Loras was far closer to being the trope than this was to begin with!  Loras was definitely on trial for the crime of being gay (hence dying in the explosion), whereas this murder wasn’t because the guy was gay, just because he happened to discuss secrets with Criston at the worst moment.

I’m wondering when the hell Olivia Cooke gets here, since she’s the only reason I was interested.

When applying to the AV Club, be sure you submit your most recent and most contentious humanities essay that really grapples with 21st century power structures and representation in fantasy works. “Lack of Upward Mobility for Gimli, Son of Gloin in The Two Towers”, “Neurotypical Sandworms of Dune”, and “The Fatrix -…

Author: “They did a ‘Bury Your Gays’! Shame! Shame!”

It’s a tryst parallelogram.

We haven’t got to the end of the season yet so this may seem premature, but the prevailing problem with the show for mine (which I’m overall enjoying, as someone who never really got into GoT, show or books) is that it’s moving too quickly.

True representation happens when diverse characters are actually normalized. This means sometimes they are good people and sometimes good things happen to them and sometimes the opposite is true. Handling minority representation with kid gloves, making arbitrary rules about what is and isn’t fair game for their…

Taking a couple of seconds to Google would have done the job for you.

A wedding without at least three deaths is considered a dull affair.

I disagree, don’t think it worked. Criston might have smacked him, sure. Or maybe even stabbed him(but probably not). To punch his skull in bashing his face repeatedly really doesn’t fit his character or their relationship/moment. So much laziness in writing is defended by saying a character snapped. But whether it’s…

they nerd out on battle strategy

“It’s an ignominious ending for a character we’ve only just met, and it’s part of a persistent problem on modern television.”

I will say, Sir Criston murdering a friend of the future king, in front of the current king, and everyone else at his princess’s betrothal and it’s fine, doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Eh, I thought it put too fine a point on it, like the rat at the end of The Departed.

this is why the time skips really bother me! if the characters got a bit more development before their deaths maybe it wouldn’t feel like they’re basically being discarded.

I think some of the “backlash against criticism about representation” is about the fact that it sometimes feels like it’s the only subject critics are interested in. This was, by far, the best episode of House of the Dragon. It managed to create a tension the show has been lacking, and ended with a scene where all the…

It’s pretty rich to insist on historical verisimilitude when it comes to diversity and women’s subjugation, but not when it comes to dragons, ice zombies, resurrection magic, warging, or shapeshifting assassins.

The wigs on this show continue to be terrible; Laenor’s dreads are a hate crime.

Thought it was pretty dull and hated the stupid “dey terk are jawbs!” stuff on Numenor. I’ve tried to like Galadriel, especially after all the bad faith criticism, but she was annoying as fuck this week too.

Not to mention he finally settles on forcing Rhaenyra to marry his cousin’s kid.