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Soooo....Larys Strong has a secret love of feet. Alicent Hightower's feet in particular. However, I think many are missing the true horror of this scene just to say LOL feet. And how Larys' obsession is in line with his other favorite hobbies that use power and humiliations on his victims for his own pleasure.
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@AhMotherland Год назад

Nailed it. Poor guy hates himself, to his very sole. We live in the digit-al age, so we can’t really walk a mile in his shoes to understand. Limp excuse, I know, but I’m glad Joe strides to understand the character. I just wonder if she’ll give him the boot at the end.

@thatsmsrivers Год назад

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Well done.

@twiss9341 Год назад

Haha

@fuzi5303 Год назад

You’re an awful person and it’s solely for that reason I’ve come to like you

@chrisloyal9796 Год назад

👍👍

@SheldonT. Год назад

Alicent thinks he's a bit of a heel, but if Larys toes the line, he's a shoe-in as the Arch-villian.

@tomv7017 Год назад

"everything in the world is about sex except sex. sex is about power" - oscar wilde

@KellyMartin0902 11 дней назад

Maybe in a toxic relationship but in a mutually loving and caring relationship it's about an expression of love

@thediaz07 5 дней назад

@@KellyMartin0902true

@stuffynosepatrol 2 дня назад

@@KellyMartin0902or in a healthy but kinky relationship

@EricAkawie Год назад

I feel sorry for Mushroom that he never learned of this arrangement. He would have written an entire volume about this.

@nont18411 Год назад

Mushroom will rub his mushroom the same way as Larys

@samwallaceart288 Год назад

There would've been a lymeric, a volume, a play, and several songs, the whole shebang.

@Chasingdreams25 22 дня назад

😂😂😂😂

@Ch69ad 8 дней назад

An entire volume that subsequent maesters and writers will say "if Mushroom is to be believed..."

@Kayley199514 Год назад

I love the parallels between her disgust with Viserys and with Larys with the line "the hour is quite late". She uses it the first time in the episode where Raenyra is losing her virginity, as Viserys summons her to his chambers. She uses it again when she enters the room and sees Larys standing there.

@SongbirdAlom Год назад

holy shit, great observation!

@made-line7627 Год назад

Yeah I enjoyed that they did that again

@abbyniloingsigh7188 Год назад

She actually said it first in the very first episode when she is leaving the godswood with Rhaenyra.

@rhaenyralikesyoutube6289 Год назад

That's true, and I have to believe that Alicent laid like a corpse underneath Viserys every time they had sex. Granted, the guy was much older than her, and he was diseased, but no guy enjoys a woman who is not engaged during that level of intimacy. She acted like Viserys was raping her, so how can she outright lie and claim that she "loved," the King when she tries to coerce Rhaenys to the green faction's cause?

@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195 Год назад

i actually hated that but it is evidence she knows obviously

@drdank77 Месяц назад

Otto Hightower : The hand Alicent Hightower : The Feet 💀

@YourGraceMyLady 6 дней назад

😂😂😂 my niece sent me a meme that said that lol

@apocalypse_frau Год назад

“That is an expression of the domination he craves, not the *sole* purpose…” I see what you did there. 🦶

@deniseg812 Год назад

Yea, cause I feet are awful and he is a huge sleeze.

@THAB3AST Год назад

"I understood that reference"

@Manjunath0311 Год назад

@@THAB3AST I didn't understand. What is it?

@reneenayfabnaynay5679 Год назад

@@Manjunath0311 the sole of your feet.

@rhaenyralikesyoutube6289 Год назад

I actually get that the foot fetish stems from his physical disability, but he is obsessed with her. He gets off on dominating Alicent, and what makes him psychotic is that he does this with her grudging consent. In a regular BDSM arrangement, a dom engages intimately with his/her submissive(s) with their full consent, and both parties find a thrill in their arrangement.

@eliza6971 Год назад

Honestly, I think it was kinda brilliant. Alicent hates that Rhaenyra hooks up with whoever she wants, but Larys can make Alicent feel like a common camp follower even when she's wearing all her clothes. All he has to do to flex his power is let her see him glance at her shoes and most people would never pick up on it.

@STargaryan Год назад

It literally took 2 times for me to go back and see the bit to understand what exactly happened there in the episode..

@KellyMartin0902 11 дней назад

He knows her weakness, she's insecure

@redladie8528 Месяц назад

As soon as I saw his hand moving under his clothes it was no longer a joke about foot fetishist, it's a violation of her and makes him very dangerous

@watcherofwatchers 10 дней назад

It took you that long?

@hatless_spider Год назад

"He's the lord of Harrenhal and can already see all the feet he wants" Now imagine if he truly is a greenseer and can see all the feet pics he wants from the whole history of Westeros

@JoeMagician Год назад

Now you're cooking with gas

@CrusadiaIX Год назад

The true motivations of the Clubfoot’s Sorcerous training

@justin219 Год назад

off topic but is that profile pic what I think it is? the house that deserve a mention.

