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Yeah, this blog has quite a lot of anti hotd posts. Actually I only tag my posts as such because that's the least I can do to help people keep their online space here safe, but I won't stop voicing my opinions just because you want me to, its up to you to block me and the tags.
Well, after the rumors regarding Aemond this season I guess I'm gonna watch only Aegons episodes (and the Reach episodes because of Daeron but I will still have to put up with Alicent there, ugh) LOL
Like, obviously I knew they would find a way to insert the Alicent-Aemond thing, but I guess now that the season is just around the corner it finally hit me not like a joke we used to make back then, but something like "damn, this shit is actually happening".
Re-thinking here and I guess I'm not gonna watch it, apparently there won't be a single plot she won't participate in, so it's better I stay off this season before this character writing I once liked so much makes me become a first-rate hater.
“Anything is possible, but I think I have said what I have to say about Westeros.” In other words, don’t expect to see him getting hands-on if HBO decides to make another Game of Thrones spin-off, despite the fact that Condal just extended his deal with the network.
Good riddance!!
I'm really afraid that after this "image crisis management" speech he somehow shows up in next seasons of akotsk (iirc he's still credited there?)... But for now, HASTA LA VISTAAAAA RAYAN! lol
Team Green press!!! 💚💚💚🤭🤭
Still wondering what poor Olivia is doing in there, the girl is desperate to be offic TB but they don't stop forcing her to a Team she's not welcomed at this point, let my greens exist without Alicent and die with dignity pleeeeeease LMAO
But I'm kinda surprised Gayle is there, I thought Alys was "nor black nor green" or whatever.
And as usual, Fabien, Tom and Ewan making be gnaw at the bars of my enclosure XD
what poor Olivia is doing in there, the girl is desperate to be offic TB
It’s a marketing tactic, up until 2x08 Alicent was the figurehead of Team Green in advertising so this is continuing it. I know Olivia wanted to join the Blacks but I assume the show’s PR was too aware of how much backlash they’d get from TB fans if she’s seen with Emma and Matt.
If 2x08 hadn’t received the intense vitriol it did I’m sure Olivia would’ve been happily donning on a Team Black T-shirt instead lol.
A more hopeful part of me is also hoping her still being seen as a Green means there’s going to be a huge twist in 3x01 where it’s revealed Dragonstone was all part of Aemond and Alicent’s cunning plan.
Obviously it’s going to make 0 sense because we all know what they were really trying to achieve in the Season 2 finale, but a girl can still dream the writers accepted they made a huge mistake by trying to force Alicent into the Blacks and are thus attempting to backtrack 🤷🏽♀️
I’m kinda surprised Gayle is there
Me too, personally not a fan of this idea Alys is supporting the faction that slaughtered her entire family.
All I can think is that they needed to even out the cast so added to Gayle to Team Green just for marketing reasons.
Olivia has become an upgraded version of schroedinger experiment atp, but instead of "cat is alive/cat is dead" is "Olivia is TB/ Olivia is TG". And in a third space in-between which grows announcement after announcement: the "neither wants her regardless which one she identifies herself with" LMAO
"All I can think is that they needed to even out the cast so added to Gayle to Team Green just for marketing reasons."
Maybe... but in this case they could have replaced Gayle with Freddie and James and Phia. Characters that people - at least in the bubble the algorithm shows me - are more hyped to watch. Oh well, who knows, maybe their schedules were busy already...
Although I love the Starks and their theme musics, I lmao so much because people act like Starks have always followed Ned's Arryn pattern of behavior he got thanks to Jon Arryn.
Till this day I still believe Cregan was pragmatic, not loyal. Loyalty implies blind obedience, but the theories I see about him out there...
And if the Starks were this loyal, their branch House Greystark would have not joined the Boltons in rebellion against the Starks, getting extinct for it. Same with the Karstark branch, they weren't as honorable as the main line, to the point Robb lost a war for it.
Team Green press!!! 💚💚💚🤭🤭
Still wondering what poor Olivia is doing in there, the girl is desperate to be offic TB but they don't stop forcing her to a Team she's not welcomed at this point, let my greens exist without Alicent and die with dignity pleeeeeease LMAO
But I'm kinda surprised Gayle is there, I thought Alys was "nor black nor green" or whatever.
