Great work from @ADragonDemands. This fits my theory that Daenerys was meant to burn the Red Keep, thus lighting the wildfire and destroying the city. /1

But here's where it gets sketchy story-wise. This was an accident, and D&D were intent on having Jon kill Dany. They also wanted her to give their Nazi/First Order speech. But that creates two issues: /2

Issue #1: There was no reason for her to jump from accidentally torching a city to wanting to take the continent by fire & blood. You'd need more scenes, such as her being rejected by the Westerosi and realizing she could only get power with force. /3

Issue #1 (cont.): This would have made a lot of sense if she had lost Meereen and abandoned her campaign in Essos to go to Westeros where she could start anew. This, her second rejection, could trigger this response. I think that was the intention. /4

Issue 1 (cont.): D&D hadn't laid the groundwork for that. They could've still written the rejection, but why not take the easier way out and add spectacle instead? That also, albeit poorly, takes care of issue #2. /5

Issue #2: Jon has to kill her. In order to make their neutered Jon do that and be a hero, she actually has to have done something vile to trigger it. It's the same with their stripped-down version of Tyrion. /6

Issue #2 (cont.): Would this decision by Tyrion and, ultimately, Jon have been more interesting and fraught with tension had she done this by accident and just started to show glimmers of despotism? Yes. But... /7

(Issue #2 cont.): ...well, we've all watched that show post book material. Characters who were once morally gray split were into baddies and goodies. They simplified it so that Dany=bad, Jon=good in the easiest way possible and with the most spectacle. /8

Daenerys is far from my favorite character--believe it or not, Jon is--but she was done dirrrrrrty. All the characters were, but "Dany goes mad 'cause bells or something" was even more nonsensical than Stannis burning his beloved daughter and heir to stop a snow storm. /9

This is all speculation, of course, but I can see some of this being in their thought process. They didn't keep mentioning human shields at the Red Keep and wildfire caches for nothing; they meant to use both and tossed 'em out for some reason. /10