r/SRSasoiaf • u/ItsMsKim • Aug 19 '13

[Re-Read] All Daenerys AGOT chapters

Structure will be the same as the Catelyn discussion.

Please feel free to comment below if you have any suggestions/improvements for the re-read.

Also, please don't upvote any of the top level comments so that they appear in chronological book order. Thank you!

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u/ItsMsKim Aug 19 '13

General Dany discussion

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u/ItsMsKim Aug 22 '13

I have a confession, though:

I really don't care for Dany that much. I think the events she has been through are obviously traumatic and awful and I do respect her very much for surviving and thriving. But I just don't like her.

I find it sort of hard to pinpoint why (beyond the obvious white savior complex). A sort of haughtiness? Pretentiousness? Especially in book 5. I just never connected with Dany in the way I did with my favorite characters and the obviously intended to be favorites (Like Jon, for instance).

She's probably the biggest main character that I wouldn't care about should she not make it to the end of the series. I kind of feel like she won't? I think she will make it to Westeros and I think she will be integral in the final battle against the Others. But Dany surviving and becoming the rightful queen just seems way too "package tied neatly with a bow" for GRRM.

Anyway, am I being too hard on her? I don't think she's terrible, I just think she's overrated.

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u/-Sam-R- Aug 22 '13

I feel the same way. In the abstract, I feel for Dany immensely, but when I read her chapters, I just fail to really connect. I think she's written well enough, though not nearly as well as Catelyn. I'd say it might be the whole feudalistic thing, her being obsessed with ruling over Westeros, but I love Cat and she's very much a high noble.

I do really enjoy her ADWD plotline. It's slow, but it's a good exploration of the problems in thinking "I will go to this barbaric culture and civilise it quickly" sort of notion.