Lady Wolf vs the Dragon: Sansa vs Dany
At this point we have already discussed the general apathy of the show writers towards character development being the major cause of approbation amongst its millions of loyal fans.
Sansa's mistrust in Daenerys was the start of the premeditated Mad-Queen narrative which is everything against what Dany truly stood for in the past 7 seasons. We will broach this in great detail in this article of Wolf vs Dragon, as to how the writer's have miserably failed in portraying Sansa and Dany as someone they are both not, just to suit their overall narrative aimed at ending the series soon.
Northern Courtesy:
Going back to Rob and Ned at season 1, Rob comments about Ned being fat and Ned, despite being a great friend to Rob, despite their general affection towards each other, only hints at Rob being fat as well instead of openly spelling it out due to the respect he shows the King.
Here we have the noble Lady Sansa Stark (at least that's what the show writers want to project), acting like the Queen of the North, openly bitching her displeasure "Winterfell is yours my grace" with Zero Courtesy. Even if we are to understand the anger she bores is from the assumption that Dany could have tricked Jon into bending his knee, for a clever southerner (growing up in King's landing all her life) wouldn't she be better off hiding her intent from the get-go. So much for "The cleverest person I have ever known" - Sorry Arya you are wrong about this one.
No Food for Dany's Army:
I am really not able to understand the animosity she shows towards Dany and her army at this point. Its so uncalled for and plain stupid. Even if we are to assume Sansa is yet to understand the extent of mortal danger waiting for them in the form of the Night King, a simple thought as to why Daenerys brought her entire army north would suffice to understand Dany's true intent. But No, she still has to bitch about feeding the army, the same army that came all the way north about to risk their lives for no reason other than to save Northerners from literal doomsday. Plain dumb if you ask me. Even if she feels Dany did it all to rule the north so what? There has to be a north in the first place who better to rule it than a Queen who is willing to travel across the 7 kingdoms and throw everything she has just to protect it. Dumb from Sansa again.
Conversation with the Dragon:
Why does Sansa want an independent North makes absolutely no sense to me.
This is not the real world where the colonial west looting the entire world and then claiming themselves superior to the rest of them. The Northern people hardly had any gripe with the Kings from the south. North is more likely to face aggression and war by being independent. "Every Peaceful Reign in the seven kingdoms was achieved when a Targaryen King allied with the Northern Lord" - Tyrion.
More importantly why is Sansa insistent on an independent North? If she is afraid of what will happen to the Starks under another tyrant rule shouldn't she be more focused on judging Dany's character as a Queen (which she is not even ready to acknowledge) and to realize the relation between Dany and Jon clearly favors the Starks and the North more than anyone else (any half intelligent person would plan on getting them together for the benefit of both her family and the north). Instead she rambles on and on about claiming an independent North and is hell bent on opposing Dany for no reason.
From Dany's perspective, she has been very clear from the start she would throw everything and help the north if Jon bent his knee and if North is ready to be a part of her kingdom. What makes Dany more noble is the fact she was willing to help North even before Jon pledged it to her, after realizing the true nature of the Night King's threat (something Sansa has never realized). Here she is far away from what she truly desires, bringing all her army North knowing full well death was waiting her (even after the traumatic loss of one of her dragons).
Yet when Sansa confronts her showing absolutely zero gratefulness towards her but is more interested in claiming Northern independence, the show manages to show Sansa as being more noble and Dany the power-hungry bitch for absolutely no logical reason.
With the Imp in the Crypt
It was pretty much doomsday, yet all they focus before, during and after the long night is how Sansa and the Northeners don’t trust Dany. Not knowing the threat is one thing, but underplaying it after knowing full well all the horror happening during the long night, Its plain stupid. For the things that Dany has done, The Northern lords should bend over and kiss her ass. And so must Sansa. Yet sitting in the crypt waiting for the doom, all she talks about is her lack of trust in Dany? (For what we still don't know). There is not one good reason for Sansa to mistrust Dany at this point.
Lord Gendry Baratheon:
Sansa learnt most of her skills from Little finger and Cersei, two of the worst characters in all of thrones. She has an inherent lack of trust and is most ill-suited to judge Dany. For example, the disgust she shows towards Dany when she makes Gendry Lord Baratheon is extremely over-hyped (including the subsequent guilt acknowledgement of Tyrion is so badly written).
