Expand for my thoughts in red.
Right, complicated way of quoting it, but ok.
He loved her and was horrified of what she turned into. Understandable.
Granted, Jon had a connection with Dany, but he’s just watched her slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocents, he’s heard her threaten to do the same all across Westeros, and he knows full well that his sisters will be targets.
Yet the writers want us to believe that this erudite-like man, is so densely loyal, that his moral compass is spinning out of control? Please. I’m sorry, but using “love” as an excuse is just sloppy & lazy writing.
Again, she thought that he loved her beyond anything.
Dany knew Jon was a threat. He had a better claim to the throne, and had fiercely loyal supporters. She believed that he had “betrayed” her, and she also publically announced that Winterfell was a future target of hers.
And yet the girl is so blindsided by love, that she allows herself to fall into a vulnerable situation, immediately after this declaration of war? Nah, leave it out, it just doesn’t make sense. When characters start making stupid decisions in order to progress the plot, you know the writers are struggling.
Possibly a gamble by Sansa?
Yeah, fair point. Could well have been a gamble. Although you’ve got to imagine that Her & Bran didn’t travel down to KL alone.
They hadn't. Davos said they were due a debt than humanity could never repay.
True, they were owed a debt. But as per the previous point, Sansa has already threatened Greyworm with retaliation from the Northern Army, if Jon was hurt. She’s already expressed her desire to keep her brother from harm, to the point she is willing to go to war.
To go from that bold statement, to accepting her brother - the one true heir to the poxy throne - being sent to Coventry, seems a bit far fetched.
Perhaps the NK got too ****y?
Sorry, I can’t decipher that word.
Isn't that the point? Those who craved the throne never got it.
Maybe, although worth noting that Dany did get it - albeit briefly. The point is, it didn’t make any sense at all for Bran to get it. They could have literally picked a name out of a hat.
Theon’s sister & her arc - pointless
Not really. She's now the ruler of the Iron Islands.
Wow. Glad they included her in the show then. Definitely wouldn’t have made sense without that cornerstone of information holding the plot together.
Jon’s true parental lineage - pointless.
Again not really as it means he was a threat to Dany.
But she loved him, remember? How could his true lineage get in the way of that, if she truly thought “he loved her beyond anything”. That’s the level of inconsistency in referring to.
FWIW, I personally think the writers hated this plot line, and just weren’t clever enough to work out how to do anything with it. That’s why they ignored it.
Because they're just stories. It was quite refreshing as in similiar stories that prophecies HAVE to come true. We know they're just bollocks and that's how they turned out to be in GOT.
I wouldn’t have minded if it were the odd one or two little ones, but they’ve ignored more than that, and some have been absolute whoppers.
Fans: I thought Azor Ahai was the only one who could defeat the magic of the Night King.
Benioff & Weiss: Nope, that was just a pointless part of the story.
Fans: I thought Arya had to kill certain big players, with certain eye colours.
Benioff and Weiss: Nope, got you again.
Fans: Jaime as Valonqar maybe?
B&W: pass the blunt, I need some more creative inspiration.
She thought she could make a peaceful world by killing millions. That's madness on a grand scale.
I agree. However I said her rapid descent into madness was ridiculous. You know, that rapid descent that lasted a couple of episodes.
They didn't meet your expectations you mean.
Correct.
Are you suggesting that you happy with the main characters arcs? Was you
expecting Cersei to die by something as pathetic as falling bricks?
The writers couldn’t even come up with a good end for the dragon ffs, so they just said he’s ****ed off East, somewhere
Not really. He killed Dany.
Literally any of them could have killed Dany. Varys was supposedly trying. Tyrion had the opportunity, whilst stood face-to-face with her on the steps.
GRRM has worked closely with B&W in regards to how the series will finish. IF he does complete his books they're unlikely to end THAT differently from the TV show.
My understanding is that B&W guessed how the story was set to go - like many fans - and GRRM gave them a brief outline. They adapted that outline, to how
they saw fit.
Of course some of the stuff we’ve seen, will loosely fit into the book series, however, I’m convinced we’ll see much, much more of the story. Such as, the prophecies etc, that B&W
chose to ignore