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The rushed nature of the last GoT season is messing up a lot of the big character moments, but Dany's big barbecue was more than just "Targaryens are psychos." She was furious with the people for not overthrowing Cersei when their rightful queen arrived at the gates.
She said a few times that she held the people responsible for not rising up, the way her liberated slaves did back East. She's deeply invested in her "Breaker of Chains" mythology, and deeply believed she was fighting a final battle for righteousness.
She wanted bloodshed after the deaths of her dragon and best friend. When she trashed Captain Douchebag's fleet, blew up the scorpions, and then immediately heard the bells and saw a surrender in progress, she wasn't relieved - she was sickened and enraged.
No doubt she thought back to the insurgency back East and imagined that, times a hundred, as she tried to establish her righteous rule over the den of vipers and cowards in King's Landing - the people who killed her friends but then folded like a cheap suit when the tide turned.
Maybe if the defenders of King's Landing put up a good fight and surrendered after a pitched battle she might have acted differently, but she just lost all faith and respect in them when she heard the bells. You could see her stomach turning.
She really thinks her rule would be different than anything before it, a new golden age of righteous unity. She probably went into the battle thinking no such reign could be seated in the viper's nest of King's Landing. The quick surrender sealed that thought in her mind.
And of course, she had just explained to Jon that if the people of Westeros didn't love her, it would be necessary to make them fear her. She wanted to send the message that no one would be indulged after defying her, no more power plays and backroom deals.
She wasn't going to send that kind of message by accepting a quick surrender and executing Cersei and a few of her top people, or maybe Cersei slips away in the confusion, and then it's a few days of cutting deals with other nobles she despises for not embracing her immediately.
As far as Dany was concerned, she issued her final ultimatum the previous day, and the people of KL rejected it by standing by and watching Cersei spit in her face and executing Missandei, whose last word didn't exactly soothe Dany's state of mind. She held them all responsible.
Of course, all of that is doubtless influenced by her family's predilections, her own personal history, a dash of trauma from the battle of Winterfell - which she also blames the people of King's Landing for, because they stayed put instead of helping.
The point is that it didn't come out of nowhere, and it wasn't just an irrational burst of psychosis from someone who was always doomed to become a villain, although a big theme of these final episodes seems to be people failing to outrun their destinies or change their natures.
HBO conceded it was all too rushed with the extra-clumsy "previously on" segment before the episode, with all the voices whispering in Dany's memory. If the book is ever written, curious to see if it ends the same and Dany is the POV character for that terrible moment. /end
