#daenerys deserved better
People giving Ned Stark a pass for wanting to behead Jorah for selling poachers into slavery because “slavery is illegal in Westeros” but not giving Dany a pass for killing slavers in Slaver’s Bay because “it’s part of their culture”…
You are not anti slavery. You are just anti breaking the “law.”
That’s how all the great houses started, isn’t it? With a hard bastard who was good at killing people. Kill a few hundred people, they make you a Lord. Kill a few thousand, they make you KingQueen.
—Bronn of the Blackwater, 8x04
The Iron Bank backed Cersei over Daenerys because Daenerys had freed the slaves of Slaver’s Bay.
When Cersei was giving her pitch to whats-his-face from Sherlock, and he told her that the Lannisters were in quite a lot of debt, she points out to him that Lannisters always pay their debts and asks him how debts get paid by former slaves.
The Iron Bank backed Cersei because they knew with Daenerys out of the way, the Slave Trade would return to Essos, therefore earning back the Iron Bank one of it’s main sources of profit.
And yet, we’re still supposed to see Dany’s war for the Iron Throne as a bad thing….?
That scene in Season 7 essentially told us, slavery would return to the regions Dany had worked hard for nearly her entire show arc to eradicate, if she did not win the throne. We saw yet another thing at stake if Dany were to lose.
But Dany’s the bad guy for wanting to eliminate Cersei?
D&D are truly fools. They paid 0 attention to the drivel they wrote themselves and expected us to not pay attention too.
I’m sorry, but no.
The more I think about it, the less I accept this fucking bullshit. Not that I was ever going to come to terms with the dumpster fire that was Season 8, but now, more than ever, I realize how utterly ridiculous it was for us to see Dany as the villain.
D&D: Yeah, you know, the way Dany reacts to her husband killing her abusive brother who literally just threatened to cut out her unborn child from her womb was really cold and was totally foreshadowing of her going mad later on.
Tyrion: *literally murders his own father with a crossbow after first murdering his ex lover after finding her in his father’s bed*
D&D: Yeah, Tyrion’s a pacifist.
“If Tyrion needs to give a speech to explain to the audience why this person is a “Mad Queen”, it’s because there was no carefully planned foreshadowing.”
I am HERE for this tea today.
I know I’ve mentioned something similar to this before, but I had another shower thought today about our dearly departed Queen and had to write it:
Daenerys is the only person who fought for the good of the people.
No one else in the entire story even comes close to attempting to make the common people’s lives better, or thinks of them at all really.
Sure, Jon’s fight in wanting to save people from the army of the dead is important.
But Jon’s fight also saves his own skin. If the army of the dead come, he’s dead too.
Dany’s fight against slavers and nobles does not affect her if she were to just peace-out and give it up. She’d still be a Targaryen. She’d still have a claim to the throne. She’d still be a Queen.
She doesn’t need to help the people she helps throughout the story. Yet she does it anyway.
This is why the ending to Game of Thrones is doubly frustrating because the audience has never seen anyone else fight for the kind of people Dany was fighting for… so we’re just left with the same broken system and the same awful hacks who kept the wheel spinning.
If you do not reblog this, you are in fact lying.
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A sequel involving Jon Snow?? And what would it be about? Either Daenerys comes back or they can keep it.
