep her hostage.
Arrogance. Cersei thought she had the upper hand in the war since they took down her dragon ez pz
cercei is a woman. they act most of the time on emotion not on reason when under pressure.
with all the shit she got away its completely plausible she acted like that. literally queen complex
this. I think Cersei belived she would kill the last dragon easy after just shooting 3 times the last one.
Ideally it would be a prisoner exchange for Jamie, Cersei says she wants him dead and kills Missandei anyways. And then Jamie gets locked up and is freed by Tyrion, not to be with Cersei, but to kill her. He does.
Damn bro, writer from the show here and that shit is a lot better than him dying in the basement with that cunt... how come the 19 writers and 15 interns didnt think that up?
They only killed her off because writers needed Grey Worm to not question Deneris and charge into the city as well, killing everything in his way.
Because the writers have the mantra of subverting expectations stuck so far up their own ass they don't realize that's now the expectation. Being unexpected is expected, they became boring.
for the same reason she decided to order to get that guy's eyes gouged out, tried to kill tyrion at least twice and pushed her best friend down the well
DABID were done with the show, wanted to move on, even though HBO said they would give them the budget to do more eps/seasons.
I imagine it must get boring to work on a show, even if it's one of the most popular shows making you bank, for 10-15 years. They wanted to hurry up and get it over with, so they went for speedy, mediocre motivations and results as well as resorting to shock value
Martin said he thinks they would've needed another 5 seasons to resolve the story properly. I think if they had wanted at least a "decent" ending/resolution they needed to do 80 episodes at a minimum instead of shortening season 7 by 3 eps and season 8 by 4 eps. And this is bare minimum. I think with a full 10 eps x 8 seasons with an epilogue season 9 it could've at least given them a chance at a guaranteed mediocre ending with some controversy thrown in.
The plot demanded it so it happened.
Just like literally everything in this shit series.
she didn't count on the devs nerfing the ballistas and buffing the dragons in the middle of a match
Grey Worm would've done anything Dany asked of him, except kill/leave Missandei. It's how he's been raised. They needed Dany to have a reason to become mad, so she couldn't have anyone around her who loves her.
>Was her death purely for plot detail?
It was purely for subverting expectations.
They would've had time if D&D had accepted HBO's offer of 10 episodes.
No they wanted it to be unexpected just for the sake of it being so. Which resulted in them throwing every logic out of the window and commiting retcon after retcon or shoe horsing left and right.
how did they even stay convinced D&D are necessary at this point
why don’t they just fuck them off and make the 10 episode season
>shooting the messenger
>that ugly unibrow
Cersei was just reinforcing the fact that white women are superior to filthy shitskin sluts. If you watch closely you can see Cersei and Dany making eye contact as if to silently tell each other that as white women, Cersei just did the world a favor and Dany applauds her for it.
Am I getting too old for this website where posts like don't do a thing for me anymore?
If you're trying to find logic behind that scene I'm sorry to tell you that there is none. Cersei could have killed Dany there too and end the war
Why did Ned Stark stay at King's Landing with his daughters after Robert's death and start dishing out threats at the Lannisters knowing how they might all end up?
Why did Renly challenge Stannis even though they had enemies all around them?
Why did Stannis kill his daughter despite caring for her more than anything else?
Why did the sand sneks kill their princes and kin when they wanted to revenge their prince and kin Oberyn?
Etc...
The show has been like this since the beginning and only now some people are starting to see it.