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I only want to look at the shows portrayal and not ]the books. The show has already altered or added a lot of the scenes to give him far more prominence in Daenerys arc in ASOS than he does. Strong Belwas has more dialogue and presence than Daario in ASOS to put it in perspective; but he was a cut character.

I personally have an inkling that, much like Shae, the developers will portray Daario in a much more positive light than he is in the novels.

BTW I must stress that I am only looking at the shows portrayal. Not from the books.

The book was able to explain Daario's effects on Daenerys from her point of view, the show cannot do that so well, so they have to embellish it. I think they'll mostly stick to the end game though.

Yes but in ASOS its only ever a passing interest mentioned in a few scenes and often only as recollections on her journey. Certainly not her getting naked in front of him and letting him touch her during battle plans. They've basically started her swooning over him straight away.

 Totalwar1402 wrote:
Yes but in ASOS its only ever a passing interest mentioned in a few scenes and often only as recollections on her journey. Certainly not her getting naked in front of him and letting him touch her during battle plans. They've basically started her swooning over him straight away.

The show also doesn't have nearly as much time to build slowly into things like the books can.
She does end up going all super-hormone "OMG!-it's-Bieber!!1!!!" over Daario by the end of book 3, so the show has just decided to 'get on with it' since it will have huge ramifications in the next season!

Poor Jorah, all I can hope is that he finds a nice girl somewhere in his travels with Dany who likes him back. He'd be much better off, though I guess being a knight sworn to protect Dany, it pretty much forbids him from settling for someone else so there's not much hope for Jorah in terms of romance in my opinion.

 Ardaric_Vaanes wrote:
Poor Jorah, all I can hope is that he finds a nice girl somewhere in his travels with Dany who likes him back. He'd be much better off, though I guess being a knight sworn to protect Dany, it pretty much forbids him from settling for someone else so there's not much hope for Jorah in terms of romance in my opinion.

You have no idea how right you are.

Experiment 626 wrote:
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She does end up going all super-hormone "OMG!-it's-Bieber!!1!!!" over Daario by the end of book 3

 Ardaric_Vaanes wrote:
Poor Jorah, all I can hope is that he finds a nice girl somewhere in his travels with Dany who likes him back. He'd be much better off, though I guess being a knight sworn to protect Dany, it pretty much forbids him from settling for someone else so there's not much hope for Jorah in terms of romance in my opinion.

Jorah's main problems are;
a) He's butt-fugly in the books! Like seriously nasty... I mean, I guess if you run him over with a lawnmower and then finish up with some serious shaving you might find a decent-looking guy underneath all that man-fur of his.

b) Dany is super confused over who he's a surrogate for - her older brother Rheagar or her father.
She tends to lean toward seeing Jorah as a surrogate for Rheagar, but gets rather distracted by her own insecurities & immaturity. In the second book she actually tries to imagine getting it on with Jorah, (but his face keeps turning into Drogo's as she's still grieving his loss), and then she actually kinda really likes it when he plants a kiss on her in book 3, but gets all embaressed & pissy about how "a knights shouldn't do that to his queen." (but she still really, really enjoyed it!)


Odds are that Jorah will likely not survive in the end though as Iain Glen tends to have the same issues as Sean Bean characters...

Experiment 626 wrote:

 Ardaric_Vaanes wrote:
Poor Jorah, all I can hope is that he finds a nice girl somewhere in his travels with Dany who likes him back. He'd be much better off, though I guess being a knight sworn to protect Dany, it pretty much forbids him from settling for someone else so there's not much hope for Jorah in terms of romance in my opinion.

Jorah's main problems are;
a) He's butt-fugly in the books! Like seriously nasty... I mean, I guess if you run him over with a lawnmower and then finish up with some serious shaving you might find a decent-looking guy underneath all that man-fur of his.

b) Dany is super confused over who he's a surrogate for - her older brother Rheagar or her father.
She tends to lean toward seeing Jorah as a surrogate for Rheagar, but gets rather distracted by her own insecurities & immaturity. In the second book she actually tries to imagine getting it on with Jorah, (but his face keeps turning into Drogo's as she's still grieving his loss), and then she actually kinda really likes it when he plants a kiss on her in book 3, but gets all embaressed & pissy about how "a knights shouldn't do that to his queen." (but she still really, really enjoyed it!)


Odds are that Jorah will likely not survive in the end though as Iain Glen tends to have the same issues as Sean Bean characters...

Yeah I didn't get why the TV series took the kiss scene out.

Well, given the age difference I really doubt he would live to be with Dany. The only ways its gonna end for him are...

-Dies serving her with his love unreciprocated. Dany realizes shes lost somebody very important and has another feel sad moment. A simple way out but I just don't think it would end that way.

-Not long after they get together he is killed. He could even get her pregnant before this.

-Dany dies and hes left on his own. If he got her pregnant this could leave him having to raise the kids as Dany could die in childbirth. Incidentally, not only is this how Danys mother died but its also what happened to Jorahs first wife. Possibly a bit of foreshadowing there.

-He moves on with another woman. I personally am convinced it could be his ex-wife Lynesse. If so, it could well lead to him becoming the betrayel for love because Jorah has a habit of letting his love for a woman make him betray his ideals; what Lynesse got him in trouble for in the first place.

Or the option that actually happens,

 Laughing Man wrote:
Or the option that actually happens,

Spoiler:

He's revealed to have been feeding information to the Baratheons/Lannisters, she exiles him and threatens to kill him if he's ever seen again. Things get worse from here.

Yeah, I was a little irritated that hadn't happened already.

It would certainly give the speculation here a kick in the pants. I'm still wanting to see what he gets up to in the next book.

 djones520 wrote:

 Laughing Man wrote:
Or the option that actually happens,

Spoiler:

He's revealed to have been feeding information to the Baratheons/Lannisters, she exiles him and threatens to kill him if he's ever seen again. Things get worse from here.

Yeah, I was a little irritated that hadn't happened already.

Season 4, Episode 9 is my guess where we'll get this happening.
Keep in mind that Iain Glen is one of the main actors they were after when they first pitched/cast the series, thus dragging Dany's story out a bit means they keep him active & secured on the payroll instead of leaving him off for a season or more and potentially entangled in another project/s.

 Laughing Man wrote:
It would certainly give the speculation here a kick in the pants. I'm still wanting to see what he gets up to in the next book.

Spoiler:

I mean, I'm reasonably sure Tyrion has a character shield and will survive the apocalypse, but Jorah is starting to reach Sansa Stark levels of buttmonkey territory and is thus approaching invulnerability. EDIT: Then again, I said the same thing about Jon Snow...

 djones520 wrote:

Spoiler:

The Dragon Rider thing won't happen with him. Only Targaryans ride dragons, and he's not one of them. There are three dragons, and three Targ's. Doesn't get much clearer then that.