Game of Thrones / Dance with Dragons

[thistlechaser]

This is pretty darned cool (and it's surprisingly nice to hear the music again!). How all the effects were added into the GoT series:

The dragons were especially cool!

I'm about 80% through Dance with Dragons. I was going to wait until the end to post this, but since I'm posting the video I'll write this up as well.

The second half of the book is a whole lot better than the first, but I finally put my finger on what bugs me in this book...



I don't like Daenerys. At all. I'm not sure if I had that opinion in previous books (I think not), but I very very much do not like her now.

Does the girl have any flaws? Other than she ~cares too much~? Multiple times in the book she's described as "the most beautiful woman in the world". Silver hair. Purple eyes. Only person in the world to have dragons.

The overarching theme/plot of the book is that everyone wants her. Either wants-wants her or wants to use her (or both).

So she's the most beautiful woman in the world, her one "flaw" isn't a flaw at all, and every man wants her. What does this remind people of?

Am I missing something? Does she have some flaw that I forgot?



Anyway, other than that, I'm enjoying it a lot more than I had in the first half.

And from achika_soladia:


Unrelated: I wish auto-complete still worked on tags, that used to be so handy.

Comments

[wow-hazmat.livejournal.com]

The silver hair and purple eyes are from her bloodline, and there are several characters who have similar traits... generally, folks with some Targaryen in their background somewhere.

So Dany is not unique in that.

She IS the product of prophesy, "the prince that was promised" as they say, though Maester Aemon has been the only person to realize that (see Feast of Crows). So yeah she gets to be Unburnt and has dragons...

Dragons she can't truly control.

She cares too much, and is terribly naive. She's headstrong and makes mistakes, huge ones. Her whole attempt to rule in Slaver's Bay has IMO been one fuckup after another. Her heart is in the right place, but IMO she still has a lot to learn... and it takes her a long time to get her head clear.

I have developed such mixed feelings about her... but I actually think that's a good thing! The prophecied hero should never be perfect, and if anything Dany is even more flawed than Harry Potter. :)

Tyrion remains my favorite, of course, but isn't he everyone's? :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Tyrion remains my favorite, of course, but isn't he everyone's? :)

For sure! I'd love a book about just him. While thinking about your comment, I was pondering what the series might be like if it were broken up differently: Letting each character have a whole book instead of interweaving the chapters. Then I remembered in the early books how Every Single Chapter ended in a cliffhanger. It was all "Arg! Stop! Not a new person-- wait, HE ended on a cliffhanger, too!" repeating that every single chapter. I think there were two chapter cliffhangers so far? Maybe a few more than that, but only two that I can recall. :/

I really sound more negative about the book than I feel, I just expected so much more from it. Unfair, really.

[melanacious.livejournal.com]

(Does the girl have any flaws? Other than she ~cares too much~? Multiple times in the book she's described as "the most beautiful woman in the world". Silver hair. Purple eyes. Only person in the world to have dragons.

The overarching theme/plot of the book is that everyone wants her. Either wants-wants her or wants to use her (or both).

So she's the most beautiful woman in the world, her one "flaw" isn't a flaw at all, and every man wants her. What does this remind people of?

Am I missing something? Does she have some flaw that I forgot? )

When put that way, she begins to sound a bit like a Mary Sue.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's very much the feeling I got from it. Blah.

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

I'm not done with the book yet, but so far I see her as a similar moral to Ned Stark. Try to stick to a virtue, and people suffer. Lots of people. Would you say that Ned's flaw is he was "Too Honorable"? Seems like a recurring theme in this series - good leader, kind leader, drunk leader, mad leader, doesn't matter because everyone gets boned.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I read an argument that said Sansa was the female Ned Stark, that the decisions she made were the same exact ones he would have made.

Seems like a recurring theme in this series - good leader, kind leader, drunk leader, mad leader, doesn't matter because everyone gets boned.

"Everyone dies" seems to be the book's theme, yes. :D