ASOIAF - Daenerys Targaryen Rant
To all you feminists, little girls or other kind of Daenerys Targaryen worshipers that stumbled upon this post by some kind of horrible mistake. 
Game of Thrones Season 1 Daenerys
I will explain why George RR Martin's Daenerys Targaryen is one of my most hated Game Of Thrones characters on HBO's TV Series particularly and in a Song of Ice and Fire series in general (be aware spoilers inside). Brace yourselves, this is not going to be pretty.
Spoilers inside
Now when HBO's season 3 of Game of Thrones is behind us I will address an issue that
reimbursed ever since the last scene from season 3 aired,
regardless the needless scene and the savior persona that was created for Daenerys the Breaker of Chains. I was wondering about my unexplained hate
towards the Daenerys Targaryen character for a very long time. My obvious dislike started surfacing during book 3 of Song of Ice and Fire series "A Storm of Swords". Initially I thought that
I hate this character for no explained reason. It's like when you meet a person
and you get this uncomfortable vibe from him and the only thing you want to do
is avoid him at any cost, well I had the same feeling with Daenerys Targaryen's POV reading chapters.
Bloody Daenerys
At the
beginning I thought I hated her for the reason I described above but with time
my dislike towards Khaleesi grew and transformed to something of unbearable
proportions. From the first moment I encountered Daenerys in the first
book of ASOIAF "A Game Of Thrones" I was very ambivalent towards her. I didn't care that
she was sold to Drogo and it was actually entertaining to see how her detached from
reality abusing older brother Viserys treated her. Using her as a tool in
his chess game. Apart from his boring sister he was actually fun in his own
sick way. Unfortunately the Beggar King Viserys Targaryen was taken from us and we were left with the boring
Targaryen.
The only time I really enjoyed reading a Daenerys chapter in the books was the
house of the undying prophesies in "A Clash of Kings", the rest of her reading chapters were boring
at best (A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords) and unbearable
at worst (A Dance with Dragons).
One of the things that repulse me in the Mother of
dragons is the self entitlement for ... Everything. Who died and made you
Queen? The fact that you got sold like sheep to a warlord / rapist / butcher /
slaver as his personnel sex toy doesn't give you any special privileges. Your
old man was a nut that liked to burn and torture people alive; he got exactly
what he deserved. With Aries Targaryen death your claim to Westeros vanished.
If we talk about the imaginary Targaryen Family claim to Westeros. I understand that Valeria was destroyed and the Targaryens
needed to find somewhere to hang but the Targaryens didn’t had the right to
conquer an entire continent from its inhabitants.
We
established that her padre Aries Targaryen was crazy, her brother wasn't nuts
but he was not a great thinker either like everybody described him to be. Let’s
come from a simple assumption that Rhaegar didn't rape Liana Stark but she went
with him willingly. I'm sure he knew that kidnapping a high born Stark girl
that was betrothed to another wouldn't slide well. Rhaegar Targaryen didn't
expect this trick of his to escalate to a full mode rebellion and war.
That
only proves that Rhaegar wasn't that smart or special like Daenerys imagines
him to be. Daenerys even acknowledges at some point that if Rhaegar haven't
kidnapped Liana the Targaryens would be still sitting on the iron throne.
Another
thing regarding Daenerys, why doesn’t she ever train her dragons? They supposed
to follow her commands just like that? All she does is lay around all day and
dream about the past. She is still a small annoying and stupid child that has
a massive rage attack issues. You could see it every time that something
doesn't go her way or when someone tries telling her she is wrong.
One of her
biggest flaws is that she has this ideal image of her nut father Aries and older
delusional brother Rhaegar, which is so mislead from its core. Her persona is
build around those ideal men that in fact are so far from the truth. You would
have thought that from her experience with Viserys she would get through her
thick skull that not all members of the Targaryen family are perfect. The fact that she
doesn’t want to believe that or even hear anything negative about her
"perfect" family proves how immature she is. Daenerys is afraid to
change her ideal perspective towards the dead Targaryen family members and this flaw
pisses me of more than the rest, because she chooses to be ignorant regarding
the truth.
Daenerys Day dreaming
Does George RR Martin Protects Daenerys?
With
Daenerys it always feels like everything constantly goes her way. No matter
what she does or to be exact what horrible mistakes she makes, she always comes
on top. The problem is that she stays on top not because she does something
special to recover from her mistakes but because everything turns around for
her by itself. Daenerys does so many foolish moves that wouldn’t fly in
Westeros. In a sense it feels like she deals with armatures in the free cities.
Compare
Daenerys Targaryen to other characters in A Song of Ice and Fire Series like:
Rob Stark -
loses his head for one honorable mistake.
Jon Snow -
got a similar fate like his half brother for going on his way without considering the opinions of others. The fact remains that his black brothers were not ready for the massive changes he planned to make.
Tyrion
Lannister - The Dwarf got his nose cut off because he didn’t expect the
assassination attempt.
Jaime
Lannister - Got his hand chopped off for his arrogance.
Theon Greyjoy - OMG i cant even think about his fate, its to painful to describe it, although he was never one of my favorites.
Daenerys is
immune to all that, not even a scratch on her body from all the dumb shit she
does, and that’s really frustrating. Daenerys Targaryen is protected by the author. It seems like Martin is jumping
through hoops just to make Deanerys likable but for some readers like me and many
others that doesn't work. It only generates more hate towards the Mother of
Dragons.
