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Originally Posted by riverboatking
just curious what flips she's won or what you mean by she's been on the better side of variance?
Disclaimer: I've read the books in the break between season 3-4 so not going to spoil anything or debate this point, I'm genuinely curious what ur take is on this.
I'm only a casual viewer who's re-watching so as to get a clearer understanding, so I'm going to make some bad reads and misunderstand plenty. But the decision to allow the witch to do her thing in the tent, which resulted in drogo dying anyway and her being left powerless and alone in the desert until she produced the dragons, ought to have been a fatal mistake. Even once she had the dragons, she was reduced to wandering the desert and the remaining tribe were all set to starve, before she handled the negotiations outside Qarth pretty terribly but got lucky when one of the council vouched for her anyway. There's other stuff later that I haven't got round to on re-watch yet, I'm sure.
Banal poker analogy time: Dany comes across as a feel player who keeps getting it in bad but hitting the river!