HOTD: Official Podcast Ep. 5 “We Light the Way” with Sara Hess | House of the Dragon (HBO) 

Sara Hess will ruin the show get her out

Whoever is responsible for episode 9 ending (Sara Hess?) should be fired immediately

Sara Hess comes in

Sara Hess is a terrible writer and is going to ruin the characters I said what I said

Sarah is a horrible writer, she will ruin the show

This is a major red flag. From the beginning, Daemon was exactly like GRRM said, the greyest character, unpredictable. And now he's just an antagonist. She cut the scene when he hugged his daughter after Laena's death. Putting your personal view into a character is never a good idea

Her name is laena not “lee ayna” my guy.

That wedding sequence was fantastic. So many players in one room all exchanging looks with double meanings.

It would be nice if this podcast was filmed so that we can see them instead of hearing them over this screen saver ! 🤑

*Pronounced LAY-nor and LAY-na, holy smokes. Made me wince every time they said “Lee-ay-nor” and “Lee-ay-na”.

I think Ser Criston was an idiot for confessing to Alicent before being actually accused, and his answer should have been silence anyway, as that is the best way to protect Rhaenyra. When Alicent doesn't punish him, instead simply dismissing him, he realized that he now is in a position to be used by Queen Alicent, and has put Rhaenyra in danger. Then, when Ser Joffrey let's him know that he also knows about the secret, I think that Ser Criston sees the only way to protect the Princess was to kill Ser Joffrey and then kill himself, so that neither of them can be used against Rhaenyra. We'll have to wait to see if he still goes through with his suicide, now that he has been interrupted by the Queen.

Rhea Royce was the most badass bitch in the seven kingdoms and she deserved so much better than Daemon. I get the impression that more than anything, Daemon couldnt stand that he couldnt manipulate her, and that's why he hated her so much.

that last scene with Rhaenys in episode 9 during aegons coronation was AWFUL writing, killing hundreds of commonfolk and runs off without doing any harm to the greens like why? now shes evil

This episode is about Alicent, she "lights the way" with that green dress, sending the message to her family that she will fight for her house's interests and will embody their values to the max. In these episode she realizes and supports the motives of her father to get her son into the iron throne.

I find it interesting that you say Ser Criston isnt very good at his job, I wonder if that's intentional. After all, Rhaenyra chose him for the king's guard with absolutely zero consideration for the political aspect of the job. Really it actually makes a lot of sense that this guy who only got the job because he's hot and has real combat experience turned out to be real bad at the political aspect of being a king's guard.

My only problem with what happened at the wedding feast was this , Laenor is the prince consort of dragonstone now , in the books it was a tournament that cole does that to joffery and really people were upset that he did that beat Joffery nearly to death, he died days later. to strike the prince consort like that and nth comes out of it? absolutely not even the queen could save cole from that. Hit coryls son? Rheanys son? Those characters don't play that. You lost your mind no one would get away with that. It's a great story but it lacks a bit of logic there when you think about the characters we are talking about.

Rhaenyra:

leave daemon alone he is a grey character he is capable of both evil and good don't ruined for us pls

I can tell you, this woman hasn't read a single GRRM book ever.

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