~snip
I guess we have different definitions of madness.
Anyway, SHE IS MAD !
What would you feel if your "right-hand maiden" Misandei, has been killed in front of you brutally?
What would you feel if your feeling betrayed by those around you?
What would you feel ever since in season 1 you are being belittled?
I think Dany has reasons to do that but killing innocents? Maybe that's just what drove the line. A line that could never be uncrossed.
Can't wait for the next episode.
There was something from watching these fans reactions one after another after another in which one stuck out at me for some reason as to why she did what she did.
Daenerys did what she did at kings landing as she saw she can only rule out of fear and not being merciful to her enemies and yes she viewed all of kings landing and their entire populace as her enemy even if they surrendered she knew they wouldnt abide with her taking it over because the people who fled from neighboring towns and villages where all coming there to be protected by her enemy cersie. So she viewed them all as siding with the enemy and so were willing to accept the same fate as her if the queen lost this war.
She had a feeling her grasp of taking it over was fading with her advisors turning against her and even jon not believing in her. So she felt alone in the world as the last targaryn as it was said by several other characters over the span of these past seasons. "It must be a terrible feeling." as said to jon by the maestar at the wall.
At the moment where daenerys made the decision to torch the entire city she was probably thinking she would not be able to rule the inhabitants there. And it would make more sense to just take back the city or what was left of it and start a new with loyal subjects and not have anybody from the old kings landings populace try and usurp her from the throne in defiance.
You have to remember where she started from nothing and if you watch her actions from the previous episodes she had to burn those who stood in her way or she would of never even reached it to where she ended up in the last episode.
I think this was the video which explained what she did was what she was intended to do since she wanted to make it to sit on the iron throne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuyDLEDhtiwEven though it was unacceptable to many who watch the show. But then again.. It is just a show.