And as usual, Fabien, Tom and Ewan making be gnaw at the bars of my enclosure XD
I remember watching it at the time and even if the person never read Agatha Christie, the Red wedding would totally make the audience get suspicious of Charles Dance. Like... Tywin and a poem which starts with "10 people went out do dine???" lmao
Overthinking about the Rhaegar-Lyanna-Elia thing I normally pay attention more to the consequences of Rhaegar's actions in Elia's life, not much to Rhaegar himself. Therefore, only now have I realized that Rhaegar was actually a fraud. I kinda forgot that no one can lay a hand on the king or his heir, so all those times that Rhaegar "defeated" Arthur Dayne, argably the best warrior at the time, were lies. Arthur allowed Rhaegar to win.
Proof is that when Rhaegar fought his first battle for real, he died. Rhaegar was such a fraud that he was a disaster even in choosing oponents, I imagine how furious Robert was LMAO If he was this bad as a fighter, he would have been an even worst monarch, he wasn't even king yet and he basically made his love affair everyone's problem and tossed the realm into chaos.
It's wild to me, really, absolutelly wild, to think that a girl who is described as wolf coded, and Arya coded was convinced by Rhaegar's melancholic messianic complex. We know she's got:
a rather rigid moral code to refuse to marry Robert-the-man-who-will-be-unfaithful-to-her,
but apparentlyyyyy she was okay with being the other girl in RhaegarxElia marriage.
She's also somewhat vengeful like Arya, when she dropped wine in Benjen when he mocked her when Lyanna teared up listening to Rhaegar.
Which means in theory she's not "dreamy" like Sansa.... but somehow she was swayed by Rhaegar's teary eyes.
Also, in TWOW Arya's sample chapter there's a scene where Arya works as actress and she says she's preparing herself for the SA of her character or smth. After her death Lyanna has become basically a character in all the minds of those who remembered her, she's lost her agency and voice, her story told by the mouths of others like characters in a theater. If Lyanna is said to be Arya coded, thennnnn I take it as a hint that yep, Lyanna didn't go willingly with Rhaegar, she was forced to, BUT it raises more questions than answers (option 2 below)
And I'm not saying that to shit on Lyanna or whatever. I can't remember what happened after the harrenhal tourney.
option 1: she's somehow fooled by Rhaegar and goes willingly, despite knowing very well that he's married, and probably that Elia's health isn't 100%. She knew the burden the guy was inflicting on Elia with those pregnancies. Not to mention all the "no cheating husband for me, but why not colaborate to the ruin of that marriage over there?" But it contradicts the "arya coded" description, because Arya has her own sense of honor and justice, and I struggle to imagine what could Lyanna think in order to justify destroying an innocent woman's life and her kids.
option 2: she isn't fooled by Rhaegar and goes with him by force... but between the tourney and all the 'escape to Dorne' there's a time gap, right? She wasn't kidnapped right away, someone had to spirit her away and no one in the north or the riverlands saw anything? Really? No one noticed this very uncommon random white-haired guy walking around with a teenage girl by his side (and who most likely would try to flee in ALL THE WAYS possible!) all the way down to Dorne in a moment the Prince is missing? In a moment of war when there's soldiers all around and nowhere is safe?
Not to mention, Lyanna doesn't strike us like the 'damsel in distress' type of character waiting to be kidnapped by Rhaegar, she would express her agency by going after him, easily fooling everyone who was left watching over her because really, I highly doubt Robert wouldn't have asked Ned to keep extra eyes on her, everyone knew Rhaegar was at least planning something, especially those aware of the whispers regarding Elia's health. Then he disappears, then some time later Lyanna also disappears...
