I am further assured in my dogged stance of misanthropy when I read
this bullshit.
If you've signed the petition, YOU KNOW NOTHING.
I'm actually watching it from the start again for the 3rd time or so- just got past the Red Wedding last night, fuck that seems tame now. No children were burned during this; Walder Frey is a true humanitarian. But I want to say that Daenaerys has always been fucking terrifying; its PC humanists in the real world imagining that she did indeed suddenly change her entire life's mission to free nameless slaves; truth is, she bellieves she is entitled to her position of power and priviledge (same as all the Masters), or else she wouldn't, you know, want to be in charge of a kingdom that
killed her entire family, but she needed to both practise warfare and conquering, and she needed to swell the ranks of her armies. Did no-one notice that basically none of the cities she liberated stayed liberated? She blooded her Unsullied though.
Not saying she is evil or anything, but the motivations of these people is pretty unfathomable to the rest of us- to assume there is some bizarre and misplaced humanism in Daenaerys is just modern politics trying to seep into a fantasy show. Didn't the masters of Yunkai wreak dreadul vengenace as a result of her actions there? You can free slaves and all that- but she had no plan for afterwards; destruction was enough. I can dig that tbh.
My issue with her 'transformation' is how unreasoning she seemed. She seemed insane and unhinged, and her descent from mercilessness (ala Loot train massacre and the Tarly BBQ) into Mad Queen-ness was too rapid and with not quite enough provocation. She's seen close friends die before, lovers even. But a grief spiral is an easy trope to whip out and explain stuff with if you're an under-the-pump TV show writer. Despite the fact I think destroying Kings Landing is probably going to feature in the books, its very hard to explain why she thought this would be effective in doing anything instead of uniting everyone against her.
Point is, she actually had been betrayed by Varys who was most certainly trying poison her, and failed- and by the fact she wasn't eating, she knew this was happening. I guess that also added to her growing madness, but not quite enough.
If you've read the books, you'll know that another true Targaryen besides herself and Jon exist; she has a brother, who (IIRC) just landed on the shores of the 7 kingdoms. I'm thinking she ultimately teams up with him against Jon Snow, maybe even burns the wall down herself to let the dead in...