Cercei is a lunatic

Wouldn't the people riot in the streets if she announced she was having Jaime's baby? Wasn't the accusation of her children being the product on incest what started the War of the Five Kings, from the people's perspective? Didn't they hate her enough to accost her in the streets during her walk of atonement? Frankly I don't understand why there wasn't total chaos following the destruction of the great sept, but there's no way anyone would accept an incestuous false queen on the throne as their enemies surround the city with dragons. Off with her head.

But by what right is she Queen? The Lannisters have no claim to the throne.
The claims of her late children stem from their father, and thus house Baratheon, and they -in turn-  got it due to their Valyrian blood rooting back to Aegon's halfbrother who defeated the stormking and took Stormborn and the stormking's daughter...he also took his words and Sigils. That is how house Baratheon was founded.

So Gendry is the only one with Roberts blood and thus a Baratheon, but also a bastard...but basatrd can be legitimated.
And there is Jon and Dany - both with Targaryen blood, and both are _no_ bastards.


But Cercei...she took the Throne by froce, by the right of conquer, and thus force is the only mean she has to enforce her rule.
And since she has no armies left...and who knows how long the Iron bank will bet on her losing horse.
The gold is still in King's Landing and this city is more or less under siege by now, and nobody can't enter the black water bay without passing Dragonstone. Hence, Euron must have been travelled by horse while his fleet was sailing for Castely Rock.

All along the shore of Dorne and the Reach...

But without this teleport, stealth, plot armor, turncloaks like Tarley, and stupidity on team Dany's side, it wouldn't have been even a fight from the beginning.
The writers pimped Cercei as good as possible, but I didn't like it at all.
Then leaving the high sparrow out and letting have them a real ally like house Tyrell.
And why this idea that their gold mines have run out of gold...it is not even in the books and it is even weakening them when they actually need any advantage they can get...but then coming up with this teleport shit.

You take their strongest and most plausible advantage, their wealth, and then you compensate it with the shite around Euron Greyjoy and finger-snip defeat of High Garden - they can't take a fortified castle like Riverun by force but with easy an even bigger castle like High Garden?!

Kind of the point I'm making with this sentence.  It's another example of rushed writing this season and last.  It makes as much sense as Euron's magic fleet. 

They were quite pissed when the Dornish and Yara were dragged to the street.

And as far as I see it, Cercei is also  not blamed with the Great Balor incident.

Olenna  for sure, but the rest is more like: truth or enemy propaganda?

Even the measters believed the message from Bran (house Stark is actually no ally of Dany) as a trick to allow Dany sweeping the South.

Overall the measters were disgusting but the truth is that most of us would like act like them: if you would tell me about aliens, zombies  etc. pp. there was no chance I believed you.

And you could have a real footage of an alien ship and everyone on youtube would call it a fake.


And if you ask me: even if Dany and Jon can convince the likes of Cercei (maybe even Littlefinger) about the reality of the Night's King, they wouldn't be shocked but ask themselves how they can use him for their own advantage. They are consumed by their ambitions, and so were real guys like Saddam Hussien who played their game till the bitter end.

Cercei: So what? it's a dead body that can be killed. Where is the problem. Just kill it!

I guess by now she is plotting an ambush during  the armistice talks.
She pulled a similar stunt on Ned Stark.
But Dany is in a far stronger position than Ned Stark ever was.

And Lord Bolton was right: if you act like a mad dog (if you dishonor every deal or treaty; when your word of honor becomes worthless) you will be treated like one.

That's why it is important to go the hard way and spare the people of dragon fire, because in the long run the softer player will win.


KING HENRY V
; W. Shakespeare

Yes, and then Cersei blew up the Great Sept, and all her enemies with it, and seized the crown for herself.  The people already didn't like her, it's hard to fathom there would not be resistance from the common folk of the city under those circumstances.  Maybe the dude showing his junk to the queen isn't a revolutionary, but you would think more than a few would've been born the day she blew up part of the city to escape justice.     

No, the hate for Cersei was shown several times throughout the story, and the whispers never completely died down about her children.  Speaking as a viewer, I hated the High Sparrow with a passion.  Taking him out is the only time I ever rooted for Cersei.  But his message resonated with the common folk, that was firmly established.  Not everyone was a zealot like his followers, but people clearly had had enough of nobles and royals doing as they pleased at the people's expense.  That aspect all but disappeared with the Great Sept; when is reality it would've moved the people further toward open hostility with a false queen. 

But I suppose the story has moved on, it's not something they're going to revisit now.  It's full steam ahead to prophecy and fate at this point.