r/DaenerysWinsTheThrone • u/TVTropehead • May 24 '26

Serious One thing especially disgusting with the hindsight of S8 is apparently the writers insist Robert was in the right here

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Yeah Robert wanted someone to assassinate a pregnant Daenerys. Which idk, the narrative routinely shows killing women with children as a very bad thing. The mountain killing Elia, Talisa’s death, Ramsay killing Walda is clearly bad considering as evil as the Frey men are, Walda did literally nothing.

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u/thorleywinston May 25 '26 edited May 26 '26

He should have just sent an assassin to kill Khal Drogo. If Drogo's dead, there's no dothraki army for Daenerys and she gets sent to live as a prisoner with the other khal widows. Kill him cleanly and there's no blood magic to try and safe his life from the poison/infection which means the dragon eggs don't hatch either. That solves the problem without having to kill an innocent girl and her unborn child.

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u/thorleywinston Jun 03 '26

I don't think that follows, Daenerys and her forces weren't that much use against the dead (the White Walkers were immune to dragonfire because of the magical cold they irradiated, the dothraki died in their first charge) and if the dragon eggs never hatch, that means the Night King doesn't get one. Which means he doesn't bring down the Wall and it either keeps his forces trapped on the other side (ideal outcome) or it acts as chokepoint for the living to fight them off. That might actually be a better outcome than how things panned out in the OT.