It portrays Lyanna as egoist, naive, homewrecker, and maybe even a bit dumb for believing in valyrian prophecies (certain people *cough* C&H *cough* would be seething at the prospect of a female character portrayed with so many flaws LMAOOO). Unless... she was obsessed with the "winter is coming" thing and Rhaegar used it on his behalf to convince her, which is even worse, the guy didn't care manipulating a teenager to get what he wanted like... yk, cult leaders. Oh well, I won't even elaborate that I shouldn't expect less from someone with ancestors like his.
Lyanna, girl, it's such a shame I'll never get to know the truth about you.
Oh... now that the greens (as unified entity) basically are no more and the plot needs to come up with more baddy guys to go against the the poor righful kween, out of nowheeere part of the smallfolk hates her enough to nickname her 'queen of the bastards'... I thought they loved her in S2 with all the food supply scene and plot? lol
Mess was right, smallfok never mattered. They are treated as background plot devices who act acccording to what the writers need for the plot to move on.
Scattering the greens and having the smallfolk as the last boss gives me S8 GOT, after defeating death itself, your only enemy left is Cersei, oh gosh haha
Since she is Harrenhal now we know all this is for.
Oh no… if she's there, then all the visions will be hers being lectured by Alys for upholding the patriarchy with shoe-horned childhood scenes they should have done waaay back in S1, the idiots lmao
If Aemond won't have visions to bring him back in line, then there's only Alys left as plot device to do it, I highly doubt they'll waste so much time with two characters vision trip-ing in Harrenhal, so they'll cut Aemond's.
Re-watching Daemon and Alys scenes I kinda developed a pet-peeve towards the clunky way she talked to Daemon sometimes, not sure anymore if was characterization, or it was result of poor directing/writing...
(the two times she's realized Daemon was leaving, she kinda raised her voice as she spoke in order to draw his attention, as in "I'm sure after all your tactics were approved by the queen" or "so you've come here after quarreling with your wife?").
I hope I'm just overthinking atp, because if they dare to transfer Aemond's already scarce screentime to Alicent teleporting across Westeros like S6-S7 Littlefinger I'll... aargh.
Speaking of hotd’s attempts to shoehorn GOT character parallels in order to boost their preferred narrative, the more I think about show Alicent being a stand-in for Sansa (traditionally feminine non-magical redhead opposing a “genetically superior valyrian demigoddess”), the more I’m like… huh. You know, there might be something to it.
S8 made a lot of targies very upset lol
I mean, some lowly willowy dress-making wench surviving the dragon warlord, not even kissing her royal feet, and then having the nerve to rule after her demise?
Like… independently from the targ-made throne too?.. HUH?!
Considering everything that we know about Condal and Hess as wr🤧ters and that hotd is just a big budget fanfic framing targs of all people as these godsent guardians of light… Would it be completely delulu to presume that the constant humiliation and “humbling” (just… what?) of Alicent kind of reads like revenge fantasy? About someone else in particular? Why does she have red hair again?
Remember, these are the people who very intentionally twist or get rid of everything that makes Rhaenyra look even slightly bad, starting with minor canon details and ending with whole characters. The same people who can’t help themselves but unleash ao3-tire punishment on fictional characters for the crime of opposing “the hero” when the story’s not even done yet and they are supposedly “the author”.
Rhae Rhae is their baby, guys. They’re not here to write an engaging story lol, just make sure this one doesn’t get stabbed after committing mass murder to her heart’s content.
I honestly think Condal and Hess were terrified of the S8 situation happening again, of the mere idea that the world would outlast their precious inbreds no matter how destructive, cruel, and greedy they are. That it would go on to heal while they rot in the ground with their dragons, survivors of their rampage sparing them no thought. Sansa embodies this idea quite effectively, which is why targies hate her so much.
And also why show da*nsa exists in the first place: to bring her down a peg, you know? If not force her to grovel at Dany’s feet and give up her agency again, well, at least make her care about her homeland’s invader, something, anything. Anything but allow Sansa to leave her in the past with all the other monsters she’s had to deal with.
I believe C&H saw glimpses of it all after season 1 with Alicent suddenly gaining strong support and the fandom being divided again instead of blindly glazing Rhaenyra, and knew their favored side would never maintain their pseudo feminist moral high ground if hotd were to follow the source material.
