I was watching After the Thrones, and they mentioned a popular subreddit in which there is a discussion about whether or not Dany will eventually turn out to be the villain of ASOIAF.
It makes a bit of sense. She wants to take back Westeros, a place she's never really been, seen, or experienced, and she will murder all who oppose her. She is a Targaryen, and we are steadily seeing glimpses of the Mad King in her, in the black and white thinking, in her grand gestures and her lack of attention to nuance.
She doesn't know about white walkers and the coming darkness of winter. She doesn't know, although she probably suspects, that no one gives a flying fuck (pardon the pun) about a returning Targaryen. She'll have her dragons, but in taking "what is hers" she'll be marching into a foreign land 20+ years after any thought of a Targaryen, and taking the fuck over---with a foreign army of what will be seen as a barbaric horde. Many innocents will die just on account of that.
Will she pause for a vanguard? Does Tyrion/Varys talk her into a little stop by Dorne to rally a potential ally? Does she make a pit stop by Eastwatch and take a short flight to char up some wights and the Night's King in order to endear the people to her side? Is that too obvious for GRRM, who likes to buck all of the typical fantasy tropes?
What say you lot?
It makes a bit of sense. She wants to take back Westeros, a place she's never really been, seen, or experienced, and she will murder all who oppose her. She is a Targaryen, and we are steadily seeing glimpses of the Mad King in her, in the black and white thinking, in her grand gestures and her lack of attention to nuance.
She doesn't know about white walkers and the coming darkness of winter. She doesn't know, although she probably suspects, that no one gives a flying fuck (pardon the pun) about a returning Targaryen. She'll have her dragons, but in taking "what is hers" she'll be marching into a foreign land 20+ years after any thought of a Targaryen, and taking the fuck over---with a foreign army of what will be seen as a barbaric horde. Many innocents will die just on account of that.
Will she pause for a vanguard? Does Tyrion/Varys talk her into a little stop by Dorne to rally a potential ally? Does she make a pit stop by Eastwatch and take a short flight to char up some wights and the Night's King in order to endear the people to her side? Is that too obvious for GRRM, who likes to buck all of the typical fantasy tropes?
What say you lot?
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