#daenery

What Daenerys would wear in Pentos.

Hi there!

This was an article in a German newspaper, and you can find the post here.

I would say, that the interview gives no reason to doubt that Daenerys will burn King’s Landing in the books as well and that she will die. She never became a Mad Queen though, powerhungry, yes, ruthless conqueror, yes, but not mad. Her actions followed a very specific logic, there is nothing “raving mad” about it.

Here is what GRRM said:

People know an ending – but not THE ending.

So, yes, the show is an adaptation:

So you can chose the version that you personally like the best. Changes are inevitable in this process. Even if the adaption is as faithful to the literary source material as it was the case with “Game of Thrones”.

The usual example GRRM takes to show how different movies and books can be is Scarlett O’Hara from ‘Gone with the wind’, and the fact, that she had three children in the book and only one in the movie. In this interview he also talks about the very different versions of Andersen’s mermaid and the Disney Arielle. Still, he sees “Game of Thrones” as a faithful adaption!

If you take the Scarlett O’Hara example I would even argue that the question of her children is not very important for her arc. I mean it is more realistic in the book, that she would get pregnant from all her husbands in an age without contraception, but apart from that? The only impact the children have on the story is the death of Bonnie and that happens in movie and books. The ending is still the same: Scarlett realises too late that she loves Rhett and they seperate.

As for the mermaid example. The general outlay is the same. The mermaid can only become human if she receives human love, and one story is the sad and melancholic take on that and the other is the hopeful.

So, I would argue that this specific interview does not point towards Daenerys’ arc being different in the book, not at all.

I have no doubt about that. Actually I think that the show ending possibly cuts close enough to the truth: GRRM is and has been very vague about the differences between show and books, and he only ever is clear on one thing: That there are many minor characters in the books, who didn’t make it on screen and whose story has an immense impact on the story (*cough, *cough).

I happen to differ in that regard. Sry, not sry, I am into this story because of the Starks, and to me all the side plots GRRM put in in AFFC and ADWD do not really capture my interest.  It is my interpretation that the show really cut to the bone of the story (and certainly shattered some of the bones in the process) and that of course the books will be more fleshed out.

That does not change the fact, that Daenerys going dark and becoming an antagonist (as stated in the Original outline, as hinted at in the title, as prepared in numerous arc ans foreshadowings) is part of the spine of the story.

Like Scarlett and Rhett seperating, like the love of a man being crucial for the salvation of the mermaid, DarkDaenerys is one of the centres of the story, and GRRM is not going to change that in the last two books. He’s said it before. He decided that he doesn’t care that some of his fans guessed the right ending, because he doesn’t want to waste his foreshadowings - and it would be a waste, and I hate people who make a plot twist, just because someone guessed where the story would go.....