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22:20…Rhaenyra and Daemon still killed an innocent man to use his body as a stand-in for Laenor…and didn't tell Laenor's mother her son was still alive so she suffers horrific trauma thinking another child has died…but Alicent is the bad guy???
C'mon…….
Rhaenyra was gaslighting about her kids being a victim of.rumors while Alicent's son was sitting Without an EYE…and you guys are worried that the kid was a d!ck? and you're angry about Alicent losing her mind? Because her son just lost an eye?
C'mon guys……. some perspective.
Paddy Considine's acting in Ep. 8 just solidified the fact that he has to earn an Emmy, such amazing acting throughout the whole season!
1:00:05 Funny thing about this chase, the director "Greg Yaitanes" said: ‘In preparation, I watched the first How to Train Your Dragon because Roger Deakins was the visual consultant on that. So that, cinematically, was going to be really appealing.'
the parallels when the red death is chasing hiccup and toothless from the first film is too similar to ignore 😅❤
"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind"
Gandhi
I don't really see the flaw in their thinking that Otto is poisoning the king. I mean, he could be making him sick without the intent of killing him. A king who is too ill to rule but not ill enough to die is kind of a brilliant idea actually.
When Paddy picks up his Emmy next year for this, I hope they play the king's theme on his way up to the stage.
If Paddy isn’t at the very least nominated for an Emmy, I’m going to lose my mind. The man honestly deserves to win one for this performance. Incredible.
The problem with slow (food based) poisoning is two fold. a) In the real world, kings had official, long term food tasters for this purpose. Westeros should be the same. b) Every introduction of poison is a possible point of failure for the plotters. Slipping poison in food every day, every other day, or even every week is another chance to be caught. And like 9/11 conspiracy theories that require hundreds/ thousands of participants to work, the chances of that information remaining hidden would be effectively impossible.
I liked this… while I wouldn't mind few more scenes from episodes, this kind of condensed reaction to a season of something is really nice. 😀
If I was the King I would have told the Queen if you refuse the marriage that my daughter put forward then you will be cold in your grave today
It was said in GOT that the iron throne kills those who are weak or unfit to sit on it. Viserys was a good king but the throne always hurt him and it did not heal. So, basically, the throne killed viserys, he was good but not strong
I was blown away by the details in the coronation. It felt like watching Nicholas II being crowned in an Orthodox ceremony with all the hollow pomp & circumstance of a rotting system. It's what I'd always envisioned from a GoT coronation. Tom Glynn-Carney was terrific in bringing out Aegon's fear, hesitation, pride & euphoria all at once. He’s got a sadness about him you only see in catholic stained glass windows. The much despised Criston putting the Conqueror's crown on Aegon II's head. The Kingmaker is born! "Reluctance to murder is not a weakness" is the very dilemma at the heart of asoiaf. The aesthetics of Hightower KL, already so soulless, so dark and dreary. Love it! What the show's doing really well is the details, down to splitting the treasury or locking up servants. Usually the passionate debates, the sense of treachery, the heartbreak are glossed over & we only see the regime change as a "fait accompli". This bring to life the mechanism that historically goes behind a coup, which I assume is as emotionally taxing for the people seizing power. That's why I like agonized & conflicted Alicent more than her steadfast source counterpart. It's more flesh & blood. She vacillates but her messianic fear for her children fates her to make a cursed gamble.
Ep 8 : The dinner scene is a masterclass of building trepidation through melancholy. Viserys watching the kids in a last dance before the Dance. Fleeting moments of bliss. Everyone hoping for the best, expecting the worst. For something so uneventfully peaceful, the passing was one of the most foreboding & viscerally filmed deaths I've seen. Book Viserys also doses off to the great beyond in his bed, after telling stories to grandkids. The king who was most unlike Aegon the Conqueror in life ends up being most like the Conqueror in death. Ep 7 : That “where is duty, where is sacrifice” scene…Olivia Cooke doing some Dinklage level lifting there. The agony, the passion! “We Know Father. Everyone Knows”.That’s Aegon’s “the Prince will remember that little Lord” moment. Aemond taming Vhagar & holding his own in a 1v4 makes him the real chad in my eyes. Only wholesome moment, our Prince resting his head on his mom’s shoulder to let her know she can depend on him. Last but not least, GOATTO Hightower with the coldest win or you die reference, “we play an ugly game”…and I’m the meme of Homer Simpson decked out in green onsies, sitting on green cushions, wearing a Hightower snapback, holding a Go Greens flag with a Alicent poster on the wall😂.
