I've seen a lot of people saying Cersei was implausibly passive in the last 2 seasons and should have been defeated earlier.
When would this have most plausibly happened, and what would have followed?
Seems to me Cersei staying in power makes sense until after Dany burns the Lannister army, food supply, and Tarlys. After that the only thing that kept her from taking King's Landing was trusting Jon's incredibly naive, costly and ultimately unnecessary plan to try to recruit the Lannisters to fight the White Walkers.
If Dany had said 'nuts to that, Cersei won't help, it'll take a while for the Wall to be breached, and going beyond it is dangerous, so let's f**k her up now and deal with the Walkers after', then they could have taken King's Landing without civilian bloodshed and Season 7 could have ended with Jaime banished to the Wall and Daenerys and Jon having throne room sex while Tyrion turns against her for executing his sister.
Season 8a would then be largely the same except with the Walkers breaching the Wall by some other means, such as Euron ferrying them into the North to make it vulnerable. And with the Targ/Stark alliance blindsided by this, their defence of Winterfell would be hastier and Arya and Bran's godswood antics might have still worked but cost them their lives.
Season 8b could then have been about the emergence of Jon's claim igniting a civil war between Jon and Dany supporting factions, even as they themselves wanted to rule together, with the burning of King's Landing being Dany trying to end the civil war. If Jon then chose to kill her, he would be protected afterward by his supporters, since Dany's would not have full control of the Red Keep.
Tyrion, who would in that scenario not have been imprisoned by Dany, could then successfully advocate for Gendry to be king as a good story and acceptable compromise.
Submitted July 01, 2020 at 09:57PM by Rtozier2011 https://ift.tt/2ZrVDm9
