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Hello, I hope this isn't too weird, but I'm curious about what your opinions on Dorne are, in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones? Dorne is my absolute favorite house in and has my favorite characters (other than Sansa) and from what I've seen I hate how they're portrayed in the show, but no one else seems to care at all :/ I hope this isn't too weird or confusing, but your opinions and comments are flawless and I hope you have a lovely day / night!

Thank you so much!! And i love questions like these! And trust me people care i just think the ASOIAF fandom is just over it at this point we’ve stopped mentioning it.

So House Martell oh where to begin with the most fucking underrated and badass house to ever exist. 

I love dorne!! It’s easily the most interesting and beautiful location, and home to the martells the most badASS mother fuckers to ever walk the earth of westeros. Like these people kept out DRAGONS and the targaryen armies during the conquest (not even the starks or lannisters could say that) and they’re the most progressive kingdom in westeros. The history behind them is just so vast and fucking cool (like nymeria anyone?) that it was one of the things i was most excited to see portrayed in Season 4 of GOT, and easily the biggest let down for me of the entire series. Pedro Pascal portrayed oberyn fantastically, and i really liked the direction they were going (even if they were over sexualizing it in my opinion). I had high hopes seeing that Arainne and Doran are 6 and 4 on my list of favorite GOT characters, and they even casted the actor literally EVERYONE wanted to play doran and i was ecstatic! That was until we got the rumor that Arainne Martell was not going to appear in the show. This was the moment i think i questioned all of my life choices that led to devoting an entire blog to this HBO piece of shit. But should we really have expected them to accurately portray one of the strongest (if not tHE strongest) female characters in the entire asoiaf series? The answer is NO. 

My favorite part of A Feast for Crows by FAR was Arainne’s chapters and frankly her and doran’s dynamic is one of my favorite of the entire ASOIAF series. She is one of the most beautifully flawed characters and i LOVED seeing her attempt (and fail miserably tbh) to play the game of thrones. The storyline of her trying to crown myrcella in her quest for the revenge of oberyn was brilliant (if futile) and imagine my FUCKING surprise (there was none) where instead of going the fucking complex route they have ELIA kill myrcella in a fucking dumbass move that made.no.sense. It cOMPLETELY SHIT on EVERYTHING that i loved about the Dorne storyline in the novels! In the show these people are portrayed as IDIOTS. But in reality the martells are probably one of the smartest and most cunning houses and their storyline is brilliant because it’s surprisingly SUBTLE. Dorne has SO many things going on at once it could honestly be it’s own book series.  The brilliance of it is that these people who the world view as rash and impulsive (see: arainne and oberyn) and are only portrayed as such in the show also produced one of the best and most complex characters i’ve ever scene which is DORAN MARTELL. 

dorAN MOTHER. FUCKING. MARTELL. i could rant about this fucking bad ass bitch for HOURS!! He’s the complete opposite of oberyn, and he’s 100% more effective when it comes to playing the game of thrones. This motherfucker takes every trope in fantasy novels and turns it on it’s head. You spend the novel seeing doran as this weak ass hoe ass betrayed my dornish ass bitch through Arainne’s eyes, and by the end your entire perception of him is entirely flipped. My favorite moment AND LINE in the entire series (this even tops jaime’s confession which is a big deal to me!!) was when he finally reveals his “heart’s desire” to arainne. i got godDAMN C H I L L S!! And they take that beautiful and heart pounding moment where you realize doran is fucking pissed about oberyn he DOES want revenge he’s just playing THE LONG GAME (in contrast to what EVERYONE believes about the dornish people he’s patient and cunning and willing to wait in order to fucking DECIMATE  these motherfuckers that crossed him) and give it to OLYENNA AND VARYS IS DISGUSTING.  This line is so utterly important to his phenomenal character and the DORNISH STORY and for D&D to give it to these fucking FOREIGNERS is a TRAVESTY and an utter and complete wASTE. And they even killed doran before it was even said. This completely destroyed any of the little faith i had left in got. They took the most badass house and turned them all into idiotic impulsive meat heads without a singe smart bone in their bodies and its so sad seeing as they could’ve elevated and diversified this show so much. 

In summary: i love dorne. I love the martells. I have a shirt that says unbowed unbent unbroken because i love them so much. And they represent the single most WASTED potential in all of GOT. Their beautiful complex story was ripped from them and in return they got heavy handed ridiculous and ill thought out revenge plots and were eventually subjected to being the punching bag of westeros. It literally kills everything they stood for in the book and to top it all off they exploited constantly for their sexuality only to serve D&Ds narrative. So yeah you could say i was bitter?