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mylordshesacactus

Hey so I'm gonna be very very honest here.

And this is going to make a lot of people very angry to hear.

But a lot of y'all on this website are truly deeply genuinely never going to be capable of any kind of real narrative analysis--and I don't mean 'being right all the time' I mean 'meaningfully engaging with the text in any way'--

Because you are, fundamentally, incapable of comprehending that writers usually do things on purpose.

mylordshesacactus

The themes are there on...purpose.

The match cuts were meticulously designed and put there to communicate something.

The VA's delivery of a line was being directed. Inflection and tone change the meaning of dialogue. This is intentional. There are entire teams of people shaping those choices and deciding which take to use based on what works best for the story.

Information is being revealed in a specific order, on purpose, to craft an emotional arc and guide the audience's understanding.

A character's romantic preferences are only, and SHOULD only be, their primary motivation if the genre is romance. That is why there is a genre called that. Most stories are other genres.

Creators who dislike a character generally give them LESS attention, MORE boring storylines, and LESS screentime.

Sometimes curtains are just blue. But if the shot composition or written narration takes time to HIGHLIGHT, especially more than once, that the curtains are blue, then the blueness of the curtains is by definition narratively important.

"Cite your sources" is not a witch's curse that banishes People With Different Opinions to the shadowrealm of Being Wrong. Someone making points that challenge your perceptions, while including screenshots and explicit examples, cannot be dismissed with "cite your sources" because they are literally doing that. Don't @ me on this one I've seen shit in the wars, y'all.

Failing to understand these things WILL bar you from ever really engaging with or understanding any narrative more complicated than Paw Patrol for the rest of your life.

I am very sorry if that makes you angry.

hyperrbolic-orange

This post is fantastic. The notes are truly incredible.

OP: you guys are never going to be able to meaningfully engage with story and character analysis if you cant understand or aren't willing to even consider the context within writers create their stories and the intention behind characters actions and motivations, which are intentional and complex. Not everything begins and ends with romance and relationships, in fact most stories outside of the romance genre feature more complex themes and motivations than straightforward romance and romantic love. Sorry if that makes you mad.

Everyone in the notes: ... I am overwhelmed with fury over this ridiculous and incomprehensible statement, how dare you. Many genres focus on romance, have you never watched a movie? There is always romance. Why would you say only the romance genre should include romance. I will not engage any further with what you said or consider additional context.

hyperrbolic-orange

Shout-out to the person who said that romance is the primary motivation of many characters outside of the romance genre, and the example that they gave for this was.... Glenn Close, in Fatal Attraction.

.... you know I do think there may have been something more significant than romantic attraction motivating this character, who is a violent obsessive stalker. In fact, it could be something a little more... fatal?

Part of me wonders what they thought of the movie Obsession, but mostly I am too afraid to ask.

#how do i make everyone who watches house of the dragon read this

I think it's funny when people pit HoTD and AKoTSK against each other as though they are not, very intentionally, incredibly different from one another. Like did you go into The Hedge Knight expecting Fire and Blood or vice versa? Yeah guys, I think they're different on purpose.

#you're telling me the history book focused on the colonising incestuous dragon family is different from the novella focused on a poor #teenager trying to do what's right and make a name for himself?#and the shows they're made are also different?#woah you're so smart #also there are 8 million more people and moving parts in f&b and hotd than akotsk #no shit #house of the dragon #a knight of the seven kingdoms #hotd #akotsk #fire and blood #the hedge knight #rj talks #also give it time I'm sure when season 3 of akotsk comes out everyone will say it always sucked actually and was never good #and they changed one sentence from the books so it's automatically terrible now

sillyanonymousgoose

More game of thrones oldies but goodies.

#woah this is so sick op #jon snow

lemonemenom

No one owes artists anything.

