While i do agree Stannis is the mannis and should have been king (he probably get shit done) i still like Dany.
And while Dany is very pretty i like more because we see her go from this weak little girl to this ruthless and fiery Targaryen with a little mercy in her heart. Whether or not she is qualified is another story.(though judging by how she ruled marreen, she be feared by the commenors, but attract plenty of suitors)
Rey on the other hand is shown to have not gone through a living hell. All she lived on was a hot planet where she worked for food. Unlike Dany she wasn't beaten, raped, almost murder, and betrayed by some of her closest allies.
I agree on this point. Dany has had actual character building and is shown to be flawed yet improving. She did have to work to get where she is and we get to SEE that development, further she has had lots of help and tutoring by experienced people around her, men and women. Rey by contrast starts at max level, has no flaws to overcome and is just better at everything than everyone else. The rest of the cast might as well not even be there. She's better with the Force than Luke-in spite of never being trained, she flies better and can fix the Falcon faster than Han and Chewie-by herself-she is more of a rallying point than Leia, she saves herself when captured, she constantly humiliates her supposed rival on the dark side and saves his life in spite of having roughly 10 hours training in the Force(which was really just Luke showing her one thing to convince her to NOT train) she can speak wookie, swim, fly and use the advanced techniques of the Force with zero reason or explanation as to WHY she can just DO all these things and have no weaknesses. She never pays for her decisions at all, unlike Dany, so there is zero investment in her 'character' Rey can't fall or fuck up, so there's never a time I feel she's in any actual danger or learning something. There is no PROGRESSION. What is her motivation for fighting the First Order? What is her investment in Kylo Ren-a guy she has spent less than a day around-and in that time period he killed her father figure and murdered billions, then just kind of asks her to join him. There's no investment, no development and no growth. It's actually very sad that they had a chance to bring all the OT guys together for some scenes of interaction but didn't, they wanted them back in but didn't want them to be who they were because plot required it, not because it made sense to the character progression. These flaws will only become MORE apparent with time, the spectacle will fade, the special effects will age and the hype will die down-when that happens what are we left with? The characters and story, both of which in the new franchise are contradictory and under developed.
(and while I don't think Stannis will ever actually sit the Throne-that's not how his character arc is set up to play out in the books-he is certainly the best for the job as well as also being the Rightful King by all the laws of Gods and Men in Westeros)
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