@hatless_spider Год назад

@@justin219 yes, I hope they get some limelight someday!

@foodfornot Год назад

He has his own foot wiki... he *is* his own foot wiki

@jacobhubner5057 Год назад

I like how this scene clearly shows how Larys is not on team Green. I worried earlier episodes were giving this impression through his interactions with Aleicent. But as this scene and video wonderfully show, Larys is only on team Larys.

@courtneylane7639 Месяц назад

Larys is this generations Petyr Balish

@CindyA715 21 день назад

Larys would like the greens and the blacks to pulverize each other, he’d like them both gone.

@richmackin Год назад

The interesting thing about the foot fetish-degradation is that it's both gross and creepy and makes her feel horrible- and yet is physically harmless, has no evidence, doesn't risk impregnating her, etc.

@Cortesevasive Год назад

she seduces him , thats not degrading thats sexy

@suadpattonbey7239 Год назад

Exactly, I’m sure he’s also taking caution not to repeat what Harwin did with rhaynera. It would be weird for alicent to give birth to brown haired children with possibly clubbed feet.

@ProfRavenSteel Год назад

@@suadpattonbey7239 it's not necessary that his children will also have clubfoot. It's not a genetic disease but a physical anomaly.

@suadpattonbey7239 Год назад

@@ProfRavenSteel thank you for clarifying that. I honestly wasn't sure whether it was or not. either way a widow and her spending time with him would implicate him enough that it would be a problem

@kayb6803 Год назад

@@suadpattonbey7239 I actually think it will get to that point that it is a full or very close to sexual intercourse. I think he is stress testing Alicent to see just how far she is willing to let him go. I knew it was going to get sexual the moment he told he did to his father and brother. After he said that they share a secret now, he followed up with something like “I know you’ll find a way to make it up to me.” I said right then this is going to get UGLY for Alicent! He was leering at her in such a gross sexual way right then!

@cabbagenut Год назад

Yeah the humiliation factor was the first thing I noticed. It was super slimy, a display of long-term abuse and manipulation. The fact that it is feet has more to do with Alicent I think - and how far she could be pushed. She values duty and modesty and feminine virtue. She knows what he's doing, but without touch it seems like a better price to pay than marriage with full contact to a diseased dying man.

@everestrada9141 6 месяцев назад

Yeah, I was gonna say the payout seems more worthwhile as a long as the simple “threat” that at least he hasn’t physically touched her yet but could always ask for more holds her back for now A much different story if he asked for sex right off the back but for now the danger of “more” is very much keeping her in line as far as he’s concerned

@dimension01 Месяц назад

Do you still believe this after her scenes in season 2 episode 1 with Criston Cole? 🤣 who else is here after seeing it? 😂

@MariaIrbis 29 дней назад

Yeah, I can’t imagine how the rotting body of that old man must have smelled like..

@Chasingdreams25 22 дня назад

@@dimension01I wonder when will Larys reveal that he knows about her riding Crispin's pole??

@ServiceUnavailable 2 дня назад

Disgusting yes but I feel she gave up her power here and he ran with it. Trading secrets for yuck, she thought that she was manipulating him and he’s just reminded that he is in control of her. You don’t see others trade their power to the master of whispers, yes they are rewarded but not in a way that compromised the power dynamic

@Gingersnaps_the_pumpkin_kitty Год назад

This is actually pretty realistic sexual harassment/abuse.

@kenroycherrington148 22 дня назад

@Gingersnaps_the_pumpkin_kitty TRUE!

@batgurrl Год назад

Thanks for your in-depth analysis. Yes, it’s not about the feet, it’s about control. Larys definitely gives me the creeps

@Ass_of_Amalek Год назад

the series hasn't even shown his proper bad side yet, which is his torturing. this guy is basically ramsay bolton and littlefinger combined.

@informedRev13 Год назад

Completely!

@Gingersnaps_the_pumpkin_kitty Год назад

It's pretty realistic for a sexual predator tbh.

@Baphomane 11 месяцев назад

The really creepy thing is that psychopaths like these are among us. More then you imagine

@jasonb7546 Год назад

This started before he had his father and brother killed. When Alicent enters the room where Larys is eating she immediate removed her shoes.

@jasonb7546 Год назад

I commented before you said it in the video Joe. Nailed it, love your content.

@persephone342 Месяц назад

I connected that too! I remember thinking her and Larys must be close friends after seeing her take off her shoes for lunch with her messy bitch, Larys.

@kjohnson8901 Год назад

First you get the Power! Then you get the Castle! Then you get the Feet!

@figjam9530 Год назад

say hello to my little piggies!

@hatless_spider Год назад

If he is only motivated by feet pics, then that diminishes him as a character. If he is doing it to specifically make Alicent believe that his desires are base and carnal so that she thinks she has him as a pawn, then it may be masterful storytelling. We will have to see what they do with it.

