I confess I do hope against hope that Jorah will return to be Danaerys' trusted right hand again at some point. Danaerys is going to be in trouble without him, that's for sure; recent events have taken pains to highlight how much she depends on and needs Jorah's counsel.
Agreed. Jorah was the only person who knew her from the beginning, and was the only person she viewed as a trusted friend. So having that trust broken and him banished, she truly has nobody else to give her proper council. She has Ser Barristan who has some insight, though besides that she literally has nobody else and she will be lost. Jorah may fucked up early on, but he remained loyal and by her side since then.
Was it really necessary to be quite so graphic about the man's death?
It was heartbreaking in the books, but it was quite upsetting and disturbing to actually show it on the screen. I mean, it does fit the description but it was very graphic and horrible. D:
Yeah, Jorah's major mistake with Danaerys was that he just didn't come out with the truth in time. Which really was a very dumb and fear-driven decision, because he must have known it was bound to come out eventually. He's a canny politician, so he can't have assumed Danaerys' enemies weren't going to use this little fact against her. Head in the sand thinking, I guess.
I'm sure she would have forgiven him if he'd confessed early on, but she is absolutely right not to do so now.
Now I just hope he lives, and keeps redeeming himself, and joins forces with her again later. I loved the two of them as a team. :-/
Ser Barristan is definitely helpful, but tbh I never quite trusted him to give good advice. And the other people around her either don't have the knowledge or experience to provide counsel, or are entirely untrustworthy. (I am glad they recast Dario so he at least doesn't look like such a total sleaze anymore, but he still acts like one, and I just want to take a shower every time he was on screen.)
I don't know about Sansa... I liked that she finally got some agency, and those were brilliant scenes. But especially because of how creepy her scenes with Baelish have been, I'm wary she'll 'take control of her destiny' by becoming his mistress. If there's one female character I didn't want to end up in a 'power through sex' narrative, it's her. So, I'm watching warily. While being glad she finally gets something to do that isn't just being terrified.
If that is what she does, then that will indeed suck. I may be getting ahead of myself a bit here because I've been waiting for *so long* for her to do more than cringe and be a pitiful scared mouse. But I didn't get the impression that that's what she intended - and it would be the wrong move anyway, because Baelish doesn't only ( or even primarily) want sex from her. It's way more complicated than that, and I do think she knows it
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Oh god me too. I've been waiting for so long for Sansa to start *playing* the game instead of being a helpless pawn.
And the way she's doing it makes me wonder... how much of her "frightened, naive little girl" impression at King's Landing was true, and how much was it an act? Hiding herself behind a facade that was absolutely true in part and made her look completely harmless would certainly have been a very smart and canny choice.
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Agreed. Jorah was the only person who knew her from the beginning, and was the only person she viewed as a trusted friend. So having that trust broken and him banished, she truly has nobody else to give her proper council. She has Ser Barristan who has some insight, though besides that she literally has nobody else and she will be lost. Jorah may fucked up early on, but he remained loyal and by her side since then.
Was it really necessary to be quite so graphic about the man's death?
It was heartbreaking in the books, but it was quite upsetting and disturbing to actually show it on the screen. I mean, it does fit the description but it was very graphic and horrible. D:
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I'm sure she would have forgiven him if he'd confessed early on, but she is absolutely right not to do so now.
Now I just hope he lives, and keeps redeeming himself, and joins forces with her again later. I loved the two of them as a team. :-/
Ser Barristan is definitely helpful, but tbh I never quite trusted him to give good advice. And the other people around her either don't have the knowledge or experience to provide counsel, or are entirely untrustworthy. (I am glad they recast Dario so he at least doesn't look like such a total sleaze anymore, but he still acts like one, and I just want to take a shower every time he was on screen.)
It was heartbreaking in ( ... )
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(I love Sansa, even when she got nothing to do.)
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And the way she's doing it makes me wonder... how much of her "frightened, naive little girl" impression at King's Landing was true, and how much was it an act? Hiding herself behind a facade that was absolutely true in part and made her look completely harmless would certainly have been a very smart and canny choice.
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