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No. 233378
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so excluding House of the Dragon there are at at least five other Game of Thrones TV shows in development
>A Jon Snow TV show
>The Sea Snake (about the "voyages" i.e OC adventures of Corlys Velaryon)
>Ten Thousand Ships (about Princess Nymeria of the Rhoynar and her conquest of Dorne and her three husbands one of whom was a young boy)
>The Hedge Knight (about the adventures of Dunk and Egg)
>The Golden Empire (an animated show about Yi Ti)
and some more undisclosed animated shows
No. 233384
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As a ASoIF book fan who refused to watch a single episode of the series against the global hype, learning of its horrid conclusion was somehow incredibly satisfying
No. 233393
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>>233378reposting from the TV thread, so I really don't care for any of these adaptions except for Dunk and Egg and Nymeria's one and I pray They don't fuck it up cause Nymeria's conquest of Dorne is my favorite bit of world building and history from ASoIF, like House Martell wasn't established by Nymeria it already existed before the Rhoynar even came, they were a midsized power who worked with the Rhoynar who had superior technological advantages and more soldiers to conqueror Drone together, basically both Nymeria and Mors Martell(her first husband) were using each other and their people's to get what they wanted, ever her marriage with the teenage boy Davos Dayne(her third and last husband who would later be her consort and bodyguard) was political and got the stony dornishmen to support her side
No. 233425
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I haven't read the books, I enjoyed the first seasons of GoT but I hate the new show. The costumes look so ridiculous for me. In the OG show Westeros looked like it was inspired by Europeans sure but in a more fantastical setting and much more vague. The costumes now look very English, specifically Tudor period. I also hate Matt Smith's ugly face. It feels so uninspired and looks bland.
Do any nonnas have hope?
No. 233441
>>233409i and the other book readers i know susually hated GoT
also lol at a jon snow show, he literally is the most boring cardboard cutout of a character in the whole series. i guess normies like to project onto him tho
No. 233443
>>233442me too omg! i thought i was the only one with an irrational hatred for this
tbh im v v glad i stuck to the books and didn't watch the series. the books have their flaws but they're genuinely good imo. so many fascinating characters (not jon)
it's hard to choose but my fave is asha greyjoy
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feel like pure shit just want her back x
No. 233486
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>>233425>The costumes look so ridiculous for me. In the OG show Westeros looked like it was inspired by Europeans sure but in a more fantastical setting and much more vague. The costumes now look very Englishthat's a weird complaint cause like the central basis of Westeros's worldbuilding is based on English history
>First Men = indigenous Indo-European/Celtic peoples>The Andals are an obvious stand-in for the Angles, who w/ Saxons & Jutes settle the islands in the 5th-6th cent CE. >And then, as in England, the central civilization changing event is the last conquest. Targaryen Conquest represents the Norman Conquest of 1066 No. 233567
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>>233455Cersei is so awful she 180's to being based; she only "loved" Jaime because he was a reflection of what she wished to be, so sex with him was more masturbation than anything else (the only ethical way to fuck men) and absolutely humiliated Tywin, the most powerful man in the realm, by simply existing. She is the ultimate girlboss/gatekeep/gaslight queen, Rhaeneyra can eat her heart out.
I wonder which brother will kill her? On one hand, we have Tyrion, who actively wants her dead, and on the other, we have the more poetic choice of Jaime. I'm more inclined to say Jaime because in my prediction (f)A(k)egon is going to storm King's Landing first, and I don't know if Cersei will have the hubris to free to Casterly RockAlso, what's everyone's favorite theories/predictions?? Mine is
Euron was a failed student of Blood Raven and that's why he curses the god's so fervently, and he's going to "wed the kraken with the dragon" by forcing them to make and steal their Cthulhu offspring by warging into it. It sounds insane but the fact that George RR Martin is super into Lovecraft and the fact that Cthulhu literally is just a kraken and dragon makes this all but confirmed in my mind. He'll also somehow be responsible for the Horn of Jormund being blown and the wall finally collapsing. No. 233629
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>>233606>that she sees him as the male version of herself, that if she got her way and was a man she would be Jaimethat's the thing, she think if she was a man she'd be like Jamie, but when she meets brienne(a woman on par with Jamie as a warrior) she considers her an "ugly creature" and an "abomination", she has no respect for women who want to learn to fight and challenge the system and the ironic part is that she all the traits she despises in men, she's a glutton and a hedonist, If she was born she would not be like a Jamie, a strong and powerful warrior she'd be more like how robert was near the end of his life
No. 233678
>>233670AYRT, she's frustrated over the lack of agency or power that her gender affords her in that world, and internalizes the misogyny around her. She laments the lack of control in her own life, and undeniably the only way to have power or agency in this world is to be a man. She will also btfo of any man when she has the opportunity, however. She looks down on men, saying multiple times she'd be better than them if she had the cock (aka if she had the power). All of her hatred toward being female stems from her position, from the fact that all her life men have only ever valued her for her appearance, so of course she's going to fixate on others' appearance and chimp out at Margaery. It's insecurity. When she has a real female friend that she can connect with, she gives her all her trust and admiration. She seriously cherished Merryweather, and I couldn't but be happy seeing her having even a semi-functional relationship with another woman
minus the scene when she rapes her, but that was again a shade of her trauma from being raped herself. Not justifying it by any means, it was one of the more moidier moments, but it still isn't comparable to any other moment of rape in the series. Cersei's character is a case study of the toxicity of internalized misogyny from being objectified and oppressed her entire life. This doesn't make her a good or even mildly good person by any means, but I find that aspect of her tragic. Look how she treats Sansa, constantly telling her how bleak life for a woman really is; because she envies that innocence and therefore selfishly wants to destroy it. Her hatred toward her gender is purely a hatred toward being powerless and rendered into a mere pretty object to be traded around, which she projects as misogyny. She is a product of the men around her, and I'm not about to totally admonish her for conditions she could never hope to change.
>>233629 But didn't Cersei herself try and learn to fight? I vaguely remember something about her dressing in Jaime's armor to learn to fight? Or she asks Tywin straight up to join Jaime in his training? I think it's another bitter reflection of her envy
insert green eyes joke here. I think if she was a man she'd probably share a lot of similarities with Maegor the Cruel than Robert personally, but her cruelty could be the overcompensating for her lack of power, so if she was a man who's to say she'd still have those tendencies? But the best part about this book is the complexities that allow us to have diverging opinions!
>>233673 I don't stan her, my above comment was lighthearted fun, but I appreciate the complexity and tragedy of her character. Plus it is undeniably satisfying when she talks down to the men around her. While the quality of other character chapters tended to dip depending on the book, a Cersei chapter was always an interesting one, no matter which book.
No. 233697
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Do you nonas have any favorite ships? I'll share mine if you share yours And which pairings do you hate and why?
No. 233699
Honestly, the comparison of Cersei and Daenerys is so interesting. You have wo powerful women who had horrible things happen to them, and both respond to their trauma in completely different ways. Cersei, becomes jaded and misogynistic, thinking all women are naturally weak, powerless - because she, herself has been treated as weak and powerless. When she has just a inch of power, she does whatever she can to maintain it…losing everything cares about in the process, her family, her lover and her even her own children(the only things she's truly ever cared about)
Daenerys, is sold as a child bride to a warlord, raped every night, and slowly succumbs to stockholm syndrome in order to survive. When he dies and she gains her dragons, she vows to help people, to ensure they will not be sold into slavery themselves. At the same time, she wants nothing more than to go to Westeros, a country she's never been to, because that is her kingdom, she conquers these slave cities, rescuing people, she amasses an army of people who grateful to her, believe her to be their savior, following her anywhere. She leaves each city, in ruin, gaining her armies and leaving. When she finally claims the last, she basically fucks off and leaves her ex-lover in charge of all four cities, with no government, no replacement of economy (it was slave base) - with nothing to replace it, she may have freed these people, but she has also doomed them - what is stopping another country, another group of powerful people to show up, and claim it for themselves? those thoughts don't cross Daenerys's mind, all she cares about is reclaiming the glory of her house….she starts out with great intentions, but with the more power she amasses, the more she loses sight of her goals
No. 233707
>>233697i'm going to get shit for this (and with reason, it is a very
problematic ship) but Sandor/Sansa. After all the shit they have been through i would be over the moon if they could be the SheWolf Queen in the North with her Hound by her side.
I also liked Jaime/Brienne (and the actors had chemistry between them) but their storylines in later seasons smoothered my interest.
i loved jon/ygritte, both book and series, and i hated jon/dany. i don't know if it's the actors fault, but i can't even imagine the book versions of these characters interacting. the chemistry is not nonexistent, is fucking negative.
i also despise RL because rhaegar is a shit moid in general and should have been smoothered in the crib. i honestly hate him more than Robert.
No. 233750
>>233737(jonsa sperg incoming)
NAYRT but isn't that the point of fandom though? Everyone's gonna theorize and ship and write metas after waiting decades for these books. Other ships in asoiaf live with less scrutiny. Sansan, though
problematic, is arguably her most popular pairing among fans. I don't think any ship in this fandom is squeaky clean though.
Some don't like jonsa because they don't think Sansa's worthy of the hero they project onto. Others don't like jonsa because it gets in the way of jonerys or jonrya. Both ships have similarly dedicated fanbases, except they're not considered crazy for creating metas/gifs/fanfic. People tend to think Sansa is less important because she can't wield a sword or ride a dragon, of course she can't get with GRRM's self insert!
inb4 "you sound like a jonsa" yes. I am riding the clownsa train so of course take my words with a grain of salt, but I think the hate for it is still rooted in misogyny at least to some degree.
No. 233769
>>233378I am so sick and tired of this disney tier extended universe. Make something original for change.
Since I read the fire and blood book, doubt I will even check out the new series. How can you "colourblind cast" an inbred family with very prominent and plot important features.
Also the wigs SUCK.
No. 233796
>>233697>>233713>>233707I’m so glad you nonnas were brave enough to say it because I love SanSan. I love it so much. I rarely care much about ships, but for some reason this one got me good. Beauty and the Beast is exactly right. I have to attach this old MV I’m reminded of. Also
>they could be the SheWolf Queen in the North with her Hound by her side.If GRRM doesn’t give us this, I will riot. Another thing, even though Sandor’s interactions with Arya are cute, I kind of got annoyed with them overshadowing his interactions with Sansa. I can’t wait for them to be together again.
No. 233811
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>>233769they aren't targs though, they are supposed to be members of House Velaryo, another Valyrian family that managed to survive the doom, but they weren't dragonlords like the Targeryens and were mainly a minor naval power/merchants, also plenty of targs have mixed Westerosi's, there have been dark skinned and dark haired Targeryens one was even crown prince, most of the main cast in HotD had westerosi moms
No. 233840
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hoo hoo, I sold people into slavery so I could buy expensive gifts for my teenage bride that I literally won in a tournament, I am the victim here"
fuck Jorah
No. 233851
>>233750i hate jonsa because jon is the most biring character. jacks shit to do with misogyny.
