Politically-motivated and all that, of course. But it just didn't fit, either. That entire 10 minutes of dialogue felt contrived and meaningless, starting with Dany questioning Varys' loyalty about 3 years too late. I was watching actors read script lines rather than feeling like an observer of a different world. It all seemed out of character, and the gender-less pronoun piece was when, for the first, time, I rolled my eyes and considered skipping ahead.