#4. THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE ARE ADVOCATING AGAINST. FUCK SHITTY WORK CONDITIONS.

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Unpopular opinion:

Alright I’ve been reluctant to post this because a didn’t want stans attacking me but let me be devil’s advocate and say that episode 4 wasn’t that bad. Lets unpack everything:

Dany:

It’s barely been two days and I’m already tired of reading posts acting like dark!dany makes no sense. And don’t get me wrong, I love dany but let’s not pretend this is coming out of left field. She’s been on a slippery slope since she stepped foot back in Westeros because she expected to get there and be handed the IT but it didn’t work out that way and it was a rude awakening for her. Yeah, she was born in Westeros but she left when she was an infant. She never lived there so to the people of Westeros she’s a foreign queen. Yes, her army and her dragons were instrumental against the AotD, but Westeros does not owe her the IT. The north is not xenophobic they just don’t know her. As for everything in episode 4, Kit described it as “Shakespearean”. I definitely think he was referring to Macbeth, and ambition as a folly. She’s been working toward this goal, and the closer she gets to it, she is becoming more and more impatient. She didn’t listen to Sana’a telling her that her troops needed rest because she thinks Sansa is working against her (and tbh I really don’t know what Sansa’s goal is) but in this instance Sansa was right. They were in not condition to start another fight. Danny’s ambition will be her undoing. Also, no, I don’t think she is becoming a mad queen. That is unabashedly and unquestionably Cersei. The way I interpreted everything was that, her ambition toward taking the IT caused her to make poor decisions that cost her greatly and that, in her grief she will end up doing something she deeply regrets. I don’t think they are framing her as a mad queen and the only people I’ve seen with that impression are dany fans who are worried their fav is going out as a villain. I understand that every character has lost things, but for Dany, she lost her unchallenged claim, half her army, Jorah, Rhaegal, and Missandei pretty much all at once. She is blinded by grief but she is not “mad”. Everything is probably gonna end up happening so fast that she won’t realize the gravity of what she’ll have done until it’s too late, but she won’t be a villain. Also I’m not addressing the leaks because unless and until they actually end up happening there’s no reason to be upset about it because it might not end up happening. That said, Missandei deserved better.

Missandei

While I agree that it’s fucked up to use a black woman’s death to drive a white woman’s plot, I’m almost certain that was the 3rd wtf moment grrm told the writers about. The other two (shireen’s death & “hold the door”) involve children and Missandei is a child in the books. I’m not saying it was an okay thing to do but it will likely happen in the books as well one way or another.

Jaime/Braime

It looked like character regression, yes, but d&d love to make it look like a character regression and then turn it around in the end. I’m not saying it’s good writing I’m just saying it’s an obvious red herring. Honestly, I was half expecting Jaime to finish that monologue with “and now I’m gonna have to go kill that horrid bitch” when he was telling Brienne about all the shitty things he’s done for Cersei. We shall see.

Arya/Gendrya

Same thing as Jaime. Arya clearly loves, or at least has feelings for Gendry. She just doesn’t want to be a traditional “lady”. To me it looked like she was on board until he said “be the lady of storms end”. She thinks it would pigeonhole her into a certain role. She also wants to finish her list and thinks she will die in the process so she rejected gendry to make it easier on him. It actually makes me less worried about their future that she rejected him because we all know that once anyone on this show makes plans for the future they’re pretty much doomed. I’d be worried about her fate if she hadn’t rejected him. The same goes for Braime. If Jaime left Brienne on good terms I’d be worried about their fates, but as of now I think they’ll be fine.

Everything else:

It just seems like unnecessary nitpicking at this point. It’s become cool to hate on the show now and honestly it’s tiresome. Like complaining that Jon didn’t say goodbye to ghost. It has no bearing on the plot y’all are just finding things to pick apart. Also, Sansa never said she was grateful she was raped?? She literally just stated the obvious that the things she’s been through have changed her. That she’s not a little girl anymore. The same way Bran didn’t necessarily forgive Jaime for crippling him, he just stated that he would be a different person if not for that. It’s not abuse apologism it’s just stating a fact. Also, Jon doesn’t have stronger claim than Dany because he’s a man he has a stronger claim because he’s Rhaegar’s child. He’s still have a stronger claim if he was a woman, or if Dany was a man. Because that’s how lines of succession work. That’s why Prince George is higher in line than Prince Harry irl.

Anyway, the episode wasn’t that bad y’all are just impatient and want everything to pay off now when there’s still two 80-minute episodes left. Everything will pay off in the end.

Also, intentionally tanking the IMDb and rotten tomatoes ratings is just childish.

#im tired #miss me with the fake wokeness #like i cant even enjoy theorizing about this show anymore because all i see on here is yall bitching #try to withold judgement until the season is actually finished #game of thrones #got spoilers #game of thrones spoilers #got