What’s the deal with Daenerys? “Game of Thrones” needs to break its badass queen out of her rut

"In seasons past, many of these women’s plotlines focused on the everyday ache of survival, pushing Daenerys’ quest for power into a deeper, more powerful contrast. However, as these women have broadened their focus beyond the day-to-day, into defending their causes and reclaiming their homelands; avenging their indignities at the hands of the Boltons or the Faith Militant; and determining whether they’ll use their new-found lethality to serve dispassionate masters or within their personal ethics, Daenerys’ fire-and-blood struggle doesn’t seem so novel. Dany’s lover Daario tells her (jokingly, yet truthfully) that she is “not meant to sit in a chair,” because she is, by birthright, a conqueror. He says this as if conquering would honestly be a challenge for her—and the problem is, frankly, that it isn’t: not with a trio of fire-breathers, an army of Unsullied, and a dedicated Dothraki horde. The real challenge, the true test of bravery, is to stand, unflinching, as a survivor of rape, while a large man yells into your face; or to endure the mockery of your own kinsmen in your campaign for the Salt Throne."

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What’s the deal with Daenerys? “Game of Thrones” needs to break its badass queen out of her rut - Salon.com