Where is my Aemond, "I will stand deathly close to massive dragon to protect my sweet sister" Targaryen on the show? Cause I think the writers lost him and can't find him!
I think people need to remember Condal and Hess were replaced by the showrunner of "The Crown" early in production.
Remember, Condal and Hess missed the deadlines for scripts ... twice. They also delayed production of Season 2 for months because they couldn't finish the scripts in a timely manner.
"Blood and Cheese" was given to Sara Hess and another female writer and they had to redraft 4 times because it was continuously sent back and it actually got worse and worse, till GRRM came in and rewrote from scratch the entire episode in the eleventh hour.
Warner went out of pocket to get a ghost showrunner to come in as a ringer and get production off the ground as well as edit the scripts while Condal and Hess fucked off for the writers strike.
The things you are seeing on screen are a jumble of Condal and Hess's ideas patch worked by someone who knows absolutely dick about ASoIaF or the characters beyond what he read in the show bible.
The reason the ghost showrunner is not credited is because he's not a part of the American Writer's Guild thus the studio is not obligated to put his name on screen. Also he was brought in as a fixer to get production back on track and to script doctor Condal and Hess's shit work on the scripts.
So, if characters like Aemond, Alicent, and Criston are not acting like you'd expect them to be or the way they were in Season 1, it's because they're being rewritten by someone who doesn't really know the characters or the book lore. They're being doctored by someone the studio paid to take over for incompetent producers.
The scenes with Otto, Aegon, and Criston and especially the fight between Rhaenyra and Daemon, along with the shot compositions of the flower peddles that Helaena sees along with the dust motes that Rhaenyra stares at. These are all artistic hallmarks and signatures of "The Crown". The ghost showrunner was brought in because of his experience writing royal family drama.
The reason the Greens are written the way they are is because the ghost showrunner is basing them off of the British Royal Family dynamics of the Royal House of Windsor. With politically and public relations minded patriarchs and cold detached matriarchs that don't know how to show love. Because, these are the main tenants of "The Crown" and the characters/historical figures in them that he wrote for years.
So the quality of acting is elevated because the ringer they got is really excellent at directing and writing character drama. But the lore and the characters are off, because, he doesn't know anything about the characters beyond what he's seen in Season 1 and read from Condal and Hess's rejected scripts and their show bible.
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