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The Real Reason Jon and Dany Didn't Work | A Complete Failure of Storytelling
To be honest, though I knew the season was gonna be bad I was not prepared for how bad it was gonna be. I was not prepared to be so affected by it. If you go back and watch I review season 8 episode 5, I’m basically raving like a lunatic because there is bad...and then there's just, "offensive" "disgusting" "careless" "soulless" and whatever other words you can think to throw in there. It’s so unbelievably clear that these writers absolutely did not give a heck about this story or these characters.
So let's talk about Jon and Dany’s relationship. Okay, I’m just gonna say... this romance never worked. It was the most awkward and cringey bullcrap I had ever seen from the get-go. Kit Harrington and Emila Clarke had absolutely no chemistry whatsoever on screen, you can’t make a romance convincing if the actors look like they want to vomit when they're kissing, it just doesn’t work. But even beyond that, what else did they do to make the relationship convincing. Nothing! Like what do they even have in common? And I’m feigning incredulity here because they actually do have a lot in common, thrust into leadership at young ages, isolated from the happenings in the greater part of Westeros, both navigating a brutal moral landscape in a society that makes no concessions to the weak, and they’ve both even got badass magical pets. But does the show bother to go into this? Do we ever see them having a heart to heart about the commonalities involved in their past and personal struggles? Heck no, not that I can remember. They tell us that they are in love but never show us why they are in love.
I’m gonna be honest, in general, I am not a big fan of romance storylines in books, movies, and television, I feel like it's been done a million times and there are usually story aspects that are infinitely more interesting. That being said initially when I found myself disliking the Dany and Jon romance I thought it was just me and my personal taste, but as the show went on and they continued to not develop the relationship, and as the awkwardness of it all continued not to dissipate, I realized it wasn’t just me. Jon and Dany’s relationship actually really really sucked. And was not believable or interesting in the slightest.
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