Chemicalreal

My mileage may vary.

[chemicalreal]

Not Jace pointing out something Team Black delusionally refuses to acknowledge, how Rhaenyra potentially doomed her first three kids by having 2 legitimate silver haired ones with none other than the Rogue Prince himself. Does she really think Daemon "I'd rather have my kids be eaten by a dragon than bow to a Targaryen half blood king" will just give his blessings to Jacaerys and let his kids be his cupbearers? Lmao Rhaenyra is just lucky they all died before her stupidity could cause a second succession crisis and make her an even more embarrassing historical character.

[chemicalreal]

Can't wait for this so called 'experimental episode' to further test our pain tolerance.

[chemicalreal]

[chemicalreal]

The Alonso curse seems to hit the worst in Monaco since 2023. Not even Adrian Newey is being able to break it.

[chemicalreal]

New lore to add to the Fernando Alonso curse saga.

[multiseb21]

me before and after my meds kick in

[chemicalreal]

The Alonso curse seems to hit the worst in Monaco since 2023. Not even Adrian Newey is being able to break it.

[padmestrilogy]

it is interesting that for all the talk of “fixing” padme and making her “more than a weeping wife”, the idea of padme choosing to die while pregnant remains this huge taboo. post after post about freeing her from sexist writing, and ppl still can’t imagine a padme separate from her children. her ultimate purpose remains motherhood. padme refusing motherhood/being unhappy in motherhood is taken as a total impossibility. it has to be sith life force draining, it has to be the force choke, it has to be bad space gynecologists (??). it can’t be that a mom lost the will to live despite her babies. that doesn’t happen!!

[padmestrilogy]

i know it’s just fandom talk . but . padme's death is the most clear cut suicidal act in the franchise. padme doesn’t die in the heat of battle, she doesn’t sacrifice herself, she has no reason to believe her death will help anybody, nor was she given a choice between death or something else. she simply wants to die. and she has good reason: the love of her life has turned the galaxy to hell. this is the only time in the whole trilogy that padme is allowed to scream. this is the only time she’s allowed to cry in front of more than one person. it’s this burst of raw emotion from a character who’s kept a poker face since 12, who has been caring for others, caring for a whole planet, since 14. her rejecting that caregiver role in her final moments, not even holding her children? just openly sobbing? that is a more tragic, full-circle, and operatic death than some long distance sith magic nonsense . tbh!

[padmestrilogy]

if i want to harp on it some more (i do): a passive padme would’ve gone with anakin on mustafar. a passive padme would’ve listened to obi-wan telling her to live and just pulled it together. a passive padme would’ve never gone to mustafar in the first place! the majority of padme’s choices in rots are reactive, yes, but her last moments are a series of refusals of what the men/authority figures in her life tell her to do. for someone who has spent her life in horrible political inertia, watching one war become the next, only becoming a senator because she “couldn’t refuse”, death becomes the only way to freedom. you can’t strip all agency out of that choice in the name of feminism ! u can’t !

[chemicalreal]

I just disagree with this suicide theory, as for me it is even simpler than that. When you consider everything Padmé went through in her final 24 hours, it makes sense even from a scientific perspective that her body just couldn't handle it.

And her pregnancy was troubled from the beginning. She found out she was pregnant while Anakin was off fighting on the front lines, with constant reports of his death before his return only months later. Add to that the fact that their marriage was a secret, she had to conceal it from everyone, all while worrying about the fallout once it was inevitably revealed. The stress she was under was immense, both emotionally and physically, long before the events of the third movie.

Emotional trauma alone is known to be harmful to pregnant women, and let alone what she endured in a short span of time. First, she believed multiple times in a short period that her husband was dead, when she sees the temple burning she broke down thinking it was really over. Then Obi-Wan arrives and tells her Anakin had committed some of the most horrific acts imaginable and that he is going to kill him. Shortly after, Anakin chokes her into unconsciousness on a planet filled with sulfuric gases, she is left in that state on the platform for an unknown amount of time. Despite all this, the medical droids decide to induce premature, natural labor with twins (!!) rather than opting for a C-section and allowing her to rest under anesthesia, by giving that famously weird statement that probably is causing all this confusion.

