Daenerys Hypocrisy #2/Terrible Judgment
This is from season 7 episode 5
Daenerys Targaryen: “I know what Cersei has told you, that I’ve come to destroy your cities, burn down your homes, murder you and orphan your children. That’s Cersei Lannister, not me. I am not here to murder. And all I want to destroy is the wheel that has rolled over rich and poor to the benefit of only the Cersei Lannisters of the world.”
Lol, she does exactly all of these things. Also, the Wheel still benefits her as monarch of the Seven Kingdoms. It’s a dynasty she wants, that's not in consideration of what all want.
Daenerys Targaryen: “I offer you a choice, bend the knee and join me, together we will leave the world a better place than we found it. Or refuse and die.”
Not like they have much of a choice in the matter.
Drogon: “Screeches like a scary mother fucker.”
Intimidating people into joining your cause is always a surefire way to guarantee loyalty in the long term. Not.
Daenerys: Targaryen:“You will not trade your honor for you life, I respect that.”
Then proceeds to forfeit her own honor by melting two people who don't agree with her alive and denying them a quicker and more dignified death.
Dickon Tarly: “You will have to kill me too!”
Randyll Tarly: “Step back and shut your mouth!”
Daenerys: “Who are you?”
Randyll Tarly: “A stupid boy.”
LOL TRUE DAT
Dickon Tarly: “I am Dickon Tarly, son of Randyll Tarly.”
Tyrion Lannister: “You are the future of your house, this war has already wiped one Great House from the world. Don’t let it happen again, bend the knee!”
Dickon Tarly: “I will not”.
Daenerys then proceeds to punish Rickon for standing with his father, a show of honor and respect for Randyll. She doesn't respect shit.
Tyrion Lannister: “Your grace, nothing scrubs bold notions from a man’s head like a few weeks in a dark cell.”
Daenerys Targaryen: “I meant what I said, I’m not here to put men in chains. If that becomes an option many will take it. I gave them a choice, they made it.”
Taking prisoners of war is WAY DIFFERENT FROM KEEPING SLAVES. JUST SAYING. AND THAT WAS A PRETTY IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE DANY. Also, allowing men to be imprisoned gives them time to rethink their decisions and Westeros would see Daenerys as a benevolent and smart queen. BUT OH WELL!
Tyrion Lannister: “Your grace, if you start beheading entire families...”
Daenerys Targaryen: “I am not beheading anyone” (says this like a coldblooded psychopath)
Tyrion Lannister: “Your Grace..”
Our pyromaniac queen interrupts astute political advice from the man she named as her Hand. And DAMN STRAIGHT YOU AREN’T BEHEADING THEM, THATS WESTEROSI STYLE, LETS LIGHT THIS SHIT UP, AND PERPETUATE THE IDEA THAT DANY IS A RUTHLESS FOREIGN CONQUERER WHO DOESN’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT WESTEROSI CULTURE.
Someone else has pointed out that executing POWs is a war crime, now that doesn't apply in this high fantasy setting, and that's chill. However, Dany makes the dumbass decision to not only wipe out the head and heir to a Great House that could've been an awesome ally, and fails to see the power in keeping Randyll and Dickon as a bargaining chip. I’m sure that Randyll’s wife and daughter would gladly bend the knee and convince other houses to do so if Dany spared her husband and son’s life.
There you have it. Dracarys Daenerys being a hypocrite, and a shit ruler at that.
