lizbee: A sketch of myself (TV: Dany)

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posted by [personal profile] lizbee at 10:19am on 08/04/2011
I SHARE YOUR FEELINGS!

Except about Dany, because while at first I was like, "WHAT THE HELL? I WAS READING ABOUT POLITICS AND NOW WE HAVE ABUSED CHILD-WOMEN AND BROWN-SKINNED BARBARIANS!" I've really fallen in love with her. If the series doesn't end with her marrying Jon and the two of them fighting the Others, uniting the kingdom and restoring both the peace and House Stark, I shall cry. CRY.

And her double morality in this - how she hates that she won't inherit because she's a woman, and how she's not treated as her father was, but she doesn't care to do the same to others.

I was reading a lot of Tudor biographies at the same time as I read ASoIaF for the first time, so that sort of made sense to me -- it's the way Elizabeth I generally regarded other women. Although Cersei has more in common with Mary Stuart: heaps of raw ability, but no education in how to apply it, and she keeps resorting to sexual/marital ploys that ultimately undermine her.
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nekare: (Crowned)

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posted by [personal profile] nekare at 04:26pm on 08/04/2011
Yeah, for all that was icky about Dany being pretty much sold to the first bloodthirsty warrior with an army that passed by, I love how she managed to become more powerful and able that, well, everyone else in the series, really. And I was thinking about that the other way, how Dany/Jon in the end make the most sense of everything and hot it'd be AWESOME and needs to happen like yesterday, haha.

It's a really weird and somewhat damaging form of proto-feminism, isn't it? And it's sad because you get to understand why Cersei's the way she is, and there's the sense that she could have been amazing, smart as she is, but she just keeps on choosing the wrong way to go about it.
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