>>233769this exactly. valyrian looks are very plot relevant so it sucks that they went for bottle blonde party city wigs
>>233567my fave theory (no spoiler bc it's pre canon events) is that the defiance of Duskendale was a set up bc there were several actors who had an interest in fucking with aerys and destabilising the targaryen rule
No. 233889
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>>233699I really don't think Dany wants to rule. Her conquests were more motivated by altruism than ambition, which is why she targeted the slave cities. I think she's just copying her brother's desires because she's heard it all her life. The blood of the dragon must rule. But when Dany sits back and actually wonders what
she wants, she always sees that house with the red door in Braavos. She wants a home. A family.
Stability. Which is why she's flocked to these people that need her so soon after losing her child. It's been heavily hinted at that
Bran is the endgame king so I think Dany will give up the goals of her brother and find her own version of the house with the red door. Maybe somewhere in Dorne, where lemon trees are abundant. It's that or she dies in battle, but I REALLY hope not, because every other woman in this story dies, and Dany desires the stability and family she so clearly longs for.
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Dany falling for this guys is the biggest thing that takes out of the story. I just don’t get it. They have no chemistry and his description is so goofy.
No. 234288
>>233917she seems to love them (especially Joffrey) only as an extension of herself. She has some sort of love for them but it's narcissistic and highly conditional. She's horribly
abusive to Tommen bc he's not like joff. (and i say this as someone who likes her as a character)
Tbh I think Cersei, rather than Dany, is being set up to be the true Mad Queen. The parallels woth Aerys are evident especially if you look at Aerys's own trajectory as detailed in WoIaF. And it would be sheer dramatic irony if Jaime had to again kill a mad monarch to save KL, only this time it's someone he loves
No. 234451
>>234359I like Cersei but this is something that annoys me a lot about her. Jaime was one of the few moids in Westeros who was a genuine catch and she never even fully realized it. I wonder how he would react if he ever found out she fucked Taena?
>>233750I don't like Jonsa because it originates from the show but the fans refuse to acknowledge this and would sooner do mental gymnastics and claim it's GRRM's ultimate endgame. I like Sansa, she's one of my favorite POV characters, don't care for Jon.
No. 234475
>>233851>>234451Honestly, this is refreshing to me because often I come across the opposite. I totally respect it.
My interest in them was piqued because of the show but I've seen content that predates it, though it seems like it was a small group.
No. 234519
>>233384same. I’ve read the books back when it aired but didnt want to soil my idea of how everything looks even if the adaption may have some good moments. Seeing what a trainwreck the last season must have been I’m glad I didnt start to watch it kek. Also I heard that there were several rape scenes added to the series that weren’t in the book, can anyone more into it confirm this? sucks if true. Shame its been so long since I read everything I want to sperg about it itt, maybe I have to give it a go again since I really enjoyed it.
>>233737 Its sad that so many people hated on sansa when the series is full of truly despicable adult characters they could hate on instead, so good to hear that its not as much nowadays.
Will the last book ever be finished? My initial plan was to wait with the reread until its complete but I guess that’s pointless. I don’t even know what happens in the last season I just assumed it must have been really really bad from the reactions.
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>>234591I feel the same, I don't feel intimidated by Daemon. He feels more like a petulant child than a calculating, confident grown man. Maybe I just wasn't paying good enough attention, but why did Daemon steal the egg and lie to Visary? To provoke him? Into doing what?
In the book he stole the egg because Mysaria was actually pregnant, and will he never be sent back to Runestone? I really want to meet Rhea Royce in all her armor and see them being cold and bitter to each other. And why didn't Visary marry Laena? Just marry her and send her back to Driftmark until she's 16-18. Visary says he doesn't even feel a need to marry, so waiting wouldn't be a problem for him. It doesn't seem like Otto manipulated him enough at the point of successfully pushing him toward love instead of duty. The pressure was clearly greater on the former. Last complaint, but I
really hope they don't try and imply that Alicent actually loves him. She didn't in the books
her dying words were about King Jaehaerys and they have given us no scenes to endear him to Alicent, especially not in any sort of romantic light.
That being said, I can not wait for Craghas Crabfeeder, he looks soooooo good (and apparently has greyscale it looks like?)
No. 234635
>>234579yeah the jaime cersei sex in the books was consensual, the got scrotes jsut had to make it rape for no reason
>>234519there as a lot of added rape yeah. like in the books sansa has never even met ramsay, it's a decoy girl that was wed to him and all the abuse is offscreen
the books have scrotey moments but the gratuitous rape scenes outta nowhere were a show addition
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Nonnies, did you enjoy the second episode? I liked the new episode a lot more than the first one because it didn't have any shitty porn. Bless. I like the new intro a lot even though it was obvious it would be similar to a GoT one, but it looks a bit more stylish to me. Excited for more dragons and Rahenyera. I am a casual watcher, but my best friend loves books. I feel bad that I am just a casual watcher, at least for now. GoT felt too male gaze-y to me to keep me interested, it had too many rape scenes on top of that, but HoD at least has cute dragons to look forward to.
No. 234661
>>234626I guess he didn't want to wait. Also the pressure on him was pretty heavy, they tried to rush him. Viserys was never quick to make his own decisions, so the second time he did he caused new problems and he directly fell into the Otto's clutches.
Yeah, Daemon wants his brother's attention.
It looks like we won't see Rhea. Ever. If they wanted to, they would have Viserys sending Daemon to the Vale after he tried to steal the egg, but they didn't mention it. They went straight to the Stepstones wars. No. 234889
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>>234661>>234835Oh wait is that her?
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>>233891>>233914edgelord contrarian taste, here's an actual OTP
No. 235642
>>233409>are book readers really interested in wasting their time whatching these seriesYes.
>final seasonLast 4 seasons of GoT were shit.
No. 236291
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nonas if you had to choose: jaime/brienne or jaime/cersei?
No. 236311
>>236291Neither honestly. Cersei doesn’t deserved Jamie, but I also really like Jamie and Brienne as friends. I think making them romantic would kind of ruin that.
But if I HAD to choose: show Cersei and book Brienne.
>>236297I like the taboo/forbidden love of it and how they were “born for each other”. Kind of like an extreme “childhood best friends to soulmates” thing.
No. 236383
>>236291jaime/cersei is better bc they're both hot messes. brienne's too cool
>>236297who the fuck cares? they're not real and it's an entertaining relationship to read/watch
No. 236387
>>236356You can watch this video, it doesn't have spoilers.
He also makes video-explanation after each episode. Very good channel.
No. 236390
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>>233707>>233796Ugh yes, I am a total sucker for SanSan, I'm not one to care much about ships otherwise either. Beauty and the Beast stories really get to me though. The Beauty and the Beast TV series from the 80's was what gave GRRM the time and money to write ASOIAF, and I think he's been working that into his novels in SanSan as a nod to that. I'll be so upset if SanSan doesn't get more attention in the books. Pic is art by bubug on deviant art btw, she has a whole bunch of SanSan pieces.
>>233737>>233730It was definitely blind misogyny. Sorry for the sperg, but I remember Sansa first got a lot of hate because too many blamed her for the deaths of Mycah, Lady, and Ned, even though Joffrey and Cersei were far more responsible for these things.
They also dumbed down Sansa's character, giving Arya some of her more intelligent moments from the books. Arya literally says she an NLOG (season 2, some scene with Tywin). If Sansa fans brought this up, moid Arya fans would deny it.
Then there was straight up misogyny from Jon, Bran, and Rickon fans. Sansa, in the eyes of Westeros, was heir to the North. Jon is ineligible to inherit the realm, Bran/Rickon were believed dead. Multiple major houses were vying for Sansa's hand (including Tywin for his son!) for this reason. So many fans still denied her political worth because they could not bear the idea of a woman being the heir to the North because "she didn't deserve it." The showrunners went with the "Sansa has no worth" angle in Season 5 and that's the point where fans, looking back at it all, see where the show really started to fall apart.
What really changed the Sansa hate though, ironically it was Arya. The showrunners absolutely made Arya into so much of a Mary Sue and an NLOG that even Arya fans were getting pissed about it by the end. I knew multiple moid Arya and Jon fans who actually started to wake up to this after a particular scene in season 8, they finally listened to us Sansa stans after that. The actual end and mistreatment of Dany's character was the ultimate icing on the cake to all this. The Sansa hate has mostly disappeared now.
>>233889ily
nonnie, this is exactly what Dany wants and I want it so bad for her too. Red Door analysis on her character always hits me so hard. The dragon lady deserves to grow old in peace after she finds the house with the red door.
No. 237914
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>>233486as a history-sperg, its actually pretty funny seeing how many plot points and characters George copied verbatim from real life historical events and figures
The Targaryens are basically the Normans, Robert's rebellion was the Tudor seizure of the Throne and Robert was an ambulation of both Edward the 4th and Henry and the 8th(bith started out at tall, handsome and popular and became fat and lazy the longer his reign went on)
Towton and Tewkesbury are sort of history's version of the Trident, with Towton being the battle that made Edward IV the king, and Tewkesbury the battle that definitively sealed it after Henry VI briefly regained the throne (something that didn't happen in ASOIAF), with Henry VI's heir being killed in battle the way Rhaegar was.
George was kind of flighty and spoiled, sort of like Renly. He made a marriage pact with the Nevilles, the way Renly did with the Tyrells. And eventually, Richard, like Stannis, is the one who is supposed to have killed or overseen the murder of George. Stannis, like Richard, did a lot of work behind the scenes that he felt went unrewarded. Richard, like Stannis, spent the last part of Edward's reign in self-imposed exile in York, the way Stannis left for Dragonstone. Like Stannis and Cersei, Richard and Elizabeth Wydeville became adversaries after Edward's death, with Elizabeth losing her brother and one of her sons to summary execution.
Edward IV's children also had their legitimacy questioned by Richard the way Stannis questioned Robert's kids'. In this case, because Edward had agreed to marry a woman before he married Elizabeth Wydeville, the Wydeville marriage was illegitimate and the royal kids were bastards. Like Myrcella, Elizabeth of York, Edward's daughter, became a marriage pawn. Like Edward V, Joffrey was murdered and his uncle blamed (only it was Tyrion and not Stannis).
(Cersei and Joffrey are interesting because they actually seem to each be drawn from multiple characters: Elizabeth Wydeville and Margaret of Anjou for Cersei, and Edward V and Edward of Westminster for Joffrey. Margaret was ferocious, hands-on and very aggressive about her son's rights, and there were claims that Edward of Westminster was not Henry VI's son. Edward of Westminster who was allegedly a cruel boy who liked to have knights beheaded(likely Yorkist propaganda).
No. 238558
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If you could choose any ASOIAF character as your husbando or wifey who would it be and why? For me it's Jaime
No. 238607
>>238603oops forgot to say why, so to be honest im watching the show for the first time alongside house of the dragon. Im up to season 3 in the first show and all eps in HOTD.
Brienne because she is so loyal and strong and I love her a lot. Theon because…of the opposite really. I love his character and the way he is stuck in his head about what to do and I just want to take him away from it and make him feel better.
