Annara Snow

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Marry Gregor and poison him during the wedding feast Bang Vargo Hoat (if I have to do it with one of them...) (but only after asking him to talk dirty and say "Sex will be splendid, my striking scrumptious mistress, do you want me to whisper salacious sassy stuff to you?) and then kill him. Kill Ramsay and then kill him again. Next - off their rocker Targaryen kings: Maegor the Cruel Baelor the Blessed Aerys II the Mad King

James Gandolfini with a black wig - Robert Baratheon Next: Michael Imperioli

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Yes, you are right. They did a poll of all the people of note, found out that no one of note believed that Daemon might have been behind Laenor's murder, and it says so explicitly that just some peasants might have believed it, but everyone of note was adamant that it was an outlanfish idea, outlandish I say!

What a Straw Man. Absolutely no one said that Mushroom witnessed anything regarding Laenor's death. I said he recorded various rumors that were circling around and that it's unlikely he straight up invented every one of them (because that would make his use as a source by GRRM pointless; the idea is that they are all unreliable but not that they are completely useless). I don't know what you think you're proving by bolding "the most sinister theory". Yes, it's obviously the most sinister one, so? Most sinister because it would be a planned, premeditated murder for interest. That sure doesn't make it "outlandish" and no one even said it was outlandish. Not that Gyldayn thinking stories are outlandish would mean they definitely are (he believes all sorts of actually outlandish stories by Mushroom or Eustace but draws the line at things like Jace falling in love with a Northern bastard), but in this case, he doesn't say it is outlandish or unlikely. What most likely happened is that people suspected Daemon because he and Rhaenyra got married not long after Laenor's death, and because they thought he might do something like that in general. Just as they presumably do in the show. In the show, Daemon talked to Rhaenyra about how people will suspect them (because of the whole getting marrie right after his death thing) and that this can even be a good thing. That certainly doesn't mean he went and told people he had Laenor murdered - which would be implicating himself. Officially, as far as anyone knows, Laenor was killed by Qarl in a quarel.

I can imagine if the events of the War of the Five Kings were told through a bunch of unreliable accounts, and Moon Boy was a Mushroom-like figure and wrote an account, he's write down every scandalous rumor there was at the time - so he'd write about how Patchface was Shireen's father, Catelyn had a threesome with Jaime and Brienne in his cell before letting him go, Sansa killed Joffrey with a spell and then turned into a wolf with bat wings, etc. and he might write a self-insert story about how he had threesomes with Cersei and Jaime. But he's also occasionally write down some true ones. He'd be the only one who would mention that. when Lord Tywin was found dead on the privy, a naked young woman was found strangled in his bed - while all the other, more sanitized accounts by maesters and septons would keep quiet about it as improper and unlikely for someone like Lord Tywin, who was so chaste and so against prostitution and sleeping around!

Oh yes, it's well known that people in Westeros have absolutely no problem with married women sleeping with men other than their husbands and having children with them! No, my dude, I don't care about your headcanons about the original material. The ones where Rhaenyra is an all-powerful, flawless girlboss that no one could touch and that almost everyone supported,. but oh! The Dance still somehow happened! How did that come to pass? If you're laughing your ass off because people don't buy your headcanons - well, I guess, go and have a good time, because you'll be laughing your ass off a lot! All of the accounts were written after the Dance, so "decades after" Laenor's death - so I have no idea what you think you did there. Mushroom's account often uses rumors that were circling around at the time. I don't think he went and made up every single one of them (though he certainly did some, like the ones where he self-inserted). Maybe you'd like to think that, but that would make his very existence in the story very pointless. He's unreliable, but guess what: so is every account in F&B. Eustace, Munkun, they are all unreliable in their different ways, as are Gyldayn's conclusions.

