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DarkCrawler posted:I have to agree, since the stupid prophecy poo poo is apparently GRRM's fault the additions they have done are really good. Rhaenyra and Alicent being friends before Alicent became queen adds a whole new dimension to their rivalry, for example. Criston Cole is more then a fuckstick, the show really has me guessing who spurned whom. And while I was certain Viserys would be my favorite character, the actor does an amazing job portraying a Targaryen king who is intelligent and even astute but who isn't super smart (like Jaehaerys I or Daeron II) and is simply too nice for his position - while consistently acknowledging this. He really manages to bring out the sheer love Viserys has for all his relatives with their horrible faults without making him seem like a simpering walkover. i am happy that i am actually invested in the story even though i know how it all turns out because while not perfect, they are making it interesting and making the characters way way more fleshed out then in the book. in the book, vicery comes off as a well meaning moron who gets played by everyone and always takes the worse possible choice because he is a dumb happy moron. i am curious how they will play with the strong accusations.
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bobjr posted:Grunkle Daemon "i am not going back to dornish prison" "yes burn the child"
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Platystemon posted:Borros Baratheon appears in the finale. Jeyne Arryn and Cregan Stark do not. that makes sense. follow luke as he goes to get allies and then season 2 follow jace so you have more time to build stuff up with the starks and leave reactions to lukes death til like episode 2/etc.
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I have seen people complain about the mass death and it’s like all the royals are sociopaths with nukes in their pockets, like with complaints about cersie I agree but with the targs, at best they have emperor of mankind level “love” for the commoners. They want to protect the population as a general concept but lol about the individual/town/etc level.
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Jerkface posted:bro the majority of the nobles do not give a poo poo about the small folk, and her saying that does not mean that the writers/us don't care about them. One of the best scenes in this season was the soldier praising Daemon for arriving on his dragon to rescue him only for the dragon to uncaringly stomp his rear end out and Daemon not give a single poo poo. Obviously Rhaenys is gonna care more about her noble lineage and not give a poo poo about the common folk getting smushed. The entire latter half of ASOIF is all about the various warring factions devastating the country side regardless of allegiance. this. the targarian's could give less of a gently caress about the small folk outside the vague idea of maybe some weird enlightened absolutism. they view them as a resource bar that replenishes by itself.
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twistedmentat posted:I literally just finished fire and blood and it reminded me a lot of history books I read in university, there was one about the hundreds year war that seemed very much like this, in that it jumped from source to source, saying that "the baron of Derbyshire was actually in Calis when Cercy happened so he couldn't have known this" and such. Though no one e talked about his huge hog. this. i tend to enjoy in universe texts and it very much works. twistedmentat posted:Yea that's exactly why I want to see it. He probably was a very good warrior, but they could show that planning was not his strong point but he still took the credit. I mean there good evidence he was a dummy because his son was a complete failure of a king, and then the next king was Maegor, so yea. maegor is fun because its very clear the dudes shooting blanks but the maesters because science and just cultural bigotries just blame the gods or the women.
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Dave Angel posted:It's an interesting theory. The other thing in the text to connect to and wonder about is warging, and how one mind inhabiting another could shape both. this and i think its clear that its better to get dragons when they are tiny/just hatched so they bond with you, i like that majima tagaryn is at the end of the day a dumb scared kid who knows how to hide his poo poo way way better.
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