If Dany is supposed to be our favorite character, then Emilia Clarke ruins her. Even, or especially, when she's supposed to feel like family, she feels uncannily distant. She is painfully unromantic during the "warm up your queen" moment, and her sit-down with Sansa feels like a corporate "I'm better than you because I'm confronting conflict in the workplace with a level head." When she jokes that she only trusts two men in the world, Jon and "someone taller", her smile is sickening. And these are supposed to be the heartwarming moments -- I can't even list the multitude of unsavory pride moments.
I'm obsessed with Northern speech. I'm biased by loving the North in general, but the speech itself gets me too. Robb's full-mouthed "motha" before he dies; when Sansa says "anything" like "ennathen"; Ned scratchily saying "your grace" like "yu gtace"; Jon chopping off letters in his pronunciation like they were so many undead heads. I really haven't studied this linguistically, but I feel like Northern speech is characterized by missing letters and fuller-mouthed vowels. I love it -- louhve, not laeve.
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