wait i thought you didn't like daenerys and now you're defending her?
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Okay. Okay okay okay.
I’m not defending Dany’s actions, I’m criticising the show’s portrayal of Dany.
What I don’t like:
D&D’s awful writing, their complete and utter inability to write interesting and complex female characters, their inability to do foreshadowing in a logical and consistent way that would build up to an ending which makes sense, even if it wasn’t what people wanted. They fail the basic principle of ‘show, don’t tell’.
Examples of this are everywhere! We’re told that Sansa’s the smartest person ever, but we’re not shown any of that development. We’re told that Arya is the best at fighting, but we’re not shown any of how she learned to fight like that. We’re told that Jon is making googily-eyes at Dany in season seven, but I saw none of it. We’re told that Dany is becoming mad, but we saw none of it.
This isn’t me hating any of the characters above. It’s looking at the writing and going, wow this is a poorly written piece of television.
Above all, this is my problem with D&D’s portrayal of Dany:
You don’t get to present Dany’s storyline in a way that the audience is clearly meant to root for her for 6 seasons, and then in the last 3 episodes have her do the same things she’s always done but now suddenly it’s meant to viewed in a negative light.
look at the difference between 6x09 vs 8x05:
6x09: We see Dany the entire time she’s flying on Drogon, and burning the Master’s fleet. There’s no lingering shots of people burning, or shots of other’s characters faces when they see the carnage. Because this was a victorious moment, and that was how it was shot.
8x05: We’re specifically shown from the ground up, and then multiple shots of other main characters as they watch this unfold. A lot of lingering shots on people screaming as they burned. And then we never see Dany’s face after this scene begins.
Stuff like ‘ooooh but she’s always been mad, remember when she locked those people in the vault? Remember when Viserys died? Remember when she burned all the Khals??’ Well the show itself framed all of those as super cool awesome moments where Dany overcame her enemies instead. We’re meant to cheer for her. We’re meant to feel satisfaction. But if that was meant to be foreshadowing of her becoming bad, then the show needs to communicate that through framing, through writing, GRADUALLY. Otherwise, it’s what they did for the last three episodes: slap us in the face with all of these ‘good moments for Dany’ and then go ‘OOPS yeah that was meant to show how mad she is’.
anyway this is just me getting very angry that people are ignoring the bad writing because they like the idea of Dany being a Mad Queen.
You can like the idea of Dany becoming a Mad Queen, but for god’s sake don’t fucking defend how atrociously it was portrayed and handled by the show.
