Valentina has already violated HR guidelines. Like Armond, she’s a sympathetic character, but also a bit of a predator.

Like why are Portia and Albie trying to make each other jealous when last episode it seemed like Portia wasn’t into Albie at all?

Does Lucia not worry at all about making out with the son of the dude she had sex with in the hotel they’re staying at?

I think that’s exactly it with Valentina. She’s very much projecting when asking if Rocco is bothering the attractive worker. It’s Valentina who’s interested in her, and she’s sticking to Rocco as an attempt to put Valentina off. 

I wouldn’t be too harsh on Albie. Portia does clearly like him, and, as she said tonight, did want him to go up to her room. But I have sympathy for the kid since he doesn’t want to be like his sex addicted father and mistreat women. While unhappy Portia, in Italy, wants a guy to ravish her. Both are sympathetic and…

I think Albie and Portia are interesting only in that Albie believes he is acting differently because he is using different language. Regardless, he is still constantly calculating how to have sex with Portia even if its in a more politically correct way.

Ned Stark looked up every recorded Baratheon/Lannister marriage recorded in history and noted that they always resulted in a black haired child except for Robert’s and Cersei’s children.

He was Ironborn but I don’t think he was a Greyjoy. The Greyjoys gained power from the Targaryens after Harren and his family were killed.

For non-book readers, Harren the Black, the first lord of Harrenhal, was actually a Greyjoy, and Aegon burning the castle around him is why they’ve just been pirates ever since.

Good thing Rhaenys wasn’t in the episode, or we might have to question why this half-Baratheon woman has perfect Targaryen hair.

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.

in almost all cases, women were objects for men’s lust, subjugation, or both.

• 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.

I will have to say Rhaenyra’s seduction of Ser Criston Cole removing slowly every leather strapped gauntlet, pasguard and breast plate was conjointly funny and ultimately sexy.

It’s actually about that song.
Bale, Robbie, and Washington are playing Peter, Bjorn, and John, respectively.

As if everyone forgot movies such as Tropic Thunder, every Wes Anderson movies, every Martin Scorsese movies, every Quentin Tarantino movies, The Muppet movies, Gone With the Wind, Blaze of Glory, Apollo the 13th, 12 Angry Men... existed.

Did the baby get taken away and eaten in a hilariously hyperbolic dumbshit metaphor for consumerism or whatever the fuck?

Istanbul not Constantinople 

It’s actually set in New York, they changed it from Amsterdam...