John Doe Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 My personal guess: To fool the readers into thinking Dany is fully sane and a nice leader. The perception will change when Dany gives lands and characters we know and love the slavers bay treatment though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arakan Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 ^^ I think it is. I think it is for the ruling class of SB just like it will be for the White Walkers. Or do you think it will be bad to genocide the WW's as well? What about the orcs in TLOTR, should we save them from genocide too?What would Master Yoda say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Freypie Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Dany was in fact married to a slaver. And slave to her brother ambitions in that.She's surrounded by slaves and uses slaves through book 1.She even burns one alive for poisoning her husband and killing her son. Fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LmL Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 The slaves actually claim to have a decent quality of life, a large portion of them - Dany's living conditions after her overthrow were actually worse for many people. That is NOT a justification for slavery, but it does go against your OP's premise that the slaver's are so horrible. SLavery is basically the most evil thing one can do to another human being - so that said, as slavers go, they aren't especially bad - I mean compare them to the American south during the civil war. That was nothing but horror. It was so horrible you couldn't even write it in a book. I think they're very silly and ostentatious, but that's how they were supposed to be. They are remnants of a different time, much like the Undying, living off of remembered glories long in the past. A house of kindling ready to go up in flames. Dany set it afire... it was bound to happen. The real shit will hit the fan when Volantis overthrows the old blood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Mac Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 ^^ I think it is. I think it is for the ruling class of SB just like it will be for the White Walkers. Or do you think it will be bad to genocide the WW's as well? What about the orcs in TLOTR, should we save them from genocide too? You either have to consider them mustache twirling cartoons who dont matter, or they are people you genuinely care about, can't have it both ways. It's bad to launch a genocide on anybody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Blue Eyes Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 ^^ I think it is. I think it is for the ruling class of SB just like it will be for the White Walkers. Or do you think it will be bad to genocide the WW's as well? What about the orcs in TLOTR, should we save them from genocide too? You either have to consider them mustache twirling cartoons who dont matter, or they are people you genuinely care about, can't have it both ways. I'm perfectly willing to genocide another species - after all that's what we try to do to smallpox and the like. But the Ghiscari are humans. Big difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Blackmont Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Which by the way is a lot less distasteful as sow's vulva, something the Romans were mad for. This I did not need to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePrunesThatWasPromised Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Fixed.Not at all what happened... Even as told from Dany's own POV.That's not to say that had it gone down like that, that MMD wouldn't have been justified; because she totally would've been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOT A TARG I SWEAR Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 I love how all your Dany related threads pretend to be aimed at genuine discourse but are actually thinly veiled attempts at marginalising Dany as a character/starting a Dany hate thread. Isn't that a lot of the threads in general, especially those phrased as a question about a specific character? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LmL Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 I didn't mean it would be a shock that she's invading Westeros. Just that I think it's possible that morally black slavers are like that to disguise how ruthless and tyrannical Dany can potentially be. So when she gets to Westeros and she starts burning people we like, it will be a big subversion of expectations for many readers. Which isn't to say she'll be a full on villain. But she'll do a lot of things which do not make her look good. The conflict of the heart for Dany is between tree-planter (wise ruler planning for the future) and blood of the dragon (violent conqueror at best, the gods flip a coin at worst). That's the burden of her dragon blood - it's makes people... a bit "edgy," shall we say. I think George fully intends to play with this idea. I for one want to see Dany master her dragon and plant trees in the end... maybe wishful thinking, but I think this embracing the dragon stuff is bad business, and I think in her heart she wants to plant trees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanF Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 ^^ I think it is. I think it is for the ruling class of SB just like it will be for the White Walkers. Or do you think it will be bad to genocide the WW's as well? What about the orcs in TLOTR, should we save them from genocide too? You either have to consider them mustache twirling cartoons who dont matter, or they are people you genuinely care about, can't have it both ways. Aragorn did indeed warn the orcs at Helms Deep to flee. And Gandalf said "As for me, I pity even his slaves." It's quite possible that Dany and her supporters will carry out genocide in Slavers Bay, in response to rebellion and invasion, but I doubt if we should rejoice in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Blue Eyes Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 This I did not need to know. Want a couple other recipes, used by very respected cultures, that would freak us modern people out way more than the puppies of Slavers Bay? Somebody's weird recipes are not a reason to condemn them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanF Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 This I did not need to know. In Robert Harris' Pompeii, there's a description of a Roman banquet where one character looks across to see the sow's vulva "grinning toothlessly at him." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanna Stormborn Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 What would Master Yoda say? If Dooku escapes, rally more systems to his cause we will. It's bad to launch a genocide on anybody ok lol i disagree, Orcs, white walkers and Slavers are fine to exterminate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Blackmont Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 As I said, I don't have a problem with them eating puppies. In fact, many cultures do so today. What's the difference between veal and puppies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LmL Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Want a couple other recipes, used by very respected cultures, that would freak us modern people out way more than the puppies of Slavers Bay? Somebody's weird recipes are not a reason to condemn them. :agree: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanF Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Want a couple other recipes, used by very respected cultures, that would freak us modern people out way more than the puppies of Slavers Bay? Somebody's weird recipes are not a reason to condemn them. Alcoholic drinks containing liquidized frogs are popular in parts of the Andes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Doe Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 If Dooku escapes, rally more systems to his cause we will ok lol i disagree, Orcs, white walkers and Slavers are fine to exterminate.Where are you from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanF Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 As I said, I don't have a problem with them eating puppies. In fact, many cultures do so today.What's the difference between veal and puppies? Veal tastes better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanna Stormborn Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 from the south Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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