@Ass_of_Amalek Год назад

I don't think alicent sees his desires "just" being sexual as a positive, she is very uncomfortable with it. my guess is that the writers are setting this up somewhat goofy to ignorant viewers to eventually freak them out with the arrangement escalating into larys raping alicent (or somebody else).

@hatless_spider Год назад

@@Ass_of_Amalek the feelings don't have to be mutually exclusive. She can be disgusted by the act while also being pleased that she feels in control over him for a price, however foul that price may be.

@Ass_of_Amalek Год назад

@@hatless_spider I don't think she feels in control, her not feeling in control is the whole point.

@hatless_spider Год назад

@@Ass_of_Amalek could be, could be. Either way it is conjecture and we won't know until we see what the showrunners do with this. So far they have shown that they are smarter than to reduce Larys to a sexual deviant only though

@Ass_of_Amalek Год назад

@@hatless_spider nah, all of ASOIAF is about sexual deviancy. it's like a universe created in the mind of freud.

@paytondelaney8316 Год назад

Alicent: you killed your own family just to see my feet? Larys: my reasons are beyond your understanding.

@richmackin Год назад

"Under the HEEL of her husband or father" I see what you did there as well.

@ruvend2581 Год назад

There are some great catches in that video that I haven’t seen before, for example Alicent taking her shoes off in an earlier dinner and Larys not speaking until Talya left the room

@singularm5923 Год назад

When I saw her taking her shoes off the first time I thought "Oh, she feels so comfortable around him, they must've become buddies over the years". Never have I been proven more wrong before.

@zanechi Год назад

Another scene to show that Alicent is nothing more than a toy for the men around her. Like Princess Rhaenys said.

@mowglees1880 Год назад

i'm sure someone else has made this point as well but if we're sticking with the three eyed rat theory for larys, we see a rat look directly down at a clearly distraught alicent after her sex scene with viserys in i believe episode 4. if we apply psychic ratman larys to that scene it's possible larys has been preying on her discomfort for years prior to extorting her for foot shows. i think that if you look at the two scenes together it shows a consistent, sinister desire for domination in larys, particularly over alicent who as you said is politically the most powerful woman in westeros.

@kevvintage7654 Год назад

Yes she does look quite resigned to his demand for "payment".

@gracehaven5459 Год назад

Oh that's a good point!

@magsstewart5488 Год назад

This scene has convinced me Larys is the Beast. She’s trying to warn her mother. That’s why she trapped a spider, and is embroidering one.

@richardwhitehead40 Год назад

Hasn't Helaena brought up the Beast beneath the boards more than once? If so, I don't remember her repeating any other prophecy. Maybe the reason she repeated it is there's more than one instance she's referring to?

@magsstewart5488 Год назад

@@richardwhitehead40 She has. We’ll have to see if she repeats it again.

@pastelpurpledeathbed Год назад

Blood and Cheese. Lmao.

@ProfRavenSteel Год назад

@@richardwhitehead40 yeah two instances actually. 1. Balrog beneath the khazadun 2. Maybe a dragon beneath the winterfell castle.

@milumav Год назад

Interesting...especially the spider connection. 🤔

@Matt-xc6sp Год назад

He shares those feet pics with his greenseeer buddies Bran and Bloodraven on the ole wierwood net

@simmsquee Год назад

Larys is a brilliant character, if they're following the character in the books. He's a psychopath and his thoughts and motivations are unknowable. His pleasure comes from watching others and reading their emotions. His apparent foot fetish is all about how it makes Alicent feel, not him. He's in performance mode when he's supposedly pleasuring himself to her feet, when really it's about the control. I'm sure he likes his club foot as much as he hates it, as it has allowed him to be an observer who is more or less invisible to everyone. If he is a greenseer, I bet he watched his family die through the rats in Harrenhall.

@J_mel_ Год назад

Wow so he isn't on her side as much as I thought I guess?

@thefinal9923 Год назад

@@J_mel_ Not as much that he isn't on her side as it is that he is only on his own side.

@carastone3473 Год назад

@@J_mel_ he’s all about HIMSELF

@xxJacket 27 дней назад

God I fucken respect that!

@woofawoof7616 19 дней назад

@@xxJacketyou respect someone who takes pleasure in sexually harassing people?

@helenledwith7016 Год назад

This is another instance where the time jumps hurt the story. How long has this been going on? It has been 6 years since he killed his family and 16 years since first spoke to Alicent in the garden. She was definitely taking her shoes off for him 6 years ago before he killed his family. In all that time, Larys just built up to this. It is degrading and humiliating but I feel it should be further along. I noticed that a couple of times in this episode Cristian was enraged at someone sullying the Queen's good name. What happens when he finds out what Larys has been doing?

@panajotov Год назад

I cannot wait to see his face when he realizes his Queen has been playing footsies with another man.

@thisguy8106 Год назад

@@panajotov amen.

@Guy-qt5mt Год назад

He gets mad jealous then burns in a fire

@luciamota1249 Год назад

I don't think she was getting his shoes off prior to the killing of the Strongs. I think that's how he started blackmailing her to do it, they both share the secret and that's why she's accepting to do it. She was deffinitely doing it when Laena's funeral, in the immediate episode after the fire in HH, but not prior to that.