No. 238682
>>238558The Martell prince that was played by Pascal. I always liked him, even before the show, because his main motivation is avenging his sister and her children, and i always felt their deaths (and lives) were forgotten by everyone. Their deaths are also the main reason i fucking hate rhaegar.
It may be a silly reason to like a character, but i like men that genuinely love and care for the women in their family.
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>>238614>Everyone is so hung up about how wrong it was for Rhaenyra to get Criston Cole to sleep with herRight? Where in that scene did she coerce him? It was 100% mutual, she never pressured him in any way, and she's a fucking 18-year-old princess, she has no concept of
abusive power dynamics.
Compare the sex scene between Rhaenyra and Criston to an actual borderline rape scene with Alicent. It was meant as a comparison between Rhaenyra getting to sow her royal oats and have fun while Alicent, the ever dutiful daughter, had to grin and bare sex with a scabby dude her father's age.
>>238558Ramsay was a guilty pleasure character, but Sandor and Quentyn are my favorites.
>>238626 perfectly put why Sandor is best guy, but I think Quentyn deserves an honorable mention. I liked how determined he was, how he keeps trying to fulfill the mission his father gave him,
even to the point of dying to try and win Dany's hand in marriage. Him being stoic and shy, yet having this Sansa-esque view of the world was cute.
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>>238558I know, I KNOW, there's something wrong with me but book Euron (not show Euron) is just so awful and fucked up and interesting. Can't help it.
No. 240150
>>240022Genuinely hate cristen now, he’s a fucking idiot. And honestly we got zero build up to make us believe that he would be so hurt over “breaking his oath” or whatever.
They should’ve introduced us to him as a do good who has never questioned the order of the realm, or whatever. This just fees out of left field
No. 240184
>>240022I didn't like it. Number of plot holes was remarkable today I don't even know where to start. I'm glad we saw Laena but that wasn't enough.
It's hard to be on team Black when you hate Daemon and Rhaenyra. Ok, gray characters are cool, but that's just too… much.
No. 240395
>>240268fucking this. I'd go as far as to say he's actively bad. when he was calling out to the crabfeeder while riding caraxes, he just
speaks the line. he doesn't shout, it's not emphatic, there's zero emotion.. He's going for a silent thunder, but all we can see is silnt.
also ofc the one canonically hot male character is literally portrayed by the ugliest man alive.
No. 240451
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>>240427They should have brought back Harry Lloyd to play Daemon. The actor is older now and he could have used a different voice, different mannerisms, and a different wig to believably play another character, distinguished enough from the one he played before. It's not beyond reason for two from the same family line could look so similar either. He was awesome at playing the scumbag Targaryan while still making the character sexy as hell.
Matt Smith is hideous, has zero sex appeal, and makes Daemon come off as an incel.
No. 240473
>>240451Not trying to gotcha or anything
nonnie, since I'm usually a mean man/villain fan, but don't people usually say mean men/villains get away with what they do because they're played by attractive actors? Isn't Daemon being ugly good?
I'm not invested in the show, I was just curious to see this crop up on the front page because yeah, Harry Lloyd was really good as Viserys. Completely messed up.
>>233750I'm a Jonsa too, lolcow is the only website where I would admit that. I like Jon as a Byronic hero, and I like the Beauty and Beast themes in Sansa's story. There's no way the Lady of Winterfell/possible Queen in the North could marry someone lowborn or without lands, so I don't really understand endgame Sansan because it's just not a ship appropriate to the setting (and I love ships like Sansan usually).
Jon or Aegon (whom Arianne will probably marry) are the only acceptable suitors, if she marries at all. (See the Ashford theory, or the Pact of Ice and Fire that states a Stark must marry a Targaryen fostered in Winterfell. It's yet to be fulfilled).
No. 240476
>>240473matter, but well that’s the point we’re going for nonna.. what’s the point of portraying the bad boy that “gets away with it” (like they’re trying to portray in the show) when he doesn’t fit the bill charisma wise? it’s not playing out right.
we don’t need to be convinced of his wrongs being
wrong, his looks won’t sway us on that. but the eye candy part is inherent to the true bad boy trope. otherwise he’s just another self serving political recluse. Daemon is meant to embody
charm, and right now matt smith is failing miserably at that.
No. 240478
>>240476I see what you mean, thank you for re-explaining for the slow ones.
I think my dislike of Daemon and Rhaenyra (for spoilery reasons) sort of made me lean towards understanding Matt Smith's casting more, because I do like the ugly man (who is morally ugly) paired with the dashing bad boy persona. It's the sort of visual conflict I enjoy with GRRM, e.g. with Jaime (handsome but a complicated, even bad man).
That is, I'm not expecting the true bad boy trope to be played straight at all in a GRRM production, but since it's Hot D you can argue it's not really his to begin with.
No. 240511
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>>240175I hate him so much it’s honestly unreal, and I feel like 90% of my hate is because he is played by Matt Smith who is quite literally the ugliest most deformed looking man I have ever seen, he looks like he escaped from the miocene epoch. Everyone stop the search for the missing link because we have found him. I don’t comprehend how a man could be so ugly and the bar for mens looks is already in hell, but he managed to somehow sink lower. I don’t know how i’m supposed to suspend my disbelief enough to see this as a man who is wanted and admired by many women, somehow the dragons and magic in this show are more realistic than anyone wanting to fuck Matt Smith despite him having money and power. Aside from his looks he’s a fucking piece of shit pedo and i’m so mad he killed Rhea she was barely in the show but I wanted to see more of her because she seemed like a really cool character, I hope he fucking suffers in the upcoming episodes I need him to have a worse death than anyone on the show previously.
No. 240551
>>240545It feels there's half the dialogue of GOT, but it's probably only because of the different sources. I like that it's not as crass.
I feel like even if it has its faults I will watch it all. There's nothing else that scratches the spot like it. They could make it less dark though, as in the literal lighting because I can't see much.
No. 240821
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I loved the books and was obsessed with the show when it aired but I haven't seen any HOTD yet. Is it worth it? I'm mainly a Jaime husbandofag and want TWOW more than anything.
No. 241081
>>240776Rhea was only in the show for less than 5 minutes but she already shot to my top favorite characters. We've heard Daemon shit talk his "ugly" wife for several episodes and then we see that cool lady. As soon as Daemon rolled up standing in his edgelord little black cloak I knew it was over. At least Rhea got one last jab at his (possible?) impotency before dying. Daemon is irredeemable to me now. I will never understand anyone who thirsts for him or acts like he's just a "bad boy/antihero." I know they probably will, but if they ship Rhaenyra/Daemon like it's nbd I'm going to lose any sympathy. Girl, if he does that to his wife how do you know he won't if you become inconvenient?
Also Criston is an idiot. I thought he was just a naive fool but now he's also just irredeemable.
No. 241114
>>241081my fucking thoughts exactly. the bad boy/anti-hero trope has been completely ruined by kylo stans and serial killer fanatics. The bad boy trope is meant to subvert our expectations, have a troubled past, yet not completely irredeemable, and be able to demonstrate an obvious suppressed desire to extend kindness while also thinking he is incapable of it, despite his actions. The Bad Boy gives roughly, but bare minimum he still
gives. The bad boy trope is GREAT when used correctly, but now blue haired fucking bitches who love horrible men are boosting incel male power fantasy characters as the bad boy archtype.
I fucking hate how a trope that was honestly geared toward women is completely being ruined. Fuck him.
>>241092speaking of what i mentioned before, i am an shameful SanSan stan, but in a not creepy way i swear. Sandor IS the bad boy trope done well, i just wish he was actually portrayed by a handsome man with a scar. He was meant to be a phantom of the opera kind of deformed imo, half his face is bad but the other half is hot.
No. 241126
>>241122oh don't get me wrong, i lovveed rory, but if I'm being critical in a "girls deserve hot guy characters too" kind of way, I would've preferred a different younger guy. I mean The Hound was literally
27 years old when we meet him in the books, which Rory is nowhere near.
No. 241978
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>>241950>Asha GreyjoyI agree with Sansa and definitely Brienne, but from my memory, Asha is pretty alright with the idea of salt wives and general Ironborn rape traditions. I think the most feminist is probably Arianne and the Sand Snakes.
No. 241986
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>>241978Arianne is self serving and not the least bit feminist, she was open to the idea of becoming the wife of Viserys and is willing to sell out [spoiler]her entire family and kingdom to get with young griff, so she could become queen of westeros[/spolier] its the reason why Viserys /Arianne is still a fairly popular ship
No. 242044
>>241950Isn't Brienne a bit of a Pickme for Jaime? Don't want to start a fight, she is my favorite character but Jaime is a huge jerk (that I still like), kek.
Also–
I got somewhat through the books and I actually stopped when I saw a lot of the story beats of the last season of the show. Do you guys think Martin will actually follow them in the final books or no?
No. 242411
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>>242044>Do you guys think Martin will actually follow them in the final books or no?I don't remember if it was D&D who said this or George RR Himself but it's been said that it will diverge, and only one thing has been confirmed
Bran being the endgame king. I think Jon's parentage was also soft confirmed to be the same. George has said his writing changes a lot so even if at the time that was his initial endgame, he likely changed it inadvertently. There are clear future ideas D&D stole
like the bells driving Dany mad from the JonCon story, so there will probably be parallels from the show, just executed much, much better.
No. 242585
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Thoughts on the new episode? I like the new actors far better than their younger selves and thought the show feels a bit more cohesive now. The Aegon jacking off shit was so gross and unnecessary though.
No. 242609
>>242585I think they're going a little bit too fast. I would have liked to know Harwin and Laena better.
But I did like that they didn't make Daemon kill Harwin. I would not have liked that since I already can barely stand him.
No. 242618
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I have no intention to watch the series but has Aegon(Rhaenyra's and Daemon's son) appeared yet, he's my favorite Targ king and both my husbando and sonfu, I don't wanna see him ruined
No. 242724
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Love this creepy bug girl. Justice for Helaena.
No. 242937
>>242724I was confused about who she was at first but then I remembered she was Helaena. As soemone who also wants pet giant millipedes, she's cool.
I didn't care too much about Harwin since we literally barely knew him. I did cheer him on for giving Cole a taste of his own medicine with the face punching. His brother (still don't know his name) is gearing up to be the main punchable villain. Even Alicent was like "dude wtf."
No. 244442
>>244397I think today's episode was better in that actually. At least it's clear that everything happened in a day or two.
I think part of the trouble is the lack of detail the original has… they don't want to create new material so they stick to that, but it makes them go fast.
No. 244527
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so these are the actors playing jace and baela in the final time-skip, they look like moderately populars tik-tokers
No. 244544
>>244527the more I think about it, the more certain I am that a story that requires several time skips is probably not the best story to tell.
I wish they had chosen an Aegon i the conqueror series, so that we could get into the beginnings of each of the great houses.
