Dolores And Daenerys Sure Do Have A Lot In Common, Right?

Game of Thrones and Westworld. Westworld and Game of Thrones. Both big sweeping HBO shows with big casts and big budgets and big online followings. Both very important to the network’s bottom line, especially as the battle heats up with streaming services like Netflix (and Hulu and Amazon and Disney and Apple). Both featuring ominous catchphrases — “winter is coming,” “these violent delights have violent ends” — that foreshadowed a violent uprising and struggle for power.

So there’s all that. But there’s also this: the two main revolutionary figures on the shows — Dolores on Westworld and Daenerys on Game of Thrones — have a lot in common, too. Beyond the fact that both of their names have three syllables and start with the letter D. I started making a list of similarities yesterday and I keep going and going and now I can’t stop seeing them. It’s becoming a problem. Some of the similarities are more of a stretch than others but when you line them all up it kind of becomes a thing. Here, I’ll show you.

Dolores is:

Which brings us to Daenerys.

Daenerys is:

See See! It is kind of a thing. I’m not crazy. Leave me alone.