5. Trusting Mirri Maz Duur
After a raid on a village, Daenerys decides to extend her sympathies to the surviving women and takes them in as her maids so they dont get raped and used as slaves, a well meaning gesture. Drogos bloodriders take offense to this and one of them fights him, cutting him across the chest. The wound festers, killing him and when Dany goes to one of them for help, she betrays her and resurrects him in some sort of droopy, vegetable like state, as well as killing her unborn child in exchange. It apparently came out as a creepy demon like thing that was hundreds of years old, which I find to be terrifying. The interesting thing about this one is the moral complications, we like Dany and sympathize with her, but she is also the khaleesi of the Dothraki, who arent exactly the nicest people around. Mirri Maz Duurs revenge is certainly justified in a sense, she was raped numerous times before being helped, and the Dothraki did kill most everyone in her village or take them for slaves. At the same time, we sympathize with Dany so much that Mirri Mazs betrayal still cuts deep like the wound in Drogos chest. Had Dany not helped her, Drogo would have never been cut in the first place, meaning he wouldnt have died. Drogo was also Dothraki horse lord, hes been in numerous fights and has likely been cut worse than this in previous battles. However the Dothraki have dealt with wounds before this, it seemed as if it worked well enough, so why let Mirri Maz come and mess with your system? Perhaps she was the one who tampered with his wound and caused it to go rancid. Numerous Dothraki tell Dany not to listen to her, and even though theyre total jerks, it turns out that continuing on as normal may have been the best course of action for her. Mirri Maz Duur scenes are painful on a rewatch of season one when seeing the conflict between Dany and the Dothraki and knowing how easily it could have been avoided.