“Godwin’s law itself can be applied mistakenly or abused as a distraction, diversion or even as censorship, when fallaciously miscasting an opponent’s argument as hyperbole when the comparison made by the argument is appropriate.”

Rules for thee but not for me. I mean it’s pretty much straight out of the fascist playbook. They’ll use literally anything to get what they want but they’ll cry foul the moment it’s used against them.

Welcome back to House Of The Dragon, the show designed especially for George R.R. Martin fans who wished that Game Of Thrones featured 80-percent more slow-moving court intrigue.

Still really enjoying it!

It’s a challenge, you know: one doesn’t want to respond to a review with “you just don’t get it man” because the whole purpose of a program like this is to invite discussion: the ambiguities and uncertainties are explicitly designed to position different audiences differently. Its not overly prescriptive about where…

Maybe it’s just me but the ‘glacial’ court scenes were far more interesting than a rote battle for battle’s sake - we don’t even get to see the actual highlight of it, Daemon versus the Crab Feeder, which happens off screen.

Also the dragons the arrive are not the forces that Viserys was sending (which did not…

The time jumps happen inbetween episodes, not within the episodes.

Assuming that Alicent & Rhaenyra are the same age, by now she’s 17, which is technically legal in most states in America. In ancient Rome it wasn’t uncommon for girls as young 14 or 15 to marry (& to be betrothed even younger), especially amongst the aristocracy (& for the same reasons as the marriages on Got & HotD).…

Also the Crabfeeder got Blackfished and he never had a single line.

The show would have been better off to deviate from the book and kill Viserys off during the hunt given how weak his character development has been and how the plot needs to get moving someplace if they’re not willing or able to do it with the characters.

The acting is, indeed, good, and the setting and characters are strong. I think the big strength of this show and GOT (at its height anyway) is that their stories are structured in such a way that characters are often facing genuinely difficult choices with big consequences. It makes the plot fun to guess at but…

the king seems content in his marriage (to, I will stress once again, an underage girl)

Hopefully it won’t be. Why? Because, and I may be getting this wrong, that would mean that Gandalf was around for the War of the Last Alliance, and therefore would have known exactly what The Ring was at Bilbo’s birthday party and wouldn’t have needed to spend years traveling around researching it.

Canonically Celebrimbor gets the idea to make the Rings from Sauron while he’s being held prisoner

Bezos pays us millions to talk about Finarfin as much as possible. It was literally my only job. Expect a Notes app apology asap

Really enjoying this show so far! Not the biggest fan of the proto-hobbits because gimme all the high fantasy now please, but even that storyline is moving at a faster pace than I expected. 

What is your fucking problem, problem probarillo?

First this was amazing. I am thrilled they got this right.

So far, I think it’s a good mix of both. The Harfoot and Durin scenes are fun and pretty light, everything with the elves has been serious and gritty.

I will never live this down. Thanks for catching that!

There’s some missed opportunities that arise from not having access to the complete lore - Galadriel’s character would be a lot more complex if the show could reference the Kinslaying and the exile of the Noldor (she willingly follows the Noldor into exile despite having fought against them in the Kinslaying defending…