hollis (they/them) currently studying classics and archaeology.
So, all in all, not a terrible vacation for the Dothraki.
Daenerys’ whole character arc is incredibly tragic, though, and probably the only ending we’re ever going to get. She’s 23, started the series at age 16, and all she wanted was a home and place to belong, and she never got it.
Her entire life she was told that Westeros was where she belonged. That everyone would love her and welcome her with open arms. And then she loses people she loves over and over and still moves forward because her home is waiting for her. The closest she gets to a payoff is the Mhysa scene (as poorly executed as it was) and she chases that high for the rest of the series. She “frees” more and more cities because she wants to recreate that moment.
And it goes wrong, but she still moves forward because her efforts have to pay off. (”If I look back I am lost”) She thinks that Westeros will be like Yunkai, only better because she belongs there. She thinks it’ll be like the house with the red door she left behind.
And she gets there and it isn’t. They don’t want her. They don’t want another contender for the throne. And she’s betrayed and untrusted and loses more people she loves (her children!) over and over and over again and again and again.
When she destroys King’s Landing she justifies it to herself that it was necessary. Tyrion even tells Jon she thinks she’s doing right, because everyone else encouraged her earlier on. She only kills bad people, so if they die they must have been bad. She never fully realizes why she was betrayed. She doesn’t realize what she did wrong.
She dies right in front of the throne she worked so hard for. She gets so close to getting everything she wanted and then just….doesn’t.
my boy sam calling out the flaws in a monarchy and having only a few members of the upper class wielding power and inventing democracy
how fucking funny would it be if the stinger for the episode is drogon carrying dany to a red priest and being revived
comrade drogon realizes the true enemy is the system of monarchy itself and that by elevating one single person above others creates violence and corruption
me @ ramin djawadi for managing to carry this whole fucking season
me @ the game of thrones cast for still making me feel emotion even after D&D fucked up their characters
found a stream for tonight’s episode and they’re airing the previous one first and holy shit i forgot how fucking brutal arya trying to escape is
