u/MeteorFalls297

>Aegon saw absolute darkness riding on those winds. And whatever dwells within will destroy the world of the living.

>When this Great Winter comes, Rhaenyra... all of Westeros must stand against it.

>And if the world of men is to survive, a Targaryen must be seated on the Iron Throne. A king or queen, strong enough to unite the realm against the cold and the dark.

In the show, the threat from the North was ended by Arya who is a Stark.

The realm was literally divided, not united.

A Targaryen wasn't even close to the Iron Throne, it was a Lannister sitting on it.

The only two living Targrayens actually made thing worse. One (Jon) proposed the dumb wight mission idea, another (Dany) caused the Night King to get a dragon which he used to bring down the Wall.

Why cannot Rhaenyra just take the throne because the Greens killed her sons? Why is the prophecy that is clearly false, being shoehorned in almost every episode?

Again, it's the goddamn prophecy.

She isn't doing it because her birthright was stolen, not because her kids were murdered, not because her life was ruined.

Rhaenyra is taking the KL because that BS prophecy which has nothing to do with her personal life.

And it doesn't even make sense in the show canon because it was a Stark who ended the long night while a Lannister was sitting on the throne and the realm was divided.

After literally ruining her life and betraying her again and again, Alicent is going to be Rhaenyra's primary advisor in most of the season 3, after she pushes away Daemon's daughter and becomes distrustful of Mysaria.

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So, Rhaenyra is distrustful of even her own blood, but has no qualms with the person who actually betrayed her many times.

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From a recent GRRM interview, we found out that GRRM was planning to Kill Sansa but changed his plan later.

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But given her plotline, I cannot see a thematically fitting death to her character.

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Her direwolf was wrongfully accused and executed because of Nymeria. So maybe Sansa is executed after getting blamed for Joffrey's death or Lysa Arryn's death.

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But both of these scenarios seem dumb to me. The Lannisters just executing two of the Starks? Vale lords who were fond of Ned killing his daughter?

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It would be unsatisfying nonetheless.

Aemond actually kisses Alicent at the end of the episode.

Condal has a (barely disguised) fetish of putting Olivia Cooke in humiliating positions.

We have seen it again and again.

Whenever an American company files for an IPO and becomes publicly traded, their soul purpose becomes quarterly revenue growth.

They jack up prices, cut corners, try to add untested features just to appease the shareholders and so on.

The user experience or actual innovation is rarely the primary goal.

What do you think?