The Young Maester

In our own world nobility could own land that wasn’t connected. We don’t see this much in Westeros because grrm probs wanted to make it all clean and easy to understand. The Royces in this case are the exception. Technically speaking the land of coldwaters is owned by House Royce, which is granted to the coldwaters to rule as bannermen. Same way arryns own the vale as their domain but they distributed land to their bannermen to rule for them.

The one and only thing I asked since before the show aired was for the lads to be on screen and portrayed accurately or atleast somewhat respective to f&b. If they cut Ben I’ll be annoyed. The lads are easily the only likeable characters during the dance. And the reception Oscar got from last episodes definitely shows that.

The whole Daemon plot has been really frustrating and is easily the worst plot of the season. Couldn't we have had the some of the Riverlords gather their hosts at Harrenhal after the fall of Stone Hedge like it happened in f&b. Instead of this hallucination plot, we could have had Daemon dealing with the squabbling Riverlords, which on its own would have been much more entertaining. Alyn looking like he’s seen many winters is also annoying. Alyn was one of my favorite characters from f&b because he was young and naive but very good at seafaring. This Alyn weve gotten seems mature, well-mannered, and just plain boring. Weve had enough boring and plain characters, please.

I agree when you walk into any high street in the uk you’ll see majority of the shops are big company owned ones like betting shops, retail stores, and food chains like Nando’s. Barely any family owned businesses operate on high streets anymore. Whilst if you go to somewhere like France you’ll see many family owned stores.

Never bothered even glancing at this thread. But now that I did I just wanna say something regarding OPs comment. More like if Dany were to roast the twins to crisp and massacre every single member. Shes likely to receive the fealty of half a dozen lords. All without having to shed a single drop of blood (except for frey blood of course). Lol

I agree, If I remember correctly the Valois were descendants of the capets through the female line which makes their claim much weaker than the Plantagenets. But since the french nobility didnt want an English king they ensured the Valois took it.

Considering that the dance was made after the first couple books came out. It wouldve been impossible for George to have storms end burnt. Since in ACOK we see it for all its glory with its curtain walls standing proud and unburnt.

Thats very true. Later we will see how people react to corlys.

I would love a dunk n egg series. Id prefer it over house of the dragon. As you said, those that read dunk and egg are more likely to watch it. But your average viewer wont find it as interesting.

Or he might just be seen as the opportunistic schemer that he was. But I agree they will make him a hero because of the spin off series. Plus he is black and they don’t need that criticism atm.

Yes that show was a bit too much on the sexual content part. I had a work colleague that hadnt watch the show nor read the books and he told me a friend said that a brother rapes his sister in a church. Lol what a way to scare people off. I heard a rumour that one of the producers was the creep that loved to add these scenes. Yes they definitely will tweak some things. One of the major ones is the whole Targaryen queen gone mad and killed off in an horrific way. Not to forget at the end she shows a mothers heart (people will see it as portraying a weak woman) when she tries to run and save her only child. I have always said that I want both factions to be portrayed as evil. Especially in a way that it forces the tv viewer to choose between green or blacks. This path would legit make them more money and generate more viewership. I know its hard to portray the greens as good guys or at-least support them on some way. But if D&D were able to whitewash Cersei and Tywin fucking Lannister, than im sure this new show can pull it off.

I have little faith in writers being able to replicate the success of GOT. Even if grrm is working alongside them. And its true the dance lacks everything that made GOT fun and interesting. But out of all the spin-off shows I think this one is the most likely to come somewhere closer to the success of its predecessor.

God can’t believe anyone actually liked that shit show of a season. Like even if you remove the massive book inaccuracies, the last season was abysmal for a tv shows standards.

Probably ruffians knifing each other in alley ways. My biggest theory is it will be about gangs plus random stories of poor smallfolk trying to live. Im not gonna put much thought into it since i dont really care much about it. But thats what first came to mind.

Yeah supposedly an animated show. HBO is really doing a Disney. They gonna milk this universe for all its got.

Yeah I remember hearing about that. I guess one of those weird instances they were given a second chance.

Thats the purpose of a pilot. You show it to the big bosses and other professionals that can determine whether it’s good. And if its not they get it cancelled.

Either way a long night series wouldnt have succeeded. It sounds very depressing and its just ice demons. House of the Dragon might succeed. It has that intrigue element of GOT. Although I worry they’ll just make it an action fest. I don’t remember who or where. But I do remember reading a quote from someone that works in hbo. They said something like “This new tv series will have all the dragons you loved and more”. People liked the dragons but it wasnt the sole reason it attracted new viewers.

I heard the pilot failed and they scraped it.

Martins magic wand decided to make a wish and that wish was for renlys army to not suffer anything related to hunger, disease, or desertion. But truthfully their isn’t a realistic explanation. It’s practically impossible to maintain such a force. So all I can say is Renlys great charm kept all negative things away (till the lord of light arrived).

I have trouble believing that lyanna would wait out the war whilst her kin are dead or dying. Whether he kidnapped her I really don’t know. We know so little that for me it’s a conflict whether she went willingly or was forced to. However when Lyanna heard of her brother and fathers death, I think rhaegar forced her to stay at the tower of joy. No way a girl like her would wait out the storm whilst her loved ones are dead.