The Glade 4.0

And, there went Daenerys' last Crowning Moment of Awesome for the series.

"and now Dany's storyline bores me to tears from here on out"

Except Kaffis isn't wrong ... the whole Mereenese Knot isn't that all these story lines converge in Mereen; it's that all these story lines converge in Mereen because Dany won't ever get to Westeros. As I mentioned in PMs, Martin has written this series into a corner he can't get it out of; nothing short of some spectacular deus ex machina allows Daenerys across the Narrow Sea. Nothing he can do makes her showing up at the Wall for the big show down and the Wall's end possible, because Dany can't reasonably extricate herself from Mereen. And then there's the fact that no one in their right mind wants her in charge of Westeros.

Yea...her mooning over that sack of **** Darrio is the highlight of her story. Because you can't believe this woman could be so **** stupid. Other than that almost nothing happening with her...until she takes off from the Slave pit with Drogon. There is a Targaryen headed toward the Iron Throne but it won't be her *** sitting in it.

She's mostly boring, I started only skimming her chapters for excitement as time went by.

Book 1 was the most evenly interesting her story was and part of that was because I was waiting for the other boot to drop on her idiot brother. The great thing about the TV series is I don't have to read her boring parts.

I feel kinda the same way about Sansa, she is a huge obnoxious air-headed moron and I hate reading all her parts. She's easier to put up with in the series, because I don't have to read her thoughts.

Until the fifth book I could not stand reading her POV chapters. I want to throttle her at times. I am glad Tryion never boned her because we would have heard nothing but how horrible it was until the day Martin decides to kill her.

I thought that her defeat of the Yunkai forces, and the taking of Meereen were awesome. The scene where she rides Drogon out of the Arena was also incredible. And I think there is quite a huge event for her when she gets back to Meereen.

And Khross, I don't think you have provided any sort of evidence for your assertion that she won't be able to extricate herself from Meereen. I can think of half a dozen ways she could do that.

"I want to protect you, I really do ... but it's so hard. I don't always know the right thing to do. I must know. That's what it means to be their queen, their ... their ..." and Missandei finishes, "Mother." <--- close but not exactly word for word from ADWD. Daenerys is constitutionally incapable of abandoning her freedmen; Daenerys has made an enemy of the world in much the say way the Tigers made an enemy of the world during Volantis's ascendant period -- a lesson Martin very carefully juxtaposed with the chapter Dany realizes she has to marry Hizdarh. Daenerys is going to die because her problem is Sansa's problem made big -- no one wants the barren dragon queen; they want her tenuously better than Tommen's claim to the Iron Throne. Then there's the fact that no matter which prophecy she follows: only bones and graves are in Dany's future. Of course, in 3000 pages, unless Martin drops Brienne, Sansa, Arya, leaves Jon dead, forgets about Samwell, and ignores Victarion and Euron ... he doesn't have enough space to get Dany to Westeros or the Wall. He needs years for the Dragons to be ready; he's paced himself into a corner and added too many POV characters and chains to resolve it in 2 books.

The only thing that is certain: Winter is coming. And perhaps its certainty is absolute -- maybe they do all lose, but nothing Dany can do allows her to save the world or reunited Westeros. The world is out of its author's control at this point.

Writing out Willas doesn't work, because you need Willas to give Oberyn fangs.