Game Of Thrones: 5 Winners And 5 Losers In 'Mockingbird'
3. Daenerys
If Daenerys showed any signs of failing under the pressure of being a queen last week, she has more than grown into the role this time around. She is learning that one of the biggest aspects to ruling is keeping your lieutenants happy, and were not just talking about the night she spends with Daario Naharis. The mercenary leader initially petitions her for leave to do more satisfying work in her name: fighting her enemies as apposed to watching over her subjects. Never forget (as Ser Jorah hasnt) that Daario killed his previous commanders because he no longer agreed with what they were doing. Despite swearing an oath of fealty to his new queen, Daario is a man who will always follow his own desires above those of others. Daenerys recognises this, and sedates his discontent by sending him and his Second Sons to crush the Yunkaii uprising, but not before she fulfills his and her other desires.
The following morning, Ser Jorah challenges Daenerys for her choice of lover, and then again for her decision to send him to kill the new masters of Yunkai. Daenerys' passion for exacting full justice on the slavers has perhaps blinded her to the complexities of the situation. As Ser Jorah reminds her, he too was convicted of slavery, and had Ned Stark offered the same merciless punishment as she would offer the Yunkaii masters, he would not be at her side now as her trusted councilor. Daenerys has the humility to be tempered by his advice, but also the cunning to know how to use the situation to appease his dislike for Daario; she allows him to gloat to Daario that it was he who changed her mind.