But existence is lonely and sometime you throw hours and hours of effort into a void, on the slim chance it will say something back.

orange-catsidy

wow you have dogshit taste (remembers im trying to be nicer to people who like different things) uh i mean, it's beautiful how the breadth of human experience is so wide it encompasses those with good taste and those with dogshit taste

Alicent and Gwayne being Daeron's parents 🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬

The way "He's kind" and "Gwayne thought him cruel but, Gwayne thought that of many" are about to become my entire personality until further notice.

#MY SWEET HIGHTOWER BOYS MY KIND HIGHTOWER BELOVEDS #i really like to imagine gwayne being similar to daeron and him having to tuck his kindness away #which results in the bigoted dick we meet in season 2 #only for the cruelty and horrors of war to be how he rekindles that side of himself #where cole chooses nihilism he chooses love and kindness and hope #throwing up show gwayne i love you #let's run away back to oldtown with daeron he can be our adoptive son #dare i give house of the dragon more compliments?#i really like the dialogue of this season #they were cooking #i could never hate house of the dragon for the simple fact that it gave me show gwayne and show daeron #I'm fine with book daeron he's a little overrated to me but i do think he is one of the best greens and fairly likable #i do like them making him more sweet in the show though that's my son #house of the dragon season three #hotd season three #house of the dragon season 3 #hotd season 3 #house of the dragon #hotd #gwayne hightower #daeron targaryen #gwayne #daeron the daring #daeron #also might add that quote where gwayne tells cole nihilism and giving into the worst parts of yourself are bad actually as a contender for #another favourite that is about to rotate in my brain #not gwayne tempting me to write fanfiction #if i didn't hate the idea of needing to get the way people spoke correctly i might seriously consider it #I'll stick to reading it for now i think

Thinking about it more, the fact that they had Rhaenyra hallucinate Jacaerys but, she barely cares about Joffery, Aegon and Viserys 💀 She lost 3 children during this war and they really have her barely giving a fuck about her 3 other, alive children. That's. Certainly something.

#the fact that i have to suffer through so much rhaelicent and aegon and larys nonsense when i could've had severely traumatised baby Aegon #gracing my screen and increasingly paranoid and traumatised rhaenyra clinging to an inspired by jacaerys joffrey...#this was what valid beef with hotd looks like btw #house of the dragon critical #hotd critical #house of the dragon #hotd #terrible time for fire and blood joffrey aegon and viserys lovers (me)#rhaenyra targaryen #aegon targaryen #viserys targaryen #joffrey velaryon

I love you, Show Gwayne Hightower.

I love that you're still alive, Show Gwayne Hightower.

#the way book gwayne is nothing lol #and i forgot he was dead by this point #but it's obviously team black propaganda that they made him a character with more weight and depth #i can't take some of you people seriously with that lol #anyways gwayne i want to hold hands with you and pick flowers #my knight #gwayne hightower #gwayne #house of the dragon #hotd #fire and blood critical #rj talks #rj watches

Seeing people go out of their way to misunderstand Corlys snapping at Rhaenyra is so odd to me.

This is the shit I mean. House of The Dragon is not a perfect show and it has a laundry list of issues but, jesus christ, the way this fandom goes out of its way to misunderstand it is so annoying.

Corlys was not calling the Strong boys bastards to insult them. He was very obviously making the point that they are bastards and he stood by them and Rhaenyra regardless. He was willing to make one of them his fucking heir. He's upset Rhaenyra is being a hypocrite and not backing him this one time he asks her for something.

How did you people miss that? Genuinely?

I think this show was a heavy-handedness issue but, maybe it needs to get heavier for some of you. I guess characters need to turn to the camera and explicitly explain why they are doing or saying something now.

Again, you can be annoyed about contrived Team Black tension or whatever (personally I think that scene, Corlys and Rhaenyra make sense but, I don't blindly go in to hate everything about this show so) but, to be mad because you are intentionally stripping a scene of its context is an absurd way to engage with fiction.

I find this type of HoTD "criticism" particularly funny when it comes from people who constantly rip the writing and logic of the show to pieces and/or worship at the foot of Fire and Blood.