Shaunodon said: (Anyone not bothered/perplexed by Daenerys's sudden character direction, feel free to ignore all this please. Sorry it's so long) So while watching a GoT video completely unrelated to Daenerys, this scene decided to pop up in the compilation. As I'm pretty sure I mentioned before, there's several examples all throughout the series of Dany showing slips in her mental stability, but this scene (from season 2) felt like a very powerful one.
Let's not try and pretend they haven't thought this out from the very beginning. Those points don't even mention:
What's great about this, is that it's easy to believe when you're first watching that she's just a young girl who we sympathise with, and after what she's been through still trying to learn the ways of the world and mature into a good leader. People innevitably get behind her as she manages to keep creating miracles, meanwhile also freeing a lot of people along the way and being seen as their saviour, vindicating her self-righteous personality and making us see her as a force for good. |
I came here to say something similar. GoT/ASOIAF has always had morally grey characters and Dany is no exception.
In hindsight, Dany has always been this way, it's just we're now seeing her wrath being aimed at people we have also been conditioned to care about and without her adoring entourage reinforcing her own perspective.