None of it is in the context of an actual world-class dramatic performance. In the same way that I enjoy explicit sex written by the best authors in my favorite novels, I would love to have explicit sex in the best TV and film dramas by world-class directors and screenwriters and actors. If I’m invested in the story and characters, that makes the erotic experience better.
Watched that scene again on youtube. Robert says Jon’s mother was a common girl named Meryl or something and Ned says her name was Wylla. Robert then says you’ve never described her to me and Ned says I never will. It sounds suspicious that Ned would hide her description from his best friend and king. But I could just be reading too much into that. When Ned said he would talk to Jon about it the next time he saw him, it seems like there was a story to be told.
So it seems like Dany hasn’t seen her dragons since she locked them away. I had assumed there was some sort of dragon training going on in the background that wasn’t shown for lack of budget, but could she simply be letting them stay idle and do their own thing all day? She can’t control them and she’s made no effort to train them. They’re wild beasts, but her ancestors rode them and used them as weapons, so they have to be at least trainable to some degree. It seems like she’s not even trying, and so now she’s got some angry, wild, untrained dragons on her hands, which are as much a liability as an asset.
But yeah, I agree that that storyline is either nonsensical, or else clumsily told, since it sure looks to us like she locked them up in the dark and then decided to pop back in several months later with absolutely no intervening contact or effort or thought.
My point was that we’ve never seen her trying to train the dragons. She hasn’t talked to animal experts nor people familiar with dragon lore. She hasn’t been shown to experiment trying to train them.
I was being generous in assuming that there was some sort of training going on in the background unseen to the audience, but the scene in this episode suggests there isn’t, that she doesn’t know what to do with them and doesn’t try.
Dany’s brother kidnapped and raped Ned’s sister who is dead, this is mentioned in the first season when Robert and Ned visit her grave. Then mentioned again I think the last time by Obeberon last season. A popular theory is Jon is the result of that rape, and Ned lied to protect his nephew.
I don’t see how it could matter in story, unless it lets him ride one of Dany’s dragons or something.
This whole conversation started with Melisandre’s need for royal blood and how Ned insisted Jon “shared his blood” and how both of these things could be true. I thought Oberon was pissed because his sister was raped to death by The Mountain. I don’t remember him mentioning Ned’s sister at all.
I think the basic problem for Daenerys that her family hasn’t had dragons in many generations, so no one is alive with first-hand knowledge of how to work with and train them. The family ruled for so long that I’ll bet any written books on dragon training are probably still at King’s Landing.