bigolas
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That's not an issue for me. I just want some good storytelling and a few great battles like GOT. Ultimately, this is how it ends.
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Chris
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You need to prune your complaints.
Like the grandson thing, he calls Aegon grandson too so the writers know, it's just shortened for more natural speech. I can imagine someone doing this.
Some of it appears to be complaining about events being slightly out of order. Like Otto being sacked earlier... who gives a shit about a few paragraphs in Fire and Blood being tweaked?
A lot of it you are right about though.
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It's hard to compare it to GoT. The cast in that was enormous. And it had some of the finest actors ever in a fantasy show. A lot of the older crew were well established. And they struck gold with joffrey and kit harrington. I couldn't stand the queen of dragons but I think they cast her more for her tits than her acting abilities. At least she looked great naked.
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What a stupid fucking episode.
first half of the episode is just catching us up to the book, ie Daemon taking harrenhal, the river lords declaring for this side and that and started killing each other, etc. All this happened before Aemond and Vhagar ate Luke and his dragon at the end of Season 1. Of course it wasn't written quite so retarded as these show writers did it (Daemon, the "king," husband of Rhaenyra single handedly stalks through harrenhal waylaying random guards to take the castle? sneaking around like he's playing skyrim? the fuck was that lol)
like usual almost every single scene, character, motivation, reason, rationale, and action has been changed from the book or invented whole cloth by demonstrably bad writers. Much like GoT in the latter seasons It's getting harder and harder to compare this show to the book its allegedly based on since what does appear is changed completely and so much of it is straight up invented.
Rhaenyra playing mother of the year here sending away all her children and niece to watch over them (she does send her last 2 sons away, much later, Aegon and Viserys, her children she had with daemon, but only after all the rest die, she sends them with no protection and they are attacked/captured).
Daemon's daughters getting more screen time this episode then they do the entire book btw (they basically are afterthoughts, hardly mentioned. one spends the war in the vale chasing boys, and the other chills in pentos.)
idk why they keep doing Sir Criston Cole dirty as fuck, or what they are doing to Aemond one-eye. I guess too many viewers were becoming his fan since he's one of the only decent characters on the show so gotta nip that in the bud.
wtf is this Rhaenyra sneaking into King's landing to have a heart to heart with Alicent? god this writing is so bad, this is a ripple effect of earlier bad writing. By writing the murder of Jahaerys so poorly where these 2 chucklefucks can just wander around the castle unquestioned and murder the heir to the throne, it leaves room that anyone can just sneak in without consequence so of course Rhaenyra can just sneak up on and murder alicent if she wanted to.
What actually happened:
Daemon utilizes his underworld knowledge of king's landing to exploit a singular weakness (ratcatchers know the ways through the hidden tunnels inside the red keep), into the Tower of the Hand, where Otto high Tower and his daughter the Queen Dowager reside. The king and his family all reside in Maegor's holdfast of which no one knows the secret tunnels. They exploit this knowledge to sneak into alicent's room, kill her handmaiden and tie her up, waiting for the Queen Haelena to bring her children to say good night to their grand mother. There they force her to choose one of her children to die and they murder the other one instead to twist the knife of her choice.
Aegon catches the murderer trying to escape, and then executes all the rat catcher's with knowledge of the red keep, ending this vulnerability. From this moment on they employ cat's to take care of the rat problem. And now "sneaking into the castle to do ____" is no longer an option, not that anyone is trying to talk at this point.
instead we get a show without any internal consistency that follows the logic of a goddamn sitcom, so the two girlbosses can wax poetic about some dumbshit that never fucking happened. So by this show's reasoning since the premise was so weak they had to do a GoT tie in with the story about "the prince who was promised," from a song of ice and fire, now Rhaenyra knows the Aegon II was named the prince and thus her claim to the throne is invalid, by her own reasoning. If this show had any consistency it would end right now, Rhaenyra would relinquish her claim and the war would end. but nope, she's still pushing for alicent to concede.
Keep in mind the book they are "adapting" was written by the couple who run the asoiaf wiki and rubber stamped by GRRM for a paycheck (GRRM himself only wrote 1 small section, which detailed Rhaenyra's death, in a collection of short stories about hubris and dangerous women) and the rest was written by the people who police the wiki. That's who these writers are competing against and failing miserably to. A fucking fan site.
