Maybe they were just dumb guys who didn't get it. Just skimmed the text, or glossed over the significance, or read it all very clearly but simple DON'T UNDERSTAND?
But GRRM was really heavily involved with season 1, so now I want to backtrack and find his read on the Drogo/Dany scene, and see what he thought of it.
I dunno.
Come to think of it, now I'm wondering: why does GRRM have Dany play the role of the celibate queen, when she's so clearly turned all of the other traditions and expectations on their heads? She's in no danger of bearing children (and even if she were, as a queen, that would be a bonus), she makes her own rules, she's surrounded by men who worship and adore her...but she doesn't take any of them, or all of them, as lovers? Because she's a "good girl", who we are rooting for, not a "devious hussy" like Cersei, or is it because GRRM is still not comfortable enough with the idea of her full autonomy? Or is it because it would simply be too complicated for the writer when the "right man" comes along?
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Date: 2014-04-23 07:14 pm (UTC)But GRRM was really heavily involved with season 1, so now I want to backtrack and find his read on the Drogo/Dany scene, and see what he thought of it.
I dunno.
Come to think of it, now I'm wondering: why does GRRM have Dany play the role of the celibate queen, when she's so clearly turned all of the other traditions and expectations on their heads? She's in no danger of bearing children (and even if she were, as a queen, that would be a bonus), she makes her own rules, she's surrounded by men who worship and adore her...but she doesn't take any of them, or all of them, as lovers? Because she's a "good girl", who we are rooting for, not a "devious hussy" like Cersei, or is it because GRRM is still not comfortable enough with the idea of her full autonomy? Or is it because it would simply be too complicated for the writer when the "right man" comes along?