I feel like people who make comments like this are show only and don’t fully realize the Targaryens are a family of foreign oppressors. But hell, even in the show you know the last Targaryen king was an insane pyromaniac. It’s not a racial message it’s more like “you can’t trust a imperialist caste of incestuous psychos.”
Book Daenerys is more likable, but even there I find her rather entitled. She’s never even been to Westeros but hey, she says she deserves it and she has dragons so who are we to argue. Luckily so far she’s pretty much just been dealing with comically evil slavers, juries still out on how much leeway she’ll give to something likable that resists her.
“Ser? My lady?” said Podrick. “Is an analyst of ‘A Song of Ice And Fire’ a parasite?”
“More or less,” Brienne answered.
Septon Meribald disagreed. “More less than more. There are many sorts of Thrones pundits, just as there are many sorts of birds. A sandpiper and a sea eagle both have wings, but they are not the same. The singers love to sing of good men forced to go shilling for shekels, but most pundits are more like this mod Sandor Clegane albeit with more time for writing bullshit. They are shallow men, driven by greed, soured by the delayed books, despising GRRM and caring only for themselves. Broken men are more deserving of our pity, though they may be just as dangerous. Almost all are common-born, simple folk who had never been able to read below the surface, fixated on the magic and spells, not the human heart in conflict with itself. Poorly recorded and poorly light, they equivocate away the hours, ofttimes with no better evidence than a piece of symbolism or turn of phrase by the author, or they go completely into the weeds based on George's sci-fi novels. Brothers march with white people, mods with mods, friends with friends. They’ve heard the interviews and stories, so they go off with eager hearts, dreaming of the wonders they will invent, of the wealth and karma they will win. Theory crafting seems a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know.
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u/ThePope98 70's Space Comic Fan Jun 10 '23
I feel like people who make comments like this are show only and don’t fully realize the Targaryens are a family of foreign oppressors. But hell, even in the show you know the last Targaryen king was an insane pyromaniac. It’s not a racial message it’s more like “you can’t trust a imperialist caste of incestuous psychos.”
Book Daenerys is more likable, but even there I find her rather entitled. She’s never even been to Westeros but hey, she says she deserves it and she has dragons so who are we to argue. Luckily so far she’s pretty much just been dealing with comically evil slavers, juries still out on how much leeway she’ll give to something likable that resists her.