Game Of Thrones: 7 Things That "The House Of Black And White" Did Right (And 3 It Didn't)
5. Mhysa
Over the past four years, Dany’s isolation combined with a keen awareness of her family’s former importance in have always caused problems as she tries to rule a foreign people according to her understanding of Westerosi customs. It cost Dany her position among the Dothraki as well as the lives of her husband and unborn child, and it’s only thanks to her dragons that she remains a contender.
“The House of Black and White” cast Dany’s unfamiliarity with local customs into the limelight for the first time since her failures with the Dothraki in Season 1. Multiple characters even came out and told her that her lack of understanding of the Meereenese way of life will prevent her from maintaining the love of the people who had welcomed her with open arms. Her position is more precarious than ever as her Seven Kingdoms sense of justice – as encouraged by the embodiment of Westerosi traditions in Ser Barristan – fails to win over the former slaves and masters alike.
This is a good thing. If Dany is to eventually cross the Narrow Sea and make a move for the Iron Throne, she needs to have worked out the kinks of winning the loyalties of a resistant people.