1. 19 Oct


    nobodysuspectsthebutterfly: Yeah, Tyrion is one of my favorite characters too (though it’s complicated), but being part of the three-headed dragon prophecy just feels so wrong for him.  The great Nobody Suspects the Butterfly makes an impassioned argument against Tyrion being the third head of the dragon, based primarily on the emotional component of what that would entail. Read the rest at the link. To that I’d reply…well, her final sentence replied for me, really, as you’ll see. I can’t imagine being a head of the dragon is a guaranteed ride to Funtown. There’s no need to assume that fulfilling that prophecy equates to a grand heroic denouement. Knowing Martin, it’s unlikely. (I still disagree that Tyrion being a secret Targaryen negates anything interesting about his story that making Jaime and Cersei secret Targaryens instead wouldn’t do for them, but that’s heavily litigated material over here already.) And you know, there’s not even a guarantee that the heads of the dragon will know that’s what they are. I mean, if it boils down to riding one of Dany’s three dragons, then yeah, that’s kind of hard to miss. But there’s certainly the potential for we readers to understand the importance of what they’re doing while one or all of them never really do. This was the idea behind the very good, very complex Grant Morrison superhero comic maxiseries Seven Soldiers of Victory—a team of heroes who save the world without ever realizing that they are, in fact, working as a team, of heroes, to save the world.

    nobodysuspectsthebutterfly:

    Yeah, Tyrion is one of my favorite characters too (though it’s complicated), but being part of the three-headed dragon prophecy just feels so wrong for him. 

    The great Nobody Suspects the Butterfly makes an impassioned argument against Tyrion being the third head of the dragon, based primarily on the emotional component of what that would entail. Read the rest at the link.

    To that I’d reply…well, her final sentence replied for me, really, as you’ll see. I can’t imagine being a head of the dragon is a guaranteed ride to Funtown. There’s no need to assume that fulfilling that prophecy equates to a grand heroic denouement. Knowing Martin, it’s unlikely.

    (I still disagree that Tyrion being a secret Targaryen negates anything interesting about his story that making Jaime and Cersei secret Targaryens instead wouldn’t do for them, but that’s heavily litigated material over here already.)

    And you know, there’s not even a guarantee that the heads of the dragon will know that’s what they are. I mean, if it boils down to riding one of Dany’s three dragons, then yeah, that’s kind of hard to miss. But there’s certainly the potential for we readers to understand the importance of what they’re doing while one or all of them never really do. This was the idea behind the very good, very complex Grant Morrison superhero comic maxiseries Seven Soldiers of Victory—a team of heroes who save the world without ever realizing that they are, in fact, working as a team, of heroes, to save the world.

     
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