This was clearly no psychotic break or vengeful spree against the people of King's Landing for any perceived crime against her, just a delusion that Cersei was using "their innocence as a weapon" against Dany to try and make her hesitate in taking what she wanted, despite the fact that she didn't need to attack any innocent people at all to claim the throne. And I'm no happier about Daenerys's poorly-executed heel turn now than I was after "The Bells," especially when we finally got to hear her justify herself. "The Iron Throne" followed the show's longstanding tradition of going big in each season's penultimate episode and using the finale to tie up loose ends, which felt a little more anticlimactic here than usual, given that we've had eight seasons of build-up to get to this point. (And did you notice that sprig of green growing through the snow as they rode into the forest? A dream of spring indeed.) Sansa became Queen in the North, presiding over an independent kingdom that will no doubt benefit from her keen sense of strategy and care for her people Arya set herself up for a perfect spinoff, setting sail to explore whatever's west of Westeros and living like the wild, untamed creature she's always been Tyrion became Hand to a ruler who is basically content to let him rule instead and despite all that nonsense about being exiled to the Night's Watch again, it seems as though Jon intends to go up into the real North with Tormund and Ghost and the rest of the wildlings, to find the kind of simple, peaceful life he might've had with Ygritte, if people had stopped trying to thrust some grand destiny upon him years ago. (Although that whole Aegon twist really did become much ado about nothing in the end, huh?) And it's a relief that after seasons of Jon insisting he didn't have any desire or ambition to rule, it wasn't forced upon him because of something as arbitrary as who his parents were. In the end, it came down to the cripples, bastards, and broken things who began the story, with Bran's wisdom - and more importantly, his knowledge of the past - proving to be more of a qualification for rule than violence or blood hearkening back to Tywin Lannister's lesson to Tommen about what makes a good king - someone who listens to his counselors and doesn't try to make every decision on his own.
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