A Dance with Dragons question

Yes.

Either that, or George was going for "I have to regress Dany's character all the way back to the end of Book 1 in order to move her boring, stagnated plotline forward".

I don't seem to hate Dany's current storyline as much as most people seem to, but it never did sit well with me. She is a terrible queen and the city she's ruling has turned into a complete cluster fuck. I was so very relieved when she flew off with Drogon and even more excited to see that a Khal had found her. I agree with you, l think she will have to become Khaleesi of this Khal if she wants to survive, use it to take her city back then, finally, march her children with her 3 dragons and take back Westernos. Atleast that's what l hope will happen.

I think she might return to Vaes Dothrak, where she became a "true queen" and kind of had her high point among the Dothraki.

Dany seemed to hate Jhaqo last I heard. I'd have a hard time imagining she's going to team up with him...

I too think Dany will need to win back a greater group of Dothraki before getting to Westeros. I was listening to George R. R. Martin's commentary on Season 1, Episode 8 of HBO's GOT, where he commented on how the killing of Mago in the TV show but not the books might lead to other divergences down the road. This + the ending of ADWD had me guessing that Dany will need to win back Jhogo, defeat and have her revenge on Mago, and assemble a true Dothraki army in upcoming storylines...

Sue, I agree that Meereen's a clusterfuck, but I don't think it necessarily makes Dany a terrible queen. Just as much as the series as a whole critiques power, those who have it and those who are trying to get it, it asks: how much power do the powerful really have? It's something Ned confronts in the first book, Tyrion in the second and third. In ADWD, Cersei is an interesting parallel to Dany, in that she's a totally different kind of ruler but ends up equally (or more) powerless for most of the book. We might be prompted to question whether contemporary "rulers" have lesser or greater power than these fantastic despots (and who the modern "rulers" really are).

Not that I'm necessarily loving the east-to-west world tour plotline overall; I just figure we had to kill some time waiting for those dragons to grow up.

The way Dany's storyline is progressing, I honestly expect Khal Jhaqo... Jhoqo... I forget, to try to rape her, to be set on fire by Drogon, and then for nothing of value to have eventuated from the scene. :\

Nobody's mentioned Tyrion; he's going to knock this out of the park. I see him becoming her chief advisor and giving her the guidance and guile required to pull her .... together. Starting with manipulating the heck out of whats-his-name who's about to arrive from the Iron Isles and give her the ride she needs to get out of the Meereen scene.

I think that to go back to her beginning, she had to return to Westros where she was conceived. That is the true beginning of her life, the most important event that occurred to get her on the path to become the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.

she will return with the dothraki, raze the city to the ground, then on to westeros!