Repurcussion? It's a coup. Which was already planned ahead with or without the prophechy. We're not gonna pumish people who are helping us get rid of the old regime. As you saw, Rhaenyra's monarchy dies to thunderous applause. Questions like where's the evidence that Viserys said it? are moot in an autocracy. The “divine rights of kings” is all about a perception of legitimacy in the eye of the masses. That's why the Greens played it smart by giving Aegon the Conqueror's crown, the Conqueror’s sword, by having him anointed by the High Septon. These are symbols of authority which tells people "you must obey". You saw in real time the indoctrination taking affect as the masses go from confusion, to incredulity to full blown cheering. The coup is justified if one believes Rhaenyra is passing the throne to the Strongs by naming Jace heir. That is also usurpation. Otto purging opposition is an inevitability of living under autocracy. Daemon would’ve done the same without hesitation. It’s a logical attempt to avoid civil war. The biggest mistake here wasn't the decision Rhaenys made. It was the decision Alicent made. To let the would-be tyrant walk free. Echoes of "the Robert I knew didn't tremble in the shadow of an unborn child".
I swear man some of the audience are blind and biased af I love how Emma the actor who plays Rhaenrya took alicent's side in their interview any mother in her situation would go crazy too and emma even said what I was thinking while watching the scene Rhaenrya kinda manipulates viserys and purposefully put a lot of focus on the word bastard and treason to get her way after that viserys the dumbass completely ignores the fact that his son got permanently blinded.
It doesn't matter that Criston didn't get to split open Beesbury's throat F&B style.The slimy way it happened was actually more fitting for his character. Everybody in the show does not need to be a badass. We already have a bunch of sigma chads. 'Cool villains' are dime a dozen to come by. It's much more of a challenge to make a character that is actually truly despised by the people the way they loathed someone like an Olly. People absolutely loathe Criston. Anytime I watch a reaction channel and the moment Criston is on screen he generates a visceral hatred. Every week there's a viral tweet about how much people can't stand Criston. A side panel of him saying "every woman is the image of the Mother" & "spoiled c-word" has like 50k RTs. The character is doing more than a perfect job of what it was intended to do.
Lol the thumbnail of Simone with the eyepatch – either she's applying to be the new CEO of Virtucon or she's part of the replacement pool for The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.
GoT is famous for packing multiple entendres in their titles and catchphrases. Like "Kill the Boy" or "The Children". Beast beneath the boards is referring to much more than Meleys me thinks. It's basically referring to everything this episode and I think that's the point. It's referring to Aemond's ambitions for the throne. It's referring to Otto's brutal machinations behind his calm exterior. It's referring to Aegon's hidden depravity — did you see the way Helaena recoiled when bowing to Aegon? It's referring to the White Worm's warning to Otto about how it's the people who ultimately enable them. As Larys said, Otto knew about the White Worm but allowed her to exist and essentially grow in the shadows. That was great writing. Our newly anointed King was hiding beneath the "boards". Maybe we were looking at the wrong beast this whole time.
Yea. Yes. I’m here for this. Simone and George you guys are the best and I’m so here for this.
George is like. “He’s got deathwing tho”.
Cheers for my wow nerds and George too.
Best thumbnail ever! 🤣
I love Daemon, seconds later wtf..
Rhaenys hasn't read the book Fire & Blood to know of horrors to come. So her pre-emptively nuking half her own family would've been OP. Having said that, the Rhaenys bit was to give audience a 'send home happy' moment which wasn't necessary. The coronation was fantastic in itself. But gawd forbid the ''bad guys" are on top in one episode. Those who thought lowborns of KL have any obligation to support Rhaenyra are in for big disappointments. Aegon claims his birthright from popular King Jaehaerys' Great Council ordering that the king's firstborn male son is the next king. Viserys himself won it over Rhaenys like that. Best part of this was the politics, less dragons the better. Despairing mom version of alicent does highlight her humanity more than the colder iteration of the actual green council. A well needed adjustment imo but also a continuation of her temperament from the Harrenhall or dagger scenes. They've constantly shown subtleties in that character which the audience tend to wilfully ignore since we're watching this as a team sport and we gotta cheer team lovable manipulative dad. Her being more humanized shouldn't be an issue unless one wants the show to remain grotesquely tilted towards Black (Laenor's death,Rhaenyra being the one to kill Vaemond, etc)
Emma D'Arcy is a phenomenal actor. They're such a force on screen.
Also, not to pile on, but Otto wasn't poisoning Viserys. He's ambitious, not quite wholly evil. Viserys just had Westerosi leprosy from the wounds he sustained from the Iron Throne. There's no way all those old melted swords are sanitary.
I quite don't understand why so many people would support Rhaenyra.
She keeps making wrong decisions and Daemon is literally a mad calculating monster but everything they do is forgiven, while Aegon didn't want the throne, his brother Aemon would make a heroic King and their mother's motive is driven by fear of what would happen to her children ( given Daemon's demeanour, totally justified) and duty to the crown. The only persons that definitely deserve their reputation as evil would be otto ( whoose ambition is understandable) and Larrys ( whoose motive is still hidden).
I think Abraham Lincoln and the civil war is a perfect comparison for Renera during the final episode. He was not a military leader, but he often discussed and argued with his generals (didn't help that early in the war a lot of them sucked till Grant took over). Because there is a big difference between leading an army and leading a people. Renera is not just trying to win a war, she is trying to save what is left after. Just like a lot of Lincolns decisions that at times influences the battles.
For right or wrong.
Giving complete control to a purely military leader like Daemon who in part lives off fighting is never the smartest decision.