He looks like he's going to come in and save everyone... and then he can't and doesn't.
Sounds like you're describing Dany. :-P
but she's being forged by fire (see what I did there?!) to be a great ruler, which, sadly, involves being an idiot for long stretches.
What bothers me is that she's repeating past idiocy, in a way that makes it seem like she hasn't learned from her mistakes. I don't see her being turned into a great ruler; I see her being repetitively dumb. And I see Jon being willfully blind in some unfounded ways, too. He was okay when he was trying to force the Night's Watch to change their thinking for good reasons, but his justification for going to help Stannis was profoundly stupid, in ways that, again, make it seem like he hasn't learned from his mistakes.
and Dany being barren (or at least she thinks she is)
The phrasing for that one is too rampagingly folkloric for me to believe she'll remain barren.
BTW, that septa who's Aegon's governess or whatever? She's totally that Dayne woman who everyone thought Ned was in love with, right, and one of the candidates for Jon's mother? The one who "mysteriously" committed suicide?
At this point, I have zero recollection of the Dayne woman in question, so I can't say.
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Date: 2013-04-29 08:12 pm (UTC)Sounds like you're describing Dany. :-P
but she's being forged by fire (see what I did there?!) to be a great ruler, which, sadly, involves being an idiot for long stretches.
What bothers me is that she's repeating past idiocy, in a way that makes it seem like she hasn't learned from her mistakes. I don't see her being turned into a great ruler; I see her being repetitively dumb. And I see Jon being willfully blind in some unfounded ways, too. He was okay when he was trying to force the Night's Watch to change their thinking for good reasons, but his justification for going to help Stannis was profoundly stupid, in ways that, again, make it seem like he hasn't learned from his mistakes.
and Dany being barren (or at least she thinks she is)
The phrasing for that one is too rampagingly folkloric for me to believe she'll remain barren.
BTW, that septa who's Aegon's governess or whatever? She's totally that Dayne woman who everyone thought Ned was in love with, right, and one of the candidates for Jon's mother? The one who "mysteriously" committed suicide?
At this point, I have zero recollection of the Dayne woman in question, so I can't say.