Because RR Martin’s blindness protection of his Little Miss goody two shoes, sometimes I even categorize Daenerys with Joffrey Baratheon / Lannister and Ramsay Bolton, those last two are some sick dudes. And still I categorize Daenerys in their sick company. There is one difference between Daenerys and Joffrey, Ramsay. Joffrey and Ramsay are vicious, sick and disturbing characters that no one in his right mind can somehow relate. The audience is petrified from them and has an initial negative opinion about the two. With Daenerys it is completely different approach but in some circles it generates the similar dislike. She is portrayed as a positive character but if you look deep inside and listen to how she talks about Westeros’s high lords you can see that she can be as vicious as Joffrey (not Ramsay Bolton he is on pedestal of his own). Joffrey tortured and killed his victims because he enjoyed it, Daenerys can do the same when her excuse is vengeance.
Daenerys Targaryen major struggles in the free cities:
Daenerys
Targaryen had a mental breakdown after losing her unborn baby Rhaego, (The baby
who would destroy the world) and killing her rapist sun and stars husband.
Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea decides to enter the fire to do god knows what, in my opinion it was to commit suicide. When out of nowhere magically she
survives and her dragon eggs are hatched - Magic
Travel in
the desert with her khalasar of misfits, until deteriorating to dehydration.
When all hope is lost suddenly she finds a city in the middle of nowhere where
a complete stranger vouches for her and her gang of barbarians Dothraki to enter (how convenient) - Luck
Enters
willingly into a trap at the House of the Undying (with no plan or backup) just
to be rescued by her dragons, the Dragons start spiting fire for the first time in the
most appropriate time - Magic + Luck
Tricks the
slave masters in Astapor to sell her all the Unsullied and butchers the slavers
in the end - People stupidity (that trick would not fly in Westeros).
She meets an
army of Sellswords who supposed to protect the city of Yunkay. Than from
nowhere Daario Naharis betrays his colleagues to join Daenerys ranks, and give
her even more power (WTF?!?!? where did that come from? and why? Is Daenerys that hot that Daario Naharis started thinking with his other head ?) - Luck + Love
Conquers
Meereen, tries to rule the city but fails in every turn. Sons of the
harpy use guerrilla style warfare against the mother of dragons and her free
slaves. In a desperate attempt for peace with Sons of the Harpy she abandons
her ideal and allows the slave trade of Slaver's Bay to continue, marries
Hizdahr zo Loraq who tries to poison her but she miracally survives - Luck
The Daenerys
Targaryen character is so frustrating that at some point in "A Dance with Dragons"
it was impossible to read her chapters. Every time I saw the header with a
Daenerys at the top I would think twice whether to start reading the chapter or
leave it for tomorrow, because I knew that I’m in for the boredom of my life.
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I will give
a great example for my frustration with Daenerys:
The moment
Quentyn Martell of Dorne arrived, to claim Daenerys's hand in marriage. I thought
thank god these free cities nightmare is about to end but NO, Daenerys decides
to stay in freaking Meereen to protect her “people”.Give me a
break this is ridicules.
You dream
day and night about conquering back your birth rite and claim the Iron Throne to
yourself because you think that it is yours. And now when Quentyn is here
giving you a legitimate opportunity to return home with Dorne behind you (the
only big house that has a fresh, rested army which didn’t participate in the never ending war in Westeros),
you decline to continue drowning in the Meereen quicksand. Daenerys why would you do that?
If we are at
the Meereen quicksands, what was she supposed to do with her new husband Hizdahr
zo Loraq when she would actually decided to conquer Westeroes? (That is of course
prior the poisoning attempt) I don’t think that the Westerosis would have
really accepted him as their king (Daenerys herself has some kind of a small
base to her claim but this Hizdahr zo Loraq has non and he would have never been accepted in Westeros. So why in seven hells did she marry that clown). If you
ask Daenerys than she would probably be like "I will burn the opposition with
fire and blood" ... and bunch of garbage of that sort.
What’s up with Daenerys Targaryen's never ending list of names and titles:
Daenerys Targaryen the First of Her Name (she is not the first Daenerys)
Mother of Dragons
Daenerys Stormborn
Queen of the Andals
Queen of the Rhoynar
Queen of the First Men
Lord of the Seven Kingdoms
Protector of the Realm
Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea
The Unburnt
Breaker of Chains
Queen of Meereen
Dany
There are so many names and titles that it confused me and i had to sit and remember all of them. What normal person can remember all of them except maybe Daenerys.
What if Daenerys Targaryen does conquer Westeros? What then ?
Sometimes
when I think about the possibility of her coming to Westeros and really conquering the continent,
I don’t think that anyone will be left for her to rule. This crazy Targaryen
chick is so out of her mind with her never dying revenge. When she will finish
with Westeros there won’t be anything left. Let’s be honest most of the big
houses of Westeros betrayed her nut of a father Aries Targaryen. The only ones that didn’t, were house Martel but she ditched Quentyn so they won’t be happy with that.
Daenerys does not have any friends in Westeros now.
a fictional coat of arms (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Even if she
doesn’t destroy the entire Westeros continent where is she planning to put her
entire army of Unsullied, Sellswords, slaves and Dothraki Barbarians in the end?
I’m
personally really intrigued about the Unsullied because the Sellswords will
leave for their next higher bidder the slaves and the Dothraki will eventually
adapt (that will take a long time indeed). What do you do with 8000 baby
killers with no balls? They can’t have children, start a family's nor start
working in the fields like normal people. What is Daenerys supposed to do with
them in the end? I really hope that Martin will kill that crazy Targaryen or at
least make her suffer ... a lot.
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