@J_mel_ Год назад

@@panajotov please explain without to many spoilers? Who is the other guy?

@jigen1504 Год назад

You’re spot on about the power dynamic. It’s his way of humbling alice. She’s so Pious and yet even she will degrade herself and her morals for an advantage/ ambition

@KellyMartin0902 11 дней назад

Then that means they're not truly her morals or character.

@MI-vc9lp 7 дней назад

But this is sexual assault. He's coercing her by holding the deaths at Harrenhal over her head.

@dominiquebertrand6786 Год назад

In European society of the past, the ankle was an erotic object. The woman who openly showed her ankle was being seductive. So it is not only an fetish object here but also an historical erotic object.

@ruvend2581 Год назад

Already saw your answer on reddit how this is about power, I‘m glad you expand on that in a full video

@ChristopherMarshburn Год назад

Rhaenys’ conversation with Alicent prior to this lays the groundwork. Another example of how she’s trapped in service to men in her life to get what she wants.

@iamthewizardwhoknocks2845 22 дня назад

She's more powerful than he is. She has agency. She isn't a victim.

@woofawoof7616 19 дней назад

A person can be a queen and still be a victim. Power dynamics are important, but are you telling me that a person can only be harassed if they are of lower political standing?@@iamthewizardwhoknocks2845

@magsstewart5488 Год назад

I completely disagree that it makes Larys seem less scary. That scene was the most disturbing, for me, in all of the 7 seasons of GoT and so far in HoT D.

@JoeMagician Год назад

I totally agree, it's a terrifying scene

@RB-bm7cl Год назад

No, most disturbing till now in HOTD but not certainly most disturbing when you include GOT.

@magsstewart5488 Год назад

@@RB-bm7cl Nothing in GoT made me turn my head away. Not Reek, not Jofferys evil deeds, nothing. I’m prepared for violence in these shows. I don’t know why this bothered me so much more.

@SingingSealRiana Год назад

5he scene is disturbing as fuck especially for he does not need to "do anything to her" to violate her that deeply. People who laugh at that, not able to read the room at all disturb me!!! How can one laugh at a scene of voilance when everything in her expression, voice body language screams just how unsattled, disgusted and afraid she is of him?!

@SingingSealRiana Год назад

@@magsstewart5488 subtility often goes a long way and fare longer then pure shock value. This scene got us not to watch voilance, but how she feels with what he does to her i steady that is way more intimate and unsettling

@ImOldGreggg Год назад

"Make the weirwood eyes bleed" 😆😆😆 that was good dude.

@PatriotResearchGal Год назад

Actually, the fact that people are stuck on marginalizing the fetish sets up the audience to be shocked by his deeds to come. If you paid attention, it won’t shock you at all. Larys is freakin scary evil. It’ll be interesting to see how he will be checked in the game. Alicent might be the key to it, much like Sansa.

@spinakker14 Год назад

4:49 the boiling frog is true for Alicent, but Larys what Larys is using is a classic marketing technique called "foot in the door". Which is a very apt name in this case But I didn't miss all your other foot references ;)

@wizarddragon Год назад

I actually respect the writers doing the scene. It was completely different from what I'm used to. The only regret I have about it is that I wasn't a fly on the writing room wall when they discussed it. lol

@drachna Год назад

A fly on the wall, or a rat on the mantelpiece.

@billthebard805 Год назад

He also talks to Otto about how those meetings could benefit Otto too. So his intentions could be far further than just feet.

@amysliger1279 Год назад

I had no idea what was happening at first. I thought it weird that the Queen would remove her shoes so casually, but as she said, it was late and she was tired/frustrated, so wasn't too weird. Until it was. And I realized what was happening. I think that was the first time in a few episodes that I felt sympathy for Alicent. Olivia Cooke is a MASTER of expression. She needn't say a word to act the hell out of a scene. Her face at the end... Ugh.

@Carol120454 Год назад

She finds it disgusting, but realizes she can use it to manipulate Larys to do whatever she wants.

@dastellarnapster1652 8 месяцев назад

@@Carol120454facts, classic opportunity from depravity

@CindyA715 21 день назад

I Read on one of these posts about that particular scene: when Alicent turns to the side and pulls her dress up over her feet, turns her head to the side and closes her eyes... I thought it was in disgust. This person believed that she was pleasuring herself the same as he was … I was horrified. Did anyone else honestly think that?

@CindyA715 21 день назад

@SongbirdAlom Год назад

thank you for this. It's about power and humiliation as much as it is the feet themselves.

@BrokenXgirl12 Год назад

yes! you said everything I was thinking during that scene! my boyfriend couldn't stop laughing but I was terrified. I've been in a similar position and it's horrible and I will say, they made Alicent way more sympathetic than she is in the book! which I think was a wise choice on their part. so far I love what they have done! anyone complaining is probably missing the point entirely.