There is absolutely nothing wrong in what Dany did here. They won the war, Dany is focused on winning back her throne and her home, which is more important to her than her very life.
It was ok when Sansa got her happy revenge on the Boltons winning back her home, these politics didn't matter at that time, including the sly ways of getting help from Little Finger and the Vale without Jon's knowledge.
But Dany making Gendry, a well deserved hero of the war, the rightful heir, Lord of Stormlands is portrayed as more evil makes absolutely no sense. If Sansa feels it too soon to play the game and they are still in mourning (which she herself did prior to the battle of bastards, even after knowing Jon just returned from death, egged him to fight Ramsay), she has to realize that the game is not over and Cersei is getting stronger by the second and Dany has to act fast (Rhagael's death proves that she was already behind in the game) If Dany was to eventually lose to Cersei all of this would be for naught for both Dany and the entire North.
What if there is someone better?
Jon having a better claim than Dany is shite. In any planet of the Universe, Jon will be a horrible King, just as his surrogate dad Ned. Both are noble fools incapable of seeing deceit blinded by honor (He died once and wont be long before he dies again if he sits the throne). Jon is very likely to fall into the trap of false mercy and is never likely to take ugly decisions. Dany is perfect (as perfect as it gets to ruling the 7 kingdoms. Any which way possible Dany will be the better King (Queen) over Jon. Yet the show focuses more on Dany wanting the Iron throne more instead of the fact that Dany deserves it more than Jon/Sansa/Cersei or any other. She is the last best hope for the 7 kingdoms.
Also after all the things she has done for the North, the show projecting Jon Snow being hailed by the Northern lords is a joke to be honest. Everybody could see that they defeated the Night King only because of Dany. After witnessing such a blatant show of heroics on the face of death, if the North still mistrusts Dany, there is no hope for North really.
If the Free Folk accept Jon as their leader for the things he did though he was not one of them, the North not accepting an outsider when it comes to Dany is a failed rhetoric. Even from the days of the Good Queen Alyssane under Jhaerys Targaeryn the Concilliator, the Northerners have accepted every righteous individual over time.
Sansa breaks her oath to Jon and schemes at overthrowing Dany by using Tyrion. What is more cunning and so non-northern than that. Yet she is hailed as more noble than Dany, who has worked all her life thinking she is the rightful heir and is suddenly asked to step down, not because she is not fit for the role, not because she is evil or mad, but because Jon is told he has a better claim when he is least deserving of it (Hero yes! King absolute NO). But somehow Dany opposing this is projected as more power hungry than the scheming wolf bitch. (Cue Renly claiming the throne over Stannis had zero repercussions, but Dany claiming it over Jon is power hungry. LOL) This show and its logic is an absolute waste of time.
Mad Queen:
Dany always had rage issues but she backed it up with just cause. Burning King's landing was an impulsive mistake and is understandable under the circumstances. Imagine Jon throwing the whole northern army to death for Rickon’s sake - mad fucking King in the North - No! but who cares as it doesn't suit the narrative.
But Dany does it for her baby (Rhagael’s death is so underplayed) and for Missandei (her sister-companion) is considered Mad. Just poor portrayal overall. Sansa throws a man to dogs for fucking her in the ass. She could have executed him publicly or hanged him but instead chose to vent her madness by letting the dogs shred him to pieces while smiling. If this is not Madness what is?
But again somehow Dany Burning King's landing was so botched up with the Bell clearly an attempt to override her character logic with premeditated character goal of portraying her as the Mad-Queen.
(Bell ringing has it ever meant surrender prior to this episode? It always meant danger. But guess what, they can say anything out of their ass you just have to believe them). Daenerys never was a Mad-Queen and even if she becomes one, it should be more impulsive (due to shock loss or hurt) over a genetic madness and power hunger as claimed by the narrative.
And Dumb Scheming Sansa is the last person fit enough to point fingers at Daenerys. Such is the poor quality of the plot they could make you believe Cersei is the sorry one of the three (oh Wait they did that as well!!)
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