it's problematic in 2 ways:She could've been killed by a lot of different people in a lot of different way and most of these endings would have ultimately been cheap and satisfying only in the moment. I know that many people wanted to see her suffer, which isn't really my thing, but I like this death (let's assume she's dead. Please let her be dead) because of its ambivalence. On the one hand she appears to be finally at peace - albeit broken and defeated - and gets to die in the arms of her one true love, *sniffle*, instead of being flayed or burned or eaten or whatever, so there's a certain mercy in that, on the other hand it is also a truly *****y death, in that it is anonymous and completely lacking in glamour and greatness. She said herself that she didn't want to leave this way. And let's not forget that she ends up literally being buried by/under her house, the symbol of her power.explainI do think, however, that Cersei's death was perfect and downright poetic.
1) nobody has any clue where she is. if she escaped. who she may have been with. etc. this doesn't matter for half the people in this thread, of course.
2) she didn't deserve anything resembling peace before she died. we've had to endure the heroes getting kicked in the balls over and over for this entire series, and at the end, the big bad gets a merciful sendoff. i didn't need gore or violence. but i needed suffering. betrayal. like...anything other than being embraced by Jaime. it smells funny. i don't like it. this story commands a big payoff at some point. this wasn't that. "not like this" she said. then how, exactly? seems pretty optimal all things considered.
