![]() 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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