Exactly. It's optics. Which, if today's political landscape is anything to go by, is quite possibly more important than anything else.
I will always always roll my eyes at arguments like this. There is a thing called suspension of disbelief, and it can break when the writing breaks its own worlds' logic.
I agree with the notion about breaking your created world's logic, but I don't think they broke any logic to a degree that I couldn't suspend disbelief. Euron shot some arrows, Dany successfully navigated the dragon she was riding past them. If 50 Cent can survive 20 gunshot wounds to the chest, I can certainly suspend disbelief enough to believe that Dany navigated a dragon past 20 arrows.
Has anyone besides Davos brought up the marriage idea again? Obviously that’s all pretty moot now, but my boy was right about how many problems that would solve. Also Jon just needs to renounce everything and go live in a hole, that would help everyone, including him.
"They just ambush them. just like that? They do nothing and have no idea?" Yeah... Thats what an ambush is.
If they figured out the ambush ahead of time and Dany blew them all away with dragonfire, people would say that Dany and the dragons are overpowered and complain about them 'seeing the future' or some shit.
Also, did we forget that Tyrion successfully helped defend King's Landing. He has enough wits and experience to avoid a simple ambush there.
He shot three perfect blows from around a mountain without being seen, that does absolutely go against the stated logic of the world. Qyburn’s a freaky genius, but I don’t think he’s managed to master heat-seeking missiles in a month or two. Also why has 50 Cent come up like three times in this thread??
Also Drogon wasn't "flying straight at them" when the arrows were fired, he clearly evaded them when they were in the air. People are acting like he just kept flying straight at them and they all somehow missed.
The arrows didn't bend around the mountain, though. His ships are hidden by the cliffs, Dany and the dragons are up in the air above them, very much unhidden. Should Dany have been paying attention and spotted them from above instead of sight seeing? Hell yeah. Should Dany have sent scouts ahead of her to ensure they had safe passage? Of course. But if Dany were making all the right decisions, this would be a really boring show, and people make really dumb decisions that seem super obvious in hindsight all the time in the real world.
If she makes mistakes she's dumb and it's "unbelievable", if she always makes the right decisions and wins all the time she's a Mary Sue or whatever and also "unbelievable". Oh well.
Why did Danny fly straight at the ships, just to avoid the arrows but didn't fly to the side or from behind and light all the ships on fire?
Also, Dany has a history of making REALLY bad decisions that she ultimately gets out of through pure bloodshed and conquering. I think the only time she's truly outwitted anyone in her journey was when she bought the Unsullied. She's always been a hypocritical conquerer.
Oh yeah, she and Jon are both horrific at what they do. They’re basically like Tommen only they still have their Tywins but for some reason a version of Tywin that never has a better plan.
Dany alone, yes. But, Dany has Tyrion there. He knows enough about King's Landing with experience to avoid an ambush there.
She didn't fly at the ships to avoid the arrows, she was going to try and light them all up but then realized that was a suicide mission and veered off last second to avoid them. The arrows are on turrets so have full 360 coverage so she couldn't just go around them