Well, I get what you mean but the point here is that the book in question isn’t a novel but rather a fictional history book intentionally written to imitate the kind of bias and bullshit peppered into real historical texts. So it’s built on the accounts of primarily 2 fictional characters with often conflicting…

Also, I’m pretty sure Daenerys was the one doing the subjugating in her FWB/NSA arrangement with Daario and Arya came onto Gendry, then laughed in his face when he proposed to her later.

I’ll be the first to admit the showrunners fucked some of the sex stuff from the books up in outstanding ways. Namely the scene where…

Oh good, is this the errors thread? Better this week, but it wasn’t an actor playing Daemon that pulled out the rope cock, it was an actor playing baby Aegon.

That whole sequence with Daemon and Rhaenyra was fantastic. So vivid, visual, and well-acted. I love how it ends in such an unglamorous way, with Daemon just leaving Rhaenyra standing there with her pants down in the middle of the brothel. And then the way that Rhaenyra takes charge afterwards to fuck someone she does…

Came down here to say exactly this. We’d already seen the weapon (looks to me like a hatchet-cum-hammer) wielded several times by the Crabfeeder, & never by Daemon, who has a named sword (Dark Sister) we’ve seen him use repeatedly. Also, the line “Add it to the throne” makes it obvious that it’s not Daemon’s. The…

Pretty sure that was the Crab Feeder’s axe (was more of a maul as he used the hammer end to nail people to wood for his crab buddies), not his.

It didn’t look like it.  Daemon left just when it was heating up.

• Otto gets his gossip from an anonymous source he calls the White Worm. Is this person House Of The Dragon’s version of the Master of Whisperers?

The White Worm refers to Mysaria. Just like the masters after her, she has agents of “little bird” children in King’s Landing, but the title is more confusing here because in the book, she is so deathly pale that not even blood of Valyria would compare.

My whole reason for enjoying assassin's Creed is because I like history to the point that I wanted more representation of less culturally popular eras.... Crusades era Mideast the Italian Renaissance, the American Revolution all have lots of serious representation, AC gave us the chance to enjoy that history in a more…

Wondering if HEXE could be Northern European/Baltic based. Plenty of history in that part of the world that would rekindle the first game’s focus on Crusade zealotry and mostly unexplored in gaming and wider pop-culture.

True, Japan when America was pushing to modernize japan and the Satsuma rebellion happened would make a good setting. Templars come over with the Americans, the assassins fight with/for Satsuma, etc.

I get that the point was to contrast her with Halbrand who can be diplomatic and likeable even when clearly angry (speaking fair but feeling foul, maybe?). But I’d expect someone who’s been alive since the literal dawn of time to have a little more self-control 

Halbrand’s story will probably a Boromir story. He is probably one of the kings of men who gets tempted by the power of the rings and becomes a Nazgul. There’s nine of those guys and we barely know anything about them.

Well that was decades of imagining Numenor completely exceeded by a production team that clearly spent as long wishing for it. Absolutely thrilling. And they’re using at least some natural landscapes for it. Production photos show the beach scenes are on location and really look like that (if a bit color enhanced.)

Were they using the Straight Road? If that term was used, I must have missed it. Prior to the fall of Numenor elves could just sail back to Valinor and be accepted, which is I thought they were depicting. Though they obviously changed it up in the sense that Galadriel got that close and jumped into the sea rather than…

I doubt Halbrand is being set up to be Sauron. He’s a king remember. Him and eight other guys are about to receive some pretty impressive designer jewellery.

“Somehow every man she talks with gets pegged as her love interest against all evidence.”

It’s for budget/quality reasons. They have a certain budget, and they can use that to make 22-25 really cheap episodes, or 8-10 higher quality ones. Lost was a fairly high budget show by the standards of the time, but it also didn’t require a lot in the way of sets, costumes, or special effects (though those did come…

I mean, I don’t find this particularly “Disney-esque,” but I do think they had to keep things somewhat conventional. Unfortunately, you probably can’t spend billions on a show that experimental.