Even her final words reflect a woman who never lost hope, despite everything she endured, which directly contradicts any claim of her committing some form of emotional suicide or succumbing to despair. If it had been up to her, she would have fought to survive. If anything, it’s a miracle she didn’t suffer a miscarriage, yet she still managed to give birth to healthy, pre-term babies. It’s almost as if her body went into overdrive, doing everything it could to protect her children from the extreme stress and trauma she was experiencing. In a way, her body sacrificed itself to ensure the safety of her babies, prioritizing their survival over her own well-being, which is the opposite of a suicidal mind.

Given all this, it's not surprising her body couldn't cope right after giving birth. So why did she die? Isn't it obvious? People have died of a broken heart for much less.

[chemicalreal]

Season 3 will also start with an undefined time skip where nobody will understand what's happening, how much time has passed and why has everyone changed personality again.

My two cents

[stuffjusthappensworld]

Yep. And Alicent, Aegon, Aemond and maybe Cole will of course be sexually humiliated again and narratively as well on all counts

[chemicalreal]

And Aegon casually mentioning one of his appendages has burst again

[chemicalreal]

Season 3 will also start with an undefined time skip where nobody will understand what's happening, how much time has passed and why has everyone changed personality again.

My two cents

[blissfulphilospher]

if they adapt Robert's Rebellion

I don't want to give anyone ideas but if they ever make Robert Rebellion's tv or movie version then Robert Baratheon is going to be portrayed as the worst man ever who raped woman here and there and probably assaulted Lyanna.

And that's why she ran away with the tragic melancholic godly prince who was so noble and good but trapped in a marriage with either an unstable chronically ill brown woman or a scheming ambitious brown woman who doesn't love him at all and maybe cheats on him.

Tragic King Aerys who loves his family and wants to burn the whole city because he has a good cause!! Sacrifices will wake dragons! Dragons eggs could have hatched before Dany! Aerys' was a genius. And yes Rhaella supported him and Rhaegar with everything.

It was House Targaryen against the world.

Also, Tywin Lannister was best buddy of Aerys. He sent the Mountain and Amory Lorch to protect the royal family! Those noble knights who accidentally killed the little girl maybe because he couldn't identify whether the Princess was Targaryen or not? Maybe she wasn't.

The Mountain too had similar accidents because Aegon isn't the ptwp or he doesn't exist at all. Problem solved! Rhaegar had no son! This is true! Jon is his only son!!

And let's not forget how hard it was for the Mountain and other guy to climb the building, their struggle to get in Maegor's Holdfast!! They will show us that, than the Princess who is trapped helplessly in a tower with a drawbridge, drawn up and no way to escape with her children.

But no problem that those children died, they were nothing special no one mourns them or their mother. They deserved to be killed and forgotten. House Martell supports Targaryens! They will rise for Jon if they knew! True love of the prince Rhaegar already gave him the only son. Aegon 6th!!

And see a noble honourable Stark lord will raise because 'song ice and fire!' 'prophecy baby' and not because he is the last piece of his sister and that's what any uncle will do.

And… Jon Arryn? Who is Jon Arryn? Why does he want to rebel? He has no reason! (His heir was also murdered idk why people forget that!)

And yes the war was started by Littlefinger if you didn't know before he hyped up Brandon to march to KL. 😄

[anisluvrgirl]

saw this and immediately thought of sam😭 he ate with this fit though

[chemicalreal]

@matherofdragons

[thewitchqueenofharrenhal]

I love GRRM so much that’s my grandpa for real ❤️.

I can’t believe y’all were batting for Ryan Condal & Sara Hess of all people. He had to come out and set yall straight.

[chemicalreal]

People siding with corporate scums doesn't really surprise me anymore

[lizajane2]

I'm appalled by the amount of people who think we can't critique or hate the writer for how they've handled a story, or question their capabilities. If you haven't read the book and you enjoy the show on its own, that's great, I'm happy you enjoy it. But for readers who see characters that they love being stripped of their personalities and are the complete opposite of what George described them to be, that is NOT good writing. What they're doing is basic character assassination.

This whole story is a fucking tragedy. Taking out Maelor completely does change a lot that unfolds and it's supposed to be heartbreaking. Every death is supposed to haunt the narrative of the Dance; there are essential points in the plot that should NOT be messed with, moved, or erased because then everything else falls apart.

