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[The Critical Maester 📚💚 @th3CritclMaestr]

I like what this episode was trying to do in theory: following one character's POV for an entire episode and exploring the burdens of rulership through the eyes of a queen. 🤔 That feels very reminiscent of the main ASOIAF novels and, in the hands of better writers, it may have been interesting... but unfortunately, this is Sara Hess and Ryan Condal's work, so the execution of this concept is completely idiotic. 🤦🏾‍♂️

1. It was stupid to change Daeron's storyline from the book. 🙄 It just makes Rhaenyra and Daemon look like complete idiots. I mean, if they're seriously taking Daeron as a hostage, then why the hell would they leave his dragon behind?? Tessarion would defend her rider with her life, so how does neither one of them stop to think about that when they have Daeron as a hostage?? It makes no sense at all. 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ George's version of the story is a lot stronger - Daeron never meets with them and remains a looming threat for Rhaenyra's reign. That's more compelling, in my opinion.

2. Also, if Daemon was so determined to kill Daeron, why didn't he just throw him off the dragon while they were flying?? 👀 He thought this was Daeron, right?? So why risk taking him all the way back to King's Landing?? Just push him off the dragon and then tell Rhaenyra it was an accident. 🤷🏾‍♂️

3. How did Daemon even get to the Reach so quickly??? Westeros is supposed to be huge. Dragons are fast, but they don't have hyperdrives... do they?? 👀 This episode is supposed to pick up just moments after Rhaenyra takes King's Landing, and yet Daemon somehow flies all the way to the Mander and back before lunch. I guess Gendry's Season 7 teleportation device still worked 300 years ago. 😅

4. I am so sick and tired of Alicent on this show. 🙄 Every scene she's in is just a reminder of how much better she is in Fire & Blood. One minute she's perfectly happy to betray her sons and hand King's Landing to Rhaenyra, and then the next she's saying things like, "What am I supposed to do? Hope you find and kill my son?" ... Bitch, isn't that what you wanted anyway?? Isn't that exactly what you just agreed to a few episodes ago??? Pick a fucking character and stick to it, Sara. 😤😤

5. I guess we've lost one of Rhaenyra's most epic scenes from the book. "Drops of blood fell to the floor... the Iron Throne had spurned her, and her days upon it would be few." Instead of this, I guess Sara Hess thought that it would be more poignant to... **checks notes**... make Rhaenyra have her PERIOD on the Iron Throne??? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

6. Corlys is right to want his bastards legitimized, but why on earth would he trust the woman he thinks murdered his son??? Remember, Rhaenyra and Daemon deliberately framed Laenor's death to make it look like they'd killed him. And Corlys still believes that... right?? 👀 Do the writers even remember that storyline?? Because if they can't even remember their own plotlines, then why should I care about the new ones that they're writing now???

7. Corlys openly calls Rhaenyra's sons "bastards" in front of everyone... so I assume she's going to have his tongue ripped out, right??? 👀 Rhaenyra isn't just gonna let that slide... is she?? I thought anyone who ever questioned the legitimacy of her sons again would lose their tongues. What did Jaime say - a man who makes threats he has no intentions of keeping only makes a fool of himself?? But, I guess, Rhaenyra is not a man...

8. Turning Rhaenyra into some champion of the smallfolk who feeds rats to the rich is such a fundamental misunderstanding of her character as a whole. Book-Rhaenyra doesn't give a damn about the smallfolk. She grew up privileged, pampered and completely adored by her parents. They gave her everything that she ever wanted. That's why her father promises her the Iron Throne and refuses to waver - Rhaenyra is spoiled and adored by her parents. Therefore, when she finally takes King's Landing, her priority isn't avenging the poor or redistributing wealth; it's finding money to keep fighting the war. That's why she taxes the shit out of her people.

Rhaenyra is not Daenerys who cares about the well being of the commoners. Daenerys grew up in exile, poverty and she was sold as a slave. She knows what it means to be powerless, so her compassion for ordinary people is very understandable. But that's not who Rhaenyra is in the book.

Rhaenyra has nothing in common with the smallfolk. She wants the throne because her father named her heir and because she's spent her entire life believing it belongs to her. That's a completely different character to Daenerys... and that's okay. Not every female Targaryen character has to be some version of Daenerys.

FINAL OPINION: I genuinely liked what this episode was trying to do. I think the concept was pretty good... it's just that the execution wasn't. 🙄 This is what happens when screenwriters start to convince themselves that they're improving the work of the man who wrote the story in the first place. George is a superb writer. Just adapt what he wrote as it is...