No. 244651
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Is anyone else thrown off by the casting for older Alicent? She looks the same age as the previous actress
No. 244652
>>244614they’re both insane
abusive scrotes and men love that
No. 244681
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I'm fucking piiiiiiiissed that they didn't cast THIS guy as Daemon instead of ugly Matt Smith.
No. 244690
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>>244681Agreed, I find him so damn attractive and Daemon doesn't do it for me at all. Even if he's a rage-filled scrote lol, though it seems like he's being written as multifaceted instead of just a boring psychopath for the sake of it. Can't wat for him to
kill his uncle at the Godseye No. 244804
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>>244690I haven't watched the episode yet but you mean this is hot? He's right on par with Matt Smith if not uglier imo.
No. 244978
>>244681>>244690How much time are they skipping? He looks the same age as Daemon. I know people rag on the show for the male actors staying the same while the women get changed. But if I see old Aemond and same old Matt Smith on screen it's going to break my immersion a lot. Dude doesn't age at all in 20-some years?
>>244967Same. I think he's got strong features and looks distinctive but he's not my type. But that doesn't mean I think he's ugly.
No. 244988
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>>244957same with Alicent, in the book her motivations seemed to solely driven by desire for power and she really had no characterization except as a cersei parallel, in the show you get where her frustrations seem to be coming from her, her resentment of rhaenyra who got to fuck around with the hottest guys in westeros while she forced to be with a disgusting rotting old man and was never allowed to complain or show discomfort
No. 245306
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New episode stills! She looks so good in black.
No. 245307
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'Strong boys' speech
No. 245339
>>245307good to see they included the habsburg jaw since they are basically the irl targaryens
>>245306she’s so beautiful
No. 245436
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>>245402>>244804the wildest thing for me is the fact that the actor playing him was born in 2002, he's just 20 years old, he looks 32
No. 245494
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>>245306I love the dress.
No. 245600
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>>245436It's so hard to find definitive info about his age anywhere. He was in the movie Fire in 2015 and definitely doesn't look like he's only 13, so I'm tempted to think he's mid-to-late-20s.
No. 245601
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>>245600Samefag, he's definitely gotten handsomer with age (even without the Targ wig).
No. 245905
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>>245402>>245601he's hot to me and that's all that matters
No. 245929
>>245905Appreciate you
nonny. So excited to see him fuck shit up in tonight's episode.
No. 246001
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Sad ep tonight :(
No. 246267
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this mf looks like bam margera
No. 246577
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I'm curious how anon's favorite ASOIAF characters compare to their favorite HOTD characters and if there are any sort of trends. I haven't seen HOTD yet and haven't read F&B but my favorite characters in ASOIAF are Jaime, Cersei, Sansa and Theon. If you want to indulge my autism please reply with
>favorite asoiaf characters
>least fav asoiaf characters
>favorite hotd characters
>least fav hotd characters
>any favorite or hated pairings from either
No. 246659
>>246577Ooh, fun! Anon, you should probably watch HOTD. I don't think it can compare to the books in the amount of characters or storylines, but I think it's doing what it's meant to do well.
>jaime, brienne, cersei, dany and arya>jon… he hasn't done anything he's just boring, all the serial rapists>rhaenyra, aemond, alicent>daemon. I have a love-hate relationship with Viserys as I think he's written well but the war is his faultThe pairings, meh, I'll read some fanfiction and then get depressed thinking about canon, so I haven't managed to get too much attached.
No. 246800
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so like can we all agree Helaena is autistic like i think we can all agree on that, I'm saying this as a fellow autist
No. 246915
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>>246577>catelyn, rickon, sansa, young griff, manderlys>darkstar, tyrion and cersei, littlefinger>tully lads, luke, jace, rhaenys, helaena, gaemon and his moms, viserys>aemond, cole, daemon, borros, larys>i liked daemon/laena, val/jon, jace/helaena and other crack shipsi see some patterns here
No. 247222
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kek
No. 247247
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The way he's so gentle and affectionate with his mother and protective of his (possibly autistic) sister. The one (1) war criminal I want to marry
No. 247258
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>>246577Based purely on entertainment value OR being well-written/likeability
>favorite asoiaf charactersWyman Manderly, Sansa, Little finger, Varys, Cersei, Tyrian, Tywin, Jaime, Penny, Dany, Reek, Brienne, Tormund (har!), all Martells (primarily Oberyn), Victarion, Euron, Roose, Gregor, Sandor, Barristan, Robert Baratheon, Ned, Nimble Dick, Podrick, Bram, Stanis, Davos, Lewyn, and Catelyn
Based purely on the lack of entertainment value OR general dislikeability, accidental or purposeful.
>least fav asoiaf charactersJorah (gross), Theon (he's Theon), Melisandre (not her fault really, just frustrating seeing her get stuff wrong), Janos and Alister (obviously), Jon (boring), Bran (boring), Renly (fuck that smug prick), Joffery, Ramsay (his relationship with his Reeks are the only interesting thing about him in the books), Stanis's wife, Oakheart (he abandoned Sansa), any and all Frey's (purely by virtue of being Frey's), Lem, and Biter because his existence was reasonably creepy
>favorite hotd charactersThe show only? Beesbury, Rhea, and Vhagar are the best characters. Alicent and Otto are great. Viserys's actor was amazing. Corlys and Rhaenys are the only characters that feel wholely good, but I'm team green.
>least fav hotd charactersCriston. Show Daemon. Aegon and Aemond in the future, but otherwise no strong feelings either way with the rest.
>any favorite or hated pairings from eitherDany and Jon for most hated and (aged up) Sansa and Sandor for favorite.
No. 247268
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is it bad if i find the thought of this pairing interesting as a messed up alternate universe thing? it feels a bit like a cross between sansan and sanrion to me
No. 247368
>>246577Jon,Arya,Sam,Oberyn Martell
Ned,Cersei
Rhaenyra,Daemon,Jace (kinda),Corlys,Rhaenys
Viserys,Otto,Criston Cole
No. 247756
>>246577>Brienne, Sansa, Cersei, Catelyn, Tyrion>JON, Bran (boring), Davos (even more boring), Littlefinger, Jorah>Alicent, Rhaenyra, Aemond, Laena, Helaena, Viserys in a "I want to study you like a bug" way>Daemon, Criston, Otto, AegonI don't really care much about pairings, GoT doesn't lend itself well to romantic notions for me lol.
>>247326Sansa is a huge favorite for me, it made me so mad that people hated her for being naive. That's the whole tragedy of the thing! Stupid fuckers.
No. 248062
>>248039I know, the scene with Larys was fucking disgusting.
I loved the scene with Rhaenys on her dragon tho when she had her armor on (I don't know how she managed to go to the dragon pit, put the armor on in time and then also climb on her dragon she literally did that in like 5 minutes). Rhaenys is the only one who is the rightful heir to the throne and I wish she would've said dracarys and burned all of their asses
No. 248068
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>>248063>>247366I think he looks kinda hot when he's in armor but his regular scenes are just awkward and I think 99% of it is cause of the awful wig they have him wearing, that goes for most of the adult targ males, they all have awful wigs that look clearly fake, I don't get how they got the right look for Harry Lloyd all the way back season GoT in 1 but managed to fuck it up a decade later
No. 248087
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>>248039>>248062We didn’t even get a single kiss between Harwin and rhaenyra but we had to sit and watch Larys jerk off to Alicents feet, WTF
No. 248095
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The Hightowers are so ridiculous, Alicent KNOWS Aegon is an awful person and would be an awful king, hell fucking Aegon knows he'd be an awful king and yet she still pushes him to it because of her grudge against Rhaenyra, also surprised no one's talking about how Aegon left his bastard son to fend for himself in a child fighting pit
No. 248149
>>248068no, he just uggy.
>>248095that’s what’s fucking annoying, Aegon HIMSELF points out that viserys hated him! Also, his last words weren’t even close to something she could misconstrue. he says “last we spoke” and then “the prince that was promised” none of which really point to her aegon, and he even mentions a previous convo they clearly never had.
she is willfully believing it’s his dying wish, but i wish the show made it more obvious that she’s aware of her own delusion.
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>>248151omg thank you, like i kinda like it on principle of the greens taking a “loss” but that’s about it. it did feel marvel esque.
I did like that our girl halaena was right though
>BEWARE THE BEAST BENEATH THE BOARDS No. 248157
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ofc a fucking pick-me ass bitch producer wrote the foot fetish scene. a fucking woman wrote it. they chose to give us non-canonical development to a random character that we’ve barely seen in two episodes at the violation of one of the main female leads.
>gives a man with a club foot a foot fetish
nothing about that is ingenious or innovative, it’s actually embarrassingly on the nose and borderline offensive to some probably.
No. 248208
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>>248095>>248149Its really not that complicated, alicent, otto and criston all want aegon on the throne, not cause they think he'd be a better a king or that he deserve to rule by birthright, but cause all their own goals can only be accomplished with aegon on the throne, otto is the second son who stands to inherit nothing and this is the only path for him to gain absolute power, alicent genuinely seems to believe she could "guide" aegon from behind the scenes and rule in his name at times(like the pick-me she is) and criston is bitter that rhaenyra rejected him 20 years ago
>>248145its supposed to be the point of no return for both sides, there can be no negations or calls for peace after the death of a child
No. 248210
>>248157Bitch excuse me? So not only did I have to watch yet another man on this show jerk his pathetic dick, and not only did he have a foot fetish about it, but these bitches are saying he has a foot fetish because of his
clubfoot? I want to die.
>>248161I don't mind it tbh, if there's dragons involved then I wanna see 'em and they better be doing cool shit.
No. 248287
>>248286the brat cost him an eye in a 4-against-1 bc aemond claimed a dragon and it chose him. he didn’t steal it, he had every right to do what he did. and yeah, like i said i want aegon dead too but in a significantly more painful manner given how much of a disgusting monster he is.
anyway aemond x helaena should’ve been married instead of aegon and helaena.
No. 248295
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>>248287well you'd be happy to know
he gets crushed during a dragon duel, gets horrifically burned, loses the ability to walk, his injuries were so bad that he was unable to have any sexual satisfaction, and he spent the last three years of his in horrible pain and agony that drove him mad No. 248303
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MY BABIES I love them
No. 248324
>>248303Kek, why does Aemond look like some Adam Driver depictions?
Nice art though.
No. 248340
>>248315>The boys were just defending themselvesthey attacked him first, acting smug isn’t an invitation nor justification for those little crotchgoblins to attack him when he expressed no intention to harm them first. he didn’t pick up the rock until after jace had already drawn his knife.
yeah he has a school shooter vibe as an adult bc of the childhood bullying, no that doesn’t mean the brat who maimed another child deserves to get away unscathed. an eye for an eye. i just feel bad for the poor dragon.
no one points out how shitty viserys was, he was a shit father who spoiled rhaenyra way too much while completely neglecting his other children. newsflash: yes they aren’t your precious first wife’s (whom you let die a horrible torturous death by childbirth) children, no that doesn’t mean you should act like they don’t exist and let rhaenyra’s kids literally maim one of them with no repercussions.