@SingingSealRiana Год назад

I found nothing funny about it either, it is just messed up. I am also quite unsettled that people equate Allicent getting abused like that with rhyneras joyfully sleeping around calling Allicent a hypocrite for critisicing rhynera for it.... They really are not the same thing, not even a little bit

@reneenayfabnaynay5679 Год назад

@@SingingSealRiana I think Alicent is a hypocrite! Letting a guy j@ck off to your feet isn't any nicer or better than sleeping with someone.

@shaosleep7915 Год назад

@@SingingSealRiana yeah i think the contrast of their relationship to sex is interesting. rhaenyra gets to enjoy sex for what it is, while alicent just kinda copes with mens' sexuality for unsexy purposes like conceiving heirs with viserys for duty, silencing aegon's victims for his reputation, and paying larys to continue being her ally

@M80hendo Год назад

Not only were her feet nice the way she took her shoes off then stockings without a word being said was so damn🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@BrokenXgirl12 Год назад

@@SingingSealRiana it's crazy that people would even compare the two in that way! Obviously they're sexuality is meant to be contrasted against each other. Alicent hates sex but uses it to do what she must or to gain something. She doesn't enjoy it at all.

@fleetingselfconfidence612 Год назад

Alicent: you killed your brother and father??? i want you to stay 1,000,000 feet away from me! Larys: 1,000,000 feet 🤤

@jsan3743 Год назад

You make the best vids!! I’m so happy I discovered your channel!!

@AlottaBoulchit Год назад

Oh the scene where Alicent took off her shoes before dinner was NOT lost on me. I noticed it right away and found it suspicious. I wasn't expecting a foot fetish moment but that was an oddly specific action at an unusual moment. For me though I had initially thought it prooved she was on an intimate comfort level with Larys like the two had been knocking boots. I definately didn't think the foot thing was just "lol foot boi!" and was more about him asserting dominance on The Queen and proof to show the levels Alicent was willing to go to get all the advantages she could for her children. I also personally thought it was satisfying that for all her high horse sneering at Rhaenyra for being a "Whore" and having bastards... Alicent was clearly no better allowing herself to be Larys' whore and plaything. At least Rhaenyra got joy from her experiences. For as smart as she was as a girl Alicent sure grew up to be an idiot as a woman. Jealousy does numbers on people I guess! I am LOVING Larys's character. He was so sussy from the beginning and I have loved every moment watching his character's nature slowly opening up for the world to see. He's fascinating! I love how you presented him here in this video! I think you did the character justice!!

@SingingSealRiana Год назад

To be fair, to me Alicents resentment for rhynera there makes perfect sense. Rhynera had the chance to chose a husband, something Allicent had not. She had a Was allowed to grow old enough to know what she wanted, while Allicent was already sold to her old father she feared somewhat and treated her like a piece of meat. Rhyneras fist time was all to her choosing, cause she wanted and not even with her husband, while Alicents was probably traumatic and unpleasant. Then rhynera sleeps jet again with someone else but her husband birthing bastards in a compleat subversion of all the duties that hold Allicent prisoner. And then rhynera gets to marry a man she desires and be happy and positively sexual activ jet again while Allicent gets violated by jet another men she can not afford to offend. No wonder she is bitter. To her sex is something disgusting, something that drives home just how powerless she is and somehow somehow for rhynera it is the opposite. Allicent was a good girl and got punished for it, while rhynera gör rewarded för transgressions..... It is an absolutly shitty situation for her. Calling Allicent a hypocrite by calling her getting sexualy abused and rhynera enjoying herself the same really is not fair

@AlottaBoulchit Год назад

@@SingingSealRiana Alicent didn't have to emotionally seduce Viserys but her father made her do it. She could have said no she could have protested she was too young and he was too old. You act as if Viserys was abusive and cruel to her. He only chose her because she had been putting herself on him emotionally and building a connection bond (he thought) and he chose her over a literal child because at least Alicent was "decently of age" compared to Laena. I never once saw Alicent _fearful_ of Viserys or treated like a "Piece of Meat." She performed her wife and queenly duties when he called for sure but by _that_ point she had already been married to him and had agreed to that arrangement. Viserys treated Alicent very well. The fact he didn't have her killed for threatening the future Queen and a Prince of the realm with a deadly weapon not even addressing how many times she slighted Rhaenyra's childrens's parentage shows how well he treated her. Alicent was bitter of Rhaenyra for getting to enjoy herself but you know what? Rhaenyra was the heir to the throne and so she's going to have a freer spirit. Had Rhaenyra been a man she would have been doing all kinds of things and no one would be batting an eye at her. Look at how Alicent's own rotten child acted regularly and she turned a blind eye to all that he was doing. Alicent is a hypocrite. She has drank her own koolaid and believes she is holier and purer than she truly is. She's a religious zealot and a throne stealer. She had chances to break free from the control of the men around her but she never even tried. She was a dutiful, good wife and mother but she allowed her bitterness to bring her to filthy depths. I absolutely love her character. We wouldn't have a story without her!

