Yeah, people unfamiliar with the shit he pulled in the parks to boost $$$ are going to be flabbergasted by what happens in the movies over the next decade. 

Disney is made for children’s consumption,

Chapek unlike Bob Iger or Michael Eisner before him is a Theme Parks guy not a movies guy. Chapek got the job because he was able to turn the parks into an infinite money fountain by figuring out you couple get away with charging 10 bucks for a bucket of popcorn in a Disney park. He doesn’t care about the movies, they…

you need to calm down, you are taking an article on the internet way too personally.

What does that have to do with whether or not you’re in the market for animation? There’s a lot more animation on the planet than just Disney.

Be less worried about Disney and more about the White Supremacists in Congress shoving us into a real-life "Handmaid's Tale".

As do I. In the books Rhaenyra even specifically says during her coronation that, while the Hightowers are traitors, her half-siblings will be spared as kinslaying is accursed. Also, Aegon wants to publicly declare Rhaenyra and her family are traitors and to be executed but Alicent and the Green council tell him he…

A war is being fought for the Iron Throne and a major point of contention is your bastard sons one day sitting upon it, so you... send them off to secure allegiances... by themselves... completely unprotected... into hostile territory? Buffoonery of the highest order.

Straight up murdering someone, especially kinslaying, is actually looked down upon and could turn houses against the murdering side. Rhaenyra didn’t think she had anything to worry about in sending her sons out as emissaries, who are protected by tradition.

They’ve made some changes from the books, seemingly to make some characters seem a bit more sympathetic. Book Luke, while young, didn’t lack for confidence and had been riding his dragon since he was 6, and was a very good dragonrider. Also, Rhaenyra instantly denies Aegon’s initial offer, has her coronation, and gets…

The complaint about the show’s graphic depiction of labor is strange. House of the Dragon, like Game of Thrones, is a show where a lot of violent things happen. Unlike Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon is to a significant extent a show about women. The central conflict on the show is between two women, with a third…

It seems like a lot of this series seems dead-set on making hugely consequential actions come down to misunderstandings or “whoopsie daisies”.

I’m sorry I just think it’s incredibly dumb how adult Rhaenyra was rightfully paranoid of threats to her heirs all season but during the greatest moment of political turmoil, she sent her kids off unchaperoned as if they didn’t have giant targets on their backs.

“House Of The Dragon seems to have wildly varying ideas of what a 14-year-old looks like.”

The first season of Game of Thrones had its own unique issues but it still had so many more characters, both major and minor, to root for. House of the Dragons only has minor characters to root for (who all too often perish with all-too-quick deaths)...which isn’t enough to make for compelling TV. Almost all of HotD’s…

I’m starting to think there aren’t any questions you can ask him that don’t result in him smashing your head or drawing his sword.

So there I was, just another day in King’s Landing, going about my business trying to make a living when a bunch of douchebag knights shuffle me into the dragon pit to watch the coronation of the new king. Like I give a shit about who the king is, it makes no difference in my day-to-day. Then a fricking dragon busts…

I imagine asking questions like that would get you murdered by Criston Cole 

Others have already covered the episode’s usual bizarre narrative and character choices: I’ll just say that I think this show’s storytelling mostly works except it keeps tripping over its own feet (when it’s not fetishizing them) in ways that undercut whatever they’re trying to do. I’m fine with sometimes throwing…

A thoroughly licked Otto tries to play dear old dad, telling his daughter that she looks like her mother in certain lights.