There are already some people on Twitter making threads about why Nettles should be cut. The shipping seemed to become big in the late seasons of GoT. I wasn't even watching the show at that point, but I know how huge the whole Jonsa vs Jonerys mess was. It became this big Dany vs Sansa Team thing where the fandom is still making it look like you can't like both of these characters. And the consequences are still there - now the fandom on Twiter is projecting Dany onto Rhaenyra and Sansa onto Alicent and having round 2 of their old beefs.

The person who'd stand most to gain from Laenor's death rumored to have arranged his murder: "outlandish theory". Sure. LMAO Daena the Defiant later openly had a bastard and it was used against her as a reason (or an excuse) to pass her over for the throne. Rhaenyra is not trying to get married, she's trying to become the first ruling Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.

Some fans were afraid they would age her down, but others sound like they'd prefer it that way. There have also been many fancasts of 20-something actresses. And here's a lot of HotD stans on Twitter who hate on Alys because they ship Aemond with one of his relatives (usually Helaena or Lucerys) and call her an old hag, among other things. In response to that, some fans who want her on the show called them out on ageism and sexism, but I also see some fans going "well your complaints are invalid, she is probably going to be played by an actress the same age as Ewan, because she's said to look younger!" I've seen people say that Emily would be great because she looks younger than her age (38) so it wouldn't be too jarring to see her with Ewan. Which I find funny since I think she looks her age. People just seem to have a very warped idea of what women that age look like.

Even if that was true, all that Viserys could do would be to give them access, not give them dragons. But only some of the dragons live in the Dragonpit. Vhagar obviously doesn't and neither do Vermithor or Silverwing. They've been chilling on Dragonstone for decades. If someone went and claimed them, there's nothing Viserys could do about it. Sunfyre is also said to have hatched on Dragonstone. There's no indication that Laena ever asked Viserys for permission to claim Vhagar. And correct me if I'm wrong but I don't remember Maegor or Aerea asking for permission to claim Balerion. I'm not sure what exactly the kind anyone would've done if someone claimed a big dragon who's not in the Dragonpit. Uh, tried to arrest them and hope they agree to it? Fight them?

You really are in denial and constantly repeating your wishful thinking ideas like "Rhaenyra is untouchable! No one cares about her reputation! Laenor is untouchable!" LMAO I love the Magically Disappearing Patriarchy! With that and how powerless Alicent and Otto are, one wonders how the Dance ever happened! But I guess the patriarchy just magically appears when it has to start and when Rhaenyra loses her untouchability, and then disappears again! also - Blame GRRM.

Viserys cannot "give" anyone dragons. No one can. He can only give them dragon eggs. Dragons have to be claimed. And since Helaena's dragon is one of the oldest, and Sunfyre is supposed to have hatched on Dragonstone, it seems like he might not have given any of his children with Alicent dragon eggs, except maybe Daeron, while we know for sure that Rhaenyra's children all got dragon eggs. Jaehaerys and Jaehaera got their eggs too, to be fair.

I doubt that some dude on YouTube is right, especially since no other source anywhere has said that, but I know for sure that Emily Beecham auditioned for Alys, and she's 38. That's almost as old as Alys is supposed to be (40). Whether that makes her a "cougar", IDK, but it's funny how terrified everyone seems to be of the role going to an age appropriate actress. I don't recall people clamoring for Daemon to be played by a 20-something so his relationships with Rhaenyra and Laena would be more palatable.

