#hotd speculation

[helaenasfavoritechicken]

He looks like a house cat turned stray

[sylasthegrim]

About Helaena... It looks to me that she's giving birth. I have one or two fears about that. I'm afraid they will either have her die in childbirth or have the baby die and Helaena kill herself in grief. Seems like something the showrunners would do.

[queenvhagar]

Condal read GRRM's blog post and said okay fine here's Maelor but he'll die in childbirth or very shortly after. That way Maelor isn't included for any of his book plot moments that make Rhaenyra's side look bad but just so he can say that he technically exists in the show (and pretend that was always the plan and not reactionary to the blog post). This will also likely be Helaena's primary motivation to die (since GRRM was not happy with the fact it happened for "no apparent reason" in the original outline he saw). This way Rhaenyra isn't involved in Helaena's death whatsoever and if anything Helaena hiding her pregnancy for so long will be viewed as the issue. It does turn the tragedy of Helaena into something it wasn't in the books, and much like many of the other show changes, it's doubtful this one will be an improvement on the original.

[targ4ryens]

okay ig you all actually should stop with "gwayne is gay", he could be bisexual, or maybe ormund just wanted something to insult gwayne with. that does not mean that he is " GAY "

[greenqueenhightower]

They'd better give Ormund his family as per the books because how else did Margaery Tyrell come to be? Via mitosis?

The fact that they kinda look alike gives me hope that the casting is intentional and the show will reveal details about Ormund's kids

I want confirmation that Margaery inherited both the Tyrell and Hightower sass

[novaursa]

Streets are saying Alicent gets sent to kill Aemond at the end of ep 6 as Rhaenyra keeps Helaena hostage.

[hedrigal]

I do feel like all the discussion of rhaenyra and alicent around helaena are ignoring that rhaenyra is going to lose joff and syrax in extremely close proximity, possibly even before before alicent gets back. I kind of suspect they may even reorder events so helaena gets her opportunity to jump because rhaenyra gets called away because Joffrey has escaped from the supervision of the people caring for him.

[yearningfailchild]

"Rhaenyra is a Cunning Spider. Long ago she drew Alicent into her web. Intoxicated her." And then we get Ser Criston in view of a spider's web well, well, well...how the turn tables.