#especially team black….

[aphemera]

side eyeing people who ship dany and robb (or really any other non canon ship) but draws the line at aegon the third and jaehaera?? acting like an alt universe and a rarepair are gonna kill them

[yourlocalabomination]

I am not immune to funny crackships.

+ Bonus

[unicoo]

Can we finally talk about how even if the Dance never happened, Jace ascending the throne would’ve still started a war? Or are we just going to keep acting like the Blackfyre Rebellions don’t tell us all we need to know?

Just wondering….

Oh and if you do want to talk about it, lemme hear you lol 👀

[gotranting]

Looking at all the alleged leaks for the new seasons, along with seeing directors cutting so many important characters from the show:

[rhaenin-time]

Daemon's diegetic, in-universe fatal flaw is that he's usually right but he's also a stubbornly bad communicator to the point that all the true misunderstandings are centered around him.

Daemon's exegetic, out-of-universe fatal flaw is that he's usually right but the writers don't want you to know it.

[sihtryggr]

[borislava17]

I just want to bang my head against the wall when I see people defending Alicent Hightower

[dorithecoon]

[soyboywenzie]

‘In all of kings landing, is there no one to take my side?’

idk alicent, maybe because, just listen. you decided to do shit that does not help your side? you did things that only made people feel sympathy for rhaenyra? YOU ASKED FOR HER SON SECONDS AFTER HE WAS BORN??? BEFORE SHE COULD EVEN BIRTH THE AFTERBIRTH???

also, yknow, YOU ARE TRYING TO GET CHILDREN KILLED?? DOING THE EXACT THING YOU WORRIED SHE WOULD DO TO YOU AND IF SHE DID DO THAT, NO ONE WOULD HAVE SYMPATHY BECAUSE OF ALL THE THINGS YOU DID?!

in short, people side with those who aren’t batshit and don’t make their stances that well known, especially if you are doing all this in secret. If everyone knew her children were bastards, everyone also knew you were the one to start those rumors, that alone means you are her enemy and she is the realm’s delight.

you are going against the most popular child of westeros, since her birth and till her death, and you are seriously confused on why no one sided with you? Truly?

[thesunfyre4446]

how dare those *other female characters* that make my favs look bad exist in the narrative?

[daeneryseastar]

the parallels between aegon and rhaenyra this episode really do contextualize how paramount it is to safe-guard figure heads during times of war.

we have aegon begging, pleading to be let out onto the battlefield, yet being denied due to the dangers only being held slightly at bay. how criston tells him he’s too important, how alicent tells him to sit and do nothing. we have rhaenyra announcing upon her arrival from the sept that she will answer lord staunton’s call for aid, that she will leave immediately to help them. aegon refuses to listen and see reason behind why no one wants him actively fighting, rhaenyra heeds her council’s words on the opposite, specifically rhaenys’ and jacaerys’, and allows rhaenys to go in her stead. two sides of a mirror, each with different outcomes.

a brash and egotistical decision leaves aegon burnt beyond recognition, betrayed by his closest blood in said brother’s pursuit of the throne he covets. we have a logical and cautious decision which still ultimately ends in tragedy, yes, but the black’s cause still has meaning behind it; rhaenys’ sacrifice will not be in vain, unlike aegon now being bedridden for the foreseeable future, unable to rule. this obviously puts a damper on the green’s own pursuits.

[helaenasaegon]

Green stans have the nerve to say that this show is biased in favor of the Blacks when their socials post nonsense like this:

On top of that, the showrunners have changed Alicent and Aemond so much in order to baby them that she's an entirely different character in the show, and he's taken multiple of his little brother's traits.

So which side is this show actually biased in favor of?

[juniorfor2]

The way the writers turned Daemon into a petulant man child just to indulge in their desire to write out their fantasies and punish the F&B audience is grating.

I know that F&B doesn’t really have a huge amount of characterization beyond a few key areas, so it was fine when this part of his personality was introduced to a light degree - constantly seeking affection, running off when he realized he did something wrong and being spiteful about it, etc. It was ok, because that didn’t make up the entirety of his character.

In S2 though, that is all he is. Absolutely nothing else characterizes him (beyond Ep8, where they seem to have reverted him to a more F&B/S1 personality, because the writers probably don’t want to be accountable for what they wrote in later seasons). He doesn’t seem to have any military strategy despite his capability being established in Ep3/10; he’s been hanging out in Harrenhal for half a year, doing nothing except sulking and giving empty promises; he has no care for his children/family despite being obsessed with protecting Rhaenyra and having children as established in the show and F&B; and he is getting roasted by the writer-insert Oscar Tully because the writers want to bash the character they themselves made.

There is no reason for them to be criticizing Daemon so much when he is only the way they made him; they just want to use him to punish the audience who said the book was better, and to start their portrayal of Team Black as a misogynistic, dark, and fanatic group so that Team Green doesn’t look as terrible in comparison when they get their more book-accurate personalities.

[t-u-i-t-c]

"How can you risk your life so easily?! And ours, too?!"

[wheucto]

i think DPA's going to straight up leave and prevent death as spectators instead

[scootersscooter]

Something about Lex being so certain she was going to die in Toy Zone and her dying wish being that her sister never needed her the way that she had needed her, that Hannah would be strong enough to escape the mall and still make it out of Hatchetfield to California even if she had no one by her side when she got there