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Why isn’t anyone talking about aemond and daemon, they both want the crown, aemond showed this during the council, he also says he would be a better king last season, and it seems like he intentionally tried to kill his brother and make it seem like collateral damage, i dont even have to explain why daemon shows he wants the crown
Questions 1. With dragons fighting each other: are they only loyal to their riders? What is their awareness and relationship to each other? Some of these dragons have been around each other for a couple lifetimes. Do they not have any bond? 2. I thought Aemond sheathed his sword when he *heard* someone approaching and wouldn't want to be caught killing the king
Upon rewatching it seems clear to me that Rhaenys turned back because of Aemond’s vicious attack on his own brother. She takes the idea of kin slaying quite seriously. I also think she just can’t stand a bully. She had to try and take out that monstrous duo…for the realm. She refrained from incinerating her kin at Aegon’s coronation, she beseeched Rhaneyra to find a peaceful end to the conflict, and at the end, she died standing up to the once-bullied child who had become the aggressor, and defending the king she came to wage war against. What an incredible character. ❤🌳❤️
There’s a difference between doing it differently and messing it up because you’re too lazy to keep in line with the source material. Writing historical fiction that changes the details is cool. Writing historical nonfiction and getting the details wrong is lazy
Ty Tenet coming back to play young Daeron-- that would be fun. GOT reused the actor who played Tommen-- he originally was one of the Lannister cousins who was captured by Robb and murdered by Karstark in Season 3.
Imagine fantasizing that a show based on medieval Europe is going to have people wearing the colors/flying the flag of your modern day sexual perversion cult. Almost as dumb as hoping there will be trump flags in the show or Gadsden flags.
I wonder if they'll, just to mess with/troll/freak out show watcher unsullied: they'll have the Freys start playing music when they meet with Jace.. And then for it all go extremely well. Can you imagine all the reaction videos
I thought that Dragonseeds were "bastards of Valyrian descent who are fathered in the islands in the Blackwater Bay, including Dragonstone & Driftmark" so... ANY child of Corlys would qualify. Corlys is of Valyrian descent, thus Addam and Alyn would fit the bill. I don't understand why this is still a question.
Also worth noting that there are a few "Unknown wives" and gaps in the Velaryon family tree leading down to Corlys. There is every possibility that Targaryens married into the Velaryons as we know that Velaryon women married Targaryen men many times.
I'm glad you mentioned Fabien's acting and gave him some well deserved props. I heard he was getting some hate on social media and that's extremely infuriating- when people equate the character with the actor themselves.
It’s horrible the harassment he’s received. Irl he seems like a very nice person. People are crazy and I feel horrible for him to have to experience the craziness in toxic fandoms.
This was a great episode but the only real stupid thing was Vhagar peeping out from behind the castle. I mean come on. Why have such a cringe stupid moment when you easily could have just not done it and have Rhaenys and Meleys lose the fight and die.
People will always find details to nitpick and complain but on the whole I really enjoyed the execution of this episode and most of the changes they made to the source material
Y’all should talk about the parallels of 1) Daemon’s obsession with reading the histories after hearing about the prophecy, 2) Alicent’s same obsession, and similarly, 3) Rhaegar’s.
This was very well written. I say that from the perspective of someone's whose profession has required me to teach, to assess, and to critique the writing of people in university and post graduate worlds. I really appreciate good writing. This not only does many things extremely well, but especially does NOT do awful things that are quite common on RU-vid "essays". The script is so well fitted to the medium. This gentleman speaks quickly - which is excellent. Far too many people speak ponderously slowly. He speaks briskly and naturally. This means that he is requiring that his audience grasp his meaning at a fair clip. To that end, he structures his sentences very nicely. He keeps them focused and clear. Likewise his paragraphs, and the overall design of the video. You are able to know where you are within this long lecture. He gives quick explanations of what to expect next. One of the things he avoids wonderfully, is pretentious vocabulary. Pretentious anything, really. And he does this even though it's clear he enjoys words. His jokes show that. But he always put clarity first. I'm NOT saying the writing is in any way prosaic, or inelegant, not at all. Indeed it is very elegant. But unobtrusively so. Given the amount of content he has created, and his speaking speed, the quality of his writing, is really remarkable.
Vhagar came up and attacked Meleys from an impossible angle. The castle walls are not very high and Meleys was right above them when Vhagar slams into her. A dragon as large as Vhagar would have needed much more room to make that manuever.
There was also the steep cliff face facing the sea which provided the much needed additional depth to provide sufficient cover.
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Alicent can talk about "sacrifices" all she want, but what is clear to me is that Aegon is the sacrificial goat here. I mean, she didn't prepare Aegon to be king. She literally fished him out drunk off his mind and put the crown on him. Aegon wasn't an active participant in the scheming and the plotting of his coronation (usurpation), so Alicent's comment " you don't know the sacrifices that were made" don't hold water. No sh**t he don't know and why on earth is she expecting Aegon to honor these so-called "sacrifices". This was a plan concocted by others that was forced upon Aegon who was clueless of any of this and it's stupid for Alicent to reprimand him for underperforming. If she is expecting him to be thankful for being king , she's gotta be really in denyal because everyone wearing a crown in this situation is target. She put a target on his son's back and she's expecting him to be thankful?
This episode was kind of shit, and the way they had Rhaenys death play out made absolutely no sense. The only way the second, let alone third fly by after barely escaping Vaegar made any sense whatsoever was if she actually wanted to be die. Then I read an interview where she said that she did it because she thought she'd roll the dice 🤨. WTF…what?!? She went to Rook's Rest assuming there wouldn't be any other dragon. Instead two showed up, including the king they're trying to unseat. So why in TF, after it looks like the king was killed, would you not just count yourself incredibly fortunate to get out with your skin? There was no logical reason she would have turned back, she just wasted her own life and that of her dragon. If the king survives then all she managed to do was set their side back considerably. I know she dies in the book but the way the show did it was Marvel level shitty writing.
But this is toned down from the books. Rhaenys sees them both come for her and doesn't flee. I have zero problem with the execution of this moment in the show. Your opinion is valid but this episode is already one of the highest rated ever, and GRRM gave it very high praise himself.
Great job Ashaya, if you made these graphics, I can sense you in them based on your comments in the longer coverage! I wish I knew premiere more well and better-like.
Team Black was meant to be the more sympathetic team in the book too, it's pretty consistent, especially when considering spoilers that I shall not reveal
I did a poll LONG before House of the Dragon was a thing. I asked who preferred Greens/Blacks and it was like 80% black. They've always been the faves - it's not the showrunners making it this way.
No the book is supposed to be green propaganda because the maesters wrote most of the perspectives and they are biased towards the greens who follow the seven
@HistoryofWesteros Yeah, but in the books it was two selfish evil factions willing to burn the realm down for the own ends the main reason most people ( including myself)were was because the objected on principle of a woman being passed over just because she a women. And while the show a has do a fantastic job given all the characters depth they have Bent over backwards to frame every one of to frame team black action in the most positive light especially in season 2 and Especially Rheaenrya.
