[Spoilers] How would you fix Cersei as a villain?

It's quite clear to all that Cersei, like it or not, doesn't really have the makings of a ''final villain'' and never did at least on the show proper. While Cersei was seemingly set to be Mad Queen 2.0 with her destruction of the Sept of Baelor and part of King's Landing, the very next season forgot about this and made her pretty much useless as a foe for the Stark and Targaryen factions. Jaime made a masterful plan to abandon Casterly Rock and Euron took out Yara's fleet as well as the Sand Snakes, but Cersei herself did fuck all apart from be sadistic to the people who killed her daughter, break a promise to the Jon-Daenerys alliance about helping against the night King, and make an empty threat to Jaime.

In Season 8, it gets...even worse. Cersei is just moping around and crying, whining about elephants, having sex with Euron Greyjoy (another total joke of a character, although at least Cersei had potential to be a good villain if not a final one) without using it to manipulate him (something she was fond of doing in the books, and even in the early seasons), sends Tyrion and Jaime's friendly neighborhood sellsword to kill them, doesn't have the common sense to run away from or surrender to Daenerys's invasion until it's WAY too late, and ultimately dies not as a lioness with claws bared but as a weeping coward. Even S2 Cersei showed a thousand times more resolve in at least accepting her fate.

My question is, how would you guys fix her? One idea would be to make her the mad queen, not Daenerys, and have her be the one to blow up the entirety of King's Landing out of spite along with herself as a final act of defiance against the younger and more beautiful queen, possibly intending to take Daenerys out as well (this might or might not fail). Another idea would be for her to somehow collaborate with Euron and frame Dany for destroying KL or trick her into doing it whle the two escape, possibly involving stealing one of her dragons through Euron's dragonbinder horn (which too should've appeared on the show). Jaime finds out the truth, eventually tracks a now hidden Cersei down, and kills her.

Submitted October 18, 2019 at 10:50PM by saminstark https://ift.tt/2P2Xb2m