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has anyone noticed how shitty the hotd twitter fandom is? like one account literally posted a photo of alicent being martial raped and thought it was funny. Like I don’t care if you’re against the greens or not but this is disgusting.
No. 248438
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>TING TING TING
>You will never be a real Velaryon. You have no Valyrian white gold hair, you have no Summer Islander ebony skin, you have no dreadsof Driftmark. You are a Strong man created by infidelity and debauchery into a crude bastardization of Essosi perfection.
>All the “legitimization” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back the court mocks you. Corlys is disgusted and ashamed every time he looks at you, your uncles laugh at your first men appearance while toasting you in their cups.
>Nobles are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed men to pick out bastards with incredible efficiency. Even Valyrian bastards who “pass” look uncanny and unimbred to a highborn. Your brown hair is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to ascend to the iron throne after your mothers death, you'll be impaled on it once it senses your baseborn blood.
>You will never be king or lord of Driftmark. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
>Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll go to your dragon and speak dracarys and plunge into the cold abyss. Your mother and stepfather will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your natural surname, Waters, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a bastard is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a family tree that marks you as unmistakably baseborn.
>This is your fate. This is what Rhaenyra chose. There is no turning back.
No. 248447
>>248406It's always "insert characters from the blacks* SLAY" or "cole and alicent petty bitches" with them euphoria reaction pics and 300k likes… honestly it's bad when tumblr is the more reasonable place.
>>248438Kek, I love this pasta, especially the
>Thousands of years of evolution have allowed men to pick out bastards with incredible efficiency. Even Valyrian bastards who “pass” look uncanny and unimbred to a highborn. Your brown hair is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to ascend to the iron throne after your mothers death, you'll be impaled on it once it senses your baseborn blood.part.
No. 248468
Not a pedo, but young Aemond was really cute and attractive, I miss him.
>>233378The Hedge Knight would be really good, but the fat man promised like 12 short novels and only delivered 3. A series would get the late GOT treatment. My wish would be for a two novels per season type of adaptation.
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>>248468he was a cute and the scenes with his mom were really sweet,
some degens unironically ship them though No. 248532
>>248287are you ok? he came in name calling them hard and being a piece of shit, right after those girls lost their mother ofc to them it was like he stole it to rub it in their faces.
>>248295based nonna!
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>>248447>It's always "insert characters from the blacks* SLAY" or "cole and alicent petty bitches" with them euphoria reaction pics and 300k likesthis was literally the third post when I searched HoTD on twitter
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>>248157so to sum it up this pick me(Sara Hess)
>completely cut out Rhaenyra and harwin's relationship>cut scenes of daemon comforting his daughters>defended aegon ii being a rapist>added the cum feet scene because "feminism">changed laena's death to be more "feminist">thought It would be "feminist" to have Rhaenys come out of the ground and kill people for nothing>said Rhaenys didnt kill the greens cause it wasn't her war when her grandaughters and husband are involved No. 248614
>>248532them being butthurt about him “stealing” a dragon that wasn’t even theirs is no excuse to physically assault and literally draw a knife on another child. shit talk from a stupid angry bullied kid doesn’t justify maiming him. hope lucerys has a painful death and jacaerys even more so, not just bc they’re spoiled little shits who never have to deal with the consequences of their actions but also bc of the retarded fans who cheered when it happened and think they’re just innocent widdle
victims uwu
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>>248558three other significant changes Sara Hess made to the story on behalf of her brand of liberal feminism
>she took away alicent's agency in the story, having her blindly follow otto's commands from from the start without question and making the entire usurpation planned by otto and the men of the council>Rhaenyra was supposed to have gained some weight around this period(cause she's in her late 30's and had 6 pregnancies) but the writers removed that trait about her, cause she believed it was maester bias made to make rhaenyra look bad>chanaged Laena's death cause she thought dying in childbirth was a not "badass enough" No. 248691
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>>248651It is more offensive that she calls herself a feminist, I think her idea of feminism is just a female character that has "yess queen" moments, just like rhaenys in ep 9. idk about you all but characters like Margaery, Cersei, Arya, they were the definition of feminist characters. There are way more qualities that make a woman powerful. its like neither she neither understands the source material and how to write compelling female characters
also this BS No. 248858
>>248558>defended aegon ii being a rapistI haven't been reading all the articles, but where did she say this? Not that I doubt you, I just wanted to read it.
I'm not too angry about not doing the weight gain, honestly. Any time i think of weight gain in tv shows, I think of the disastrous fat Apollo from season three of Battlestar Galactica.
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whether it was solely sara hess or not, the writers took Alicent's most powerful moment: the green council meeting and instead made her seem clueless about the aegon usurpation, that 3 eps before she was basically the leader of AND made her a victim of sexual assault and sexual persuasion… how can any woman watch that and be okay with it, if only non-book readers knew how frenetic is post-viserys death & the green council in the books and how alicent deals with it, I don’t like alicent but no one can deny that shit really shows how SHE was the leader of that team instead they decided to make her unaware meek daddy's girl
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Found this amusing. Everything makes more sense if Vhagar is just a senile old bat.
No. 250080
>>249578this. the
accident approach is kind of pathetic. we want to see MOTIVES. also, i think they’re trying to retcon the idea that dragons are “very loyal to their riders” since King Viserys earlier in the season made a comment about dragons and their loyalties:
"The idea that we control the dragons is an illusion. They're a power man should never have trifled with. One that brought Valyria its doom. If we don't mind our own histories, it will do the same to us."I guess for the asoiaf/GOT present cast to think that dragons are always “loyal to their riders” is pretty much just a trusted myth since they hadn’t seen any for decades until Danny? Like HOTD is pretty much populated with people who explicitly understand the nature of dragons, which is why we see Luke tell Arrax “listen, be calm” before they start riding away from storms end. he knows his dragon is young and inexperienced. i still hate this though tbh, idek.
No. 250187
>>250092Exactly, I even think it would be incredibly doable to still include sympathetic characters too by balancing out unforgiveable characters on both side. but tbh i just want to see people be genuinely venomous my god
i just hope rhaenyra becomes ruthless next season.
No. 250188
>>250092>>250187I think after
the children get murdered the plot will really get going
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the writers attempts at creating "OC girlboss" moments just end up producing massive character inconsistencies in the plot, the fact rhaenys said this and then proceeds to just do what her husband wants is stupid, like each of her moves were always so calculated in the past, since the very beginning and now she's instantly on rhaenyra's side
No. 250514
>>233750GRRM's self insert is Tyrion, so she technically got with him already.
I don't hate Jonsa, but holy shit, is Jon the most boring character in the books (I didn't watch the series because I hated most of the casting). I don't understand Sansan, tho, it used to be the biggest ship in ASOIAF before the show but now there are thankfully tons of better Sansa ships (many of them questionable, lol).
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>>250514>GRRM's self insert is TyrionI really don't fucking see that it all, Martin's actual self insert is just very obvious
No. 250583
>>250514>>250518Martin's self-important self-insert = Tyrion
Martin's pathetic male self-insert = Sam (He wrote a character whose's arc is about getting a rape/incest
victim to fuck his "fat pink mast".)
No. 250601
>>250583Sam and Jon would be more interesting characters if they were secretly gay for each other and fucking.
I like Tyrion btw but he's way too dark to be a realistic GRRM self insert, GRRM just seems to speak through his character sometimes because he's his favourite
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>>251152Thanks nona, I feel the same way. It's hard to understand why Jon is such a popular fandom bicycle (except for the fact that he's supposed to be relatively good looking I guess?) when he's so fucking boring. At least other fandom bike characters like Jaime and Sansa are interesting. Semi related but as someone who hasn't watched HOTD yet I feel like the Eyepatch Legolas husbandofagging has somehow gotten to me. How is it that he looks cute to me in picrel?
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I find it funny how often GRRM repeats certain traits for various families, like the baratheons, the brackens. the strongs and the karstarks are all pretty much share the same distinct physical traits, all four families are described as being tall and strong with black hair and being quick to anger
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>>252729>Sansa in general is a great litmus test character tbh, gauging people’s thoughts on her is the easiest and subtlest way I have of figuring out if people are shitty towards women.This is very true. I've had men try to bitch me out for saying she was the most realistic character in the series and that I enjoyed her chapters much, much more than Aryas and some of Danys.
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This got pretty popular on GoT twitter, Thoughts?
No. 255876
>>255799i don't understand why this person thinks this was lost on all of us? No shit, the show version of alicent is the quintessential example of a woman having to work within societal limitations. We get that. But who the fuck wants to watch what we literally can look outside our windows to see?
And her having autonomy or decisiveness =/= masculinity. She represents the establishment and conformity, which acts as a perfect foil for rhaenyra, and are elements that are baked in feminine societal structures. Decisiveness is not the opposite of femininity. Both Sansa and (show) Alicent are women whose lives are often dictated by the likes of men, but they are not reacting within those systems similarly at all. girlboss vs damsel is not a 1 to 1 equation.
Making her decisive in her actions would not be removing any "realistic" internal/external conflicts she would have as a woman. Subtle ambition would be a better writing decision, but they don't know how to do that. And while yes, many noblewomen were repressed in antiquity, it's a huge modern reinterpretation to think that there weren't women ruling with a "gentle" hand over their sons and shaping them (and therefore the world) in their own vision.
We do not need to see alicent get taken advantage of sexually to understand the limitations she has as a women. In fact, it's lazy to use those typical literary tricks. Soft power! Show Alicent should've been a noblewoman with SOFT. POWER.
No. 255905
>>255799My thing with alicent is that yes she is an example of women who had no option but conforming and yes she is a
victim.
But why is it every I see commentary on alicent it ends with something along the lines of "you have no media literacy"? I've seen this on sm and here kek.
I have read/watched plenty of female characters who are
abusive as well as
victims of a system who were compelling and i loved how they were written. I loved cersei because she was compelling and entertaining to follow. Alicent just gives me indifference.
People who turn liking alicent or rhaenyra into either a political spectrum or a measure of intellect are so annoying. Whichever character you choose to like GRRM incest book is not a reflection of your psyche.
No. 260448
>>242581Old post but I just finished HOTD and it's so funny how right you are. Based
terf Alicent
also what are the odds Aemond would call some moid a tranny to his face? Then poor Alicent would get the worst of the backlash No. 260828
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Jaimelover here to take back every doubt I had about HOTD. I'm obsessed with this non literal motherfucker now. Say what you like about me having basic taste in moids but there's just something about him… and his mom
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>>260828I have seen way to many people casually admit to being momson fags cause of these two
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quick review of a book from my dad's bookshelf
Young boy gets a handjob by an older lady after nearly drowning.
Years later he's a boring man with a wife and a shitty job, decides to leave it all because of midlife crisis, and then meets the older lady's daughter, who looks exactly like her, and starts a relationship with her.
Then he dies from the most horrible cancer because he lived his entire life devoid of authenticity.
