Luke’s actor is nearly 17.

I thought this made sense as a beat personally, my interpretation wasn’t that Aemond was being redeemed by his regret about Luke’s death. Aemond wanted to bully and harry him sadistically with his much larger dragon (and personal build/presence - I think this was deliberate casting wise). But he wanted to torment and…

“I feel like the ‘dragons are faster than ravens’ line was low-key meant to cover up some of the fast travel accusations from late-season GoT. Especially how quickly Dany flew north to save Jon beyond the wall.”

Sure, but it also just plain stands to reason.

The fact that Aemond looks 35 while his older brother seems to be around 20 is particularly jarring.

>>>>I feel like the ‘dragons are faster than ravens’ line was low-key meant to cover up some of the fast travel accusations from late-season GoT. Especially how quickly Dany flew north to save Jon beyond the wall.”

The Quantum Realm still has travel restrictions in place for unvaccinated people.

The Aemond-Luke situation sparking the war didn’t come out of nowhere - it was a long result of fully fleshed out bad decisions being made, and coming from the personalities of the people involved. Aemond and Luke are at odds because of the decisions their parents made, plus their own bad history and Aemond’s penchant…

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

To be fair, many of the major players are hopelessly inbred.

“This discomfort I feel must somehow be morally wrong or harmful.”

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 was Jace’s idea the princes themselves entreat with the houses, not Corlys’.

I’m with you: The season was excellent, extremely well acted, was far more true to the staging and lore of the books than most of GOT- just those awful Valeryon wigs. The first season of GOT wasn’t particularly good, neither was most of the second until past the halfway point. And we all know what happened after…

she pulls her stillborn child out of her own body in a gratuitously gruesome sequence that’s nonetheless masterfully acted by Emma D’Arcy.

14-year-olds naturally can look very different from each other, depending on where they’re at maturity-wise, and a 14-year-old boy can look very different from a 14-year-old girl.  This is normal.

It was great though. Enough to make me listen to 3 and half hour deep dive podcasts on the The Ringer.

Let’s just say this isn’t the first time Rob has left his DNA all over a trailer. 

Wait, you mean he . . . EEEW!

I doubt it. I mean, when has anyone ever associated Adam Carolla with comedy?