Game Of Thrones Season 2 [Spoilers] - Page 2

Hamma · 2012-03-31, 04:09 PM

I've seen Season one but I haven't read the books. She was one of my favorite chars in the first season I loved watching the character grow.

Machine · 2012-04-01, 01:48 AM

They did a bang-up job on Brienne.

They forgot her wallet chain.
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Higby I prefer Tyrion first for comedy then Arya and Jon Snow. I did like the desert Scorpion though

"You know nothing Jon Snow." =)

Shanesan · 2012-04-01, 06:26 PM

I'm afraid to read the majority of this - too many spoiler opportunities!

Anyway, back to Season 2....

Graywolves · 2012-04-01, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by Shanesan

That needs to be used more.

Graywolves · 2012-04-01, 09:37 PM

All the first episode did was make me want the next episode even more

TheSHiFT · 2012-04-03, 12:04 AM

Originally Posted by Warborn

And Dany loved it. She was all about it. She showed a tiny bit of mercy for Mirri Maz Duur, the maegi in the first season, but she still strolled casually down the road of the maegi's town with women being raped around her, men having their heads chopped off and thrown in a pile, and people being herded away to be sold as slaves. And she was eager to visit this upon Westeros, too.

She showed mercy to several people not just MMD. She claimed several women hers, most of which either fled or were raped and killed when Drogo died. She wasnt raped on her wedding night (like the show implies). War is war, rape and slaves are a part of that in Essos.

BTW, is there a spoilers tag?

Hamma · 2012-04-03, 08:41 AM

There is not. I suppose I could create one.. never had a need for it.

I have tagged the thread for now.

Warborn · 2012-04-03, 09:59 AM

Originally Posted by TheSHiFT

She showed mercy to several people not just MMD. She claimed several women hers, most of which either fled or were raped and killed when Drogo died. She wasnt raped on her wedding night (like the show implies). War is war, rape and slaves are a part of that in Essos.

BTW, is there a spoilers tag?

She stopped some of the Dothraki from raping some of the women. They were still enslaved.

Any person who gleefully looks forward to their child being the stallion who mounts the world, meaning rapes and burns and pillages and tramples cities into dust, is a crazy person. Dany's upbringing was crazy though, and it did indeed warp her into the creature which so easily embraced the Dothraki culture of killing and destroying everything it encounters, but that doesn't excuse her from being a crazy bitch initially.

Now, of course, that changes, and eventually she becomes a very solid character who does good deeds, but initially, I despised her.

TheSHiFT · 2012-04-03, 11:17 AM

I never got that impression. She starts the series as an insecure, sheltered, 13 y/o girl who wants to go to a home she has never been. When confronted with the rapes ect. such as the razing of the Lamb-men village, she is disgusted by what she sees. She has to be told that it is the Dothroki way. I wounldnt call her a crazy bitch, but an ignorant child.

Warborn · 2012-04-03, 04:16 PM

Originally Posted by TheSHiFT

I never got that impression. She starts the series as an insecure, sheltered, 13 y/o girl who wants to go to a home she has never been. When confronted with the rapes ect. such as the razing of the Lamb-men village, she is disgusted by what she sees. She has to be told that it is the Dothroki way. I wounldnt call her a crazy bitch, but an ignorant child.

I always interpreted it as something like Stockholm syndrome compounded by how abusive her life had been up to that point.

Warborn · 2012-03-31, 05:15 PM

The growth is great. One of the benefits of her being so young and having known nothing but abuse and exploitation is that it really let her bloom once she gained control over her life. But I was rooting for the maegi all the way once she revealed that she'd been screwing them the entire time. I'm glad Drogo died, I'm glad Rhaego was still-born, and although I wish Mirri Maz Duur had lived, I suspect at that point -- after the Dothraki had taken everything from her -- she probably no longer wanted to.

**Higby** · 2012-03-31, 08:58 PM

Having read the books, Dany is one of my favorite characters by far - she goes through the most character growth in a series full of characters that evolve in incredible ways. I mean, in the books you actually start to like Jamie and even Cerci to some degree becomes a sympathetic character - that's some incredible character growth from the start of the series.

Still a Jon Snow and Arya Stark fan above all else though, but Dany and Tyrion are real close.

CutterJohn · 2012-03-31, 09:53 PM

Having reread the books last summer, I realized something.. I don't like almost all of the main characters. Sure they may be interesting, but they are bad people who cause an untold amount of suffering for very selfish reasons.

The Hound was the only decent one of the bunch. Sure he was a monster, but at least he suffered no illusions about what he was. Almost all of the rest think their actions are right and just purely because they are royalty. Throw away ten thousand commoners lives over a personal grudge? Sure, whats the problem?

BigBossMonkey · 2012-03-31, 10:12 PM

I hate most of what happens with Dany in book 5, though her last few chapters were interesting.

All about Arya and Tyrion, favorite characters BY FAR.

Warborn · 2012-03-31, 11:43 PM

Tyrion and Arya are great because they're both characters who succeed in spite of a world which is prejudiced against them. That and Tyrion is very entertaining. Once Dany finds her purpose she becomes a great character too, for similar reasons, although in the last book her girlish weaknesses were annoying. I guess that's GRRM reminding us that she's still just a 14 year old girl at that point, though.