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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I love that the Targaryens were kinda shitty Valyrians. Pretty much just middle class hacks that the real nobility tolerated who that couldn't cut it in Valyria so they jetted over to Dragonstone. Then Valyria exploded and the Targaryens were the only people left in the world with Dragons so they just set about wrecking everything and taking over the continent.
Talk about falling ass-backwards into power.
This is why I kinda hate Daenerys. Apart from her spending 2 full tomes just wandering about like a bubble-headed teenager trying to bang the help, her entitlement just annoys the shit out of me. Your parents lost - get over it. Nobody 'usurped' authority any more than your family picked on a bunch of crippled kids....or at least soldiers with no close-air support.
It would be like traveling back in time with a handful of A-10's and kicking the shit out of Alexander the Great. I wouldn't be all that impressed by using machine guns on guys that are still using sticks as a primary weapon. I mean, sure, they're sharpened sticks, but this is a culture that sees primitive napalm as sorcery; you're not exactly taking on the Wehrmacht here.
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I hear you. I think because it's a fantasy novel, everyone seems to expect there to be royal bloodlines and prophecies that make these people special. And there is plenty of that, but I'm not sure George uses it in the traditional way. A lot of these people are assholes. Their "destiny" may in fact just be them being an asshole.
Everyone seems hates the Sparrows, and I get it. Nut job religious zealots. But if you think about it, most of them are just Joe Citizen who has been on the ass end of all of these wars the so called "noble's" keep getting into and they are just tired of being shit on. Yeah, the Sparrows are easy to hate, but if I lived in a hovel in King's Landing under crazy Cersei, I would probably be ready to cut a bitch, too.
Even the Starks are not immune to being entitled assholes.