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I believe it's modeled on the Hagia Sophia not the pantheon
Aegon scavenger hunt was so dumb.
It's OK, Gary! I Got the Monty Python joke! Matching Tie and Handkerchief! My dad has that album on vinyl!
I told you that HoD would be s**t. I warned ye! It is attempting to shore up the crap ending of GoT and it is more Mystery Box Theatre in which nothing is ever satisfactorily resolved. I. Do. Not. Follow. Any. Recommendations. From. "Teh". Fandom. Menace.
Orville? Woke
The Expanus? Woke
Wanda Vision (Yes, y'all pushed that at the beginning, 'cept Mr Outpost)? Woke
Prey? ("surprisingly good", wrote the Sceptical Drunkard)
The Batman? Woke subtext that explodes onto the screen as a certain Blanc Privolage.
Screw your recommendations.
Love the channel, the output, the humour, the skillz on display; totally don't trust any of you! Lol.
I don't think the Dragon keepers would have any idea they should keep her away from her dragon, it's not like the queen went around telling all the servants she had threatened the dragon's life and was holding her hostage until she agreed to back the hightower coup. I think she went stomping into the throne room because she was pissed the hell off that this idiot had dared to threaten her, HER, after everything she had gone through over the succession. She had spent years being true to her word, only to have this idiot inform her she could stay locked in her room until she changed her mind with her dragon's safety being held hostage. She had demanded an answer, so she had her dragon give it to her really, really loudly, since she couldn't hear HER when she told her. I think she just wanted to make it incredibly clear that the hightowers had effd the hell up.
Honestly they haven't earned the benefit of the doubt. I haven't seen a single TV show or movie franchise that has taken the feminist route and apologized for proceding and crashing and burning horribly.
This was a shit episode. She had the chance to end it before it began, and she doesn't. CGI was utter shit. How did she not die when the dragon broke through friggin rock?! I have like another 4-5 big gripes but Effit, I just can't right now. This season had been a good step forward from the turdfest that became GoT, but I think they just walked it back in this episode.
That ending was shit lol
Rhaynes has sacrificed her entire family to uphold her husbands vision and get the King's heirs on the Iron Throne and the 10 people plotting to take what she has sacrificed her son, her daughter, her granddaughters for and remove the rightful heir from power are at her mercy. Instead of ending them and making her sacrifice worth it, she lets them live and they are going to annihilate her for it, what a stupid fucking decision.
I am abit surprised all you guys dont get why Rhaenys did what she did the way she did it. Its not only for the audience but more to show the greens who she still is. Especially after her brother alledgedly was killed, her being held captive and Alicents visit.
That Shad exit ahah !!
I think that may have been the only way out of the dragon pit. If so it would be unavoidable to squash a bunch of peasants. Still horrible.
The writer's name is Sara Hess. She basically know absolutely nothing about these characters, but still got hired for season 2.
So there's a pretty big reason to believe the show is going to go off rails in an instant.
Yea they can’t justify rhaenys killing all those people but not finishing the greens
They keep saying use the front door with the dragon. Wouldn’t they have been harder to acheeve wouldn’t that have been loaded and guarded. This way out was the most surprising. No one’s saying this wants a tragedy the massacre but Surely getting the dragon out and warning the blacks justify it from her perspective
Can I just congratulate the show.. for giving the guy with a club foot a foot fetish 😂
HAND JOB WAS DISSING ALICENT BY SAYING HE REMINDED HIM OF HER MOTHER. NOT IMPRESSED. HE WAS SAYING SHE WAS WEAK LIKE HER
The comment about we'll kill as much people as we need to to get girl power, reminds me of Peacemaker. I fight for peace and I don't care how much men, women and children I need to kill to get it. LMAO 🤣
-You’ve been spending a lot of time with my daughter.
-this can help you too.
Episode 10: clubfoot beatin it while Otto takes off his socks!
