I found them both equally interesting at first, but yeah Daenarys quickly landed in sue territory. It would have been more interesting if she had to fight her ‘own people’ and unite them with both bribery and force within the Dothraki to keep them together, like a Khan or Chieftain’s wife (which occasionally happened when an Irish chief died with no close relations still living and no immediate heir)
The rest of the world is painstakingly realistic, and then there’s Danaerys, who had one little fumble from trusting an angry shaman, and then was handed the universe on a platter.
@Whatevs
Yeah Brienne is probably the most awesome of the 3, if only because she’s paired with possibly the best foil to slam against her worldview, Jaime. Them travelling together creates as impressive verbal/moral duels as Bronn and Tyrian. Brienne could easily have turned out as a fetish-y ‘tough chick in hot leather/mail bikini’ even in the original work, she is in the perfect position to have been written that way. But she wasn’t, she was written and acted more like a Hospitaller, yet at the same time the situations faced would not be faced by men (unlike other portrayals of knightly women, like every Joanne of arc depiction ever), and Jaime’s existence in the duo acts as the counterpoint, and also as a bit of ‘viewer/reader reaction.’ If only Dany was as realistic. Dany should be Elizabeth I or Mary with dragons, especially since she’s trying to impress the shit out of a hyper-masculine Mongol-esque tribe, but she doesn’t. They leave immediately, and those that remained behind instantly latched their lips to her bum, and of COURSE everybody that deserts from either side in Westaros immediately seeks her out instead of finding someone closer, yes THAT’S realistic indeed. It would have been better for them all to see it, and then constantly expect her to live up to that amazing feat 24/7, with her slowly breaking as she saw desertion after desertion of people she thought she was befriending/winning over. “Yeah, big whoop khalessi, you can sit in a fire and not get cooked like the witch, but what use is this on horseback if your horse can’t do the same? What will you give our people what we are already taking for ourselves without your help?”
It’s funny that the rest of the series goes so much against standard fantasy writing (such as killing off Ned, who would have been at the very least Hero Mentor if not Hero in any other work with his crazy nobility-at-all-costs outlook), both high and low, and then Danaerys is always portrayed as “True and rightful heir and 99% likely she’ll be the last one standing.” And the problem with this portrayal is that if she does die or get deposed some other way, then the readers/viewers will think someone forced this upon them, even if it was planned from the beginning. (See: Dexter season 4, Rita’s death, and how she flipped personalities from S3ep12 to S4ep1, apparently in order to cause viewers to want her gone. It’s obvious in hindsight they planned it from ep1 as a ‘shock’ because they drastically changed the personality, but it still felt like an asspull when it happened because you’re led to believe if they’re ever driven apart it will be something Dexter himself screwed up on, or that the emotional change made them tired of being with each other, not LOLRANDUM MURDER)
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