@M80hendo Год назад

When she take her shoes off before dinner? I need to watch that scene

@Carol120454 Год назад

Larys is a weird guy who figured he was doing Allicent a big favor by killing the Strongs . In his mind, it was a trifecta of win, win, win. Revenge on Rhaenera by getting rid of her lover, Alicent's father would get to come back and be the Hans, and he, Larys, gets to be lord of Harrenhal. Alicent was upset at first, but then realizes she can manipulate him with his fetish and his attraction to her. She is not being abused, she is getting what she wants, a spy master who will do whatever she wants, even kill for her. All she has to do is show her feet. On her part, it's not even sex. I've heard that back in the days when women wore long dresses, it was more shocking to see their feet than even their breasts. Not really that odd then, that he'd react that way.

@cheyennespiritcreationz8506 Год назад

So much I didn't catch on to. I appreciate all your videos and detailed explanations.

@JoeMagician Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@HiHello-dn7fj Год назад

As someone with a club foot I think it’s very accurate! My club foot is “corrected” but will never be normal and is a source of chronic pain and limitation. In my lower moments of accepting this fact of my life (or not wanting to accept it), I have definitely viewed it as a burden and fantasized about being rid of the whole foot.

@haleygrace9912 Год назад

Reminds me of the real life Kaiser Wilhelm. Like the World War One leader of Germany. He had trouble at birth which left one of his hands deformed. He was shamed for it and called weak his whole life and there are letters he sent his mother fantasizing about her hands. He described how he wanted her to use her hands to touch him and that he missed her hands more than her. Yikes

@SingingSealRiana Год назад

Iiiks, would not put it past grrm to know that

@madyjules06 Год назад

thanks Haley, for schooling me… I had no idea that the Kaiser had a hand deformity. wonder how much that factored into the tremendous brutality of WW I

@neuralmute Год назад

Interestingly enough, Josef Stalin had a rather small and deformed left hand as well, caused by a childhood illness. (Polio, maybe?) Knowing how people with disabilities were treated at the turn of the 20th c, he was no doubt subject to much cruelty over his hand. It just shows how children abused for their differences can grow up to take out their past abuse on, in Stalin's case, entire countries.

@lobomedina6312 Год назад

Excellent analysis. Yep the Three Eyed Rat's main play has been to get Alycent under his control. At this point the frog hasn't even reached her boiling point, so she'd be wise to find a way to eliminate the rat that's turning up the stove. She could borrow the catspaw from Aegon, say he assaulted her and she was just protecting herself. The showrunners kinda forgot that footsies is a comedic trope hence the scene has become a meme. They should've chosen something more sinister for the humiliation ritual.

@aceofhearts573 Год назад

"I will only be paid in feet" -Larrys Strong

@Poloassassin828 Год назад

By god! Your videos are so insightful, great job!

@teo2805 Год назад

I think she was thinking of Rhaenys in that scene, and her words about how Allicent has been always been in the shadow of men.

@MichelMawon4982 Год назад

Very well done. I saw your poll about people staying until the end. I want to help, but I have the opposite issue of wanting to listen again to soak up all the great work you've done and learn. If I speculate, the viewership is probably made up of a lot more casual fans who may think they want more, but then are quickly overwhelmed with the amount detail and complexity there is. Basically, I don't think it's anything you did or didn't do and I know that's not as helpful to you.

@caroldavis5877 Год назад

In the scene where Larys is looking at Allicents feet, you also see sores on her legs. Has she caught the Kings disease? Is she showing signs of leprosy?

@merchantIV Год назад

I think the whole thing becomes even creepier when you factor in the difference between Larys's demeanor in episode 7 and in 9. In Driftmark, he looks smitten when Alicent calls him a friend, even gives a little contented sigh before proceeding to grin like an idiot while staring at the water. I don't think that was him playacting or anything. I think at his core he's a socially awkward weirdo who has no idea how to make friends in addition to being a psychopath. In Green Council, there's an iciness to his interaction with Alicent we haven't seen before. He takes pleasure in dominating and humiliating her, and while I think that's always been his way of achieving satisfaction it contrasts so sharply with the last time we saw them together. There's almost anger and bitterness there. I don't know what she did to disappoint him in the six year time gap, but I think something clearly happened. If she somehow pissed him off or humiliated him in that time jump and he's exacting continuous revenge, season 2 could be very ugly.

@laurendearnley9595 Год назад

Might just have been an escalation. In episode 7 he was just pleased to have someone show him some kindness and respect. By season 9 things have gone further and further until she's doing what he wants, unprompted. They've done this before, she hates every second of it, but she needs to do it to survive and save her children

@redjirachi1 Год назад

Fans seeing Rhaenyra and Daemon: Sweet home Alabama I love Wincest! Fans seeing this scene: WTF did I watch?