Some of you are hatewatching Acolyte and others are hatewatching the latest season of the Boys. Me, I pretty much just hatewatch this show now, its my burden to bear.
first half of the episode is just catching us up to the book, ie Daemon taking harrenhal, the river lords declaring for this side and that and started killing each other, etc. All this happened before Aemond and Vhagar ate Luke and his dragon at the end of Season 1. Of course it wasn't written quite so retarded as these show writers did it (Daemon, the "king," husband of Rhaenyra single handedly stalks through harrenhal waylaying random guards to take the castle? sneaking around like he's playing skyrim? the fuck was that lol)
like usual almost every single scene, character, motivation, reason, rationale, and action has been changed from the book or invented whole cloth by demonstrably bad writers. Much like GoT in the latter seasons It's getting harder and harder to compare this show to the book its allegedly based on since what does appear is changed completely and so much of it is straight up invented.
Rhaenyra playing mother of the year here sending away all her children and niece to watch over them (she does send her last 2 sons away, much later, Aegon and Viserys, her children she had with daemon, but only after all the rest die, she sends them with no protection and they are attacked/captured).
Daemon's daughters getting more screen time this episode then they do the entire book btw (they basically are afterthoughts, hardly mentioned. one spends the war in the vale chasing boys, and the other chills in pentos.)
idk why they keep doing Sir Criston Cole dirty as fuck, or what they are doing to Aemond one-eye. I guess too many viewers were becoming his fan since he's one of the only decent characters on the show so gotta nip that in the bud.
wtf is this Rhaenyra sneaking into King's landing to have a heart to heart with Alicent? god this writing is so bad, this is a ripple effect of earlier bad writing. By writing the murder of Jahaerys so poorly where these 2 chucklefucks can just wander around the castle unquestioned and murder the heir to the throne, it leaves room that anyone can just sneak in without consequence so of course Rhaenyra can just sneak up on and murder alicent if she wanted to.
What actually happened:
Daemon utilizes his underworld knowledge of king's landing to exploit a singular weakness (ratcatchers know the ways through the hidden tunnels inside the red keep), into the Tower of the Hand, where Otto high Tower and his daughter the Queen Dowager reside. The king and his family all reside in Maegor's holdfast of which no one knows the secret tunnels. They exploit this knowledge to sneak into alicent's room, kill her handmaiden and tie her up, waiting for the Queen Haelena to bring her children to say good night to their grand mother. There they force her to choose one of her children to die and they murder the other one instead to twist the knife of her choice.
Aegon catches the murderer trying to escape, and then executes all the rat catcher's with knowledge of the red keep, ending this vulnerability. From this moment on they employ cat's to take care of the rat problem. And now "sneaking into the castle to do ____" is no longer an option, not that anyone is trying to talk at this point.
instead we get a show without any internal consistency that follows the logic of a goddamn sitcom, so the two girlbosses can wax poetic about some dumbshit that never fucking happened. So by this show's reasoning since the premise was so weak they had to do a GoT tie in with the story about "the prince who was promised," from a song of ice and fire, now Rhaenyra knows the Aegon II was named the prince and thus her claim to the throne is invalid, by her own reasoning. If this show had any consistency it would end right now, Rhaenyra would relinquish her claim and the war would end. but nope, she's still pushing for alicent to concede.
Keep in mind the book they are "adapting" was written by the couple who run the asoiaf wiki and rubber stamped by GRRM for a paycheck (GRRM himself only wrote 1 small section, which detailed Rhaenyra's death, in a collection of short stories about hubris and dangerous women) and the rest was written by the people who police the wiki. That's who these writers are competing against and failing miserably to. A fucking fan site.
Some of you are hatewatching Acolyte and others are hatewatching the latest season of the Boys. Me, I pretty much just hatewatch this show now, its my burden to bear.
This is the only book I did not read. Rhaenyra sucks, she can't make a decision to save her life. Show is kind of ass. Dragging and dragging
Animosity
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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Ossoi
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No you autistic degenerate, the point is Alicent misunderstood the ramblings of a dying man. He recited the passed down prince who was promised prophecy that started with Aegon the Conqueror, and thought he was referring to her son as choice for the throne
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