When you think back all of the work Daenerys did to get to her ancestral home, her final decision to torch the place with fire and blood is relentlessly frustrating . The bells are ringing, the city is hers for the taking… and, with one snarl, she destroys everything. Everything Danerys had ever said about “breaking the wheel” and not wanting to be “the queen of ashes” goes up in dragon smoke. Not only does this final vicious move set Dany’s doomed fate forever, it kills Cersei Lannister, who finds herself corned in the Red Keep’s deepest crypts. Cersei, one of the most fearless woman is Westeros, leaves the series a sobbing mess, begging the man in her life, twin/lover Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), to protect her. It’s impossible not to be reminded of the fact that Brienne (Gwendoline Christie), the first woman knight in all of Westerosi history, also ends her story with Jaime by crying and pleading