No. 261415
>>261167Because there's no evidence for or real canon content to support Aemond/Helaena (please correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't read F&B yet) but it's become popular with the twitter/tumblr crowd as a uwu softe incest ship that changes Aemond as a character imo. Aemond telling Aegon that if he was bethrothed to Helaena instead he'd "do his duty" isn't romantic, it reminds me of Stannis kek. But yeah I love Aemond as a character, I just prefer my ships to be spicier for lack of better word and find the whole Taylor Swift Hozier playlist she/they side of ASOIAF/HOTD fandom really annoying and tryhard
>>261176Let's be friends
No. 261469
>>261415You and those like you quite literally are on the same level as pedo coomer moids and tifs. Dgaf about "BuT He'S an ADulT" or "My AU is that they arent related
raises nerd lenses" its the same as the 100yr loli/shota argument. You are the reason womenkind cannot advance forward properly in this reality.
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Some of the handmaiden copes I keep seeing about based ambiguous male swerf Aemond are hilarious
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my orys baratheon headcanon
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cregan stark
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"Rhaegar", by Denis Maznev
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>The Princess of Dorne: Lord Alyn meets Princess Alindra Martell
Painted by Martina Fačková for "Rise of the Dragon"
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Funny how it's the character who hates whoring around that's been made into the fandom bicycle Love that for him tbh
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mfw still waiting for fire & blood part II/twow
No. 290900
>>290816Same with Jaime, I don't think he's ever even kissed a woman besides his twin kek
yet but he's maybe the biggest fandom bike besides Sansa. Maybe the Jaime fan to Aemond fan pipeline is real after all?
No. 290902
>>290900can't speak for the show but yeah it's book canon at least that jaime hasn't touched anyone but cersei.
but most the fandom thinks cersei is bad for poor litle jaimey uwu and instead they ship him with whoever they think can fix him
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>>290902I have a weak spot for
toxic doomed relationships so I admit I like book Jaime/Cersei as a pairing kek. The show ending doesn't do much for me though. A lot of the fandom acts like Jaime has already redeemed himself by burning Cersei's letter and sending Brienne on her quest to find Sansa but we never really see him show remorse for his actions iirc, being a hot scrote and being angsty about your sister fucking other men does not a redemption arc make
No. 291540
>>291345ayrt and you're so right about everything. book jaime/cersei is such a hot mess of a pairing and that's what makes it so fascinating. brienne is nice and all but if you pay attention to jaime's thinking and motivations it's obvious he isn't headed for redemption.
tbh i love reading about
toxic ass relationships and horrible characters so book j/c is perfect in that regard
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>>291540women argue for jaime/brienne by saying stuff like jaime doesn't need to be fully good because brienne wants and chooses him anyway but then these same people try to force a redemption arc or act like one has already happened. i don't care much for brienne either (i prefer the pov lannisters including tyrion) but i never felt when reading that jaime fully respected her, some of their early interactions cut a bit as a gnc bi woman kek but he beheaded pia's rapist while calling himself goldenhand the just so i guess he's a libfem king (he/they) after all. i used to want my shippy endgame to be j/c having one last
fuck and then dying together in a way that somehow involved valonqar!jaime, but after the corniness of the show ending i'd take something like cersei stabbing jaime and him dying from his wounds soon after. i just really want valonqar!jaime or at least i did when i thought twow had a chance of ever coming out
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>>292174jaime is def a libfem lmao. i love valonqar!jaime tbh; my theory is that grrm has been setting up cersei as the new mad queen. there's a shitload of parallels with aerys, especially with all the background info we got on aerys in the world of ice & fire.
i'm not saying this bc i hate cersei, actually she's one of my faves but i like it when she's horrible
No. 292226
>>292174>>292213Don't compare my husband to a libfem or wokebro, Jamie is well liked cause he's loyal that's it.
If he's loyal to shit evil sister who cheats on him then most readers think he'd be loyal to me as well
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Aegon the Conqueror depicted as a Norman Ruler.
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For fuck's sake.
No. 315965
>>3154881) He’s a terrible actor and a scene chewer
2) Hate it when any female character—but especially a female character who bucks gender norms—is transwashed
3) HotD is a shit show based on a shittier book. Toob’s casting is fitting in that sense.
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Tag yourself, I'm Ride or Die for Catelyn Stark.
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>>332300pretty boy enthusiast but for jaime (probably don't fit the above jaime fan type cause i think he's a piece of shit and don't care about defending him, also braime is a terrible pairing). also a bit of a villain enjoyer
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New leak of original AFFC outline from 2003-2004 on Reddit. Supplying screencaps of the outline, but here's the link to the thread:
https://old.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/18519cz/spoilers_extended_grrms_20032004_outline_for_affc/Leaker claims it has 'flawless provenance', so it's likely actually GRRM's notes. Seems like a lot changed once AFFC was split in two, so don't cry into your sundae yet if Shadrich were your favourite character. He'll probably die though.
Transcription for page 1-2:
>Dany: Pretend it’s a horse. Face off in pit. No [?marry] - city. Battle scene. ‘I’m going home’. 1 Chapter>Sam: Cut>Jaime: Blackfish>Prolog: No glass candles - Pate - Steals book. Death of dragons>Brienne: End with Hound fight>Davos: Barrowton Wedding. Davos to take recaptured Arya north. ‘Where you going’ - to a wedding>Jon: ‘Yes, we’re going to lose.’ ‘I can get us the armor’. I can stay & look brave & you all die. ‘Val carries a message.’ Rattleshirt goes with.>Cersei: Kettleblack: ‘Queen asked me to say that.’ ‘Osmund’ betrays her.>Sansa: Divide chapter. LF: Cersei has overreached. She’ll soon be done.>Dorne: Balon v Arys. End with Blood & Fire. Mountain missing teeth>Kevan: Home to Casterly Rock. Ready for winter>Tyrion: Witness to incest.>Prince of Sorrows: Eases psychic pain?? Comfort? Prophecy? “Whorehouses” “Whores go everywhere.” Courage. Let it go or it will become you. Let them go - will not bring you peace. Pain will [?keep] you what you have to do.Transcription for page 3:
>Arya: End with her first gift. 1. Joy of giving. 2. Mercy at the Gate. ④>Tyrion: Cliffhanger with Dany? Captured by Ser Jorah? 1. The Sorrows. 2. Volantis. 3. The Sea. 4. Dany. ⑤>Dany: Her marriage. 1. Fall of Astapor. 2. Siege of Meereen - Bloody Flux. 3. Climax - dragons loosed. 4. Marriage. ⑦>Sansa: ?Old - Resolve to be SS[?Sansa Stark] & take north. 1. Tourney of Winged Knight. 2. Sweetrobin woos [or weds]. 3. News from W.H.[?White Harbor]. Kill the Mouse ④>Jon: End with Hard Home.'Sansa stays in the Vale' endgamers are coping and seething. I never expected to wake up to news like this, hadn't seen anybody post it yet. Almost as good as a TWOW release date.
Hope I've done this properly, I've never made a post like this before. No. 338804
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i tried to watch hotd but i couldn't stand the uncle and niece relationship and the uncle character was pretty cringy. i do love aemond's design tho, really cool, i found ewan mitchell hot, especially in this look. anyway my top 3 film targs are dany, maester aemon, and aemond.
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I'm not a religious person, but I'm praying with all my heart that they don't fuck this up. I can't understate how much I'm personally invested in these three characters and how much I need their portrayal to be perfect. Also I can't even imagine the intense shipping wars this will cause.
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nonas don't judge me but i think aegon/aemond is a cute pairing. if helaemond is allowed then green yaoi should be as well.
No. 356999
>>356923I need them to slow down. I'm still petty that we barely spent time with characters that I really liked, like Laena and Lucerys. I was attached to them long before the show started and I just feel it's so unfair that they were introdued to the audience that probably doesn't care about them because they had like 3 scenes. Now I hope we will spend more time with other characters, especially since we're gonna get introduced to so many new.
>also i just read bloodraven's description and dude is super edgyKek, you should read A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and see him in his edginess-glory then.
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I still think she did nothing wrong.
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>>372950Surely I can't be the only one here who kinda ships them
No. 393141
>>393090That shit pissed me off though because at the end of the last season she
busted up the dragon pit, exploded the throne room, probably trampled a few peasants, and threatened the royal family! What is that if not starting a war? So why not just bite someone's head off while you're at it? It just doesn't make sense to me, I feel like they wanted to have a big dramatic moment but realized at the last second that they couldn't just cut the legs off their own plot but by then it was too late to change it so they just sent it out for editing lol.
>>393007Agreed I'd like her to have some small happiness, although I wish they would've waited to reveal it though until
the Blood and Cheese break in because then it would've been a double shocker, not just the
sex but also him
neglecting his duty and allowing a kid to get killed because of it. I'm okay with character assassinating
Cole though I fucking hate that bitch.
No. 394974
>>394894I liked her scene with Daemon but it's weird for their relationship to be falling apart this early. In the books it doesn't happen until
he meets Nettles.Overall I liked it better than the last episode, there wasn't any egregious butchering of scenes like with B&C, and at least they mentioned Daeron. Hopefully next episode they'll start getting into the actual war.
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>>394894Just watched ep 2. I saw so many edits of
otto presumably by team black simps calling him based now. Kek.
Aegon let him off easy tbh. Fuck, I love Aegon now. He steals every scene he’s in this season. Meanwhile, team black is a complete snooze fest. I’m gonna take Aegon’s alleged crimes against humanity last season as rumors too. They just hate to see a baddie slay No. 396075
>>396045Marry Aegon
Fuck Criston
Kill Aemond
I don't really like any of these choices it's mostly based on me trying to stay alive kek
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Kek'd at the scene
>Baela I need you to quietly check out King's Landing. Take your 50 foot fire breathing monster. No I can't just send a fishing boat with a raven.
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>fuck
Cut one AliCole scene and give it to Jacegan
Otto needs to be banished Night Watch’s brothel
>marry
Aegon, he doesn’t fuck spouses unless for procreation
>kill
Daemon, Larys, Cole
No. 396126
>>396045I’d fuck them all, if I had to choose:
>kill Aegon My husbando, but an actual rapist in canon
>fuck Aemond Might as well
>marry CristonHe would be a loyal husband and kill for me
No. 396522
>>396045>Fuck Otto
>Marry Alicent
>Kill Whichever writer's idea it is to make all the characters so much more uwu softe than they seem to be in Fire and Blood, and whoever felt the need to de-age Alicent before she could be baited as gay for Rhaenyra
>>396087Jace is so cute this season, I'd fuck him too
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>>396691Loved Rhaenyra this episode. So nice to see
them actually trying to hash things about and not everything bad happening on a misunderstanding. Alicent knows she's know she's in too deep and there's no going backBook readers, how many seasons do you think we have left? Feels like things are moving along rapidly.
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>>242618>>242618speaking of sonfus, I wish Luke had been given more character beyond the uwu perfect sweet mommy's boy, let him be a teenage shithead
No. 397369
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I don’t think I’m going to continue watching HOTD. It’s a shame because I mostly enjoyed S1. But the writing is too inconsistent, the characterizations are too weak, and the writers have such a clear bias for team black against all logic that it makes the show less interesting. This show has so much potential, but I really don’t think it’s worth watching anymore.
