I made the assumption because they showed him pricking his finger on the throne in the first or second episode and by the next episode the finger was missing so I figured his other health problems were caused by similar incidents. It’s certainly possible it’s a metaphor for his weak leadership, I just didn’t think so…

Misleading headline makes it seem like the offending director said “be more fuckable” to her.

Fucking Tommy Mottola. If he had had his way, she would have been making sappy ballads forever, and we never would have gotten “Fantasy.”

“I was playing with the style of the breezy-grunge, punk-light white female singers who were popular at the time. You know the ones who seemed to be so carefree with their feelings and their image,” Carey writes.

I think the redshirt comparison is a good one. The author must have been watching another show than I was when she suggested that the scene between Joffrey and Laenor was sweet, and made her hope for a positive romantic relationship between the two. I thought it was pretty clear even in that scene that Joffrey was…

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…

Tell me you don’t know fuck-all about law without telling me you don’t know fuck-all about law.

I loved everything about that scene. They drew their weapons, but it was just trash talk; They’re noble lords and they’re not really gonna fight are they? Yep! And its as inconsequential as walking away from a bar brawl. And the kid should probably get pummeled, but he actually wins! (don’t bring a knife to a sword…

I was thinking something along those lines too so I’m glad I wasn’t the only one crazy about their view of the ending. My take was that Viscery’s was testing her and putting her in a Catch-22 situation because he doesn’t quite know whether to fully trust her. If Rhaenyra took it, it would mean tactically admitting she…

She’s definitely the protagonist. Protagonist doesn’t mean “good,” “likeable,” or “heroic,” only that they’re who the story focuses on.

I don’t get the sense that he’s malicious, but he definitely seems opportunistic.

Love your post!

Also, remember that in the first HOTD episode, the King explains to his daughter that the power of the Targaryens is that the public believes that they are powerful, powerful enough to control dragons...when actually, they really don’t.

“The idea that we control the dragons is an illusion,” Viserys…

I find it refreshing that the stakes are so low. I thought the best part of GoT was all the petty squabbling among nobles about who gets to sit on a pointy chair. It really lost its way whenever they had to cut back to the ice zombies and Chosen One prophecies, particularly because as we now know, none of that stuff…

Any other people want to see more of this Blackwood kid? He's gonna be a beast once he can fully swing a sword.

Or 3) It didn’t matter. He got what he wanted: a credible rumour that they were seen together “coupling”, and as an unforeseen bonus got her hot enough to seduce her knight in shining armour later in case of a “maiden check” (which they fortunately didn’t go through with in this episode)

Why do you show up to read her reviews if you clearly do not like them? News flash: there are hours and hours of podcasts, sites upon sites that review this show, maybe you are just showing up here to be rude to this specific writer every week instead of finding a forum that is more to your taste. Just saying.

Oh good, is this the errors thread? Better this week, but it wasn’t an actor playing Daemon that pulled out the rope cock, it was an actor playing baby Aegon.

That whole sequence with Daemon and Rhaenyra was fantastic. So vivid, visual, and well-acted. I love how it ends in such an unglamorous way, with Daemon just leaving Rhaenyra standing there with her pants down in the middle of the brothel. And then the way that Rhaenyra takes charge afterwards to fuck someone she does…

This is Game of Thrones at his best: when a hero - and I use this term very loosely - makes a single mistake that has grave repercussions for multiple characters at once.

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.