Game Of Thrones Season 7 Implications: What "The Queen's Justice" Really Means

14. Jon's Death And Dany's Doubt

It's somewhat strange that Dany - who has burned herself to death twice without dying, watched her husband brought back from the dead, knows all about stone zombies and crucially RIDES A BLOODY GREAT BIG DRAGON TO WORK - can't bring herself to believe Jon Snow when he comes begging for her assistance. Why exactly are ice zombies any less believable than dragons?

At no point does she suggest that she actually believes him, instead choosing to allow him to mine dragonglass as a politically motivated gesture when he refuses to bend the knee. To be fair to her, she owed him nothing, and his conduct in Dragonstone didn't deserve help anyway.

Him and Davos turned up, basically took the piss out of her hundreds of official titles, refused to bend the knee (despite the fact that Jon would lose precisely nothing from it) and called her family names. And despite Jon having a very key bit of propaganda (the fact that he died and was reborn), which could be corroborated by Melisandre (who decided not to tell Dany of this world-changing magic for no reason), he seemed to decide that was better kept secret.

If you were Jon Snow, you'd be shouting that from the rooftops. He needs Dany to believe that people other than Khal Drogo can be revived from death (though he might fear she'll believe he's a zombie and cut him down), and yet he refuses to tell her.

It still seems likely that Jon's revival will be what convinces Dany to believe him (hence her mentioning it at the end again), since there's so much of a loaded parallel between her rebirth in fire and his in ice. It's just a matter of waiting it out to see that happen.