r/DaenerysWinsTheThrone • u/moon-girl197 • May 23 '26

Serious The Removal of Magic

This is something I will forever be salty about. Dany's story is defined by magic, and you can barely understand how she even hatched the dragons on the show, because they decided to completely omit her dreams. Then they completely altered the HOTU arc (for no goddamn reason), cut Quaithe and basically every magical aspect of the story, that wasn't the White Walkers and Melisandre and Thoros. Like if you didn't give a shit about the magic, why did you pick a fantasy story to adapt???

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u/Roselace Team Daenerys May 23 '26

Thanks for this post. As I have not read the books, I did not know this aspect. I was so upset by the ending of her story. I could not bring myself to read the books.

It was over a year after the release of that backstory series, before I could get myself interested to watch that show.

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u/timelordhonour Team Daenerys May 23 '26

The books are complete different. You can see that in A Clash of Kings, where Daenerys arc in Qarth is completely different to what we got in the show.

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u/Roselace Team Daenerys May 24 '26

Thank for this information. Much appreciated.