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teej6

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  1. I didn’t see it, but I heard the sound. Was it a drill? Imagine listening to this every day for the past two wks not knowing if the roof over your head is going to cave in.
  2. I have a feeling Carlson and his team (his producer was also fired) went rogue with the interview with Trump earlier this month. Rupert Murdoch may not have sanctioned it (they probably wanted to give time for DeSantis to get his ducks in order) and this must have been the final straw. Carlson was already too big for his shoes and Rupert and Lachlan may have thought now was the time (after Dominion settlement) to end ties.
  3. Jon Stuart’s view on indicting Trump: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/03/26/jon-stewart-donald-trump-possible-indictment-gps-vpx.cnn
  4. How does he “clearly” murder Laenor in the books? Laenor was killed in public in a fair by Ser Qarl. Again, it was Mushroom who suggested that it was Daemon who paid Qarl to kill Laenor.
  5. sounds like something you’d order off a fastfood menu
  6. Her granddaughters’ father is probably #2 on the Green’s hit list. She may not like him but she must see and recognize that. So by association, her granddaughters are at risk. Or does she expect them to disown their father?
  7. yeah didn’t think of that. all those rocks falling when Meleys smashed through a wall of concrete/ stone… not one seemed to land on Rhaenys naked head. I know I’m just nitpicking now… but can’t help it with that idiotic scene.
  8. I do hope so but my strong suspicion is that they will gloss over it as they did Cole’s murder of Joffrey. Maybe they can make the Shepherd or his family a casualty of Meleys destruction. This may give him a backstory for his hate and passion. But I’m not counting on it.
  9. Ah I liked that line. I like how they are portraying Halaena in general… a Cassandra like figure. But as someone previously mentioned the actress playing her looks almost the same age as Olivia Cooke.
  10. I hope they don’t make it a love story like Naerys and Aemon.
  11. Okay within the same post you are contradicting yourself. If Alicent is loyal to Viserys and his wishes her “goal” would not be installing Aegon on the throne. [and all that nonsense of Viserys choosing Aegon on his deathbed is just that — utter nonsense… something the writers came up with to make Alicent more sympathetic. Or is Alicent so dumb to take the ramblings of a dying man high on milk of the poppy literally?] And as the Vaemond fiasco in the last episode showed us Alicent was not being loyal to Viserys’ wishes when she allowed Vaemond to raise the topic of Driftmark’s succession and the legitimacy of Rhaenyra’s children in open court. There were OMG looks between Alicent, Vaemond, and Otto when Viserys walkef into court.
  12. From a narrative stand point, this gives her decision not to kill the Green faction some color. She’s not decided on who she supports and it’s not her war. But then if she thought a bit deeper, her family (through her granddaughters) is nominally aligned with the Blacks and her grand daughters’ lives could be at risk by association. And does she really expect Corlys to sit out the war if he recovers? Again, this gives more context to her decision not to kill the Greens but her busting through like that and in the process killing all those small folk made no sense, when she could have flown her dragon out through one of the normal exits… I’m sure there’s one in the dragonpit. This was just another random spectacle or badass moment simply for the purpose of having one. Condal or Sapochnik stated as much.
  13. But that’s not the Alicent projected until Ep 8. She was part of the small council in the Ep and it seemed to me the rest of the council was taking her direction, at least in the council chamber. She definitely had a voice. And in the last episode, had she not gone along, the coup would not have happened. You said it yourself, there would have been no coup if Alicent didn’t go along with the conspiracy. so what was Otto’s plan B?
  14. I agree. Otto should have had a contingency plan if there was even a slight chance that Alicent would not join them in the coup. I mean otherwise the man comes across as a complete moron. His life’s work and ambitions all thrown away because his daughter that morning decided to fight for her friend’s rights. This is why Alicent not knowing about the coup in advance doesn’t make much sense. How was Otto going to implement this coup if Alicent disagreed with him? What would have been his contingency plan? Lock his daughter and the King’s mother in her chambers?
  15. I doubt the small folk are going to care if the killing of 100s was intentional or not.
  16. Aemond actually says “I’m next in line”. That does not imply he’s usurping Aegon’s rights but his son’s.
  17. Or she could have simply asked the High Septon to step away from the others. I’m sure he’d have no trouble obliging her.
  18. Criston Cole is turning out to be the only true villain in this show with little to no redeeming quality. His motives are a mess. Maybe they’ll show him nudge Aemond into full blown madness.
  19. So I watched the scene again when Ser Erryk picks her up… no armor then. maybe she carries an armor suit on Meleys, who knows. Maybe, I’ll enjoy these shows better if I stop caring about continuity and logical progression in scenes.
  20. As I said above, he would be considered regent until his nephews came of age.
  21. He would be considered regent to the heir until he came of age. Otherwise, he is usurping his nephews’ rights.
  22. But in this case, there is no dispute, right? By male primogeniture, Aegon’s son is next in line after his father. Aemond should have no claim as long as Aegon’s sons live.
  23. Again, another inconsistency. Don’t they remember their script or do they write scenes independent of one another.
  24. If only writers cared more about logic and continuity in the story and stopped trying to make badass moments. Sapochnik states that they wanted a penultimate scene and decided that a dragon let lose is the worst thing that could happen in a coronation. So, they don’t care if that scene makes sense or there’s any logic to it, they just want spectacle and a badass moment for Rhaenys.
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