When Rhaenyra proposes to Daemon, she tells him that she “cannot face the Greens alone.” You’d be forgiven for not knowing what that means, because like so much other plot-pivotal knowledge, the show hasn’t told us about it.

I am very much liking EmmaD’Arcy. She has such a unique look but even better she commands the screen and says so much without saying a word.

I mean, Jenna also describes Qarl and Laenor as faking his death on their own, when it was clear that all four parties were in on it since we see Daemon killing the guy they used as the burnt body and Rhaenyra explicitly says that everyone will think they were behind the murder and she’s okay with people fearing what…

 One thing I like about Aegon is that he’s one of the few villainous characters who seem to prefer things to stay they where they are, unlike say Joffrey, Ramsey or Euron. He’s a key player in the Game of Thrones yet he has seemingly no ambition.

“This is a canny political move—and very bad news for Laenor. With the princess’ reluctant blessing, Daemon pays Ser Qarl a hefty sum to publicly murder his lover....The two manage to fake Laenor’s death. ”

I am very much liking EmmaD’Arcy. She has such a unique look but even better she commands the screen and says so much without saying a word. And that is why I didn’t mind at all the tension being ratcheted up after burial. The camera glided in between so many of the characters you could feel intrigue just in the…

Last week, Laena Velaryon committed suicide by dragon-fire after a difficult labor. Her reasons for doing this are up to viewer interpretation, because the show gives us very little to go on.

This was my take as well. The Maester gave Daemon the option to at least try and save the baby.  Daemon made the right choice, but I don’t think it mattered for Laena. I took it that she was a goner either way, so she took matters into her own hands.

That was also my theory, and your explanations make it even more likely for me. Laena knew/felt that she wouldn’t survive this ordeal and neither her unborn child. So she preferred to die her own way than to suffer longer and then die.

The person that did the reviews left the site. Maybe he was doing as a personal project and no one else on the site wanted to cover it? Or its probably just management is too lazy to find a replacement. The amount of shows being covered nowadays is ridiculously low.

Meanwhile, Rick and Morty has been killing it. Four top notch episodes in a row. Can’t remember the last time they were on a hot streak like this.

Laena is basically a footnote in the book, like Daemon’s first wife, as well as Ser Harwin. That’s probably why they were basically written out without much characterization.

Hey you know the way you’ve spent the past couple of weeks learning the names of interchangeable characters in bad Halloween wigs?

Is there any reason why Criston was able to keep his post after banging Rhaenyra and beating a guy’s face in, but Harwin didn’t? Are we supposed to see that as a show of Alicent’s power vs. Rhaenyra’s? Because I only got there through logic, not anything in the storytelling.

The attending maester gives Daemon the same choice that Viserys had to make in the pilot: save the baby or save the mother.

Emma D’Arcy still felt in the same vein of Milly’s performance. She seems a little sanded down from the young Rhaenyra we know, which makes sense. I’m sure the spark will return once Daemon is back (who somehow got younger).

Are we supposed to be on Alicent’s side, because I’m kind of...not.

This is the only thing I saw the entire time she was onscreen:

Though it’s still rather more passionate and personal than in the book, where Joffrey was accidentally killed in the tournament celebrating the wedding.

Daemon just rubbing it in to his wife’s cousin by asking about his inheritance was *chef’s kiss*. Matt Smith is just hamming it up magnificently.