@ProvoloneHum@utacult Maybe, but I get the sense that Helaena knows a lot more than she lets on because of her prophetic visions. She usually speaks in cryptic nonsense but in this scene she appears more lucid than she normally is.
@TheCineprism oh shit i never realized he played the mayor’s son in the batman. his hair looked a lot straighter and shorter in that movie so i guess he’s less recognizable.
@tile_tone@sutekh_apep@DANYSPHOENlX Even today cousin marriage is extremely common in certain parts of the world—specifically the Muslim world where clan loyalty is a big thing. 60-65% of marriages in Pakistan are between cousins. They just see it as normal.
@tile_tone@sutekh_apep@DANYSPHOENlX I feel like you’re applying too much of a modern standard of judgement. They didn’t see cousin marriage as incest because the houses were so interconnected that they were all cousins to a certain extent.
@tile_tone@sutekh_apep@DANYSPHOENlX There’s a huge difference (in Westerosi society at least) between marrying cousins and marrying siblings. That’s why Cersei and Jaime having sex was so scandalous, but Tywin marrying his cousin was nothing. The Starks did not practice Targ-style incest.
@skoopaaa HOTD has a tendency to not age their adult characters much. like olivia cooke is 32 and her character is the mother of aegon who is played by tom-glynn carney who is 31. criston has also seemingly drank from
the fountain of youth
@LazerNights3@manel763@sacraamarte as far as incest goes in this show/universe, cousins aren’t as bad. rhaenyra married her uncle. aegon and helaena are full siblings. even some of the non valyrian families marry their cousins and nobody bats an eye because they’re not as closely related
@nyracult i suspect that account is just engagement farming. generic AI anime profile pic, quote tweeting their other tweets in the replies, responding to every reply with low effort “wow!” type comments, account based in nigeria, etc.
@manel763@sacraamarte i mean they were step siblings/cousins and basically grew up together. their marriage would have been slightly incestuous but i feel like it would still be way less toxic than some of the other couples since they’re the same age and actually like each other.
@CarlamaStorm@DevilsteedYT@MaceAhWindu that was the case for game of thrones, not sure about house of the dragon. HOTD season 1 episode 9 was pretty much only focused on team green and episode 10 was team black (aside from aemond at the end)
@jeremy_7001@stoftheknife@ShawnMets3535@POPin4k nah i’m pretty sure they’re like 9 and 7 years old in the books. the older one escapes on his dragon but the younger one doesn’t have a dragon and so he’s stuck on the ship and he gets captured and held hostage in lys for a few years.
@skibidifatrizz@CaptainLore_ It was only like 2 mini episodes but Tales of the Jedi did a good job of showing him becoming disillusioned with the Jedi Order. I also remember reading a Star Wars novel as a kid where he was a young Jedi, I think it was Legacy of the Jedi?