I’m hooked on the HBO series, “Game
of Thrones.” I love the opening music and special effects as I watch each
kingdom’s inner clockwork gears raise their towers and battlements. The show is
based on the book, A Song of Ice and Fire
by George R. R. Martin and lucky for us we are now on season three. All the
characters in the show have the usual epic background history, but the one character
that really keeps me interested and coming back every week, and every season is
Daenerys Targaryen.
Little Girl Lost
Emilia Clarke does an outstanding
job playing the character of Daenerys Targaryen. In season one, we watch as a
young Daenerys suffers not only her brother’s cruelties towards her, but a
forced marriage to Drogo a Dothraki khai. Deanery’s father, King Aerys, was
killed towards the closing days of Robert’s Rebellion. Her mother, Queen
Rhaelia died giving birth to her during a violent storm, earning the infant
girl the nickname, Stormborn. She and her brother, Viserys were forced to live
on the streets after their protector, Sir William Darry, died. This girl in
season one, behaved shy and obedient to the men who claimed to have her best
interests at hand. I foolishly thought that she would remain a victim, boy was
I mistaken, big time!
Watch out for the quiet ones
Daenerys marriage to Drogo proved
to be the best thing that happened to her. She comes out of her shell and stand
up to her brutal, greedy brother.
Her happiness grows when she learns that she
is pregnant and all is well for Drogo and Daenerys, except for her brother’s
impatience to wear a golden crown upon his head, which led Drogo to execute one
of the best “Beware of what you wish for” scenes, ever!
When Drogo is injured gathering an
army to fight the Seven Kingdoms, Daenerys has a witch perform a blood ceremony
to save Drogo. When the ceremony not only causes Daenerys to lose her child,
but leaves Drogo an invalid, she acts decisively and bravely and smothers the
husband she loves with all her heart, but in doing this, there is nothing
keeping the Dothraki from killing her.
How does she react? Does she hide and whimper
in the corner? Not this girl! She builds a giant funeral pyre to burn the body
of her husband and that of the living witch. Then to everyone’s surprise she enters
the center of the burning pyre with the three dragon eggs. Later, when Ser
Jorah and the Dothraki see her emerge from the fire unharmed and holding three
baby dragons, Daenerys proves to everyone that she is a kickass, super heroine,
princess. Daenerys now has the loyalty of her people.
Keep your hands off my babies
In Season two, Daenerys steps up
the game, constantly reminding Ser Jorah that she is not a child but a queen. When
Daenerys and the starving Dothraki reach the city of Qarth after almost dying
in the desert, they are refused entrance.
Daenerys threatens to have the
dragons burn the city to the ground if they are not admitted. No one takes her seriously;
she is nothing but a young girl with nothing but her young dragons to call her
own. That is where everyone makes a mistake, what they think is weak, is
stronger than steel.
Daenerys is one smart cookie and even when she is held
captive along with her young dragons in the House of the Undying by the warlock
Pyat Pree, she keeps her calm. With one command to her dragons, the warlock is
burnt to a crisp.
She and her dragons free, Daenerys now has the money to buy a
small ship.
Hit them with your best shot
In season thee, the search for an
army brings Daenerys and Ser Jorah to the town of Astapor. This town survives
on the broken backs of slaves. She and Ser Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen meet with the master of
the Unsullied. The master is cruel and obnoxious.
The training of the Unsullied
is brutal, horrid, and heartbreaking, with only one in four making it to
adulthood. The Unsullied are captured as babies, castrated, and by the time
they are young men, forced to obey all their master’s commands. To prove their obedience,
they must kill all the babies of the female slaves.
When the slave girl, who is
translating for the creep master, tells Daenerys about the babies, you can see
the smoke rise from her ears. She is pissed off. Plus she isn’t aware that the
slave master is calling her vile names. Or so we think!!
This guy is a pig and has the
Unsullied stand for days without food or water and even cuts off the nipple of
one of the men to prove their obedience. He needs to die!!
Big wonderful spoiler
alert
Daenerys not only understands everything the creep master is
saying but she has her own revenge in mind. After making a deal to trade one
dragon for 8,000 Unsullied, Ser Jorah and Robert Baratheons (he saved Daenerys
life and swore to protect her) give her some “man” advice. “You’re making a
mistake, dumb girl. Don’t give away your dragon,” they say, or something along
that line.
To which she replies in somewhat this manner, “Bug off. Don’t
tell me what to do.”
Daenerys not only shows the slave master why you shouldn’t
piss off a woman who owns dragons, but she has the Unsullied soldiers kill all
the slave owners and free all the slaves and their children. With one word from
Daenerys, the dragon not only toasts the slave master but also the whole town
like yesterday’s burnt bacon.
Conclusion
This is no little girl to be bullied, or counseled by men who
think they have her best interests in mind. She is a true leader and with her
dragons at her side, and her 8,000 loyal soldiers marching towards the Iron Throne,
nothing will stop her.
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