Game(s) of Thrones: Medieval Literature and Popular Culture

As always, write on a topic of your choosing or pick one of the following to respond to!

Let's think about the ending of The Horse and His Boy this week. What did you think of it; were you surprised? What about Rabadash's ending? What sort of relationship between Narnia, Archenland, and Calormen did you notice by the end of the novel?

We've got a ton of ground to cover with GoT, but one of the major gaps in our discussion has been in diving in deep on the Daenerys and the Dothraki storylines. What role do the Dothraki play on the show? Said suggests that Orientalism establishes a confrontation between the East and the West (the Orient and the Occident)--where might we see this in the Dothraki plotlines? What role does Daenerys have in these Eastern and Western / Westeros and Essos plotlines?