@Shaannooonn 22 дня назад

two consenting adults vs a man assaulting and blackmailing a woman with severe mental issues? yeah the reaction is reasonable

@DwRockett Год назад

Fantastic video, and really illustrates how much more evil the already evil scene seemed to be

@thenickfoxx Год назад

3:48 Weren't all the servants and maids locked up for a short time just to ensure the word of Viserys' death wasn't spread before Aegon was crowned?

@caronstout354 Год назад

Yes...before the the nobles and commoners were herded to the Dragonkeep to witness the coronation.

@kayb6803 Год назад

Awesome breakdown! I feel like you hit the nail on the head!

@mmmahh9056 Год назад

Can't believe that Discord mods even exist in medieval times

@klauskrampus4344 Год назад

You made Larys interesting for me again. Thank you.

@made-line7627 Год назад

*FOOTage* not found

@nicxl3035 Год назад

I think it fits. He has a club foot. He’s obsessed with the most perfect of feeet

@Frothmeister Год назад

Finally some high quality content

@Drew_Thompson Год назад

You actually get it too, it was about the power not the feet. Larys is more Tyrion than littlefinger

@Ass_of_Amalek Год назад

littlefinger is motivated in part by sexual domination too, the guy is a pimp. but yes, larys resembles what I've heard of book tyrion quite closely.

@jerrancebowman965 Год назад

@@Ass_of_Amalek wrong he was a simp for Sansa Stark because he couldn't have the mother Catelyn so he went for her daughter

@Ass_of_Amalek Год назад

@@jerrancebowman965 littlefinger's lust for sansa can't have been THAT strong after all, since he gave her to ramsay bolton (well in the show he did, idk what happens to sansa in the books. I think there, ramsay instead gets a fake arya).

@Tevi_L7151 Год назад

@@Ass_of_Amalek in the books he still makes Sansa as his bastard Aleyna, and gave her task of seducing Harold Harding who is the heir of Robert Arryn

@thunderclap7154 Год назад

A foot fetish isn’t anything new to book readers. Not half as sweet as Rosey. Pate loved her hazel eyes and budding breasts, and the way she smiled every time she saw him. He loved the dimples in her cheeks. Sometimes she went barefoot as she served, to feel the grass beneath her feet. He loved that too. He loved the clean fresh smell of her, the way her hair curled behind her ears. He even loved her toes. One night she'd let him rub her feet and play with them, and he'd made up a funny tale for every toe to keep her giggling.

@JoeMagician Год назад

A Pate reference! This is a rare morning

@Ass_of_Amalek Год назад

I'm calling the WBI! edit: uhm I mean I'm sending a raven

@zombiekungfumaster Год назад

@@JoeMagician How interesting that someone posted this Pate quote. It's critical to a theory I have come up with. I wonder how many people have figured out that Pate is under the effects of a love potion?

@neuralmute Год назад

@@zombiekungfumaster I like this theory, very interesting!

@movieloverfan18 21 день назад

@@zombiekungfumaster I don't know maybe he was. The Faceless man needed him to really want that gold coin. Is is sad really. Pate thought that if he had that coin that Rosey would fall in love and run away with him. He would have been better off using it to run away from the citadel and find a job in the world where he could be respected. But now he is dead and the Faceless man is wearing his face. I wonder why the Faceless man needed to go through the whole selling the key for the coin thing in the first place. Couldn't have have just killed him, taken his face, and taken the key himself. Maybe there is a protocol for taking a person's face. Again the curse of the prologue chapter.

@amandasmith3504 Год назад

Larys can't die fast enough for me.

@watcherofthewest8597 Год назад

Bleeding the ole weirwood...good one Joe!

@curtiswfranks Год назад

This is an extremely good video. Nice job!

@curtiswfranks Год назад

You know that I love your theorycrafting and high fantasy/horror videos, but this simple character analysis is very insightful. More of these!

@indiadecoseytillman Месяц назад

Great video and full circle, Alicent begins the same behavior on Cole.

@daegzy3031 Год назад

Has anyone ever listened to the black tapes podcast? I know this is like free use music but it's the only thing I can think of when I hear it.

@c-130turbo3 Год назад

oh Alicent as fallen so far from episode one, and i do think it is also a fake out, as Larys walks around the red keep like he own the place. yeah we have season to think about this guy great content as always👍

@EmonyLP Год назад

Excellent analysis, I 100% agree. A deeply uncomfortable scene and a terrifying character.

@conniesuper9892 Год назад

Bravo👏👏!!!Loved this!!Now Otto won't have to get "Aegon" to stop the child fighting pits because Mysaria is put out of business. Larys kind of did Otto a solid...unless she wasn't home at the time,but you'd think Larys' thugs would've made SURE, unless they mistook another woman who WAS there. Great video

@samwallaceart288 Год назад

I totally missed the importance of Larys and the White Worm lady's indirect war in that penultimate episode.

@heyitsrae5407 6 месяцев назад

“If you missed it, and based on social media I feel like that’s impossible” and somehow I did. I rewatched house of dragon 2x and missed it both times. I heard the words “foot fetish in hotd” 10 minutes ago and got so fucking confused. Now I know, thank you.