When the writers are giving me inconsistencies with character choices, plot holes, and lack of emotion, if I'm not feeling the tragic losses and it's not impacting the story, the side characters, then yes I will in fact question the writer's capabilities. I will think they failed at adapting the Dance on screen because to me they did.

[chemicalreal]

GRRM explaining how the erasure of Maelor is a mistake through the butterfly effect is basically "storytelling for dummies", if D&D trying to scratch characters and shrinking storylines was somewhat understandable because ASOIAF is unfinished and a much more complicated story to wrap up in 15 episodes alone, Condal doing the same to a finished story where he only has to create additional dialogues and scenes with an already fleshed out narrative is just unforgivable.

[lizajane2]

And I’m left wondering why Ryan and Sara didn’t look at Fire & Blood as an outline? I mean that’s really all it is. An outline of what happened and what could’ve happened… but rather he took characters that already had a beginning and an end, that were rooted in who they were and discarded it all.

[matherofdragons]

Can't they realise that maybe, just maybe the collateral damage is a thing???? Besides those were bloody riots not a peaceful meeting. Seems like an insane cope by people who are seething that George isn't pampering their Kween.

[chemicalreal]

Team Black sissies right now to GRRM

[lizajane2]

I'm appalled by the amount of people who think we can't critique or hate the writer for how they've handled a story, or question their capabilities. If you haven't read the book and you enjoy the show on its own, that's great, I'm happy you enjoy it. But for readers who see characters that they love being stripped of their personalities and are the complete opposite of what George described them to be, that is NOT good writing. What they're doing is basic character assassination.

This whole story is a fucking tragedy. Taking out Maelor completely does change a lot that unfolds and it's supposed to be heartbreaking. Every death is supposed to haunt the narrative of the Dance; there are essential points in the plot that should NOT be messed with, moved, or erased because then everything else falls apart.

When the writers are giving me inconsistencies with character choices, plot holes, and lack of emotion, if I'm not feeling the tragic losses and it's not impacting the story, the side characters, then yes I will in fact question the writer's capabilities. I will think they failed at adapting the Dance on screen because to me they did.

[chemicalreal]

GRRM explaining how the erasure of Maelor is a mistake through the butterfly effect is basically "storytelling for dummies", if D&D trying to scratch characters and shrinking storylines was somewhat understandable because ASOIAF is unfinished and a much more complicated story to wrap up in 15 episodes alone, Condal doing the same to a finished story where he only has to create additional dialogues and scenes with an already fleshed out narrative is just unforgivable.

[chemicalreal]

Did you hear folks, Rhaenyra was NOT beloved by the smallfolk, Queen Helaena was, but somehow we got Helaena being thrown shit not long after blood and cheese.

[the-social-recluse]

Read some comments from under whatever Providence content I could find on YouTube, and it showed me that some people really believe Akane is criminally asymptomatic.

If anything, I think it has been consistently proven so far that she isn’t. She wasn’t born with it, never thought of herself as one and neither did anyone else, including Sybil… it’s just that her beliefs alone are enough to shake everything to the core.

[whatsyourcolor]

Exactly! She’s not asymptomatic! She’s a truly ethical being, which is why Sibyl can’t find a way to darken her hue and the reason why they’re so interested in her. She disproves the notion that humans are intrinsically evil, which is the philosophical reason Sibyl exists and is comprised of *spoiler* a mosaic of psychopathic brains.

Akane struggles with her decisions but relies on her belief (or faith) that humans can find solutions to the most complex issues and this is in itself subversive to the system. If others could be like Akane, maybe the system wouldn’t be needed (Kogami tells her this). But the possibility that humans have that potential is there.

If she was asymptomatic like Makishima, all of that nuance would be lost.

[chemicalreal]

Akane is definitely not criminally asymptomatic but she is the only character in the show who shows an impressive mental self control when others would definitely cross the point of no return. Being criminally asymptomatic means that your crime coefficient stays low regardless of your thoughts and mental state. Akane's crime coefficient almost crossed the limit that time in season 1 when she was made to relive her memories of Makishima killing her friend. In addition, Akane's genuine beliefs somewhat manage to be always aligned with Sibyl's means to progress and that's a huge reason why her crime coefficient manages to stay naturally low, unlike other people like Masaoka, Kogami and then Ginoza who definitely cannot be considered problematic in the traditional meaning but pose a threat to sibyl because they turned into disillusioned individuals who oppose Sibyl's ideologies at their core.