this winter hasn’t been so rough

Jo Harvelle:

She got killed off because the fans didn't like her

She grew up running a bar when she wanted to be killing monsters. She went and killed monsters when she told her mom she was gambling in Vegas. She got an angel to play drinking games.

Women hated having any possible love interest for the leads so the show killed her off.

Daenerys Targaryen:

Oh boy. Today Daenerys is pretty much remembered as having been one of the most beloved character, mostly because before the last season of the show she was one of the most popular character of Got. Now it's true that casual viewer of Got loved Daenerys because she was badass and hot before the ending. But when I am speaking of asoiaf I am always speaking about the books characters and theirs reception from books fandom. And boy/girl, does the books fandom reaction to Dany has always been… curious. Of course fandom hates teenage girls, but differently than for example Sansa (in the books at least) Daenerys is a teenage girl who is actively PLAYING the political game and waging war in her name like kings do, rather than being involved in politics because she is just used passively as a pawn, and that is something that some nerd guys books fan hate even more! Because they can't relegate Dany's chapters to "just introspection/girl stuff" when she is doing more politics and war than their fave middle age male characters are doing! So they have to call her incompetent (even if she has on her pocket more military victories than all theirs faves) whiny and entitled (even if she is the only main character who, despite being a princess, didn't grow up into privilege- her older brother had to sell her mother's crown so she could EAT) etc.