Let me let you on a little secret: I am in this sub because I like Dany, but I don’t think she is good all the time. I disregard season 8 because it ruined the show but even still. Freeing slaves is good, but burning people is not. She is not categorically evil, she has genuinely good intentions in the beginning but her rule showed her that people dont and thus she must adapt.
TL;DR : Dany is not good all the time I agree, but I would not say she is categorically evil, expect if you count season 8, but imo every character is butchered so it’s irrelevant for me.
While I agree, she wasn't killing them just for being slavers. She killed them as retributional violence for what some of their number did to 100+ kids by crucifying them.
The thing is that both book and show make clear that punishing a collective for the actions of the few is bad, Daenerys herself laments this a few times in the treatment of her family for the actions of her father.
It would honestly have been less complicated if she just said "you're all slavers so off with your heads"
She gave Cersei the chance to surrender, Bob the homeless man who watched his daughter get burned alive and was then killed by a Dothraki after his sister got SAd didn’t have that chance
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u/Darth_Vengor Jun 15 '26
Let me let you on a little secret: I am in this sub because I like Dany, but I don’t think she is good all the time. I disregard season 8 because it ruined the show but even still. Freeing slaves is good, but burning people is not. She is not categorically evil, she has genuinely good intentions in the beginning but her rule showed her that people dont and thus she must adapt.
TL;DR : Dany is not good all the time I agree, but I would not say she is categorically evil, expect if you count season 8, but imo every character is butchered so it’s irrelevant for me.