@HariKrishnan-kx1is Год назад

Oh lord why is this the best thumbnail you've ever made 😂😂😂

@JoeMagician Год назад

A question for the ages

@peppermint1349 Год назад

We should ofc remember that back in the day ladys ankles were also considered sexy... it's literally all over history like how if lady shows ankle it's hot so I doubt it is ONLY foot fetish (I know it's part of it but not the only reason)

@EloImFizzy Год назад

Larys was actually present at the green council. He was just under the table having his face used as a footstool by Alicent.

@M80hendo Год назад

I would let her use me for that

@mjolninja9358 Год назад

Larys be praying for defeat….

@natanielb1445 Год назад

OTTO is HAND✋🏼 ALICENT is FOOT🦶

@NeoLudditevisons Год назад

I think this choice for the foot fetish is deliciously ironic and darkly humorous. However, for me it totally adds to this sinister character.

@chancefurlong372 Год назад

100k+ views? That's twice as much as you get in your most nuanced ASOIAF theories. Damn lotta ppl clicked because of LOL FEET (like you predicted in the description) and the thumbnail. But ironically they're hit with a very nuanced take on the true horrors of the feet scene. A deep dive into the psychology and power dynamics conveyed in that scene. If they stick around and listen to the whole video that is, some probably left when they realized it's not just memes. Great breakdown of an equally intriguing scene.

@JoeMagician Год назад

I'm as surprised as anyone

@atach881 Год назад

OMG THANK YOU!! I knew it wasn't just foot fetish. It was also something else, I love all the details you put in!

@elizabethmead2852 21 день назад

Insightful. Yay for no Ai narration, subscribed.

@itsmainelyyou5541 Год назад

Perfect encapsulation of the dynamics, still skeeved out by it and wasn't expecting how visceral a my reaction would be. The kilter of it was precisely what was so unnerving.

@Ncbgfvn18778 Год назад

The background music 😂

@Randall_Kildare Год назад

From what we've seen of the excellent meta-film making, I do get the feeling that the "oh, whoa... uhm, what is going on here... eeash.." shock value of the scene was a total *red-herring.* It also begs the question: Will we see escalation of his perversions, forcing Alliscent deeper & deeper into his machinations; all to his delight alone? Your break-down & analysis rings true again, Joe.

@Boomstick. Год назад

Should’ve had Dan Schnieder play Larys lmao

@JoeMagician Год назад

Now that's a rare foot fetish reference

@joshbarrera8554 Год назад

That Thumbnail 😂😂😂

@twinklesnowflake1454 5 месяцев назад

This was perfect summation of Larys!!! I love it!! She is so conservative and powerful and her uses her goals/ values against her. Does Larys do this to other ladies in court?

@JMQA1 21 день назад

15 min deep diving into feet.

@toneriggz Год назад

I’m not mad at Larys. Get your feet pics, king.

@StanHowse Год назад

Lol @ That ankle tattoo 😂😂

@victorc8855 Год назад

Joe, any thoughts on him not being master of whisperers yet and thus not doing the blood oath thing? I felt ep9 could've been perfect with just some minor tweaks idk, as it was I felt lowkey disappointed. Having said that I still appreciate the little spy clash thing they're doing with larys and mysaria, i feel like it has a lot of potential

@JoeMagician Год назад

I think they'll make it official in the next episode or two, they've showing his rise to power as a slow process. Like a tree growing.

@alvisecattaruzzo9863 Год назад

Not gonna lie, I was a "Lol feet" guy but I was hoping on a video that would opened my eyes from you and yup... Here I am. Keep up the good work Joe!

@revas5945 Год назад

good stuff, glad to see a deeper analysis on this beyond just "lmao foot fetish!!!" I'm also really curious what will happen in the future. It seems like Otto is onto Larys being too close to Alicent, confronting him about it this episode as well. Maybe Alicent will confide in Otto at some point.

@thecandlemaker1329 Год назад

The only reason she teamed up with Larys is to counteract Otto, why on earth would she do that.

@revas5945 Год назад

@@thecandlemaker1329 lesser of two evils? i didn't say it would happen guaranteed, i'm just wondering out loud

@jackjohnston2221 Год назад

Wierdly enough I was thinking about this in the pool earlier today. Couldn't quite put my finger on why I found it so creepy but that's exactly it. It's not the foot thing or the fact that it's so un PC for this to be in the show it's the way larys is dominating this woman like a fly in a spiders web. Larys is the original spider, the black widow and makes varys look more of a money spider or false widow.

@sirboxalot6654 Год назад

How does he always know these things like knowing her maid was a spy how does he know that

@thisguy8106 Год назад

Okay.. Thanks for this video. It def explains the uh... Weirwood bleeding..part.. Bc when people were trying to say that there's no way it was about the feet, all I could say was..well.. he wouldn't have ..you know... If it wasn't lol.. But this explains it all perfectly.