Mithras

This is how HBO is thinking of "fixing" GoT's ending. It wasn't Dany who burned King's Landing, it was Drogon 

1 hour ago, Takiedevushkikakzvezdy said:

I mean, I have some issues with HotD, but it is a faithful adaptation for the most part.

And so is GoT but the double standard in the fandom is hilarious.

This Episode so far was the most brazen, undeniable example of ruining the existing material and preferring stupid spectacles over logic/storytelling, something for which the book-purist fandom (which by the way mostly shills for Hot D because they are led to believe that this show is a GRRM-approved faithful adaptation) hated the last seasons of GoT and blamed it all on D&D. Well, they are not here and we are still getting the same stuff. Perhaps it is time to start figuring out the responsibility of Sapochnik or even HBO governors in the GoT's final seasons.

In Season 2 or 3 of Hot D, I can see the fandom saying that D&D did nothing wrong.

That dragon-dais starefest was dumber than Jon screaming at unViserion but here we are.

19 minutes ago, Ingelheim said:

Yeah it seems to me they are going to make Cole-Alicent a thing in Season 2. They are heavily hinting at Cole being in love with her. And IIRC in one of the Inside Episodes or interviews of the first part of the season they said young Alicent had a crush on him.

The writers seem to have misunderstood what "Kingmaker" stands for in the book 

9th episode so far and we have had more than 9 different characters which the writers want us to believe to be Alicent 

10 hours ago, DMC said:

Well, you said the Valar don't have children or interest in sex, whereas Sauron was a Maia and Melian is one who obviously had sex and a child.

Anyway, again, the way I took is what "attracts" Sauron to Galadriel is her power, which sounds pretty Sauron to me.

Well, Luthien managed to give Morgoth a boner, so we have the Valar checked as well.

Also IIRC, the original conception of the Valar were much more like the Norse pantheon where the gods were having children (like some prominent Maiar were originally children of the Valar).

The idea of Targaryen/Valyrian blood supremacy is a bad jape.

I have this special blood that ... pretty much half of Westeros and all of Essos populations have.

1 hour ago, The Bard of Banefort said:

Rhaenyra vs. Alicent battle-of-the-bitches

That is Condal's idea of writing strong female characters.

9 hours ago, Ser Drewy said:

Anyone else find Disa's greedy/opportunistic turn kind of weird? Doesn't seem like the Disa we've been seeing throughout the show. Which is a pity, since I thought the Durin/Durin and Elrond/Durin scenes were pretty good (healing Mithril aside...)

The shadow fell upon khazad dum as it happened in Numenor. The evil has awakened.

The Harfoots are not Hole-builders yet.

Wasn't this episode supposed to be where we see piles of dragon shit?

Women are so 20th century. We live in the age of gays now. You can't kill your gay characters, especially if they are black. How the show handled Rhea and Laena would have caused a feminist outrage (and deservedly so) if we still lived in the 20th century.

Blood purists are on suicide watch 

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... as are the sworn enemies of polygamy  

I don't see why people are bothered with the collapse of the dam. It is no different than the magic gates of the dwarves that we see in Hobbit and LotR, except being on a grander scale because Sauron's skill >> dwarves.

14 minutes ago, Corvinus85 said:

Orcs just want a home of their own, if only Elves and Men weren't so mean to them.

To be fair, they wanted to be free from Sauron and his bloody experiments.

RoP >>> .... >>> The O.C. > Hot D > Batwoman

1 minute ago, Takiedevushkikakzvezdy said:

I can't really tell, but some have pointed out that the window where Aegon did his thing is the same one that Tommen jumped out of in GoT.  Which makes everything even more awkward.

D&D missed a golden opportunity to foreshadow Tommen's suicide. They should have written a sex scene for Jaime&Cersei in the first season at the same room in which Jaime would finish from the same spot.

13 minutes ago, butterweedstrover said:

character development

The old and young versions of Alicent (and of Rhaenyra to a certain extent) act like totally different characters. So, I wouldn't expect any amount of character development to bridge this insurmountable gap.

They should have either skipped the first 5 episodes and started from here, or extended them to a full season and let this be the start of the second season. But then again, both options would be equally bad as the one we get, for different reasons.

There is just no good way to tell a bad story.

If D&D wrote Rhea's and Laena's deaths like these, they would have been blamed as filthy misogynists.

I like the fact that the only counter argument people have against Jon=Aegon is that they just hate it.

I enjoy this show so much, but not as much I watch people malding 

Sauron is probably aware of the fact that the elves are doomed to die if they stay. So he wanted to dominate the next best race, hence Numenor. After learning the discovery of mithril and the elvish plans to forge the rings, he will reconsider.

Sothoryos, because no one comes back from Valyria.

No. GRRM is pulling a Lost.