Mithras
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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.
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If D&D wrote Rhea's and Laena's deaths like these, they would have been blamed as filthy misogynists.
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I like the fact that the only counter argument people have against Jon=Aegon is that they just hate it.
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I enjoy this show so much, but not as much I watch people malding
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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.
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Sothoryos, because no one comes back from Valyria.
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No. GRRM is pulling a Lost.
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Flight ticket prices from Moscow to Istanbul are hiking real quick.
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Expectation: historical realism, aristocrats acting like aristocrats
Reality: The O.C. with tits and dragons
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If these HotD writers make an adaptation of the Shining, I can already see their version of Jack Torrance. It would probably weird out even King himself.
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If you think I am being overly dramatic, consider this.
I live in a country where the violence against women is a serious problem. We see husbands killing their wives on a daily basis and most of the time they are getting away with it. This one dropped to the news just now: a husband stabbed his wife 44 times and slit her throat in front of their 2 children.
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37 minutes ago, Winterfell is Burning said:
Are we supposed to be deeply upset someone that ordered a child who's a member of his family to be murdered in the book murdered his wife in the show?
I don't have anything against Daemon being shown as the monster he is. My gripe is with the handling of this scene in the show. They portray the wife as annoying and condescending towards the husband as if "the bitch had it coming". She even thinks that the husband came to kill her, so that she acts first and she literally ends up having it coming. Even then, they give the agency to the horse instead of the husband. They let the wife be even more annoying on the ground so that the husband who was walking away would feel no guilt about "mercy-killing" the wife. Yes, the whole thing looks like it was not cold blooded murder but Daemon mercy-killed the bitch of a wife who had it coming.
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43 minutes ago, C.T. Phipps said:
Like I said, I think Daemon didn't kill his wife out of calculated planning.
Because Daemon doesn't plan.
He's objectively terrible at it.
That is the excuse used by the show writers to exonerate/glorify a fan favourite character that murders his wife. I don't understand why people are not mad with how the writers handled this scene. This shit should cause more controversy than the entirety of GoT.
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This was the best episode so far and it will only get better from now on.
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4 hours ago, The Bard of Banefort said:
The more I reflect on this episode, the less I like it. The show is feeling increasingly nihilistic, the characters less likable. Does anyone else get a similar vibe?
Nihilistic? Targaryens are on a holy mission to save the world
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So the Meteor Man leads the Harfoots out of Southlands that is soon to be Mordor. On the way, they pass through the territory of the ent-wives, learn agriculture from them and change their migratory ways for good. They permanently settle into a new land in the north, close to the ancestors of the Rohirrim.
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3 minutes ago, The hairy bear said:
Alyssa from the show seems to have outlived her book version. Viserys claims that Daemon was her favourit because he was a "warrior", but according to Fire and Blood she died when Daemon was just 3.
Or the writers kinda forgot about Alyssa.
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Getting worse. Now we are in the full soap opera territory.
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14 hours ago, mormont said:
Snails aren't vegetables...
Neither are bees
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6 minutes ago, Werthead said:
House of the Dragon is having moments of almost equally weird dumbness - Daemon Leeroy Jenkinsing his way into a battle, but wins, and Rhaenyra, Heir to the Realm, vanishing for a day and a half and everybody being really chill with it - but I think it is benefiting from a focus that RoP lacks, and the moment-to-moment scripting is far superior, although to be fair GRRM's writing style is far easier to ape than Tolkien's.
Agreed. Though to be fair, the source material RoP has to deal with is much more problematic than Hot D.
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Still better than Hot D
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3 hours ago, C.T. Phipps said:
Rhaenyra won the war but the sexism of the Westeros culture marks her as a usurper.
I mean, this is wrong. The show keeps saying that the Lords of Westeros would never suffer a woman on the Iron Throne. Nevermind the fact that half of them will fight for Rhaenyra till the bitter end and then some. The same is true for the books. GRRM back in the day wrote this king list where Aegon II is counted as the king and he has no choice but to roll with it. But it doesn't make sense why the blacks won the war but still consider Aegon II as the official king. It is not like Maegor who did a lot of uncontested ruling that it is hard to ignore him.
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15 hours ago, Lord Varys said:
That's not what the casual viewer is waiting for.
What is the casual viewer waiting for in this show?
[Spoilers] Episode 106 Discussion
in E06: The Princess and the Queen
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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.