I was also glad that Grey Worm is heading off to Naath, but I found it HIGHLY implausible that he would have arrested Jon and not just slit his throat in the throne-less room
I found it, like a lot of the concluding eps, very implausible for the character but in line thematically -- IIRC we see him going to town so to speak at King's Landing but, like Arya, the narrative turns him away from revenge and conquest, towards freedom and a kind of exile. It makes sense when I sit back and analyse the story, but in the moment of first watching it my reaction was a whole lot of "WTF??" (Who knows, maybe they were going for the "WTF??" The showrunners clearly knew the internet would melt down.)
Dany being carried off by her dragon echoes so much mythology -- Medea disappearing in a chariot drawn by dragons, Elijah going to heaven in a chariot of fire, the heroes of Middle-Earth going into the West, the Valkyries bearing the slain heroes to Valhalla, Herakles rising to Olympos from his own funeral pyre, &c &c. It's a tragic heroic death -- she's clearly translated from the mortal plane. (I read a great fanfic idea where Drogon carries her off to a nest and her body is placed among the eggs, and she's reborn as an actual dragon.)
-- Hunh I also just realized that altho I was one of the people going "WTF?? Drogon why are you melting the CHAIR, not the guy who just killed your mommy," that's right in line with the apparent theme of the true heroes of the story turning away from revenge and death and literally leaving the focused seat of power. -- Altho it's entwined with the idea that the means of Dany's idealism totally destroys the ends she's holding as an ideal. The source of her power winds up destroying what she wanted to rule over (again, unfortunate gender stereotype WHOOPS).
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Date: 2019-05-20 08:23 pm (UTC)I found it, like a lot of the concluding eps, very implausible for the character but in line thematically -- IIRC we see him going to town so to speak at King's Landing but, like Arya, the narrative turns him away from revenge and conquest, towards freedom and a kind of exile. It makes sense when I sit back and analyse the story, but in the moment of first watching it my reaction was a whole lot of "WTF??" (Who knows, maybe they were going for the "WTF??" The showrunners clearly knew the internet would melt down.)
Dany being carried off by her dragon echoes so much mythology -- Medea disappearing in a chariot drawn by dragons, Elijah going to heaven in a chariot of fire, the heroes of Middle-Earth going into the West, the Valkyries bearing the slain heroes to Valhalla, Herakles rising to Olympos from his own funeral pyre, &c &c. It's a tragic heroic death -- she's clearly translated from the mortal plane. (I read a great fanfic idea where Drogon carries her off to a nest and her body is placed among the eggs, and she's reborn as an actual dragon.)
-- Hunh I also just realized that altho I was one of the people going "WTF?? Drogon why are you melting the CHAIR, not the guy who just killed your mommy," that's right in line with the apparent theme of the true heroes of the story turning away from revenge and death and literally leaving the focused seat of power. -- Altho it's entwined with the idea that the means of Dany's idealism totally destroys the ends she's holding as an ideal. The source of her power winds up destroying what she wanted to rule over (again, unfortunate gender stereotype WHOOPS).