You should learn Japanese while you’re in your early 20s because if you’re in your 30s so much otaku media will piss you off because of how ungodly mid it can be 90% of the time
Nah, normal que Martín esté enfadado con Condall. Convertir la Danza de Dragones en una sucesión de malentendidos es muy pobre narrativamente. Te compro alguno, como el del sueño de Viserys, pero a partir de ahí no hay bondad y malentendidos sino venganzas y escalada.
Ned isn’t even a character. He’s a prop that talks sometimes. He has no story, no agency, no narrative importance at all. He’s superfluous & superficial, just like the rest of the MCU Spidey supporting cast.
Harry is a legitimate character in every sense of the word.
Definitivamente la serie está hecha para los locals y no para los fans de los libros. Una pena porque sin los libros ni sus fans no serían nada pero bueno.
HxH is so good that it's main critique is "it has too much text" and not common writing critiques like abandoning plotlines, poor character writing and so on.
"succession war has too much text"
"manga is a visual storytelling medium"
it's not like togashi doesn't know how to use the medium he just choose a different approach with SW and trust me in no way such a complex arc could have less words unless you want a mickey mouse politics
A existência de house of the dragon sempre vai ser um erro pq hoje tenho que ler pessoas que claramente não são fãs de asoiaf dizendo que o fogo e sangue é um livro ruim porque ele não segue a estrutura clássica de um romance, sendo que é isso que torna ele bom
it's so interesting to me that robert is the one to (correctly) dismiss the mythology of the iron throne, reminds me of him telling ned that jaime sitting on the throne after killing aerys meant nothing and he was probably just tired 😭😭
"Homunculus" & "Ichi The Killer" creator Hideo Yamamoto starts a new Manga Series "Suiken Japan" on July 6, 2026 in Weekly Big Comic Spirits.
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EPISODE 3x2 of House of the Dragon only works for people who have never read Fire & Blood or who don't understand what George R.R. Martin was actually trying to say with the Dance of the Dragons.
In fact, I think I know what George meant now when he said that "this is not my story any longer", because this show is just a completely different and far more inferior story now - but it's wearing George's characters like costumes. 🤡
Here's why I think EPISODE 3x2 completely misunderstands the source material:
1. The Fall of King's Landing isn't even a victory anymore. 😭😭😭 Instead of Rhaenyra earning one of the biggest triumphs of the war out of her own merit, Alicent practically just hands it to her on a silver platter. Rhaenyra loses all her agency because her greatest victory is just gifted to her now. Where's the triumph in that??
2. Alicent is turned into a victim... again. 🙄 The writers seem incapable of doing anything with Alicent's character other than humiliating her constantly. It's such a shame because in the book, she's one of the most politically influential people in the story - the true architect of the Green cause and a very formidable strategist in her own right. But on the show, she's merely reduced to an eternal victim - nothing more. For a show that's supposed to be about empowering women, I find it quite interesting that they managed to ruin such a strong and capable one from the page.
3. Ironrod's (another Green member's) character is completely destroyed. 😤😤 In the book, Ironrod is the Master of Laws because he believes in law above everything else. He is an interesting character in Fire and Blood because he genuinely believes that crowning Aegon is the lawful decision, and he argues exactly that during the Green Council. Turning him into Alicent's rapist completely ignores the principle that defines his character. I feel like it's just character assassination for the sake of shock value.
4. Is Alicent even Team Green anymore?? 🤔🟢 Seriously, though, what is she even fighting for??? If Alicent no longer believes in the Green cause, then what's the point of any of this?? The civil war only works if both sides genuinely believe they're right.
5. The Dance isn't supposed to be about prophecy. 🤦🏾♂️ I hate this fucking "song of ice and fire" nonsense that keeps being brought up every episode. The Dance of Dragons is not about that. It's supposed to be a brutal family civil war that's driven by ruthless ambitions, like the Anarchy or the Wars of the Roses. It's not a story about the fucking chosen-one.
6. The Rhaena and Jeyne Arryn scene just makes no sense to me. 🥴 Why is Rhaena even negotiating from a position of weakness when she literally has a dragon behind her??? Dragons completely change political negotiations in Westeros. If Sara Hess actually read the book that she's supposed to be adapting , she would've read about Visenya Targaryen or her son Maegor and how they literally flew their dragons into the Eyrie and made it very clear that there can be no fair negotiations with dragonlords. Do you see what happens when Nettles's storyline is forced onto Rhaena Targaryen's.
7. Larys handing Otto over to Rhaenyra is stupid. 🤦🏾♂️ Larys is one of the greatest opportunists in the history of this story. All he thinks about is himself and every move he makes serves his own ambitions. How does betraying Otto and joining Rhaenyra benefit him in any way??? It's just another decision that only works because the plot needs it to happen.
The problem with the changes of this episode are that they fundamentally misunderstand the characters, politics and the themes that make the Dance of the Dragons such a compelling tragedy in the first place. And that's why they are so stupid.
The more I think about 411, the greater it becomes as a chapter. Not only does Togashi outline that the remainder of this stretch will detail what transpired within the 5-6 hours leading up to Martial Law, but he also gives us the answers to the 14 coffins and what happens.