No, seemed realistic to me. One chomp from a giant ornery dragon and she’s lost her hand… or her life.
Yeah, she used to be confident that they respected her, now she is not so sure.
Wait, were people surprised that Jon got elected Lord Commander? I thought that was the safest bet ever on the show. The first time someone mentioned the election for new Lord Commander last season it seemed obvious that this would happen. Not in a bad way, but in a narratively logical way. It also furthers the Stannis/Jon plot. “Sorry my liege, I’m now Lord Commander and I can’t help you take the North even if I wanted to…but you could still try to get the Wildlings on your side if you let me convince Redbeard to try to lead them.”
Don’t forget, Dorne was also the only part of Westeros to hold out against the Targaryens who had dragons.
Everybody’s favorite part of Game of Thrones, the Facebook recap, is up. I’m spoilering it because they mention certain things we don’t mention in this thread.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a list that I need to post to Stabify.
Yep the book made a better story line in this regards but it’s a lot harder with the TV to drag it out. So to me no surprise but if you hadn’t read the books it would be.
Oh God he looked so bored talking to his wife to be, he is scrappy little gutter merchant who has made it to polite society but he in his heart is bored.
Heheh. Thanks. As usual, Bronn gets the best lines.
There’s a link there for the season premiere, too.
I didn’t see fear. I saw the sadness of a parent who realizes these are her true children…not the people she’s trying to rule.
Now if you mean the other two in ep one…I agree. I would have liked to see her sit down and try and talk to them…out of range of their teeth of course.
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My take on it:
Based on the confrontation with Arya and the three thugs and how the thugs run off when the robed dude pops out behind her is that it is just common knowledge that there are assassins in Braavos and you don’t screw around with those guys.
So when Arya would show the coin and say the words any man from Braavos would know it was something to do with the assassins and if you don’t want to get on their bad sides you help out whoever presents the coin and says the words.
I think it’s really sad that Dany chained up her dragons in a dark hole, but I’m a crazy animal person. I’ve been wondering if someone is feeding them. If so, why couldn’t she chain them up in a large field where they at least get sunshine. If it was me, I would have paid some farmer a handsome sum to raise sheep for the express purpose of keeping my pets fed so they don’t go hunting humans. I think she’s painted herself into a corner with this. I suspect that the dragons know she’s betrayed them and don’t appreciate being treated like dogs.
I’m hoping the dragons turn on her and they get loose and they breed and the dragon population starts coming back and there’s chaos and holy shit there’re dragons all over being all dragony. That would be fun.
I think the dragons are big enough to ride now, I bet we see the the first dragon jockey soon.
Those dragons might tolerate having Daenerys riding them, but I don’t see them putting up with anyone else. It’s not clear how the Targaryens used dragons in past centuries; perhaps as someone suggested, wargs were used to mind-control them?
I’ll argue against the warg theory, because then it diminished the importance of being Targarian with respect to dragons, if any old warg can control dragons.
In Season 2 Episode 7, Arya and Tywin have a conversation about the Targaryen Conquest in which they talk about how Aegon and his sisters rode dragons. Now it’s possible that “ride” is used to describe them warging into the dragons, but it seems more likely that they literally rode on their backs.
Perhaps the Targaryens developed a close relationship with a particular dragon, so that the dragon didn’t mind having that person ride him/her?
Maybe they warged and rode at the same time?
IIRC during the Conquest one of Aegon’s sisters was able to get the underage King of Mountain and Vale to trade his entire kingdom for a ride on her dragon.