To be fair... William Shakespeare did the exact same thing 400 years ago. Tragic miscommunications and misreadings of situations are kind of de jure for medieval dramas.

It would’ve helped if they hadn’t chose an actor for Aemond who was so much taller than Aegon. But then again, regardless of height, eye patches just seem to age a character.
I know, right?! They couldn’t even have thrown just a dash of talcum powder into Fabien Frankel’s luscious raven locks to make him look slightly…

Hey, people who’ve read the book, what are the odds that Laenor and Corlys (both conveniently out of the picture) reunite?

I feel like Luke really didn’t mean to slight Aemond (just reminiscing about a joke when they were younger), and if Aemond weren’t such a wormy psychopath, he could’ve been the bigger man and laughed along with him.

A clear distinction between this show and Game of Thrones is that only one noble house actually matters. It’s actually cute how poor Vaemond truly thinks it’s his. Like dude, come on, this show isn’t called House of the Seahorse. As has similarly been said before, his decapitation (while gruesome) would’ve had more…

Last week I hoped Alicent wouldn’t be made into “the villain.” For as much I disliked that she was playing right into her father’s desires, I understood the process that led sweet, nervous Alicent Hightower to become the paranoid, power-hungry Queen Alicent. She seemed a victim of the patriarchal system she was born…

Yeah nice try, but I see what you’re trying to do there both in trying to bait me and on claiming “truth to the book.” What happened on the show is not what happened in the book wherein Laena gives birth to a malformed boy that dies a few hours later and she lingers on in grief and agony for a few days before dying: “i…

Daemon faked Laenor’s death for Rhaenyra, that much is certain. But was it at her request or as an act of love for his wife? By that I mean his second wife. I’m not fully convinced by Daemon’s tough-guy persona, I get the feeling he did love Laena and does love his daughters. So is it conceivable that he gave his…

You’re being pedantic and need to sit down. You wrote this response at about 1 AM, hours after the episode premiered while the reviewer had to have this turned in at 10. Is it any wonder that insipid details like 2 and 3 get flubbed? You don’t dictate the deadlines the staff are under here at this site. As for 1 and…

Yeah it’s pretty ambiguous, but I guess so.
It was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment when Daemon killed Corlys’ brother (I’m pretty sure that’s who the rando in the fireplace was), I had to rewind. If this was just Qarl’s decision to save his boyfriend, he’d have been the one to procure the body double, not Daemon. Sim…

If he’s not careful, he’ll grow up to be Tommen Baratheon.
When he was doing his window wank, did anyone else’s mind drift back to the third king of the Baratheon dynasty and his suicide? I hope he’s sure-footed.

That’s just headcanon. This show isn’t exactly subtle. If they wanted us to believe that a servant talked and details of it reached the Velaryon household (specifically Laena), then they would have indicated already and not left it up to guesswork.
And oh yeah, I’m sure that’s a detail Visery would be thrilled to…

I don’t know if we’re supposed to be on her side, but I do think we’re to understand how she went from this very naive girl to someone who will slowly lose her humanity to protect her children.

Oh my god, right? Who the fuck cares? I don’t. I thought the Crabfeeder was supposed to be a recurring villain for the series but then Daemon carved him up like a Thanksgiving entree. The guy never even said a single line. It seems clear this whole Triarchy threat is just meant to be a nuisance; something to make buzz…

Is THAT the reasoning? Laena had already given birth successfully twice? Even if the child had died in the process, did she think she was going to die? Or are you saying that she feared Daemon was going to cut her open like Aemma (because canonically, nobody besides Viserys and the Maester know what happened)?

Really? because I’m detecting some parallelism. 
History might not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

I wouldn’t dare say that he didn’t truly love her, but Laena’s death really does seem like a greater loss for the show (and its reputation) than it does for Daemon. Last week it was suggested that the HOTD was being careless by using the brutal death of a minority character (Joffrey Lonmouth) for spectacle. While that…

UGH! A- seems a bit generous because much like Watermelon Steven, I found myself impatient and annoyed that I had to put up with this nonsense.

Two thoughts:

“However, I really can’t see the show going anywhere meaningful from here now that we know that the only way to get people excited is to bring back fan favorite characters and/or plotlines.”