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I don't think you're supposed to be comfortable with her. Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 15/08/2017 04:40:47 AM

I'm certainly not, and I'm your resident "girl power" progressive. The current season has been one where you're supposed to wonder whether the Targaryen madness actually did skip Danaerys. This doesn't seem to be an Egwene situation--you're supposed to be concerned with her actions, so you can be suitably impressed when Jon Snow sweeps her off her feet and teaches her how to be a good ruler and then they smooch.

Honestly, there are very, very few reasonable people on the show--it's one of my biggest turn offs. Yes, lots of powerful people are violent and bloodthirsty and cruel and backstabbing, but the history of the world's leaders is not one of unceasing stupidity. I think somewhere in the past two seasons, the show switched from a philosophy of "our viewers like it when actions have consequences" to "our viewers like it when bad things happen." Those categories overlap, to be sure, but they absolutely are not congruent. Just look at the disaster that was the Ramsay Bolton subplot for an example of what I mean.

"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla

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This message last edited by Ghavrel on 15/08/2017 at 04:42:00 AM
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