All Series Must Die (Which Is Why There Are New Ones) -- The Game of Thrones Series Spinoffs

The new episode was kind of weak

i agree that it was a step down, but still enjoyed it greatly.

the foot fetish thing was a bit cheap, but i guess it's relatively tame compared to the proclivities of many in this universe

I thought the building tension throughout the first 50 minutes was great, the climax was absolute shit though.

it just felt like it was very randomly thrown in there. same with the search for Aegon, the whole point seemed to be that they wanted to come up with something really demented that he was doing.

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the climax was very frustrating. I don't know how much can really be gleaned from next week's preview, but if the idea is that she's flying back to dragonstone to warn everyone that it is war time, then why the hell did she not just roast the coronation party first?

i guess it's not technically a "hot war" yet and she was prob moved by alicent protecting her kid. she didn't have a problem murdering dozens of innocent bystanders tho lol, im sure there were mothers in that crowd

yeah, that was a weirdass ending. she murdered about a hundred randos, had a chance to end the entire show and prevent the next several seasons from needing to happen, and then flew off

https://www.vulture.com/article/house-of-dragon-eve-best-interview-escape-green-council.html

Okay, so: Why didn’t Rhaenys just torch the royal family and the whole Green crew?

[Laughs long and hard.] I know! The temptation is there, right? In the end, she makes a bigger choice. We see that at the moment with what’s going on in Ukraine; to choose not to destroy is the better choice. That’s an important thing for us all to remember right now.

it's true that i had not considered the ukraine angle

what else would be responsible for rising gas prices in the riverlands?

I enjoyed the episode. The foot thing was def a “wtf - why couldn’t this just be incest” moment. I liked the ending - tho they were obviously milking the moment a little much.
I was wondering - do they store their battle armour in a locker by their dragons?!

Saw half a dozen "Larys CK" joeks today and loled more than once

the argument of "i don't care about any of these characters" gets hand waved away as fatuous but the more damning problem here is that I don't care about this especially violent fairy tale or the grandiose stakes or this shows propensity for perversion and vivisection in lieu of thoughtful character development. as garbage watching goes, it's compelling for cheap thrills, melodrama and the best production values money can buy. but if literally everyone in the whole show were to die in the next episode, so what? they'll all be replaced by a full english breakfast of new niece-fucking actors or older BAFTA-winning actresses, likely all named aegyon and vanyra.
Creator press pap like "to choose not to destroy is the better choice. That’s an important thing for us all to remember right now" would be laughable if it weren't blatantly offensive as an attempt to rhyme a real human rights violation with a pantomime where the "good guy" murders thousands of innocent bystanders with a fucking dinosaur. peak teevee used to be a bit more peak as i recall.

- ignatius j. reilly

oh for the days when a man could safely talk shit about the incest dragon show without being accused of middlebrow snobbery

last episode leaked btw

i can wait!

I enjoyed the episode. The foot thing was def a “wtf - why couldn’t this just be incest” moment. I liked the ending - tho they were obviously milking the moment a little much.
I was wondering - do they store their battle armour in a locker by their dragons?!

i'll refrain from spoiling but it's quite a bit more of the same.

sounds good

now excuse me while i spend what little time I have on this earth harrumphing and “coxcomb!”-ing through a show i dislike

Mr Belvedere?

harrumph

streaks on the china never mattered before
who cares?

Jace and Luke bringing strong Ari and Uzi vibes in this new one

https://media.guestofaguest.com/t_article_content/gofg-media/2017/10/1/49766/lxyphjgl.jpg

one thing I don't totally buy...I feel like Alicent knows her kids totally suck. I feel like she'd be like "yeah sure, no, you be queen, my kids are terrible."

i'm still betting on a peace deal in this show, probably in season 2, episode 2, "let bygones be bygones"

After being pretty lukewarm on this all season, I thought the finale paid off well. Did in fact make me want to see the next season. Especially the prospect of dragon warfare.

On Alicent's kids my question is just, why are they such terrible kids? Their parents weren't psychopaths or anything, it's just kind of stipulated that they both turned out as assholes.

A big part of it is that they are the long awaited male heirs of Viserys, but then they have to always defer to Rhaenyra and her bastard children. On top of that, Aegon just seems to have been born fairly worthless, and Aemond has a chip on his shoulder for being bullied when he didn't have a dragon and for being parted from his eye once he stole a dragon for himself.

it's implied that aegon neglected his children with alicent and favored his grandchildren with rhaenyra. and alicent spent decades convincing them that rhaenyra would murder them if she ever became queen.

helaena seems like a sweet girl, tho

*viserys neglected his children with alicent, d'oh

also realizing that my post implies even greater incest than was already happening haha. need some coffee

did the show ever explain who Erryk and Arryk are? I haven't been able to figure out why we are supposed to see them as important in this thing.

one thing I don't totally buy...I feel like Alicent knows her kids totally suck. I feel like she'd be like "yeah sure, no, you be queen, my kids are terrible."

It's such a nice detail how Rhaenys never once bows to Rhaenyra. No one questions her on it, either, there's a silent understanding that giving her shit for it would be unfair and disrespectful. All conveyed subtly, no dialogue, just with Eve Best giving that little smirk of hers pic.twitter.com/NOta4SyMZ1

— Nix 🇺🇦 (@SnowyNix) October 22, 2022

*how much bigger

did the show ever explain who Erryk and Arryk are? I haven't been able to figure out why we are supposed to see them as important in this thing.

Helaena is cool btw, she’s clearly a prophetic dreamer like Viserys.

That ending shot was great, really enjoy Emma D’Arcy.

yes, but I'm under the impression that they are supposed to be very important characters and the reason for that is not particularly clear so far

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yes, but I'm under the impression that they are supposed to be _very important characters_ and the reason for that is not particularly clear so far

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erryk defected to rhaenyra, arryk stayed with aegon.

feel like they serve a thematic purpose to illustrate the silliness of the power struggle - the two sides of the conflict are so similar that literal identical twins wind up on opposite sides!

erryk was aegon's personal protector and grew so disgusted with the idea of him becoming king that he defected. arryk was all like "is rhaenyra that much better?" and "we swore an oath!"

feel like they serve a thematic purpose to illustrate the silliness of the power struggle - the two sides of the conflict are so similar that literal identical twins wind up on opposite sides!

that, and there's a chance they're going to sleep with each other

And now

A century before @GameofThrones, there was Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire, Egg.

Executive produced by George R. R. Martin, Ira Parker, Ryan Condal, and Vince Gerardis, A Knight of the #SevenKingdoms: The Hedge Knight has received a straight to series order. #StreamOnMax pic.twitter.com/MRPUke5Upt

— HBO Max (@hbomax) April 12, 2023

FINISH THE FUCKING BOOKS imho

not gonna happen

Oh dan m, such a sweet and simple naive faith you have

point: cool, maybe

counterpoint: this is approaching marvelesque levels of oversaturation

contrapunto: the bonfire of nerd rage is stoked for another decade, yaaay

I'm no sweet summer child, that's for sure xp

Oh ye of little faith.

He said just last week that he's 75% done with Winds of Winter so I'm sure it'll be just a few short years until we finally get to see it.

it's like elaborate performance art, makin us all ~~~really think~~~ about our need for definitive endings in fiction, and our desire to impose them on real lyfe as well, the decades-long build up of a narrative itch that will never be scratched by its happilyeverafter