Denam_Pavel

I think it's asking a lot to believe Sara Snow exists. No one makes any mention of her existence other then Mushroom, who says Jacaerys came back married to her.

Someone that stands to lose their legitimate place in succession to someone he lost an eye too and has the biggest dragon by several orders of magnitude is indeed a bigger problem then any example you gave. Expect maybe Daemon, but that's why they DID do stuff about him, however ineffectually. No one was nonchalant about the Daemon problem.

Aerea wasn't Balerion's actual rider while she lived in Westeros and was part of the succession, her first ride on his back ended her after a gruesome fashion. Rhaenyra has plenty reason to believe Aemond wasn't gonna suffer the Strong boys to sit the throne before him or his brother, a matter that would be all but decided the moment Rhaenyra ascended the throne herself. Once Rhaenyra sits throne, appoints a new Hand, unexiles Daemon it's over. Bastardblood would succeed Rhaenyra.

To be fair Ser Criston Cole canon history ended up still more impressive then Ser Ryam Redwyne, a tourney knight who if he ever even went to war never did so without a bunch of dragons flying top cover.

I gotta say I really dislike how the show has clearly taken sides when it comes to matter of the Stepstones. Stepstones lay on the route of important shipping routes, for sure. Dealing with pirates there is a matter of importance Corlys was right to bring to the table. It does not however border on the Realm as it exists in this time period, it borders on Dorne and Tyrosh. Tyrosh is basically in the Stepstones really. In the books establishing a kingdom there was portrayed as Daemon's folly that no one else really partakes in and even once he lets it go, everyone else does too. Sending armies to the Stepstones to make permanent fortifications would declare on everyone else that wants to use those shipping route too. But no one gets to make reasoned argument against this.

That's a big supposedly we are hinging Daemon's innocence on. People were disgusted by how short a time of mourning he gave Laena before moving on to better prospects. He's tried to have his marriage set aside. He's tried to convince the King to let him marry Rhaenyra as a second wife after damaging her reputation, he tried to give his unborn bastard child a dragonegg with the intent to treat them as his trueborn heir. None of it worked, then Rhae dies, within a year he remarries, gets his new wife with child with twins that would just barely be old enough to participate in the Dance of Dragons only at the very end of the war. This is all in the show and in the books. In the books he seemingly got lucky after years of wasting his time trying to circumvent the Rhae problem by less effective means. In show he definitely took steps to solve the problem he faced. In both cases it's baffling he waited as long as he did and narratively speaking ran out of time before this event needed to happen for him.

We hardly know that Lady Rhea's nephew couldn't wait for her to die. We definitely do know that Daemon needed her to die, pronto.

I think it's important to note that the Lannister bros seemingly got into the action and were also pushing Leanor around and given that the people at the table couldn't see anything, they were likely the witnesses whose account was given the most weight, and probably took Criston's side being soon to be Greens and all.

Given Daemon's crystalclear goals, it's dumb he didn't arrange for his wife's death much earlier. That was always gonna be true. That was already true before this show was made. He hungers for the throne, any throne, he tries to give Myseria's child a dragon egg, establishes a kingdom in the Stepstones, Leanor, Leana and Harwin die under suspicious circumstances making his ascension possible, he uses his goldcloak connections to murder his baby cousins but all the while he waited decades for a happy accident to allow him to have any trueborn heirs at all. Just like Clubfoot just because the maesters couldn't build a consistent narrative around it, doesn't mean there's nothing there.

Sorry I was looking at the wrong place, I thought Septon Eustache's account didn't involve Daemon, but with him Daemon and Criston were just two disconnected incidents.

Daemon did get exiled from court again, only Mushroom's version gave an explanation why. Mushroom sure did some embellishing but there's clearly some kernel of truth in his version alone. As opposed to like Sara Snow, who we have no reason to believe ever existed outside Mushroom's stories.

The slow taking of the armour to me just helped show that in practicality the princess really can't just order him onto the bed and get going, he had quite some time to consider his options and walk away.

It rose plenty of eyebrows when they returned to camp, Rhaenyra was just a little too covered in viscera for rumors to go in that particular direction but again if the very idea of them being their sole guard is unthinkable as a rule, then there is zero, absolutely zero point to having Kingsguard at all,

A succession war fought between dragonriders, even someone with no prior knowledge of the show could piece together that this where things are going.

Valyrian and Velaryon sound almost identical, if they also look and are dressed exactly the same as the Targaryans I do think a lot of show viewers will miss the distinction. And Corlys, Leana and Baela are cooler then the Hightowers. And Laenor will be much more sympathetic character then even show Alicent.

If they connect the Wall, Casterly Rock and the Rainwood then yes, it definitely is the entire length of Westeros, many, thousands of miles of tunnel, a completely different ballgame from the comparatively tiny cave the Brotherhood used.

It's also that during every single telling of a war in Westeros, we need to make special mention of how the Brackens and Blackwoods take the opportunity to absolutely destroy each other again.

More like he expected Renly to not make it out of KL either, so he could move forward without being accused of being a kinslayer.

She could, I dunno, conduct a trail? Sentence them to death? Convict Tyene for her own crimes rather use her as a human prop to torture someone else?

Aemon had already sworn away his last name as a maester at the time, then he took additional vows as a member of the Night's Watch for good measure to make absolutely sure he couldn't be used. Bran STARK just hanging out at Winterfell while Jon Snow won' t even take the name of the House he claims to lead should be a big problem.

Bran can do the reading and writing part himself.

Let's not forget that the Pink Letter stipulated that Mance Raydar, an oathbreaker, was alive and set free south of the Wall, thanks to Jon as well. the Night's Watch was given no context for that.

Cersei's Walk of Shame deserves points. The Benjen thing was original both in universe and from meta point of view. I'll give them a 4 out of 10 for that.

Welp, i didn't like this episode very much -Really beat us over the head with the "Tyrion in Meereen is gonna be like Tyrion in KL" thing -Probably waited too long with sending Sam away, there was no reason to wait till literally the last scene before Jon gets killed -Stannis got screwed over and over and over again -Stannis lets himself by killed in the same of Renly, the one true king -Ramsay's cruelty once again translates to invincibility in D & D's eyes -Additionally, Boltons being the bad guys means they suddenly have many thousands of horses. -Sansa can't seem to find her way around Winterfell -Depending on the circumstances Myranda's motivations change completely, just to make her the cruel obstactle that thus, automatically holds all the power -Only people in the North that matter in Sansa's escape are a Stormlander, a Westerlander and an Ironborn -Daenerys' time among the Dothraki seems like it will be one of captivity to be rescued from -Meryn Trant has to be as evil as physically possible -every character in the City of Dorne was a waste this season, save maybe Jaime -Alliser has no more reason to kill Jon now then he did when he decided to let Jon and hundreds of wildlings through the Wall

Yeah, father no children. It doesn't offer the attendum, "bastards don't count, go have fun". Whores at Moletown probably drink moontea and stuff, but having Gilly as a girlfriend for a months long voyage is wholly different story.