Similar thing; I really did not like how the show had Brienne tell Jaime after he's had his hand cut off that he sounds like a woman when in the book it was her telling him he was a coward. I hate that trope of the strong, badass woman throwing all other women under the bus. Brienne (D&D) should know better than that, considering who she's sworn to.
Those were two good stabs. Too bad he used a butter-knife to do it....?
Dany the killer of men, women, and children. Guilty or innocent it doesn't matter. She did what her mad king of a father failed to do.
They may not be slaves in the same way that Essos has it, but the smallfolk aren't really free people
More ways to drive everyone off a cliff in short fashion and call it finished.
He's been shitting on HBO having nothing left after Game of Thrones ends for a while but this is probably the first time he blatantly talks shit about the showrunners and HBO lol.
And who did she burn alive again? She never cared about the people. It was all about what she wanted.
Because the entire thing was rushed due to limited time, not just her character arc.
I don't think her freeing of slaves in Essos, and her burning of smallfolk in Westeros, come from the same place in her character.
I think it is. Two sides of the same coin. She was addicted to adoration and massacred people when they continually rebuffed her. Freeing slaves wasn't her goal. That was just a consequence of her campaign to regain the Irone Throne. Remember how quickly she abandoned the cities she conquered / freed in Essos only for them to be reclaimed by their previous masters?
Well I disagree, I think Dany fundamentally has an altruistic streak, and a desire to help the downtrodden because she too was downtrodden once. She also has a ruthless and obsessive desire for a home, for the throne, and I do think these two qualities intersect at times such as in her brutal punishments and actions. But I do not think she did things like saving Mirri, freeing the slaves, etc, just because she has an addiction for adoration.
Citizens giving in? They're people living their lives not soldiers taking a stand. She could've gone straight for the keep and killed Cersei but she deliberately stopped along the way to incinerate people she was told were innocent.
Yunkai was specifically mentioned in the show with a whole battle taking place. But regardless, she never again visited the other cities and left a ex-sellsword in charge of running one city despite there being an established trend toward rebellion and the reestablishment of a slave trade.
What if the ice and fire of the series' title are human emotions, and what's played out over the last eight seasons is the death-throes of love and hate, after which the world will be governed by a dispassionate robot who stands outside time?
