#db weiss

Here’s the thing about Ep. 05, I’m actually all on board for Daenerys becoming the Mad Queen, I think both George R.R. Martin and the show runners did a good job laying the groundwork for that to happen. HOWEVER, that being said I have a huge problem with Daenerys burning innocent civilians AFTER they have surrendered. I can see her flying off to the Red Keep and burning that to the ground and inadvertently killing the civilians sheltered within the castle walls, I can see her burning all the Lannister soldiers after they’ve surrendered but her just being like “fuck it” and destroying the city and people she wanted to rule makes no sense. And I understand “madness” doesn’t make sense but let’s use her father, King Aerys, for an example; the main reason he wanted to “burn them all” was because he was LOSING and he didn’t want those who betrayed him to get to rule over anything, “let them be king of the ashes” (there’s also the part where he thought it would turn him into a dragon allowing him to ultimately win the war-which is where the insanity comes in but again is rooted in a rational concept of dragon/targaryen lore). Daenerys at this point had decisively won the battle, the citizens had never posed a threat to her directly, they were just under Cersei’s oppressive rule and fearful of something unknown and potentially worse. She has stated numerous times throughout the books and the show she will destroy her enemies and take what is hers through fire and blood but she had already done those things. So what was her motivation for destroying a city that was already hers? Why kill her own subjects at random when up until this point (in this very episode) she saw that “mercy is our strength”. To have her devolve so quickly and just murder innocent people at random seemingly because winning wasn’t enough, that more people had to suffer for her to feel justified in her own losses? That makes absolutely no sense and flies in the face of everything they had built her character to be. 

So… by now you’ve all heard about this:

Amidst all the screaming that the premise is racist - which it is - I personally couldn’t help but think “Um… didn’t Boondocks creator already announce a similar show for Amazon this past February?

So… to Hell with Benioff & Weiss’s new show - let’s dedicate our Black asses to watching Aaron McGruder’s new joint.

Especially since the world has basically become a Boondocks strip come to life.