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She showed signs of it when she executed the boy back in Meereen when she could’ve easily just imprisoned him instead. Sam was right. Jon wouldn’t have done a lot of things Daenerys did.
Jon also got murdered and had to be resurrected for all of his mercy and forward thinking...
Its a matter of perspective.
Dany ain’t trying to take no daggers to the heart. Muthafukkas KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that White Walkers are coming but still wanna squabble over who wears the crown.
And thats not so much a slight on Jon (he’s my second favorite character) as it is simply the way the world works. Sam’s a$$hole dad and brother broke an oath they made to the Tyrell’s, marched on High Garden, and assisted in a battle against Dany. She did what was in her right and executed them. It is what it is.
If anything, the show needs to do MORE in these next 5 episodes to show Dany going out of her way to do cruel and vicious things if we’re going the Mad Queen angle. Nothing she’s done so far has been out of the realm of plausibility. She sacrificed one of her dragons to bring proof to the world of the White Walker threat, brings an army north to save them, and has to deal with spoiled ass Sansa’s bullshyt? Nah bytch, get with the program or get dealt with.
And Arya saying that Sansa is the smartest person she knows? Right AFTER she spent an entire season letting herself be manipulated by little finger? Makes no sense at all.