… anon, not to… like…. be a spoilsport but…. can we just see the whole picture?

now, I say this as someone who lowkey ships tyrion and sansa, has not much interest in dany’s storyline overall and doesn’t care for dany either way so like I’m not invested but……. from missandei’s pov she had all the right to say that and worse? I mean sorry guys but:

• as much as one can find dany’s methods/standards questionable or not, to missandei she’s the person that a) freed her from slavery, b) brought her from a position where she doesn’t refer to herself in first person to main advisor to *someone who goes around with dragons* c) gave her an immensely better life, d) isn’t just her employer but her friend, e) gave her an immensely better life in which she found love too because going with the show verse she did;
• so like, OBVIOUSLY missandei loves dany, wow, I can’t imagine why, it’s not gratitude and submission, it’s that for her and for people dany *freed* it’s a question of completely overturning the status quo and as much as I think that dany’s failure to see that you can’t just do it snapping your fingers without taking the bigger picture into account is her largest problem, to *them* it doesn’t matter;
• now, as far as missandei’s concerned her side has gone north abandoning their main target, going with her entire army and entourage to help the northerners with the undead, knowing they might die and most likely will, and all they got back was people staring at them like they distrusted them, sansa openly going like ‘well how are we feeding them’ when they’re there to help and they need them, sansa being downright rude to dany (because she was and as much as I love sansa as a character that was downright bad writing and I’m standing by it) and zero recognition for their efforts;
• now she is locked in a crypt doing zilch while her best friend and the man she loves with whom she has plans for the future are out there killing zombies and upholding their deal with jon………. and sansa goes about northern independence with tyrion and the likes putting his loyalty to dany (person jon has kneeled to let’s just remember that, and as much as ppl dislike it it was his decision only to take) as it’s a bad thing when missandei’s loyalty to dany is literally what turned her life around from utter shit and she has to shut up?
• like sorry anon but she was very much within her rights to say it, from her pov she was absolutely right to point out that the northerners bar jon and a few others have been behaving like ungrateful arses to them because that’s what happened in 8x01 dot and she’s not annoying for that. like, for her pov she was right and honestly I hope sansa learned something from it because the entire point is that the stakes are higher than individual wants.

now: I also think that dany’s fixation on not having the independent north is iffy and honestly i just want everyone to get along, BUT: guys. not to be that person, but: robb didn’t even come up with that idea. everyone else did. if it was for him they’d have ceded to stannis the moment he knew ned was dead. it was his war council who decided the north had to be independent, not him, and this idea that the north has to be independent at all costs but just the north imvho is just…. very misleading? like, either they split into the seven kingdoms again and we have reinassance-like reigns that are better than westeros’s feudalism or okay we can have the independent north but is not a thing that was implied since the beginning, it was not a thing robb particularly wanted, it wasn’t a thing ned wanted and the fact that robb eventually died for it doesn’t mean that now they have to die on that hill, too, and tbh I also can’t with this idea that by kneeling jon disrespected his entire family’s legacy because he did absolutely no such thing and he did exactly the same thing the last kitn before robb did for reasons that to him were perfectly legit. and the fact that people don’t seem to be able to band together in the face of death because they’re squibbling about politics at this point says a lot about how this show’s writing could be improved, and that’s my two cents.

but like. missandei from her pov was absolutely in the right and ngl someone had to say it imvho, so. sorry, but I really can’t agree with that, and I say it as someone who cares a lot more about the starks than dany, that cares way more about jon than dany and who isn’t much of a fan of the targ restoration theory X°DDD

ngl? I 100% agree also if drogon eats her I’ll re-evaluate my appreciation of the lizards overall

But the fact that jon and bran both had absolutely nothing to do in the battle just pissed me off. They’re collecting all these “brownie points” for gurlll powerrr with sansa making smart ass comments and dany doing dracarys and ninja arya when the writing is so shitty it doesn’t have any emotional impact and is NOTHING like their book selves. (Tbh if it wasn’t maisie being a good actress i wouldn’t have bought half the arya stuff in the show.) 2/2

^^^ EXACTLY? no but like bran is literally luke skywalker meets big brother and he’s just…… there? doing nothing? because he MAYBE PREDICTS THE FUTURE? idk. like. I’m not even starting on jon because they’ve been dumbing him down since s6 and I’m really fucking done with it on a principle thing, like I love jon even if he’s not top five material but like,………. can they stop making him look like an idiot/dumbing him down/having the narrative frame him as wrong when he’s right because EVERYONE ELSE has to look more compelling/smarter/whatever? like for fuck’s sake XD but yeah agreed 100%