I want Cersei on the Iron Throne. I want her to keep it.
I want Cersei on the throne because she is there already. For the same reason, I wanted Tommen, Joffrey and Robert to stay there before her.
None of what these people did warranted a war.
Many will object that Joffrey was a monstrous sadist who would have caused more trouble. An assassin did a better job than any army laying the land to waste and tearing its people to shreds. This is a simple truth Ned Stark supporters do not seem to consider.
I reject Daenerys for the same reason I rejected Renly, Stannis and Robb before. They all came with a big war hammer to bring a solution to a non-problem.
This story was written by a convinced pacifist. Amongst many other things, it is about the damages of war and the false beliefs of men. It portrays grey characters with mostly defendable or at least understandable motives. It makes its readers feel for nearly all of them and shows how good and bad intentions can lead to disaster. The horrifying War of the Five Kings started on a petty motive: the prince was thought not to be the natural son of the king. So what?
What better development to this principle than to have the two “heroes of Ice and Fire” engage with the best of intentions in a useless war of their own, one to "liberate" an already free land, the other to defend it from a likely fantasised threat? I like the idea that White Walkers have no intent or means to cross the Wall; they are like cows grazing behind a fence. Open it and they’ll come through but they have no invasion plans. As to Westeros, it needs to be freed from wars, not given a new one.
In the end, the author will be bitterly sneering at his readers, telling them: “Look at you well-meaning fools, all you know is war. Will you ever learn?”
The show is not explicitly bringing this message. It keeps it concealed and presents the wars that the Starks and Baratheon brothers started as seemingly justified. It also presents the war Daenerys brings to Westeros as the desirable deed of a hero, shows Tyrion as an all-around good guy and Varys as an agent of the “common good”, but are they, really? Is the show merely capitalizing on the naivety of the masses, giving them shiny heroes to “root” for and figurines to buy or will it come at the very end with a cold shower and still make the point that it was all for nothing?
I hope it will.
Long may she reign!
Submitted February 28, 2017 at 12:51AM by Leo_ofRedKeep http://ift.tt/2ludcN4
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