No. 397464
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>>397369Agreed, I'll continue, though. I'm quite salty there's little actual of "house of the dragon", there was no relationship between Rhaenyra and her siblings in 1 season, grandfathers and grandchildren are strangers was a thing in GoT too, Rhaenys and Rhaenyra don't feel like a family too. No familial tension, they remember they're relatives only then their faction wants to make a move, Rhaenyra and Alicent don't do anything to help their side, Otto and Daemon turned 180 degrees, first was fine to hang lords and now cares for smallfolk's opinion and yells at king who can banish him to Wall or execute any time with no repercussions, Daemon the warrior prince delegates taking Aemond's head to street bums and now regrets it, why he even go to KL at all. I know the Blood and Cheese must to happen, but execution felt like filler.
Aemond the fan favourite gets 30 seconds in brothel while Daemon walks to Harrenhall, gets funny interaction with it's owner, get's hallucinations, cries and wakes up with Alys. I also felt bad for Rhaena and Baela, nobody cares for them except of Rhaenys.
No. 397466
>>396045kill criston, worst fucking character
marry aemond
fuck aegon
No. 397470
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>>397267He got more potential than his quiet yet triggery brother. I liked them, they just needed more interactions.
No. 398518
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>>397781Speaking as someone with terminal Lannister brainrot (specifically book!Lannisters), I'm 100% with you anon. Nothing HOTD does is ever going to come close. It grieves me that GRRM is never going to get off his fat arse and write their bloody end
No. 398524
>>398518based. book lannisters are a fascinating mess, i miss reading about them so much.
i also like the recent targs (dany rhaegar and their arents basically) but fire&blood was autistic and boring. (i still kinda hope he'll eventually do part 2 just so i get tobhear about summerhall and the defiance of duskendale).
i think it would be more interesting to hear about the events that led to robert's rebelion, where we at least get to see the antics of younger versions of asoiaf characters. the dance of the dragons is kind of a snoozefest.
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Why does Jacaerys have permanent zoolander face?
No. 398950
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boop
No. 398954
>>398862Kek I always stare at his lips then he in the scene he gives me a handsome squidward expression vibe.
Also I can't stop associating Gwayne with the Report of the week, help.
No. 398994
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>>397470if only they had kept the "kid that totally bites and eats candy bar with the wrapper on" look. Older Luke looks too princely
No. 399247
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I miss him
No. 399284
>>396045>FuckLarys>MarryAemond. I like skinny tall twinks.
And cripples>KillCriston
No. 400515
>>400512>Should I try HOD without GOT?If you want, I don’t think you
need to watch GOT first
>How scrotey is it?I think the show tries to be pretty ~feminist~ and I wouldn’t describe it as scrotey overall
>Is there actually good female protag?To an extent, but she doesn’t actually have that active a role post-s1 since she’s a passive player in the war in the source material. I honestly think there are many more female characters in GOT who are unironically exceptionally developed, dynamic, and interesting. You just have to get past the scrotey softcore porn
No. 401010
>>396045I would kill myself at the gate of the airport
>>400512Yes you can, they don't have much to do with each other. Honestly if you're interested at all in the story/world of GoT just read the books instead, they're much better and I ended up liking them a lot. It pisses me off that I let people tell me what they were like without checking for myself. The show felt a lot nastier and scrotelike than the books too.
No. 401853
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I'm getting a little sick of all these dream/hallucination scenes, it feels like a lazy way to show how a character is feeling. I get Daemon has no one on his own level at Harenhall to express himself against but this is tedious waiting for every scene to end to see if it's real or not.
No. 401991
>>401853I hate what they've done to my girl this season. Last season she was literally me but now all she does is sit around, regret her actions, and have sex with Criston. It would have been interesting if they had her become an insane religious meninist but instead she's back to being a poor helpless
victim of the patriarchy. If this keeps up I may be forced to change my HBO profile picture.
>>400512>Should I try HOD without GOT? Yes, it's a prequel and most of the lore stuff is explained in the show. It's actually how I got the rest of my family to start watching GoT.
>How scrotey is it? Probably less? Way less random female nudity/sex scenes. Although like the original show (moreso even) it glorifies and whitewashes prostitution.
>Is there actually good female protag?Eh, there are some stronger side characters but the main two are kinda passive and are mostly defined by the ways in which men control them. The main female characters in GOT are much stronger and more complex (at least in the early seasons).
No. 402044
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HOTD owes a lot of its popularity to nostalgia people hold for GOT. It's not terrible or anything but if you read ASOIAF the two canons are just in completely different leagues.
No. 402871
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>>402044agreed. yeah grrm can get scrotey but asoiaf is definitely superior toany of the shows, it's very good fantasy imo. the books have a tonne of interesting characters and stories. they're great to re-read because you notice a lot of stuff you hadn't caught before.
No. 402891
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>>402871AYRT as sad as it is I think late 90s GRRM was having a creative burst with the first ASOIAF books that's long since left him. He probably doesn't feel that compelled by the original story anymore and isn't personally that bothered with finishing it, but what he did write is excellent and kinda timeless.
No. 403861
>>402867Kill Daemon (ew), fuck Jace, marry Rhaenyra.
>>402891I doubt he’ll ever finish WoW tbh, at this point I think he just wants to do anything else kek, i.e. chill with his money and maybe produce some prequels. It must be annoying for him to be constantly questioned about it
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>>404241Not yet. Apparently they got him a role as a minor male character. Idk where the rumor about him playing sabitha frey came from. They got a woman cast for that role already. But thank god at least they didnt have a scrote in place of a canon lesbian
No. 406294
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Still not caught up because it's not that great but I finished episode 4 last night. Tbh Aegon is my current fave, partly because he's cute and funny but also because the Aemond villain arc is getting a bit silly for me. Still finding the Rhaenicent baiting contrived and Emma D'arcy is brain damaged, I wish picrel was our kweer rep instead
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Can't wait for all this build up to pay off in 2-3 years. If we're lucky we might even see Rhaena tame her dragon by the end of season 3
No. 408474
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So Sharako (the character) is woman who acts as a man to gain respect by the crew played by a man pretending to be a woman. What level of gender fuckery is this?
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She could be such a good Rhaenyra, I don’t think she’s a good actress (she has one expression and lacks teeth) but I like her look and it fits so much with the character in my head, sucks that the writing is shit and she’s passive and boring.
>>408474I was surprised that Ollie took this role ngl, I wonder if it gives him gender dysphoria or euphoria. His voice is so male and everybody hates his acting kek.
No. 408481
>>408478It was super weird that he was winning the mud fight until the Lannister punched him in the dick. Maybe there's a based
terf in the writing staff
>>408479It's pretty unlikely. I know GoT used like 4 different countries for filming.
No. 408483
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>>408474Seeing his fake teeth and shit acting was as repulsive as his "I want you to fuck my wives" cuck line.
No. 408894
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Nonnas I sent a five paragraph vent about HOTD S2 to my friend of 6 years and she ghosted me. I know I can be spergy but damn. Kms
No. 408995
>>408480Aemond is hot imo but I am into weird looking guys so that could be it. I agree that the show is critically lacking in hot guys tho like jfc once
Aemond dies it's gonna be such a chore to get through.
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The direction of the show they want to go towards is so unpopular and polarizing who looked at the dance and went “hmmm Alicent x Rhae toxic yuri” like idm the idea but this feels like the wrong story to do this with.
The salty actor interviews are like catnip for me and have been more entertaining than the actual season. It’s also just tragic how whenever Aegon isn’t the focus of an episode the rating is hilariously low
No. 409467
>>409370Sara hess loves alicent x rhae and she’s hellbent on turning this show into her own live action fanfic which is kinda hilarious since grrm is notorious for being really anti fan fiction over his characters and universe. I guess he doesn’t mind if hotd makes up their own ocs and plot if he gets paid enough.
Tom who plays aegon and beth who plays baela tried to fight for the writers to follow f&b more because the actors have read the books. The writers have no excuse not to follow it since it’s completed unlike GoT.
One good thing the show did was have Blackwood v bracken though
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remember when Sara Hess compared book Alicent being “evil conniving b!tch” to Rhaenyra “having kids and getting fat” in the book as if these two things are equally bad and negative
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>>409735Whenever Condal and Hess open their mouths I kind of lose hope.
They’re kneeling too much into the “source is unreliable “ and ironically contradicting some statements that anyone who read the books would take as fact. Like the book has the perfect amount of set up, detail, yet “leaving it up for interpretation “ and yet the just pulled some bs out of nowhere
Helaena is a funny example . Martin dropped this paragraph and the show has Rhaenyra going “no Helaena doesn’t like riding dragons” i just know he’s seething while cashing in the HOTD checks
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>>409467Everything is unreliable and maester propaganda
No. 410212
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Maybe it could still be saved (it won't be though)
No. 411250
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>>410824 Hey I'm AYRT, if you want we can sperg here? I used to be fandumb BFFs with an Aerys stan, I still miss her sometimes. My faves are the twins AKA gruesome twosome plus Sansa, Tyrion and Theon. Not really attached to any HOTD characters, it just isn't hasn't stuck for me and even though I accept the series won't get finished it's hard not to view the spinoffs as a product of GRRM's laziness somewhat kek
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>>411250ayrt was the aerys fan myrishswamp? she was the one whose fanfic got me into him lol
i haven't watched got or hotd, i read fire and blood but i didn't really get into the characters.
as for asoiaf i really enjoy the greyjoy family in general, they're so messed up. baiscally wet lannisters.
the evil twins are so great. i love cersei in particular (i also like aerys bc he's a lot like her) but jaime is also one of the most interesting characters in the series, i just don't think he's getting a goody woobie redemption arc like ppl believe. i also love daenerys but grrm keeps giving her boring ass story arcs in essos.
i've stopped hoping for twow but im still holding out a sliver of hope for fire & blood part 2 bc i want more info abt aerys's reign. i need fuel for my duskendale conspiracy theories ffs
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what the fuck
No. 411961
>>411312 We're technically on a wrongthink imageboard at least by tumblr standards so I can neither confirm nor deny.
But if you ever wanna chat privately I'd be cool dropping my contact in the friendfinder thread I wonder if it was mostly Dany's Essos arc that broke GRRM's brain or if he'd just thoroughly burned through his 90s creative burst by ADWD. Someone said a while ago there's no way any of the Lannisters are Aerys' secret babies because if they were the series wouldn't be so dead since the Targs are George's Deviantart OCs, I think they were right. And yeah, the more time passes the sillier it seems to think redemption Jaime would ever happen. This isn't MCU or Star Wars thank god no matter how much HOTD makes me feel like it is
No. 411982
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>>411961feel free to drop your cointact anon i'd love to chati don't like the "twins are secret targs" theories. i think it thematically weakens their characters. i think it's more interesting to make them messed up bc of tywin's upbringing and westeros's culture than it is to go "oh it's all bc theyre related to some crazy guy"
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>>411961> This isn't MCU or Star Wars thank god no matter how much HOTD makes me feel like it isI lost it when she smirked
No. 412618
>>411982I left a message in the friend finder thread for you!
