Originally Posted by
PwrdOn
For being an absolute monarch, Dany's whole outlook has a surprisingly Leninist bent to it, where she thinks that she can unite all the oppressed peoples of the world under her leadership and build a better society, but to achieve that all of the bad people representing the old ways need to be eliminated since they would never give up their power voluntarily. And even though everyone sort of agrees that her approach was extreme and she needed to be stopped, her death feels more anticlimatic than anything, because what exactly did the heroes do to fix all of the underlying problems that led to the conflict in the first place? The realm basically returned to what it was before, with a bunch of functionally independent lords ruled over by a weak central government, and the condition of the vast majority of the people not having improved at all. If anything, an elected monarch leads to even more backroom intrigue and dynastic politicking than a hereditary one, and empowers the regional nobles, leading to more rivalry and conflicts over land, less economic cohesion which reduces living standards for everyone, and more openings for foreign powers to intervene and destabilize the realm.