show runner: ok so we'll just make all those changes we just discussed, so that Rhaenyra can be the heroine of the show. Give feminists an idol to emulate you know?
Lore guy: hows that gonna square with her, um death?
Showrunner: wait, what?
Lore guy: you know she gets eaten by a dragon, right?
Showrunner: What? Wait, when?
Lore guy: well if you are trying to stretch this out to 5 seasons, she gets eaten sometime around the end of season 2...
Show runner: the fuck man, we already cast a genderfluid non-binary to play her! You told us she wins?
Lore guy: no i said her children end up kings, nobody "wins" the dance of dragons.
Marketing: hi, karen from marketing here, that's her half black kids with the Velaryons, right? The Velaryon changes are tracking quite well on twitter. We're calling them the first black family of Westeros.
Lore guy: well no, on multiple fronts. The Velaryon boy never actually fathers any of her kids, they are actually bastards sons of the commander of the gold cloaks...
Marketing: karen from marketing again. wait, she cucks the black guy?
Lore guy: well not really, he is gay after all and spends most of his time prancing about fucking dudes, but...
Showrunner: gay and black, thats tracking well among our lgbtqiap crowd...
Lore guy: but he also dies...
Marketing: hi karen from marketing again. We're really going to kill the first black son on westeros? The gay one?
Lore guy: him, and all "his" children with rhaenyra. Rhaenyra's children with daemon are the ones who eventually take the iron throne...
Showrunner: daemon? you told us Corlys Velaryon did well in this story?
Lore guy: no I said he survives it. Him and alicent hightower are the only 2 people from the entire cast who survive. Again, nobody "wins"
Showrunner: but you said his grandchildren survive...
Lore guy: yes, from daemon and laena. The twin girls, you havent cast them yet they arent even born til after the 10 year time jump...
Showrunner: shes the one we decided was going to self immolate? So what is corlys doing during all of this? We need to portray him as a strong black man if we are going to be killing off 2 of his children...
Lore guy: all of his children actually, the others die too. And he spends nearly all of the war in the black cells below the red keep.
Showrunner: but he lives, right?
Lore guy: yeah, he dies about a year after the war of old age.
Showrunner: so the first black family of westeros, his line ends then? All his sons die?
Lore guy: well technically no. He fathers a few bastards. The one who doesn't die is made a Velaryon and his heir.
Marketing: hi karen from marketing here. Did nobody think of the optics on this? We sold this as the first black family of Westeros.
The father is in jail, all his kids die in the streets. When he isn't in prison he cheats on his wife, and one of his bastards, the sole survivor, carries on his name and inherits his land and titles?
Lore guy: pretty much yeah...
so yeah this is "accidently" the most based show