Game of Thrones: Season 3, Episode 4

Told you so... (spoilers if you have not seen it)

Don't mess with a girl and her dragons (an old scene but it sets it up well)...

Emilia Clarke Rule 5
Women of Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones: Season 3, Episode 3 (Partial Review)

If you have not seen this episode and intend to, skip this post for now. 

After the first two set up episodes, Season 3 is starting to take off...

And one of the big questions, beyond the real threat beyond the wall, is how will Daenerys Targaryen gets her army to go back and take the Iron Throne.

A girl and her dog dragon.  

In last night's episode, Daenerys agreed to trade one of her three dragons for 8000 eunuch slave warriors, the youth in training, and the translator in the scene (over objections of her own advisers).  They protested because dragons are priceless, but as anyone who has ever watched a movie or read a book where a kid has to give up his dog--loyalty is not as easily transferred as title.  

Obviously the GOT writers are setting up Slaver Kraznys mo Nakloz for a bad pet adoption...

And I think it is spelled "eunuchs"  

This "dog" is proving useful too, now that is it grown up.

Homogenous Elite is not the right description, they are our eunuch court mandarin class...

Robert Stacy McCain is absolutely spot on, except for what he calls them.    

They are not actually eunuchs, if they were they would not be so randy and annoying when they go out to clubs in Georgetown, Dupont, and Adams Morgan.  But our current Mandarin class and the eunuchs of the Chinese and Ottoman courts are disturbingly similar.