>>412390Crazy how GR$RM let this happen and some book purists will still be up his ass and insist he's writing 5D chess
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No. 415163
>>414201the targs are an exception because 1) they're not from westeros and 2) no one's gonna say shit when they have dragons. some of the later targs even tone the incest down a bit
in any event i was talking about westerosi culture messing up the twins not bc of the incest taboo but wrt social expectations. knightly culture and sexist expectations shaped jaime and cersei respectively
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>>415143>cast of bad show have cringe opinions My jaw is on the floor. Terfolaj Coster Waldau would never do this.
No. 415515
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(Not sure if this belongs here or on the fandom thread)
I don't understand how a show that's the very definition of "lost potential" attracts such unhinged and rabid fans. I know people keep syaing that the marketing played a part in the fandom's toxicity but I find it so hard to believe that people would be this easily influenced because of marketing, actual NPC behaviour.
For context this artist (CrazyTom) got shat on for drawing Jaehaera and Green fanart. When I first saw the Jaehaera vs Daenaera beef on twitter I just couldn't believe myself I thought it was a handful of insane fans but I wasn't aware of the bizarre ship war or team war between them, since Daenaera is probably ~black~ in the show's canon people dogpile on you and accuse you of racism.
It's such a terminally online thing I hate being aware of it.
I only care because this artist was the only reason why I opened twitter, I love her art so much.
>>415152It's kind of funny, Condal made the kids so young then complains about casting a child who in GRRM's eye shouldn't be excluded.
I highly doubt Aegon III will see his uncle kill his mum, Rhaenyra will probably take his place since the show centers on Alicent/Rhaenyra for some reason.
>none of that makes senseyeah that's kind of a problem in the show. Things happen because it happens in the book, I'm sure when S4 comes it will be the same
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>>412778Yeah they're very ugly
No. 415524
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>>415521Alicent is going to be begging Aegon II to not kill Rhaenyra and it's going to be a a ~parallel~ to S1 scene where she was nudging him to spare her because the show is obsessed with parallels and foreshadows.
She'll probably be the one that poisons him and we won't be seeing her karmic justice/losing her mind after all her kids are dead because the show already "humbled her" (in the words of the showrunners).
>absurd metaphor for "doomed lesbian romance"I honestly never thought I'd hate a show or media with obvious "
toxic yuri" themes in my life. Every time I come across these dumbass showrunner's interview i just…where the fuck did they find these people. Their understanding of feminism and the patriarchy is obviously informed by instagram infographs.
Alicent is just a butchered character, the showrunners are afraid of strong and mean women. Otto is closer to what Alicent is supposed to be in the book.
Seeing how the fandom hates on Rhaenyra as backlash towards the show has been very unfortunate because she's quite a messy character herself but the showrunners are afraid of messy and mean women.
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All of Sara Hess's controversies and bad writing decisions
Sara Hess is currently one of the most controversial writers working on House of the Dragon right now. Some people have been wondering why this is the case, so I have summarized all the reasons why a significant number of fans dislike her writing.
Hess admitted she doesn't care about following the source material
During an interview with IGN, Sara Hess revealed that she had never watched the original Game of Thrones series. She also insisted that her lack of familiarity with the GoT universe was actually a good thing, and that she didn't "feel loyalty to the story" anyways:
>I didn't watch Game of Thrones, and I haven't seen it. I think it was actually a plus… I think I was able to come at it sort of with fresh eyes.
>And you know, I mean, I read the books a long time ago so you know, I'm familiar with the world and all that stuff, but I didn't necessarily feel a whole bunch of loyalty to like the story because I haven't seen it.
Hess's fixation on shipping Rhaenyra and Alicent
In the book, Alicent and Rhaenyra were never romantically involved with one another. They were characterized as mortal enemies waging a brutal war of succession. However, the TV adaptation has completely altered their relationship, portraying the two women as being madly in love. While this could've been an interesting dynamic, it fell flat in Season 2 - the final episode had Alicent literally agreeing to betray her entire family and have her own son murdered so she could pursue her crush on Rhaenyra. That episode was written by Sara Hess.
Sara Hess has been pushing the Rhaenicent romance narrative since Season 1. On her Twitter account, she's shared and praised articles about how Queen Alicent and Queen Rhaenyra "would rather co-rule Westeros".
Hess has also leapt at the opportunity to characterize the Alicent/Rhaenyra relationship as one of queer lovers:
>“There’s an element of queerness to it,” Hess says. “Whether you see it that way or as just the unbelievably passionate friendships that women have with each other at that age. I think understanding that element of it sort of informs the entire rest of their relationship… Even though they’re driven apart by all these societal, systemic elements and pressures and happenings, at the core of it, they knew each other as children, and they loved each other and that doesn’t go away.”
Hess has an overwhelming fixation on the Rhaenyra/Alicent relationship, to the point where it negatively impacts the development and screen time that other characters receive. The Dance of the Dragons was written as a war between Rhaenyra and Aegon II, with Alicent's character diminishing in importance after Viserys dies. At this point in the story, the key players in the war should be the younger generation, such as Aemond, Aegon, and Jacaerys. Despite this, Hess insists that the story should continue to revolve around the Rhaenyra/Alicent relationship instead of the literal civil war going on. She says this during the S2E8 BTS at 10:55:
>There's so much in play, there are armies, there are dragons, there's castle strongholds and political maneuvering, but at the end of the day, it comes down to these two women trying to figure it out.
The dragonpit scene with Rhaenys in S1E9 was Hess's idea
Season 1 of HoTD was mostly well-written, with a few exceptions. One notable weak spot came at the conclusion of Episode 9, when Rhaenys interrupted Aegon's coronation by bursting through the floor on her dragon. This scene a TV-only invention as it never happened in book canon, and many viewers felt that it was only added in for the sake of spectacle. However, Sara Hess proudly took credit for it, saying it was her idea to add in an "awesome" dragon scene:
>I just remember we were in the writer's room one day, and I was like, "it would be awesome if Rhaenys just came through the floor on a dragon!"
Fans disliked it because much of it was illogical - Rhaenys literally had the opportunity to kill all of the Greens and end the war right then, especially considering that Alicent had just imprisoned her. Fans also disliked how the show framed the scene as glorious and empowering, but Rhaenys had brutally massacred hundreds of innocent peasants during her grand entrance. Worst of all, Sara Hess laughed off the deaths of the smallfolk as completely insignificant during an interview:
>Q: So from the beginning, we have been waiting for Rhaenys to do something badass and you gave us this incredible moment. It’s very cool, but does it did make me wonder: Does it make sense that she doesn’t kill them? She murders a bunch of civilians by busting out anyway …
>HESS: It’s Game of Thrones — civilians don’t count!
Using characters as stand-ins for modern politicians
Speaking of Rhaenys, Sara Hess literally stated that she wrote the character as a representation of Hillary Clinton (lmao). In an interview with the LA Times, actress Eve Best revealed that Hess approached her and told her about this during her first day on set:
>Sara Hess, who’s one of the executive producers and the lead writers for the show, said to me on the first day, “There’s so much of Hillary Clinton [in Rhaenys].” God knows you couldn’t compare Viserys to the other one [former President Trump], but the similarities are very clear — to see that the person who is absolutely, hands down, best suited for the job is sidelined simply because she’s a woman, and then has to somehow find her way.
Weird comments about women who die in childbirth
Episode 6 of Season 1 (written by Sara Hess) includes yet another instance where the show refuses to follow what GRRM wrote in the book. In book canon, Laena Velaryon dies in childbirth, but Sara Hess and the showrunners insisted on changing that because it wasn't "badass" enough. They add in their own contrived scene where a heavily pregnant Laena walks off the birthing bed and commits suicide by dragon. In the post-episode interview at 3:55, Sara Hess literally explains that they didn't want Laena to die in childbirth because she was "a warrior" who couldn't "go out that way", implying that women who die in childbirth aren't strong, interesting, or badass:
>"We've already had one person die, sort of, in their childbirth bed, and I just felt like Laena doesn't go out that way. She's gonna go out like a warrior."
Weird comments about women who gain weight after pregnancy
In the book, Rhaenyra is described as a plus-size woman. Other characters with larger body types include Viserys, Helaena, and Aegon II. However, Sara Hess specifically takes issue with the book description of Rhaenyra as having gained weight after pregnancy, implying that it was a lie made up by misogynistic historians:
>History is often written by men who write off women as crazy or hysterical or evil and conniving or gold-digging or sexpots. Like in the book, it says Rhaenyra had kids and got fat. Well, who wrote that? We were able to step back and go: The history tellers want to believe Alicent is an evil conniving bitch. But is that true? Who exactly is saying that?
Why is it so unbelievable to Sara Hess that Rhaenyra might gain weight after birthing five children and going through six pregnancies?
The PhilosophyTube cameo and Sharako Lohar
The final episode of Season 2 (again, which was written by Sara Hess) was subject to immense amounts of criticism. One of the most disliked parts of the episode was the introduction of Admiral Sharako Lohar - in a season finale that already featured no important battles or plot developments, a third of the episode runtime was spent on this new character that nobody was emotionally invested in. Even worse, the character's actress was a literal YouTuber with unconvincing acting skills.
Well, Sara Hess had no idea that the audience would overwhelmingly dislike all of the Admiral Lohar stuff, and she seriously thought we we would love it. In an Episode 8 behind-the-scenes interview at 1:34, she talks about how she literally thinks it would be a "highlight" of the season and a "welcome bit of fun". This is how out-of-touch her writing is with regard to what fans actually want to see:
>One of our season highlights was bringing in Sharako Lohar. And it can be a rough show - it's grim, it's a war, a lot of people die - so having that moment of levity and off-kilterness was really important to us and a really welcome bit of fun.
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>>415735the fact that the dance is has the reputation of "
toxic lex breakup" just blows my mind like wtf went on in the writer's room for that to happen. I bet you that George was seething for a whole.
I know that the Rhaenyra/Alicent focus comes from the an Sapochnik's wife idea and they took off because HBO didn't want to promote her to producer.
I'm still very bitter that Alicent is a mopping mess because these idiots idea of "women in the patriarchy" is so shallow and stuck in 2010s buzzfeed feminism.
>>415676I think Sara Hess is over hated tbh, she's an idiot and a lot of her ideas are just unforgivable but and I'm kind of glad that in GRRM's blog he singled out Condal
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No. 420094
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Such an autistic fanbase it's really odd
>>418261I don't understand where all the moralfagging comes from for HOTD fans it's really weird to see
No. 420183
>>419270megabased
>>420094honestly ive stopped reading fic altogether because it's so oviousb most of the recent fanfic writers haven't even touched the books. kinda like the maraudertards taking over the hp fandom. sad!
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I just realized that Daenerys and Cersei has both their first baby die and then had 3 kids.
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i still love her
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