Ariel

Nerd, Jew, mathematician, bookworm, amateur author, animal lover. She/her.

[Ariel @booksaremagic23]

@21luckyforsome Put another way, detention for taking another student’s water during a sports day in that heat. Presumably they had one bottle per child. Entitlement isn’t cute.

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@belladonnafeli There’s a difference between disliking the character and finding their chapters a little boring. Bran’s in A Clash of Kings do get somewhat repetitive.

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@BLACK_DAHLIA77 @Uc_heyy02 I’m not saying Rhaenyra is a bad mother, I don’t think she is, just that this seems an unfair standard to wield against Catelyn and not apply to her. She did choose to send Luke to Storm’s End, at the very least.

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@BLACK_DAHLIA77 @Uc_heyy02 Catelyn never weaponized her kids? And every choice she made was to try and protect her family, she just didn’t have all the information. None of Rhaenyra’s kids were killed due to their claims they were all actively killed while flying dragons in service of her claim.

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@casterlyheiress Definitely AGoT for me, the lack of male Greyjoy POVs elevates it. Sorry to the Greyjoy men but not really.

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@spokenclaw @MarxismNoPhone @utacult @nikicaga Tbf Bran was a prince at the time because Robb was styling himself a king, but yes I think it would be the latter explanation. I don’t think the line makes a ton of sense but it’s not completely inconceivable.

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@theweirdinggay To be fair, that Aegon was already dead and so was Rhaegar, maybe Lyanna in her fevered state just grasped for a Targ name.
However I agree it is silly and more importantly his real name is Jon.

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@nonregemesse @utacult @nikicaga It’s a bit far back but we know of an unnamed daughter who married a petty lord; further down the generations, Fire & Blood only mentioned sons and the daughters who married them so there could be a daughter in pretty much any of these generations who did the same.

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@JooJoong98 @PunkMzk @MaceAhWindu I don’t think he *hated* Jace, but every scene they had seemed kind of tense. I just don’t think they were very close.

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@MarxismNoPhone @utacult @nikicaga The princess thing is an issue yes. Perhaps they just decided to retroactively call the Dragonstone Targs royalty, but it is weird. We have no idea if cousins may have existed though, as there were other Targs there who don’t even get named.

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@utacult @nikicaga Daemon and Viserys’s mom had them young. Her mom had her young as well. And it could be a cousin of the Conquerors.

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@nikicaga Also seasons in Westeros famously don’t work like ours

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@teemey_o @lorxell Different eggs most likely. The eggs Dany has were probably those stolen from the first Rhaena, Jaehaerys’s sister.

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@GardenHermXOXO @Pet1408peter @lorxell No. Dany was born in 284, 25 years after the Tragedy of Summerhall. It was 40 years before the main story.

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@jemsgreatsin I just assumed he came with her from Riverrun and replaced the previous maester

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@zaryaismywife Catelyn on top yes correct

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@eldritchsolar @quinnthegm I think all those characters are very interesting in the show, but I said thematically, not plot/character wise. The struggles of ruling is what the books are all about, the shows cut out a bunch of that.

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@knightsofcain Such a solid ranking and then Theon is there for some reason

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@PunkMzk @MaceAhWindu He didn’t like Jace, he just cared that Rhaenyra would be upset

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@eldritchsolar @quinnthegm I think this was thematically closer to the books than almost any other episode of HotD *or* GoT.