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Originally Posted by Mandalore93
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Nah, I actually sort of like Brienne's part and I absolutely love Cersei's as the story goes on. What I dislike is incompetence/stupidity (hence why I dislike all the Starks, may they die out soon). Cersei's part is honestly the best written woman in the story I feel. I love her descent into madness as well as all the politicking being done.
That's the thing about Danny though...is that she *hasn't* been doing well in leading her people. Let's be honest, that bitch has plot armor thicker than an elephant's dong and without it she'd be a skeleton on the side of the road. Deus ex machinima pretty much saves her at every turn in the form of the dragons. She's completely inept at ruling the cities she's conquered. She's beyond entitled about her "rights" to the Iron Throne (although that's normal in medieval society, I'll admit. Stannis is just as bad and I lurv him) but more importantly she completely overlooks the facts about her father and why the lords rebelled against him. It's silly to draw comparisons to our lives when the GoT universe, teenage leaders aren't uncommon. Rob is around the same age as Danny, and while he doesn't face the same challenges she does he did well...at first. Then he let his "honor" (aka getting his willy wet) in the way of politics. Bad business that. Tywin is very young also when he fucking curbstomps the Reynes. In real history there are quite a few young, successful rulers such as Mehmet II of the Ottomans (the guy who conquered Constantinople)
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We clearly have different tastes in characters, so that's part of why we disagree. I can't stand Cersei or Stannis, I'm more a Davos type of man. I'm cheering for the moral of the lot rather than the effective.
I will give you this, Dany is most definitely entitled and ignorant about why The Mad King was deposed. That's probably her most annoying part. It is interesting that Barristan doesn't impart some of his vast knowledge to her about this. I still tend to think that while she repeatedly bad decisions, she is surrounded by people who are actually making her more inept. They are decent at military encounters, but Barristan idealizes Dany for what she could be: the first good ruler than he has ever served. Jorah loves her for no other reason than he worships her beauty, or is just pathetic? I'm not sure what happened to him, but again, he sees Dany for what he wants her to be, rather than what she is. I'll admit she isn't the best ruler, but it's hard to be wise when your council doesn't explain more forcefully the consequences of your mistakes. She isn't being given an honest assessment of her abilities, and I still think she is "moderately successful". I'll put it like this, I live in the US. I'd take her as a leader over Obama or Bush in a heart beat.