[Sirdropsalot @Footballidiot23]

@Deezy1994 I don't remember those games that well cuz it was 2020, but usually what ends up dooming the lakers in later years was when AD stopped getting the ball in the 4th, and yk who'd fault that is? (the ball dominant heliocentric player that ran their offense)

[The Critical Maester 📚💚 @th3CritclMaestr]

If you've never read Fire & Blood, Episode 3x2 probably seemed like a GREAT EPISODE for you. However, for any book reader, it was clearly a MASSIVE DISAPPOINTMENT that fundamentally misunderstands what George R.R. Martin is even trying to say with this tale overall. 🤦🏾‍♂️

That's why in my new video, I break down exactly why this adaptation failed, analyzing how it's becoming more and more difficult to call what House of the Dragon is doing George R.R. Martin's story anymore. 🙅🏾‍♂️😤

LINK: https://t.co/KGAf05JwVq

[Ricky G @jrichardgoodman]

This

[The NBA Realist @nbarealist23]

@WhozMEECH The West was just brutal during that time.

In 2010, all playoff teams, 1-8, won 50+ games.

[World Cup AI Anime @wcaianime]

These Dictator Mbappe Videos are killing me

[The Ballfather @StevenKelsey13]

Jordan visibly hurting while winning the ‘91 Finals

Jordan played through knee tendinitis and a jammed toe while beating the leagues ass in ‘91

[Ballislife.com @Ballislife]

Nobody has ever dribbled a basketball the way Isiah Thomas dribbled a basketball. There was a venom to it; a poison to it; a nefariousness to it.

EXPENSIVE BASKETBALL by @SheaSerrano
https://t.co/lqi5Sm6i4g

[Redd @ReddCinema]

throwback Kobe Bryant interview after getting eliminated by the Spurs in the WCSF (2003)

[stephortless 💎 @destrphforless]

Yeah i don’t know why

[Sirdropsalot @Footballidiot23]

@ManAceSold @RiceRice143 @KenHeLive In what way does that correlate with anything. I’m comparing 2 people on the same team bro

[Sirdropsalot @Footballidiot23]

@LamontayBrown1 @KenHeLive Lmao ok whatever you say bro🤣

[Sirdropsalot @Footballidiot23]

@LamontayBrown1 @KenHeLive AD in RS led lakers in every major statistical category other than apg on better FG% and FT%. Like at least in the playoffs it was closer. RS shi wasn’t close. Bron is a great passer, he’s just ball dominant, heliocentric not a true pg and that’s why at times his teams struggle🤷

[Sirdropsalot @Footballidiot23]

@LamontayBrown1 @KenHeLive Everything you just said was wrong. Lakers offense for all of AD’s time in LA was better when it ran through AD🤷. I’d argue Bron’s ball dominant heliocentric play was one reason they got swept in 2023 and 24. AD was never getting the ball in the 4th, and whose fault was that?

[Sirdropsalot @Footballidiot23]

@LamontayBrown1 @KenHeLive You’regonna have to go back and watch those series bro, cuz you’re just wrong. AD should have been DPOY that year and his defensive play in playoffs validated that. Any 🏀dominant heliocentric player can avg a bunch of assists passing to 2020 AD, “Eat off LeBron’s assists” 😭

[Sirdropsalot @Footballidiot23]

@LamontayBrown1 @KenHeLive And on eye test, AD was the one teams had to constantly adjust their lineups and coverages for. He was the mismatch, the rim threat, the midrange killer, the offensive glass threat, and the defensive anchor. He was getting all the attention too!

[Sirdropsalot @Footballidiot23]

@LamontayBrown1 @KenHeLive before that injury, AD avg'd more points, o-reb, blocks on less turnovers. Also 74% of bron's def rebounds were uncontested compared to AD's 50% + 80% of bron's total rebounds compared to AD's 60%. Look at their stats before the injury in the playoffs.

[Sirdropsalot @Footballidiot23]

@LamontayBrown1 @KenHeLive Feel out games😭. Just give it up, up unti the Injury, AD was the best player in the world.

[Sirdropsalot @Footballidiot23]

@SRXBiggs @KenHeLive Ofc assists gonna come when he passing to AD🤷‍♂️. I'm not tryna shit on bron, cuz he was amazing in the bubble. AD was better.

[Sirdropsalot @Footballidiot23]

@SRXBiggs @KenHeLive That o in the playoffs were better when bron was out and rondo was controlling the offense btw😭. Tripdubs for heliocentric 🏀-dominant player like lebron who stacks up bunch of uncontested d-rebounds don't move me over one of the most dominant 2way season I've ever seen.