Winterfell is Burning

None of them beats "THERE'S NO BOOK CLUB?" though.

Ep1 was relatively slower, but it's promising. I feel Taissa's wife might not be for long in this world if she doesn't change her mind.

Caught up with this, and, while by no means perfect, it's a hell of a ride. It's really a very binge-watch type of show, which takes you into the thrills and wondering what happens next as long as you don't think too much about the obvious mistakes (the whole Adam plotline, how the hell that plane was working,.etc). Absolutely flawless casting all-around, and I'm looking forward to see where this goes

All this and no Michael Caine yet? Blasphemy!

King Louis CK!

Of course it's not only that they have brown hair- is that they look very similar to Robert Strong, while looking nothing like Laenor, who is gay. In the show, of course he's even from a different ethnicity, which makes the problem worse (of course, in the books he's even more clearly gay). The issue is that it's an obvious weakness that can be easily exploited by enemies as a casus belli. IRL that already happened even when there's no evidence that the King/heir was a bastard, imagine when there is. Even more due to the fact that she's a woman when there's sons available.

It's her duty to have children...with her husband. Not having three bastards, specially when they are obviously not her husband's. And it's not like she knew Aegon would turn out to be a vile POS before she begun having children.

The men are the ones having the bastards, though. And even then, they are rarely acknowledged, specially if the man is already married. Rhaenyra having bastards and acknowledging them publicly would be enough to make the Velaryons dissolve the marriage if they wanted to, have her branded as a whore in the eyes of most people, and have her political situation be unsustainable. Really, the whole issue is that Rhaenyra shouldn't have had children in the first place, it ends or at least reduces a lot the risk of a succession crisis, since Aegon is the heir anyway. Particularly in the show, where they age difference is pretty much mother and child.

Because they decided to not have him murder Laenor.

They had murder Rhea because they didn't have him murder Laenor. Which, yes, he clearly did in the book.

You're overthinking this: her saying Aegon mostly ignores her when he's drunk doesn't mean they never had sex- pretty sure Aegon would notice and care his wife is getting pregnant without they ever sleeping together

That doesn't mean he's sleeping with his sister- would be in character for him, not for her.

That doesn't make any sense. Nothing indicates he's sleeping with Helaena

I liked the "change" (as pointed out, nobody knows if it's really a change, because there were no witness to the actual fight- show Aemond so far has not been murderous, just a prick). I don't think they're whitewashing anyone- as pointed out numerous times, the book is based on conflicting and in many cases biased stories. It also just makes more sense to have the characters keep escalating in awfulness as the war wages on. Season 1 Aemond won't be a ruthless murderer spreading terror throughout the Riverlands, s03 will be.

There's no way now to introduce Daeron without completely befuddling people who are not book readers. All they needed to do was show him as a kid or something, and wouldn't have to spend a minute with him. A very stupid mistake, if they actually intend him to be there.

I don't know if you noticed but people are super tribal about EVERYTHING these days.

The thing is that she starts playing the character in her 20's. It can be done, but the show should pay more attention to makeup to make the characters look older as they age

Pandemic forced more people to work remotely and have the scripts at home with them

Like I said, the list of great writers that didn't get the award is a lot bigger than the ones that did. Hell, even Tolstoy- Tolstoy! was alive during the first ten years of the prize and didn't win

Yeah, Olivia Cooke is the one that had a much more established career- worked with Spielberg, a fairly big role in Sound of Metal, which got nominated for Best Picture and won Oscars, was in a movie that won Sundance, etc, though nothing as big as this show (she also seemed to be too often cast in "the girl next door love interest we're pretending is not being played by an actress that could double duty as a supermodel" type, which is very common in Hollywood). HOMELANDER has lots of people thinking he's the hero. The guy who kickstarts the whole plot by raping someone, and kills people at random when they annoy him. That guy. Heh...frankly everything I hear about the After The Episode explanations make the characters and the people involved look dumber.

Daemon is not more in love with Nettles than he is for any other girl that he has a fancy for. His ultimate love is himself.

Again, makes no sense for Daemon to be abandoning his family to spend most of his time with this commoner girl out of "paternal feelings" when he barely has all that much of those about his own children to begin with. And I don't know about book Viserys, but show Viserys is clearly way too sick to be having affairs and showed no inclination to that even when he was in better health.

Heh...not really. First of all, the relationship between the two of them is clearly sexual- no way Daemon would be barely be with his own family to just "hang out" with a girl he is not sleeping around with, just out of "paternal love". Your stuff about Alicent murdering her mother makes even less sense than that. Viserys clearly is not having affairs in the show, not just for lack of interest, but also lack of physical capacity, and nothing indicates Alicent would be capable of just murder someone for pure jealousy- at least at this point of the show.

The show REALLY needed an episode between 5 and 6. This one should be the 9th. I agree entirely. Even after she's nominated heir, she shows no interest in actually learning how to rule.

Killing Vaemond doesn't prove him wrong though. Specially not if you go behind his back, right before the king ordered a less drastic measure. It's not just that- it becomes clear than even if the two of them reach a deal, the resentment among the kids is too strong (no pun intended). And Otto and Daemon are not really ever in the mood to pacify anything.