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** Many fans felt this way about King\\\'s Landing, owing to the fact that the capital city was established as a WretchedHive right from Season 1 with little emotional investment to really care that much for Daenerys\\\' rampage other than, \\\"[[CaptainObviousAesop I guess attacking civilians is bad]]\\\". Benioff and Weiss admitting in \\\'\\\'Inside the Episode\\\'\\\' that they inserted Arya in the later part of the scene to serve as an AudienceSurrogate precisely because they felt they needed a main character in that sequence to get the emotional impact, further confirms this sentiment among audiences. Throughout the show, the smallfolk at various times jeered Ned during his execution, with one of them also attempting to rape Sansa during the riot before being killed by the Hound, while also gleefully participating in the Sparrows\\\' misogynistic humiliation of Cersei, apathetically accepting the Destruction of the Sept while also cheering Euron Greyjoy in a victor\\\'s parade, being classic examples of ApatheticCitizens for whom Daenerys\\\' rampage is exceptional only in degree but not in kind. Tyrion\\\'s plea for them to be spared because \\\"they\\\'re not heroes\\\" is belied by the fact that a huge chunk of the invading army, including Jon\\\'s Northern contingent, who jump at plundering them very much \\\'\\\'are\\\'\\\' heroes who defended the entire realm from the ZombieApocalypse, a fight in which King\\\'s Landing both sat out of and indeed benefited from the sacrifices made by the people of the North, the Unsullied, and the Dothraki.