You cannot possibly believe some of the stuff you wrote there. Alicent has no power in court?! Dude, she's the Queen Consort! Do you understand that? The only person who outranks her is Viserys. He has all the power over her - but he's also usually unwilling to stir conflict, except on rare occasions when it's about something personal to him, so he puts his foot down. And I already pointed out that he'd always choose Rhaenyra vs Alicent or his kids with Alicent, but other than that, he'll allow Alicent to have what she wants to mollify her. And he had just sacked her father, so he needed to. And guess what: Viserys doesn't care about the late Joffrey. Also, no, no one seemed to have seen the very beginning of the fight, and certainly no one heard their conversation. It just happened all of a sudden and took everyone by surprise. Your "Laenor is now safe", "Rhaenyra doesn't care of it comes out she slept around" arguments are blatantly in conflict with all of the facts of both book and the show. It's not the first time you claimed that, and it sounds like your wishful thinking and denial. Everything in both book and show shows that Rhaenyra cannot admit her children's true parentage or the nature of her relationship with Laenor or admit publicly that she was not a virgin before her marriage, Viserys is in active denial and threatening people left and right and even tearing out their tongues in the book, Rhaenyra is lying, gaslighting and threatening people left and right. None of them are chill about it or ready to openly admit that Rhaenyra slept with anyone other than husband. Her reputation would be ruined in the patriarchal sexist society they live in, and this matters. Do I even need to point out that revealing Criston's tryst with Rhaenyra in order to get him castrated and/or sent to the Wall would also ruin Rhaenyra's reputation? We may know less about Laenor's and Corlys's attitude in the book, but in the show, Corlys has a "it's a phase" attitude and doesn't accept his son's sexuality, while Laenor feels bad about not fulfilling his duties as a husband.

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We don't really know if those people who are described in a historical account have a sense of humor or not. Some of the new characters could be funny, which would be fine as long as it's not overdone as GoT started to do it. Black Aly could be snarky. Jeyne Arryn could be snarky without them turning her into a full blown Olenna. Hugh Hammer and Ulf the White could be a somewhat humorous buddy duo - which I would particularly like as it would be a way to make the audience like them and/or see them as comic relief before the show takes the rug under the locals by having those characters be villains. ASOAIF and GoT did something like that pretty well with Walder Frey, and The Last Kingdom also did it particularly well with a major character in the first few seasons And so on - they could easily make some of the supporting characters funny without overdoing it and, in particular, without resorting to low brow repetitive humor that GoT did in later seasons when it was just a d**k joke after d**k joke.

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Maybe listen to your own advice and stop trying to force a narrative because you want it to be true? "Arryns' kinship to Rhaenyra is very distant" LMAO Her mother was an Arryn. The Lannisters are not related to Aegon II at all. Rhaenyra didn't need armies at the start of the war? Suuure. By the time Cregan and the Northmen - other than the old men who went south to die - finally joined the war, Jason was long dead and his widow busy fighting the Ironborn if the Lannister support to Rhaenyra was a joke, then the Stark one was an even bigger joke. Cregan waited for almost all of the war before he marched south and finally got to King's Landing when everything was over anyway.

The Winter Wolves are old men who went south in order not to be a burden on the North's resources during the upcoming winter, so that's hardly a strong argument about Cregan's commitment to risking Northerners in the war. Conveniently, other than the Winter Wolves, neither he nor Jeyne Arryn seemed eager to send armies in the early stage of the war and where they could face dragons in the field. So if Jason's participation in the war was lukewarm, theirs was even more so. Cregan and his host of 8000 (I don't believe that Eustace's "20000 savage northmen!" was anything but a reflection of his tendency for exaggeration and melodrama combined with anti-Northern fears) only took part in the war in a later stage. Jason at that point had the excuse of being dead, while his widow was busy defending the Westerlands from the Ironborn. "whereas Jeyne Arryn and Cregan Stark are in no way considered 'die-hard Blacks' at the beginning of the war." So I guess you agree that they were lukewarm about it, and not really eager to send armies to potentially get burned by dragons. And all of them had to think of their own lands, too, in the face of potential dangers... such as the Ironborn attacking the Westerlands. Which they eventually did.

Cregan Stark's and Jeyne Arryn's support for the Blacks was also lukewarm, as was Borros Baratheon's for the Greens. Most of the great houses, apart from those with relatives on the two Targaryen sides, or those who just needed an excuse to do their thing like the Red Kraken, weren't doing much until the late stage of the war...when most of the dragons were dead. I don't think you need to look for reasons beyond "don't really care about the Targaryen in fighting, don't want our armies to get burned by dragons".