So in the book, Blood and Cheese managed to bound and gag Alicent without anyone noticing and waited in ambush for Helaena and the kids only having to kill one guardsman (not described as a Kings Guard). Really all the show did was skip the Alicent part and make Sir Douchenozzle into a useless Lord Commander because obviously they should have had a guard. Its not like the best written thing, but being down so many Kings Guards Cole really should have made it a point to get Aegon to appoint new ones to properly protect everyone but he sucks.
I think the two main complaints everyone has are that Helaenas actions after this will have to be changed since the kids were not awake when she chose, and that Daemon was not shown to specify what to do if they could not find Aemond
Finally got around to watching this shit show. so much character assassination, continuing from season 1 where all the characteristics and flaws of one team is flipped and given to the other. I see they still doing my boy Cole dirty as shit, not only a manwhore but now he's an incompetent as well. completely flipped the script on daemon/white worm's relationship of course just continuation of more shit writing. But I guess they had to do this shit writing to explain away all the other changes they made to the characters.
Daemon is the drunken degenerate that spent his life and time in King's landing drinking, gambling, and whoring around flea bottom, he was even briefly the commander of the city watch. (as a bit of trivia, it was Daemon while he was commander of the city watch who outfitted them and gave them their gold cloaks, hence forth why they are called Goldcloaks) He the used that power and position for free wine, drinks, and whores, brothels would save all their fresh maiden virgins for him to deflower, he liked them very young (all these qualities they transposed on to Aegon II). He is the one who had spies and informants throughout king's landing (Mysaria, ie the white worm, being one of them. called the white worm because of her porcelain skin but of course race swapped because its 2024) and blood and cheese were his plan along with Rhaenyra. I get it, they want to add several layers of distance between the murder plot and Rhaenyra so they can excuse it as a misunderstanding or not intended, but it's bull shit and is going to fuck up several plot points later on, him having to rely on Mysaria instead of his own contacts in the underbelly of King's Landing.
They keep doing everything they can to make the fat tranny bitch a sympathetic character. lol, they changed her revenge scheme to be against Aemond, which of course would of been well within reason and understandable since he killed her son. Except of course in the books it was never against Aemond, she planned all along to kill Jahaerys, her nephew, 7 year old son of her brother. That was always the plan, a son for a son. not a son for a brother.
"Cheese" the ratcatcher was chosen to guide blood in because he knew all of the secret tunnels and passages in the red keep. He was able to sneak into the red keep completely undetected not because there was no guards but because they used secret tunnels and never were in any main hallways, much less just meandering around the goddamn throne room. (FFS this is such bad writing).
They couldn't get Aegon's wife or kids because the queen and her children lived in Maegor's Holdfast. The royal family lives there, not in the red keep. nobody knows the secret tunnels of Maegor's holdfast. (Maegor's holdfast is where Cersei took Sansa and all the ladies during the battle of blackwater while the battle raged on).
The plan was always to sneak into Queen Regent Alicent's room (this is the same room seen in GoT when Varys sneaks in through a secret door behind the fireplace), tie her up and hold her hostage. Yes there are armed guards outside the room the whole time, patrolling the castle the whole time, etc. This is why they had to sneak in via secret escape tunnels. They knew that Haelana brought her children to see their grand mother Queen Regent Alicent for afternoon tea every day hence this was alway sthe plan and the only way to get Aegon's son.
Instead we get this dumb and dumber half brained plot to just meander around the castle, dude doesn't know where to go, can't get to the "royal chambers" because rat catcher union rules or some other such fucking non-sense? so then they accidently end up in that room. I mean what the fuck is this garbage writing? Why even mention the secret tunnels or his knowledge of them as a ratcatcher if they are just going to meander around the throne room in front of armed guards carrying rat catcher gear. There was no need to sneak in to the castle they could of walked in the front fucking door. And there's no guards or anyone in the castle at all.
it was bad enough they made Haelana a simpleton autistic retard (she basically becomes that, a shell of a person, after her son is murdered) but goddamn they did her character so dirty too.
Anyway if they do the story any justice blood gets tortured to death and every single rat catcher in the city gets hung, both in an effort to kill cheese as well as ensure only the targaryan royal family knows about the secret tunnels throughout the red keep. They bring in 100 cats to handle the rat problem from this moment on which is why there's so many cats for Arya to chase when GoT Season 1 starts.