“I think the real issue around how LGBTQ characters are treated in the GOT universe is that they are always second or third-tier”

This is a great point and I think my only frustration with queer characters on (either) show.  With such sprawling casts they rarely get much to do (or else just when they are getting…

Sure, it’s definitely a more straightforward set of facts, although it does seem a bit odd that the kid could pull out a sword in the presence of the crown princess, and nobody (including her guards) would bat an eyelash. One would have thought that all petitioners would be disarmed before being allowed into…

Only Prinsloo comes out looking good in this. Unless she is claiming some kind of strong arming here, I don’t see how she was “manipulated”. She wasn’t working for him. He has no direct power over her beyond his fame and it’s her choice to be blinded by his assholery or not. Stroh is 23, she knows what marriage is and…

Book folks also state that incident led to bad blood between those two houses for years.

Cole and Lonmoth are both lesser houses (though based on a quick consultation of the ASOIAF wiki I believe Lonmoth might have been held in slightly higher esteem.) Criston, however, is in the Kingsguard, which is a position of extremely high honor - members forfeit any hereditary lands or titles, like the Night’s…

It might be, oddly enough. If you recall, in last week’s episode the young lordling who presented himself as a candidate for Rhaenyra’s hand ran another guy straight through with his sword, and nobody blinked an eyelash. Although it does seem rather odd that King Viserys would not have had his guards intervene to stop…

I don’t think anything about that scene left the impression that people were fine with seeing Ser Joffrey get “flat out murdered.”  There were weeklong wedding ceremonies planned, and instead the royal family held a quickie wedding designed to just get the thing over with.

People getting away with murder if they have a slightly higher position than their victim in the social hierarchy is, like, what this show/GoT is about. A knight of the Kingsguard beating a man to death is 100% fine as long as they can cite “Honor” in their defense. (Plus Queen Alicent has been handed a useful idiot…

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I will say, Sir Criston murdering a friend of the future king, in front of the current king, and everyone else at his princess’s betrothal and it’s fine, doesn’t make a lot of sense.

I think some of the “backlash against criticism about representation” is about the fact that it sometimes feels like it’s the only subject critics are interested in. This was, by far, the best episode of House of the Dragon. It managed to create a tension the show has been lacking, and ended with a scene where all the…

I’m just disappointed that Cole didn’t kill Joffrey by going beast mode in the tournament melee and also breaking Ser Harwin “Breakbones” Strong’s collarbone and elbow in the process, like in the book.

As someone who had read the main novels (and are done with them) and tried to read Fire & Blood, giving up after 50 pages the wikied it, Otto’s portrayal so far has been disappointing. Not because of Rhys Ifans, who is always great, but because the show is trying to span so many years so quickly and the history of…

Non-book person here too, my impression is that he is less neither Littlefinger nor Varys because even when Otto is plotting, he seems to color inside the lines. Sure throwing his daughter in front of the king is manipulative and self-serving, but it is also parasitic. He doesn’t seem to make the same kind of big…

I was thinking last night that he’s a mix of Littlefinger and the Archbishop from The Great. More Littlefinger, obviously.

I don’t get the sense that he’s malicious, but he definitely seems opportunistic.

Porn actor hired for HOTD sex-extra: “Oh, I only have to 69 for 12 hours while this weird little kid and Prince Philip watch? Cool, once I had to DV/DA for like 18 hours!”

The brothel scene and the sex scene with Rhaenyra and Cole was super uncomfortable. I know her character is legally of age. I know the actress is 22 in real life. But she looks so young!

You also weren't a princess...  sooooooo

Turns out the Canadians already wrote a song about Daemon’s and Rhaenyra’s relationship