Dany got this right 100% !!

And yet, simulating things is not his style.
I haven't seen any of the scenes, so I cannot tell what it looked like. Is he faking it or is it the worst writing ever?

I wish I could agree but his looking down doesn't seem to be devious to me, especially not when he looks straight at her in the next sentence: "They will come to see you for what your are". It can be interpreted as ambiguous too but Jon is not in a situation to play that game. He needs real help against a real enemy, so if he thought his people would end up with a negative view of her, he would be wary of it himself.

Besides, Jon Snow is not a good actor, he wouldn't be able to play her successfully.
Something is amiss. Either that relationship is fake as you say but out of character, maybe it is real and badly acted, which I doubt, or simply bad, inconsistent writing demanding that a character has an inexplicable change of heart.

I'm all ready to believe that Jon Snow will fall down from this cloud and start to see Daenerys as something else but I doubt he does yet.
Considerations about simple attraction are not enough to explain all this. People develop feelings aside from it and Jon never was the kind who turns around to look at a girl. Sam said he was, but Jon is motivated otherwise.

Yes, I think you're right about all these observations. The way Cersei looks at Jaime tells me the same. I know she is not taking advantage of him. These looks are placed there for good reason. They give us the key we need to understand characters.



I don't think Jon "played" Ygritte, though. They had that scene in which he told her they couldn't win, told her about the seven times wildlings tried and failed before. He was trying to make her see reality, hoping she would give up and at least save herself. He was honest with her.

So I'll agree that Jon has feelings for Sansa, more than for Daenerys. He cares for his sister. But we need to look at Jon after the "beyond the Wall" episode to draw new conclusions about his real view of Daenerys. Jon never really played anyone. Is he being fooled by the need to trust the ally he must have? This could be. He might wake up and realise he's been a weakened fool grasping at a warm hand.

I often see people say that Cersei is using Jaime, manipulating him. It might be true to some extent of the book character, even though Jaime is a very actively willing partner there anyway, but it is absolutely not in the show. What Jaime says about it does not matter. He could be wrong but he's not and this is proven by Cersei's near unconditional acceptance of him. Not the kind of trait she exhibits towards others.
She speaks openly and harshly to him but never keeps him at a distance. He's like a part of her, something she looks at in a critical way but never questions. Separation is unthinkable.

Jon is the positive, feeling, trusting one. He is the man who will trust wildlings and be murdered by his own men. He represents open inclusiveness even at a risk. Sansa is the other side, the one the Lannisters incarnate: cautious, thinking, exclusive. She wanted to marry the prince, not play with the butcher's boy. She didn't even trust her brother with her calling Littlefinger for help.

As to Jon and Ygritte, I think he just couldn't bring himself to kill someone in cold blood, let alone a woman. That's why he spared her. That's why he was shown struggling with himself when he had to execute Slynt (who didn't even have red hair).
Ygritte's forcing of Jon is just as present in the show. It might go quicker because it's only one line but it's there: "you swore some vows, I want you to break them". It is essentially a reminder of the death threat Tormund made a moment before. And yet he accepted her. Strange man.

His words to Daenerys ("see you for what you are") might well take a turn but I think they are meant positively when he says them. He might be the first one shocked, although I wonder what the show will do. As much as I want to see her turn bad, I cannot fully bet on it but Jon's lineage is obviously there as a seed of conflict.