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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
If they sold in the madness really well, the last half of the episode would've been outstanding. The slow burning deserved the attention it got. It wasn't just one choice to make people burn. It was a deliberate maniacal choice. The side to side destruction of the city. Even with an insanely easy opportunity to destroy the red keep. When the books come out and GRRM better lays out the path to madness, I bet we'll really appreciate that the visual TV media chose to go all out on this. It was unsettling and just as powerful to see good characters... including Davos and obviously Tyrion and Jon Snow... go in total shock that this could have happened. In fact, once GRRM ties up loose ends, we may appreciate that the show chose to focus less on the politicking (which they're unequipped to handle) and focused squarely on creating visual entertainment and completing the difficult task at marching us to a clean ending.
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A book will always lay out a better path or can because it's a different medium than a visual medium. For one it can show inner thinking of a character. There are limitations with film in more ways than this one.
Even if a few more episodes revealed her madness sooner, the sudden shock and awe of her madness I think is more dramatic they way it was done. You see her sitting on that wall, contemplating what she is about to do, leaving us all thinking if it would likely be directed at Cersei—but it's not. When she goes rogue, her army as seen through Gray Worm throwing his spear at the surrendered troops takes it as a reason to abandon any morality.