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Vegetable posted:Did Otto really think he could kill Rhaenyra on the DL? I know he wanted the kingsguard to visit dragonstone or whatever but I didn’t think he seriously thought he could get rid of Rhaenyra just like that. His stance wasn’t sketched that clearly imo. All he would need is 20 good men
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smoobles posted:War were declared
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wilderthanmild posted:Is the Book worth reading? If it's really gonna be like fall 2 years from now before season 2 comes out, fuccckk. It's not bad if you're into this stuff. It's a much more straightforward account than asoiaf though.
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I like that Winterfell and the Starks are barely featured. They're distant, backwoods lords with little immediate connection to what goes on in the south.
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TyrantWD posted:It could also just be a case of when dragons fight each other, they do what they feel they need to do, riders will be damned. Have dragons ever had to go up against each other since the doom of Valyria? Once, I think. Aegon's son (Maegor) and his nephew (Aenys) had a dragon fight during a previous succession dispute. Maegor rode Balerion, so it played out similarly to what just happened in the show.
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DaysBefore posted:In the book yeah for sure, Aegon the Conqueror's son Maegor fought his nephew (another Aegon) during a succession dispute. gently caress I can't keep track of their names. Right, aegon's son was anus. His grandson was another aegon.
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wilderthanmild posted:I don't think he disowned the ending at all and it appears that is the ending he planned. The difference likely being that his ending would include a lot more lead up than like Dany being sad that Northerners like Jon more. I saw a lot of theories that her downfall probably ties in with the pretend Aegon guy that doesn't exist in the show. It makes total sense that their end to the white walker conflict was essentially the same as the end of every Marvel movie. Out of every bad decision they made, that one had to be the worst.
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CornHolio posted:I'm another person that ordered the book and started it last night. I could never get through the Silmarllion but after about 20 pages I'm really enjoying this book so far. I wish it came with a map though, I have trouble visualizing the relative locations of a lot of the places they mention. http://quartermaester.info/
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bobjr posted:Wrong sister wife died
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stephenthinkpad posted:He could have just told Alicent what he said to her earlier, that the Blacks will kill her and her childrens (which is pretty common scenerio in real history.) I get the impression this is a self-fulfilling prophecy here
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Oct 26, 2022 17:12
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Eyepatch already looks like a 35-year-old. The casting for him was insane, but I love it.
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I always thought the huge numbers were kind of interesting in a mythical way, but I also didn't put much thought into them.
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Torquemada posted:https://www.wikifeet.com/Olivia_Cooke I appreciate that the people visiting and conversing on an actress's feet wiki page are offended that they were portrayed as weird.
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I always interpreted the Doom as "what if Rome had been the city under Mt Vesuvius"
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The mummers are always a hoot
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I like that there was lots of talking and little spectacle. They might ruin it if/when they flip that (e.g. dragon exploding through the floor because they thought it would look cool).
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One of my favorite details so far was when everything got totally silent during the coronation except for a few quiet echoed background coughs, because those coughs are always there in a big silenced crowd.
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People are going to yell at him whether he writes it or not, and he's already a huge success, so what's the point?
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That DICK! posted:I would have absolutely loved more Jahaerys stuff but I get why that would be too meandering I was gonna say the same thing. When I finished his chapters it really felt like an era had ended. But it wouldn't be the same kind of show as hotd/got.
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PostNouveau posted:But I've always thought the whole thing had a whiff of self-mythologizing to prop up their own interests. I don't think it's fully explained, but this is part of it. There's a whole religious tenet that the targs forced onto the church that states that they're not normal humans and thus can do incest etc.
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roomtone posted:A working class fantasy show is overdue "All in the Family"
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The Flintstones, but Fred works in the dragon pit
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And as soon as medieval Europe really took off we decided to call it something else
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You're gonna hate this, but the kids aren't named Daenerys. They're named Khaleesi, because people thought that was her name.
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Well yeah, Maegor was a dick.
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It's a very long history of the kingdom, with lots of begats. The main books are better reads, but I did enjoy HotD.
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Tender Bender posted:I'm reading it now and it's okay, a lot of dry history description interspersed with very interesting, detailed, evocative setpieces. The stuff covered by HotD is the best stuff and starts about halfway through the book, there are a bunch of scenes I'm very excited to see. And also in hindsight it's impressive how much the show came up with on its own: Viserys is barely a character and an obese partying drunk, there's almost no characterization given to Alicent or Otto at all, Alicent is much older than Rhaenyra, etc. (all the changes/additions by the show are excellent). Also, Rhaenyra gets fat and ugly (GRRM wants you to know this)
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IP is king. Story is just an obstacle.
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TOOT BOOT posted:I can't actually think of anything that would be that interesting that would be set after the main series. Especially based around Jon Snow being north of the wall in a completely depopulated area. Seems like Bran would have a pretty good handle on political stuff since he can just view the past and spy on people with raven, and killing off Dany and the Night King and then bringing them back would just diminish the ending to the main series which was already diminished by its execution. One of the interesting things about ASOIAF was that it was a mostly generic low-fantasy medieval world that experienced a last gasp of magic and myth. The death of that marked the end of the story. A sequel would have to either cheapen that aspect of the first series or tell a more generic low-fantasy story, which is not really the reason people like the series. Prequels seem to be more popular with these big series anyway because it's easy to write an origin story and everyone's scared to write a new ending, but it made a lot of sense to do HOTD because that was when the cool stuff sort of necessarily happened.
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Yeah but the dragons are dead for good, and all the magic north of the wall is too (giants, white walkers). It had already mostly left Westeros as seen in their inert religion and general lack of day-to-day magic. You see the contrast when characters travel eastward and encounter prophets who seemingly still have magic, faceless men, etc. You're right about Bran, but I blame some of that on D&D's horrible handling of the ending. It's hard to really know what Martin intended there.
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Baudolino posted:There is one thing i dont like about the show. it's also pretty problematic that they make dragons look so cool, when their actual purpose is murder
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