In relation to The House Of The Dragon -and many more A word of advice : i like you and your short reviews, you should do more. I'm sorry but i'm not going to sit through 3 and a half hour reviews of the other episodes. Until that happens you are not getting a sub from me (do people really have that amount of time?) seriously feel free to do the livestreams or whatever, but also do a condensed review after (i.e around the 15/30 min mark). Thank you, and i look forward to subbing.
Wdh HBO Releasesed Trailer Ford Episode 10
See, I think you guys missed the symbolism of what Rhaenys did. "Call for me when you have your answer" was what Alicent said to her before she left. Rhaenys had to bring her her answer. The answer was a declaration of war, but she didn't want to slaughter her family, sentiment is what stayed her hand. Personally I thought the scene was cool although it was a bit extra
Yeah, not the greatest episode, but overall enjoyable still. Really felt that they hadn’t put enough time into the kids, and it feels a bit late to start developing them now, but without development I don’t know why I should care about any of them.
Also throwing out there that cuckold was used by Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales in the late 1300s, so it is appropriate for a medieval based setting. I’m not a native speaker, but I still spend a lot of time with English media and has for 15 years now, and reading Chaucer at university a couple of years ago was the first, and until today only, time I’ve heard the word cuckold, I had to look it up to be sure I had the correct interpretation of it.
The thing is… it was the Hightowers who herded all of the citizens into the building at spearpoint… disrupting their lives and forcing them into a stampede until they crammed into that odd circular appendage to the city… so does the blame for the carnage all sit on the princess? Honestly it seems more confusing for the smallfolk than anything else, because to their knowledge the king who herded them there was a Targaryen, but then they found out that he was dead, and the replacement king was his son – and therefore also a Targaryen. In other words, the smallfolk would be angry at every single person up there, right?
1:56:50 I have to imagine it will be used as propaganda. In the "driftmark" episode, when Alicent loses her cool for the first time in public, she remarks people are already gossiping/talking about how she's "crazy" & that it's a stain on her character/how the realm sees her.
I guess I just want to believe the show(runners) won't overlook this crime just bc it was Rhaenys who committed it & they wanted to have a "bad ass moment" for her character.
The moment shouldn't have happened at all. Since it did, they should've just had her dracarys them (but miss or something saves them; maybe Vhagar or Sunfrye senses Aegon/Aemond in distress, so they burst thru too, & she can't fight them, so she flees, etc).
How they shot it, maybe it was "bad ass/cool", but it made the moment for Rhaenys impotent/toothless.
That dragon entrance could also work against the Greens. A lot will only see that all these people forced to this event and then killed. Could have ramifications for both sides
Ways to save the Rhaenys scene:
1.) Have the Kingsguard grab the royals and hurry them out the back as soon as the floor explodes. By the time the dust clears, the podium is empty, and Rhaenys doesn't get her chance to kill the Green leadership. This would have given her a reasonable motivation: try to prevent the civil war by bursting in and killing the Greens, the smallfolk being acceptable collateral in keeping the Realm intact.
2.) Have Rhaenys burst out of the main doors of the Dragon Pit and scatter the company or so of Hightower soldiers stationed there. They were guarding the main entrance, but Rhaenys got in via the top instead, in secret. She can have her girlboss moment there, looking at the stunned soldiers, and then decides not to burn them all into a crisp, since they are only common soldiers. Thus showing MERCY for the commoners.
Every time Aegon’s name is brought up, I always imagine him having a superb collection of Mold, Spores, and Fungi… 😅
Alicent IS a sympathetic character. Fuck Rhaenyra. 🤷♂️
How can people sit here and watch 3 hours of this TRASH. 🤢
Not sure if you guys listen to the aftershow commentary but if you have been every episode is them blabbing on about woke they are and how woke the show is and the women are just being oppressed by the patriarchy. Not expecting this to eventually go to shit was a fallacy.
Could be more of a reason why the people of the city hate dragons later in the book/series 🤷🏻♂️
This episode had the biggest let dpwn- the green council and Criston Cole being useless.
And THATS how you write a great show. Well done!