Peter Dinklage on Danyās Madness
Iād like to start by saying I discount pretty much everything the majority of the cast says about the ASOIAF universe for three reasons. One, the majority have not read the books and thus donāt have a valid or accurate opinion on them. Two, they base everything they say off their bias opinion on the show and their relationships with David and Dan. Three, theyāre contractually obligated to promote the show and rub it in all of our faces that it was āfantasticā and ācouldnāt think of a better way for it to endā.
The only main actors whoāve truly been able to stay out of HBOās mopjob are Lena and Emilia - they really deserve credit for that.
I think this quote in itself shows that the actors donāt have an objective view of the series and/or are told to say things like this. Not only is the vast majority of the fandom and critics (+networks) on agreement that the last season was terrible. But the cast themselves have put out contridictory statements about the ending of the show and their characters.
I agree that monsters arenāt born, they are created. Created through years of pain, solitude, anger and the need for self preservation. Someone more like Cersei or Tyrion - both of whom have displayed their growing darkness over the coarse of the series - rather than someone whoās entire character personified rebirth, renewal and motherly love. But the point of storytelling is to be able to piece together the story like a puzzle and to be able to look back and point through all the things that built up the plot and characters. The problem with the last seasons of Game of Thrones is that it is all split second events that seem to have no build up or entirely contradict the previous plot and character. Itās not good development (plot or character) if āyou donāt see it comingā because itās based on a decision that wasnāt set up.
Wait, I though we ādonāt see it comingā, but suddenly āthere were signposts all along the wayā? Which is it? Are we supposed to be puzzling together her eventual turn into a mad arsonist or is it supposed to be a complete shock that nobody saw coming?
And what were the signposts Daenerys had that nobody else did?
Daenerys was born into hiding and assassination attempts. Viserys and her would move from place to place often because Robertās assassins would catch up to them. And even after she was in the āsafetyā of the Dothraki, she had attempts on her life. Dany has never known safety, never had a home. All she ever had were dreams of finding home.
Arya grew up on the run from the Lannisters, not from birth but from a very early age. She saw her own father beheaded, was on the rough Kingsroad for years, was in Harrenhal, was at the Twins when the Red Wedding happened. Arya has had her own fair share of running and being afraid. And the things that drove her? Revenge and the want to go home.
Being forcefully married when she was a child?
Sansa was married to Tyrion against her will, the only difference is that Tyrion didnāt treat Sansa as his wife while Danyās husband very much did.
Watching someone die without stopping it?
Viserys was her abusive brother who sold her and threatened to cut her unborn child from her stomach. He drew his sword in a place the Dothraki do not allow weapons and threatened their Khaleesi. Drogo killed him for threatening his wife and unborn child and dishonouring Dothraki customs. Dany didnāt stop his death and I donāt blame her, brother or not, nobody would save their lifelong abuser after they threatened to kill their baby. Even if she had wanted to, could she have? Drogo ordered his death and a Khal has seniority and he wouldnāt have considered saving the life of a man who threatened his Khaleesi or unborn child. Especially infront of his entire Khalasar.
Threatened people to get her way?
Her people were dying, starving and dehydrated and sunburnt. The only way to save them was to get them inside the city. A city that wouldnāt let them in. Was she supposed to turn around, leave and accept that she and her people and her children would die in the desert? No. She got them inside.
Wanting to return to her ancestral home?
Isnāt all the Starks plot now to return and retake Winterfell? Isnāt Jorahās goal to return North for revenge? Isnāt fAegon and Jon Cās whole plot to retake the Targaryen lands?
The Masters were slave owners and slave traders. My only note on this front is that she should have killed all of them, not just 163, and that she should have been more aggressive like her advisors said. Look at the American South, there was an entire Civil War to get rid of slavery that cost approximately 620,000 lives and around 5.2 billion dollars. Getting rid of slavery isnāt a cheap, easy or lifeless process. It takes years and many dedicated people in the persuit of freedom. Because freedom is a basic human right and people would rather die trying to attain it than live as nothing but livestock.
Other examples- Robb beheaded his own men for killing two Lannister boys. Even the man who had only kept watch, subjectively only guilty of accessory. Cersei blew up an entire Sept to get rid of a handful of people who were standing in her way. Jon hung all the men who stabbed him.
Killing people with fire?
The most common reason why people call her crazy is her affinity to fire. Sheās the mother of dragons. She rides them into battle, theyāre her weapons and her children. Just like Arya has Needle, Jon has Longclaw, Littlefinger has poison. People use the weapons they have.
Not to mention, dragon fire is actually a quick way to die. Itās so hot (note: Harrenhal) that the burning lasts a few seconds and then youāre dead. While a sword or poison is dependent on skill. A bad hacking job with a sword and you end up infected, losing limbs, dying slowly and painfully. Not to say any method is pleasant to die by.
Since weāre looking at signs - how about her compassion, her motherly proprayal, her need to help the innocent, her determination, her self built power, her survival, her kindness, her strength?
I wonāt deny sheās had moments of darkness, but which character, which person, hasnāt? ASOIAF is built on grey characters but Daenerys isnāt filtered with darkness, she has more light inside her.
So is she angry or is she insane? Because it seems to me that even he canāt decide which one it is since he changed his answer halfway through. Peter starts by saying sheās mad and was driven to it. Then he goes on to say sheās also a victim to everything sheās been through and how she was treated but that sheās a survivor for coming through it all. And finally we finish on this note ācame out angry, as a lot of us doā. Is the take away here that anyone whoās gone through horrible life events, survived and is angry at what has happened to them is insane?
Iād hate to pull the same card twice, but every main character in ASOIAF has gone through terrible things and every single character, hell every real life person, is driven by their emotions, their wants. Anger, revenge, hate, justice, honour, pride, love, lust, redemption, the list goes on. And thereās many examples of these emotions pushing them and driving them along their plot, their lives.
Does that make every single character, every single person insane?
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