NightlyPoe said:
You ever stop to think that it might be because Varys is the friend who saved his life and the closest person to whom he can relate to best in the world and Daenerys is his queen and he's being forced to choose between them? If you actually watch the scene, Tyrion knows that beyond Varys's dressing his intentions up as nobility, they're discussing regicide. Tyrion then asks Varys not to do it. There's actually a moment of fear their within Varys. He realizes at that point that he's committed himself to deposing Dany and Tyrion is not on board. Seriously, are you going to expand your point out beyond that one line and pretend that they've developed more than that? Yes, I know they tossed out the possibility. There's a whole conversation between Tyrion and Varys about it. There was nothing subtle about the notion. What I'm saying is that it doesn't match the way they've characterized her this season. That tells me that either they're incompetent and wrote her wrong, or there's a swerve coming similar to how they feinted the conflict between Arya and Sansa last season to ensnare Littlefinger. |
You seem to be ignoring how eager Dany was to just kill all of the innocents in King's Landing again. If we aren't supposed to believe that she is slipping, the writers should have at least written it as a difficult moral choice. They didn't. They did not depict Dany struggling to make these difficult decisions, they depicted those around her temporarily reigning her in from doing the things that she wants to do (ie Kill the Innocents).
The way she is behaving has demonstrated that she no longer cares about her moral high ground. Luckily she has people around her who are able to reign her in so she has yet to act on these impulses, but someone else's moral platform is not a substitute for your own.