The women, children, and elderly should have ideally been evacuated beforehand. They had ample time and warning to make sure the innocent people in their population were safe.

Instead, Cersei literally used her subjects as human shields and kept them in essentially an open air prison waiting for their execution.

Her own father ordered the Sack of King’s Landing during Robert’s Rebellion. She knew what could have happened, Cersei is no stranger to war, but she didn’t care.

Cersei, the same woman who committed a mass murder by blowing up a place of worship in that same city.

There was definitely a Mad Queen in Episode 5, but it wasn’t Dany T.