And the soldiers who rape and pillage when their leader stops showing restraint and gives in to rage and insanity? Well, that seems inevitable. Grey Worm I understand, moreso than Daenerys.
Why did she do it? Because she was mad about Missandei? Because she hated Cersei? Because she just wanted to be LOOOOVED? Because she was tired of winning? There was no reason to think that Daenerys was going to torch the whole city out of spite-until she started doing it. Like, really, that’s what you’re concerned about right now? Even Jon Snow looked at him like he was nuts when he brought up the thing about the bells and the gates. Really, his actions were inexplicable except to set up the Jaime-Cersei meeting and-more importantly-the moral fulcrum of the episode. To create a romantic scene that, frankly, those two narcissistic, nihilistic jerks did not deserve.īut back to Tyrion. Maybe this show actually does have a sexism problem, come to think of it?Īnd so, after she threatens him-again, not without some basis-that his next mistake will be his last, he embarks on this crazy scheme to release Jaime, who’s been captured in the process of becoming a traitor, so that he can go … save Cersei? And Ser Davos … helps him? I guess? By getting the key? Is that what he meant by the favor that involved Davos’s smuggling skills?Īgain, I don’t want to spend this whole recap complaining, but … that really felt like a decision on Tyrion’s part that made zero sense except as a blatant ploy to let Jaime and Cersei die together in dramatic fashion. She just isn’t wearing makeup and has bags under her eyes and is acting a little loony. He realizes that Daenerys really is the Mad Queen in their meeting, even though, again, nothing she says is that mad. Maybe if that had all happened over the course of six episodes, we might have bought it, but it happened too fast to make me believe that she’d immediately turn into someone who spends an entire episode slaughtering innocent people.Īlso, is it not weird that we barely even see her once she has begun this mysterious rampage? Are the show runners trying to make some kind of statement about how mindless her thirst for vengeance is? Or were they unable to credibly convey her state of mind on-camera?Īnyway, I’m getting a little bit ahead of myself. Fine, she lost another dragon, she lost two of her closest aides, and she lost the love of Jon Snow. Enough that it doesn’t really make sense that she would turn completely evil after a run of bad luck that was admittedly pretty bad-especially when she seemed to take the loss of Viserion in stride. We have spent years watching her grow from a helpless girl into a seasoned leader who has been through a lot. But we have seen her balance that violence with mercy, kindness, and above all shrewdness. It’s not that we haven’t been warned over and over again that Daenerys has a mean temper, and isn’t afraid to use her dragons to punish disloyalty. Look, I don’t want to spend too much time second-guessing the show runners here, but I saw a bunch of people carping on Twitter as soon as the episode ended that this turn of Daenerys’s is unearned, and I have to say it felt that way to me too. And so she concluded that love is not for her, and she’ll have to lead with the only passion she is capable of inspiring more than anyone else: fear.
He does not share the Lannister taste for incest, clearly. But the way the Khaleesi said it all showed that she was not in a great frame of mind.Īnd then there was Daenerys’s interlude with Jon, where she complained that no one in Westeros loves her the way they love Jon, and then tried to seduce him-whether out of real interest or as a test was unclear. And Sansa sure as hell didn’t tell Tyrion about Jon’s parentage as a favor to Daenerys. It’s not that anything Daenerys said was strictly inaccurate: Jon did kind of betray her, though that’s not how he would have seen it. But if Tyrion was feeling good about his decision even then, his visit to Daenerys surely cured him of his optimism.
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