As someone who has been expecting a Joffrey-level murder of Cersei since season two, I have one question: what gives? On one hand, I totally get how Jaime and Cersei dying with their unborn child is poetic justice in many ways. But on the other, I feel that we've been robbed of the deliciously just ending we all — and Cersei — deserved. She is so bad to so many people along they way and has steadily built a reputation as one of TV's greatest, most complicated, most ruthless, and somehow still sympathetic villains.
Remember the Wildfire incident at the Sept of Baelor? Or how she uses her influence to have Ned killed back in season one? Or even when she orders Jaime and Tyrion killed in season eight? Let's be clear: she's the best villain Game of Thrones ever had, and she certainly deserved a more memorable death. Frankly, for a strong, badass, cunning woman like Cersei, dying via a crumbling building is flat-out wimpy. Period.
