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Warning: Spoilers for HBO's Game of Thrones up through the episode, "The Mountain and the Viper." Particularly the scene where Mommy Dragon made Jo-Jo sad.
It's bad enough that most folks in the world of Game of Thrones lead miserable, dank lives and are killed off early and gruesomely by wayward psychopaths roaming the landscape. But to add heartbreak to the whole equation? That's just cruel. It's no wonder the lads in the Night's Watch take an oath of celibacy. Nothing takes your head out of the game like the sorrow that accompanies love and longing.
Recently, in "The Mountain and the Viper," Daenerys cast Jorah out of her kingdom - forever banishing him from her eyes. Once she discovered he'd been a spy for King Robert way back when the two of them first met, it sent her into a fury only to be rivaled by her own dragons. Nothing he'd done since the first steps of his story with her mattered anymore. Not the birth of the dragons. Not the desert. Not Qarth. It was Game of Thrones' version of She's All That. As if Dany had found out that he'd only started hanging around her because of a bet with Paul Walker.
Jorah was undone. He realized too late that he should have come clean with her from the get-go. Though, to be fair, he was probably safe in assuming she'd never find out. I mean, it's not like Essos had an un-deleted browser history or an un-emptied email trash folder.
Granted, Dany and Jorah weren't a couple. But their saga over the past few years helped created an intimate bond between them. And of course, he loved her. But love guarantees nothing on Game of Thrones. In fact, it usually makes things worse. Let's look at some of the show's most infamous breakups...
Since I'm already blabbing on and on about Daenerys and Jorah, let's stick with it. It's easy to be hard on Dany for her hardline decision to kick Jorah to the dusty curb, but I think the fact that Jorah, for a small moment, was complicit with King's Landing's attempt to assassinate her kind of sent her over the edge. Sure, he wound up saving her from said attempt, but the end result of the facade was that it made him look more like a hero and got him closer to her as a protector and a confident. And that isreally s***ty.
Keep in mind that Jon most likely isn't completely out of Ygritte's crosshairs yet, but the last time the two of them exchanged words, a bunch of arrows got in the way. Shot from Ygritte's bow into Jon's "know nothin'" body. Which is how wildlings announce a "trial separation." If it'd had been a full divorce, she'd have cut off his nuts while he was sleeping.
Another case of the dude conveniently not telling the girl about being a spy for the enemy. I guess chicks are suckers for guys with lethal hidden agendas.
Honestly, Tyrion was better off without Shae, considering that he had to actually shoo her away from King's Landing in the same way George Henderson made Harry run back into the woods, it was clear that she had a hard time grasping key elements of their specific situation. And her stubbornness was going to get her killed.
Too bad it all circled back to bite Tyrion on his Imp ass when Shae, who was supposed to be residing in a land far away, showed up as a surprise witness at his trial. Up until she took the stand, Tyrion was ready to give a false confession in exchange for a life sentence up at The Wall. But she crushed his heart so completely that all he could speak, when his time came to confess, was hate.
Permission to treat the witness as hostile.
Cersei and Jaime
Note to all famous sword-slinging studs who lust for their sisters. Don't get taken prisoner. It pretty much ruins your rep as an unbeatable fighter and leads to shame and dismemberment. And then when you eventually get back home, you'll find out that the only woman you ever loved in your life got sick of waiting around for you.
Another note. No matter how much you crave your sister, it's probably not a great idea to force yourself on her right next to the body of her freshly-asphyxiated son. Who also happens to be your son. I'm not expert on the subject, but these guidelines seem pretty reasonable.
Ulterior motives strike again. Ripping the beating heart out of yet another one-sided relationship. Lysa loved Littlefinger so much that she killed her own husband at his behest. And then spread enough lies around to spark a realm-wide war. And when she was with him, her spirit soared to new heights...
...as her body plummeted to new depths. Splattering all over the rocks below The Eyrie, after Littlefinger shoved her out of her castle's infamous hole-in-the-floor.
Okay, so Arya and Gendry were never a true couple due to the fact that she was a wee child. But it certainly had all the makings of "Look, I like you and I'll just wait for you to get older" deal. And she definitely seem to take an interest in him when he took off his shirt to do all his blacksmith-y work. But the class system tore them apart before they could even exchange bequeathals.
The problem was that Gendry was assuming that Arya would be returned back to her mother all safe and sound at some point, and that she'd just resume her role as Stark. Little did he know that Arya would get Game of Thrones'd hard, and that she'd probably never run into relative who didn't have a wolf's head sewn onto their torso ever again.
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