SJ Longthorne

Spicy take: ... Danaerys was never set up to be a goodie/hero, and if you thought her character was going in any other direction, you haven’t been paying attention.

Maybe not.. but at least she had redeemable qualities. Dany that frees thousands of slaves is in no way resembling the dany that ignored a surrendering city and burns tens of thousands of innocents. (She could have gone straight for the keep anyway lolwut)

The manner is which she frees slaves is very questionable, and arguably it was never about the people to her in the first place. She’s been threatening to burn cities to the ground since like season two, maybe earlier. It was Jorah etc who deterred her from her worst impulses.

I just don’t feel the progression went natural whatsoever. She just automatically jumped on the lulfuck let’s go bad bandwagon. Season 7 she literally says she doesn’t want to be the queen of ashes

She says that, but I think there’s a big difference between what she says and what she does — she just told us she was freeing KL from tyrants, while being one herself. Honestly, she’s been doing shitty things the whole time, but folks haven’t registered them because she’s ...