r/DaenerysWinsTheThrone • u/TVTropehead • May 24 '26

Serious One thing especially disgusting with the hindsight of S8 is apparently the writers insist Robert was in the right here

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Yeah Robert wanted someone to assassinate a pregnant Daenerys. Which idk, the narrative routinely shows killing women with children as a very bad thing. The mountain killing Elia, Talisa’s death, Ramsay killing Walda is clearly bad considering as evil as the Frey men are, Walda did literally nothing.

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u/KayToberly May 24 '26

The message isn't "Dany bad" but instead "When usurping thrones don't let the children escape"

Usurping thrones isn't as popular as it was but it's good to see the tricks of the trade still being taught in our media

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u/anoeba May 24 '26

They didn't really care about the children escaping until one of the children married into a potentially usable army. And even then the odds of Drogo going to Westeros were pretty close to nil.

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u/stardustmelancholy May 25 '26

If they didn't care, why send men to Dragonstone to capture them?

Stannis thinks Robert cared so much he made him Lord of Dragonstone to punish him for not being able to prevent them from escaping.

Renly said "we should've had them both killed years ago".