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They turned Dany into a villain. They set the entire bit with the bells up to establish that what she did to to King's Landing was premeditated, calculated. Cold. There's a word for that: evil. She knew exactly what she was doing
And then they tried to build sympathy for Cersei. Although to be honest that's a problem the series has had all along; book Cersei is immeasurably more evil than show Cersei, despite how much of a moustache-twirler they tried to make her on TV, and the book version's not in any way sympathetic or relatable. But the tears and the musical cues they played? They were trying to make us feel bad for her. Seriously. Cersei.
The 'battle' itself. Michael Bay wishes he could unleash mindless violence porn like that. Because that's all it was. 'Let's watch Drogon blow up a lot of shit and see how many women and children we can fry! And then after we drop some rocks on everybody's dream of Cersi having some grand, vengeful death, we'll turn Arya from fearless assassin to (almost) savior of women and children. And then have her ride out of the fire on a white horse. Because why the **** not!'
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