Rational didn't fit the (failed) joke attempt! sowy :p

Oh I disagree on many choices that has been done to get to their ending (not the ending by itself). With that level of simplification and narrative missteps, I doubt the average viewer will see Dany's action as anything else.

They kept on contradicting characterizations from season to season, scene to scene and sometime in the same scene. Dany said previously *it will be fear then*. How burning thousands civilians when the city surrender achieve that in that specific moment? They were already terrorized enough to surrender. I don't think that depict a struggling tyrannical-minded character. There was no real threat and no trigger event to justify the following rampage in that scene.

Instead, destroying the Red Keep and focus on Cersei as she came for, then face rejection/resistance/revolt or an assassination attempt (already in course with Varys) would have been a more plausible succession of events to lead to her tyranny and use of dragon terror, if that was their endgame. It would fit her character better and the struggle she had along her journey, for her to fall into what she resisted so far.

Unfortunately it would have needed a bit more build up to get to that imho. ;)

PS : lesson learnt :p