some thoughts on Dany in GoT so far
you know when I said I wouldn't do meta-y posts(and I'm really unsure about calling this meta, anyway.. it's rambly ramblings) anymore for my big bang? Well, that didn't work out.
So I decided to focus on the Daenarys storyline on Game of Thrones, or what we have seen of it so far. The changes in her as a character mostly, and a little bit about the changes I saw to the books.
Changes in Changes
First off, I trust that in the end the results of this storyline are the same, and whenever it was mentioned in interviews it sounded exactly the same. But then in taking out some of the little moments (due to time-constraints mainly, I presume) the viewer who doesn’t know the story already may be startled by the speed with which Dany changes and especially her sudden affection for Drogo.
As I said previously, the wedding scene in the pilot has been shortened quite a bit, but though some people said they the difference with which Drogo treated Dany as opposed to others (Mainly Viserys, but it’d be pretty hard to treat her as badly as he does her, let’s be honest. To him she is his property, his slave and thus he sells her.). Still in the books he did wait until she had stopped crying and he did seduce her a little bit. She may still have been sold like a horse to be ridden at the new owners pleasure, but Drogo is doing his best.
But I skipped a point, that is Dany’s introduction, which imo was done very well. Not just showing how her relationship to her brother was set up, but also that she just wants to go home, even though to her that is the house with the red door, not Westeros and that she is essentially still a child, who doesn’t have her own opinions, and the little she has she knows not to voice.
And with her wedding she is thrust into this new strange world without a safety net. Sure her brother is still there, but he’s not the one sharing her tent and he doesn’t know any better there anyway. Ser Jorah helps her, as do her handmaidens, but they are new people as well. But she tries to adjust, bit by bit.
And the TV-Series tries to show that that obviously doesn’t happen overnight, by still having her in silks at the beginning of ep 2 and Drogo still riding her ‘Dothraki-stye’. And she still cries. Yes, in the books she suffered those nights as well, but then her transformation is much more spread out. Doreah helps her be a khaleesi, and not just Drogo’s sex-slave.
I guess my main problem was that now we didn’t have another tiny bit, where they get closer. Instead in Ep3 they suddenly snuggle. Snuggle! One episode ago he was still raping her and suddenly they snuggle.
Again, I get the time-constraints, but one more smile while riding together (and I do mean riding on horses and not on pelts) would have definitely helped.
Anyway, back to the changes in Dany herself. Claiming her sexuality definitely helped, she got some power, she learned to not just wait to be taken, she got control over her own body back. And this was shown in her change of attire (in the books as well as on the show) and her adjusting to the long rides (and not just letting herself fall off the horse at the end of the day). She is becoming a Dothraki, or rather embracing them as much as she can without losing that little bit of her heritage that she knows of. Her eggs help with that. Her eggs are her anchor, they represent her house, her power. She is the blood of the dragon.
And so she becomes the khaleesi, and dares to stop the khalasar and even her brother. And here’s another change from the books, which I did not approve of, and I am not sure why it was done (not a time thing for once). Namely her confrontation with Viserys. She slapped him, she made him walk, she showed him he can’t treat her like his property anymore, he may be the rightful king of Westeros, but that land is far away and here she is khaleesi. And yet on TV Rhakaro denies Viserys his horse. I did not mind the missing slap, but he has to walk anyway,why couldn’t Dany give the command? It would have been so important imo to show that she commands him for once.
Oh well, at least those who just watch and didn’t read agree how badass Dany is getting, so all is well.
To sum up, I really love the show and only have minor, quite nitpicky objections to how they deal with Dany’s storyline. (And I only wrote this much about it because of the challenge, anyway.) Oh, and Dany is awesome. The End.
So I decided to focus on the Daenarys storyline on Game of Thrones, or what we have seen of it so far. The changes in her as a character mostly, and a little bit about the changes I saw to the books.
Changes in Changes
First off, I trust that in the end the results of this storyline are the same, and whenever it was mentioned in interviews it sounded exactly the same. But then in taking out some of the little moments (due to time-constraints mainly, I presume) the viewer who doesn’t know the story already may be startled by the speed with which Dany changes and especially her sudden affection for Drogo.
As I said previously, the wedding scene in the pilot has been shortened quite a bit, but though some people said they the difference with which Drogo treated Dany as opposed to others (Mainly Viserys, but it’d be pretty hard to treat her as badly as he does her, let’s be honest. To him she is his property, his slave and thus he sells her.). Still in the books he did wait until she had stopped crying and he did seduce her a little bit. She may still have been sold like a horse to be ridden at the new owners pleasure, but Drogo is doing his best.
But I skipped a point, that is Dany’s introduction, which imo was done very well. Not just showing how her relationship to her brother was set up, but also that she just wants to go home, even though to her that is the house with the red door, not Westeros and that she is essentially still a child, who doesn’t have her own opinions, and the little she has she knows not to voice.
And with her wedding she is thrust into this new strange world without a safety net. Sure her brother is still there, but he’s not the one sharing her tent and he doesn’t know any better there anyway. Ser Jorah helps her, as do her handmaidens, but they are new people as well. But she tries to adjust, bit by bit.
And the TV-Series tries to show that that obviously doesn’t happen overnight, by still having her in silks at the beginning of ep 2 and Drogo still riding her ‘Dothraki-stye’. And she still cries. Yes, in the books she suffered those nights as well, but then her transformation is much more spread out. Doreah helps her be a khaleesi, and not just Drogo’s sex-slave.
I guess my main problem was that now we didn’t have another tiny bit, where they get closer. Instead in Ep3 they suddenly snuggle. Snuggle! One episode ago he was still raping her and suddenly they snuggle.
Again, I get the time-constraints, but one more smile while riding together (and I do mean riding on horses and not on pelts) would have definitely helped.
Anyway, back to the changes in Dany herself. Claiming her sexuality definitely helped, she got some power, she learned to not just wait to be taken, she got control over her own body back. And this was shown in her change of attire (in the books as well as on the show) and her adjusting to the long rides (and not just letting herself fall off the horse at the end of the day). She is becoming a Dothraki, or rather embracing them as much as she can without losing that little bit of her heritage that she knows of. Her eggs help with that. Her eggs are her anchor, they represent her house, her power. She is the blood of the dragon.
And so she becomes the khaleesi, and dares to stop the khalasar and even her brother. And here’s another change from the books, which I did not approve of, and I am not sure why it was done (not a time thing for once). Namely her confrontation with Viserys. She slapped him, she made him walk, she showed him he can’t treat her like his property anymore, he may be the rightful king of Westeros, but that land is far away and here she is khaleesi. And yet on TV Rhakaro denies Viserys his horse. I did not mind the missing slap, but he has to walk anyway,why couldn’t Dany give the command? It would have been so important imo to show that she commands him for once.
Oh well, at least those who just watch and didn’t read agree how badass Dany is getting, so all is well.
To sum up, I really love the show and only have minor, quite nitpicky objections to how they deal with Dany’s storyline. (And I only wrote this much about it because of the challenge, anyway.) Oh, and Dany is awesome. The End.