Condal and Hess couldn’t exactly redo a show that wrapped years ago and force that awful treacherous ginger on her knees for poor khaleesi, and I love that for them. Sadly, Alicent is not so lucky.
"Would it be completely delulu to presume that the constant humiliation and “humbling” (just… what?) of Alicent kind of reads like revenge fantasy? About someone else in particular? Why does she have red hair again?"
didn't pay much attention to that the first time I read the post, but now I get why they made a redhead our of Alicent... they've created a proto Sansa for the sake of revenge fantasy LMAOOOOO
Sansa will always live rent-free in their heads...
Honestly, the house Stark (specifically Sansa) stan to house Hightower (specifically Alicent) stan pipeline is so real. It warms my heart that most of the GOT fans who have a soft spot for the Starks sympathise with the Targtowers.
I am genuinely offended that the Team Black folks think they’re one with the Stark fans because Cregan promised Rhaenyra he’d side with her on the war (despite not thinking that she’s important enough to come to her aid immediately, marching down only when the war was over and executing those who poisoned Aegon II). It gives off the same icky energy as when someone who looks entirely different than you calls you ‘twin’: bitch, no the fuck we ain’t! Did you miss Cregan’s first ever voice line in the show? “Duty is sacrifice.” That’s a whole ass parallel to Alicent’s “Where is duty? Where is sacrifice?” that you can’t ignore.
And I can’t help but laugh each time someone says that Ned would do right by Rhaenyra. Like, no the fuck he wouldn’t! One look at her firstborns and he would have marched straight to Dragonstone! We’re just completely overriding show canon for the shake of delusion at this point.
Anyways, stan house Stark and house Baratheon for wiping the Targaryens off the face of the earth forevermore!
Crazy how everyone forgets the very reason Ned's lost his head, for the sake of some 1984's type of brainwashing. He would never lmao
They might have ruined show!Alicent, but it will never change the fact that Sansa haunts these mfs till this day to the point they made Alicent redhead on purpose for Dany stans to humiliate.
I still need to watch the original trailer, but Ormund's voice acting in my language got me in chokehold, what a voice!
dialogues of the greens in the final trailer
ALICENT TO AEMOND: — ‘rhaenyra is coming. you are no longer safe here.’
ALICENT TO RHAENYRA: — ‘i see you have been merciful. but the crown is a weight that crushes. you’ll do things that spell death for all involved.’
ORMUND: — ‘little by little, bite by bite... we are exposing her as weak and unsuited to rule.’
AEMOND: — ‘she’ll certainly fail and we... will raise our own throne.’
ALICENT: — ‘did i not warn you... that you would come to this?’
"little by little, bite by bite... we are exposing her as weak and unsuited to rule."
I love how the sentence reminds me of the dornish way of warfare. Reduced numbers using guerrilla tactics to bleed the enemy out bit by bit like Dorne did with Targaryens... ugh sorry I just can't stop seeing dorne in everything #shameshame
“Aemond is definitely bloodying his sword this season. I think he's the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. He's coming in shock and awe. There's something scary about not showing everything and keeping your cards close to your chest. Aemond is almost this force, an ideal that is relentless. He's just continually moving, sometimes at the expense of everyone else. How on earth could I ever think that I understood that character in the first place? You barely recognize him. In season 3, I was really looking forward to pulling back that veneer, taking him out of that Terminator-esque horror-icon movie and making him more human.”
EWAN MITCHELL about aemond in season three.
I get the feeling that after S2 backlash they're going all out for emmys with this season, no matter the cost... and with "no matter the cost" I mean the "Fyre festival" kind of attitude.
Like, I remember watching FYRE (2019) and a guy explained how he was convinced by his narcisist friend to "take a big one for the team" and suck a supplier dick if necessary to save the fyre festival.
And after all we've seen when it comes to the things celebrities force themselves to do in order to not have their carrers undermined by the big names in the backstage, I wonder if the same happened with Condal. Adter all the backlash attached to his name I can't imagine he stayed there till 2029 based on meritocracy.
80% sure after hotd he'll find a way to insert himself in akotsk to ruin everything as well.
