Tortoise Media, which as I write this is the only source for this story, is a far right podcast strongly tied to Boris Johnson, and best known for screaming about trans people. Neil Gaiman has been hugely critical of Johnson ever since he came onto the public scene, and is currently doing multiple projects with strong…

Plenty of people in open relationships don’t commit sexual assault.  Not saying Gaiman is innocent but it’s this sorta attitude that gets innocent peoples railroaded as “sexual deviants”. 

I could be wrong, but I disagree. I don’t think him entering that brothel is as big a coincidence as you’re making it seem. Remember that according to Aemond it was Aegon who first took him there so he could lose his virginity. I doubt he had any idea his brother was having therapy sessions with the woman who took his…

want her to secrete herself away somewhere

He was drunk, but that scene very much came across to me as Aegon trying to humiliate his brother and send a message: “I know where you’re spending your time and hiding your whore, and that she’s important to you”. He didn’t just drunkenly stumble into that particular brothel with his entourage.

“Also, wood is famously flammable, so why in seven hells didn’t Baela just blast some dragon fire after them?”

Eh, it’s not a rule that’s been established on the TV side of things, as far as I recall. Though it does come up later in the story, it doesn’t have to. there are other ways to handle that uh.... event I won’t get into cause it’s a huge spoiler.

It was definitely Armand. He didn’t “harm” Daniel, but rather “burdened” him, as Louis says.

Decades of mature television (including HBO) have managed to find ways to depict fellatio without actually showing it. This week, we got literal pornographic imagery. We’ve come along way... 

This is the man who gave us Grover, Elmo, Oscar, and Kermit Tully. 

I’m most excited to see if the show is going to stick to the book’s conceit that all the Tullys of this era have the names of Muppets. Lord Grover’s been mentioned several times, but his grandson Elmo and great-grandsons Kermit and Oscar may be pushing things on a TV show in a way that the book could just barely get…

I think he’s trying to drive a wedge between Aegon and Alicent. It wasn’t about the actual result of it - it was about making Aegon think that Aemond and Alicent wanted him out of the way, which I read as the reason for Aegon’s later humiliation of Aemond.

I think he just made up that rumor to get himself a job on the council / make himself seem useful to the king.

the Brackens and Blackfoots were so easily goaded into annihilating one another, weren’t they?

It’s a healthy perspective and hopefully he continues to get better physically and mentally.

Yes, we have Nosferatu! We have Nosferatu today!

Further confusing the issue is the fact that, in the 1931 Dracula, the movie swaps out Harker in the prologue for Renfield (which is itself visually referenced in Hoult’s “Renfield” movie.)

Reminds me of when they rolled out “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” at Christmas time, and tried to lean into the counter-programming of it all by marketing it as “The Feel-Bad Movie of the Holidays.”

Worked once!

I like that it’s a tradition to remake this every 50 years or so. I am likely to miss the 2075 iteration, so I’ll savor this one. Eggers/Skarsgard seem ideal.