u/Easy-Frenchguy-1996

I kinda feel like he is overhated due to his supposed religious zealotry.....Most of the criticism against him seems to be made by the nobility propaganda to tarnish his image yet their opinions are contradicted by his deeds

It was said that he wanted to have crusade against the north yet he never showed any desire toward violence and conflict he was pacifist who walked barefoot like Jesus in the desert to dorne the ancestral ennemy just to rescue his brother peacefully, and even ​initiated the right step to peace with dorne that daeron will later conclude. It shows that baelor was actually a able ruler who could think and had a political instinct. He was not a idiot

burning erotic books and imprisoning his sister in a tower when he was in a very weak state already to malnutrition shows that he had rigid religious beliefs but can we call him mad for that? It shows his coherence with his religious belief

we call it "zealotry" There is no record of him showing prejudice or violence doesn't share his faith like melisandre. Baelor seemed like a pacifist. No other kings did more for the betterment of the smallfolk than hi​m

Many kings in real history were extremely zealous like saint Louis or Edward the confessor were zealous and far harsher than baelor but were actually called great stateman

I mean if daeron name his firstborn son after him surely he cannot be as crazy as people think?

Like tywin. Tarkin believed that maintaining control over a massive galaxy required absolute fear . His philosophy argued that the threat of force was more effective than force itself. If you blow up one planet (like Alderaan), the other thousands will fall into line out of sheer panic. He was a political animal who used brutality as a bureaucratic tool.

He was wrong... . By completely obliterating a planet—killing millions of innocent civilians, children, and neutral politicians the Empire crossed a line from "strict government thata garantee order and stability ​" to "existential monster." Thrawn argued that when you show citizens that they can be wiped out on a whim regardless of their loyalty, you strip away their incentive to obey. You leave them with nothing left to lose, driving them straight into the rebellion and managed to create martyrs turn "separated rebel cells" to "a actual threat to their rule"

Had tarkin not blew up Alderaan with the Death star they may have 'ebbzr have been a battle of yavin

The same goes for tywin.... He is tarkin, the lannister is the galactic empire and the red wedding his death start

In the short term yes it's victory as he rid himself of a ennemy but the way he did is so vile and cruel thata he created martyrs and a angrier resistance and instability from the riverland to the north... Were all his collaborators are mysteriously dissappearing... Because "the north remembers'

The lannisters got rid of a ennemy to create another while without the red wedding... They still had the strengh to crush Robb and kill​ in battle (as we see in the original outlines but I la cheating here ​lol)

More people would have died yes.... But they On fair and square that something even your ennemy might respect

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