what i don't understand about tg fans (and this seems to be their main issue with the show) is that they took otto's "rhaenyra will have to kill all your children" as an objective truth. instead of sth he used to drive a wedge btw rhaenyra and alicent. that's the sort of thing +
that a groomer uses to scare his impressionable daughter into doing his bidding. no one in that world has ever enacted that sort of brutality on their own siblings. the show was never about how the Dance was inevitable. it's abt how it was entirely preventable, but ppl +
@sacraamarte well no, he'd be safest at the big ass city he was in where it's easier to hide a person. idk the context of this but ormund's probably the dumb one for bringing a barely adult, barely a dragon rider kid, into battle with him.
not sure what this means, but it's interesting to think that the mother asking wth is up with her son is to blame for putting him in danger, and not his uncle for taking him to a place where he has the highest likelihood of death
“i don’t want him (daemon) to be seen as a bad guy” well matt… he killed his wife, groomed his niece, married her, abused her, wanted her throne but realized he wouldn’t win bc everyone knows he’d be a terrible king and had to trip balls at harrenhal to see the error of his ways
I love whatever they're doing with the hightowers. Whole house crazy-hot, gay, and fuckable. Just an insane energy to give to a house I initally thought were bookish losers.
Lembram disso? 🤭 O The Telegraph confirmou a cena!
"Mas com o exageradíssimo Ormund Hightower, ele (James) abraça totalmente o lado mais teatral e fantasioso da fantasia — surgindo de uma banheira para desfilar nu diante de cortesãos horrorizados em uma das primeiras cenas."
@LukaNieto@WtDasoiaf Oh yeah, for sure! I think it's just the direction media journalism has been headed. No budget, and probably low pay to get sth up on the website in time. I've just stopped expecting any thoughful takes from these outlets like Inverse and Hollywood reporter.
@MlleTeapot with rhaenyra that was developed for 2 seasons where she knows rhaenyra's not a psychopath. And yes, getting killed by poison is always a risk if your a claimant but the much bigger risk is sending your boy into battle on a little dragon.
@MlleTeapot Well it seems to be pretty neat to you if you think the plantagenet murders would've been predicted and considered normal by a woman living at the time. Was no one shocked by them? "Kill the claimants covertly" is sth alicent would expect if she didn't have a personal relationshp
@MlleTeapot children, even though no one in their history has done this amount of kinslaying? It's not possible for her to do this without massively damaging her reputation in a way that's worse than maegor.
@MlleTeapot sense. That wasnt how it was experienced by people living through it. "norms that prevent murder: they never worked" whether they work or not is beside the point. we're talking about what ppl expect as normal. Is it normal for alicent to think rhaenyra will behead all her +