Thoughts On GOT Season 8 Ep 5

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Hello Guys,

This is my first time writing, and my first season listening – and I think you are both awesome and I love the purity of your fandom.

First and foremost, I am very invested in Dany as a character. Maybe it’s a woman thing, her rise from being an underdog to Queen, her dragons or all of the above. But, I love her in the TV series and the books. I think what is refreshing about this show is that you are allowed to love a character despite their choices. Rob, Jon, Sansa, Jamie, Tyrion, Bran, Arya, Theon, and the Hound – they have all made good and bad choices and that is what brings humanity to their characters, and to this story.

As far as Dany’s mission, I wonder if we ever understood what she meant by breaking the wheel. I think King’s Landing is the manifestation of the wheel that she spoke of back in Season 5 (I believe). It is the center of power in Westeros, and they spoke of that this season in episode 4. I know that the individual people of King’s Landing are innocent, but we don’t know them individually. We know them as a collective character. And, that collective supports everyone and anyone who sits upon the throne blindly. Dany was correct in stating that they are not the people of Meereen, who knew that they were slaves. They are not the unsullied, who knew that they were slaves. They are not the people of Yunkai, who knew that they were slaves. The collective citizens of King’s Landing prefer to be blind followers. They prefer to support anyone whom they are told to support. How does this benefit Dany? Again, I can not justify the death of every individual, but if you are trying to conquer a land you have to remove all barriers to your mission.

Their blindness is not loyalty or love, it may not even be fear – it is an unwillingness to grow. They as a collective are mindless, blind drones who will only rise up when they don’t have what they want such as food- it is parasitic. I truly felt sympathy for the people who were running in the streets and who were burned alive, it is cruel. But, unfortunately, what kept running through my mind was – why would you believe Cersei and come into the city walls? If Dragons are coming shouldn’t you go the other way? But, once again they believed whatever the person on the throne told them.

I also have several wishes for this last episode
1. I hope the obvious thing does not happen – the most obvious being that Dany is the Mad Queen like her father and is killed by Arya or Jon…I think being decisive and ruthless is different from insane, and If she must die I would like her death to be unexpected 2. I hope we get some answers on the mythology – is Bran both the 3 eyed raven and the Lord of light (I am not sure if I am the only one still thinking this), and will Ayra become the God of Death or the Night King (I am probably the only person who thinks this…but she escaped all that dragon fire way to easy) 3. Jon Snow aka Aegon (I don’t want the throne) Targaryen goes back up North – I love him too, but he seriously needs to listen to the women in his life because he really knows nothing. Plus, if Daenerys is too strong for him (per Varys s8ep4) then why is he strong enough to sit on the throne? Or did Varys want him on the throne because he is loved and easily influenced? 4. Tyrion becomes Protector of the Realm after understanding while not agreeing with what Dany did, and raises Dany child from Jon after she is consumed internally by fire from her child who is a Dragon (this doesn’t seem like it will happen because with the speed of the timeline she would have had a baby bump…but it’s so tragic that I am holding on to it as a crazy plot twist).

If you read the whole email I thank you – my husband refuses to listen to my GOT ramblings so I truly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Diane Sanders-Cepeda

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