Crazy and Lazy

Daenerys Targaryen and Euron Greyjoy are the two most apocalyptically coded figures in all of #ASOIAF — and they are moving toward each other.

In the series finale of Martian Queen, we ask the question, why is the woman with pale white fire standing beside him?

This episode builds the full case: the red weed from H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds mirrored in the Dothraki Sea and Melisandre's bloody tide; the deliberate parallel between Wells' London and Martin's Oldtown; the Fujiwhara effect as the structural key to the Dany/Euron convergence; the identity of the woman in Aeron's vision; the chilling echo between that vision and Tolkien's Galadriel temptation passage; and the moment in ADWD when Daenerys makes her choice — and what that choice means for The Winds of Winter.

Amazing thumbnail art by @hylora

Episode 5 of the Martian Queen series is up.

Thanks to @hylora for the amazing thumbnail art.