u/Prometheseus

I genuinely liked their dynamic in the later episodes of S3 and I hope they‘ll stick together in S4. (I loved Gladys as a character and I hope they won‘t go with the full story of Consuelo Vanderbilt for her. She deserves some happiness.)

While I understand how terrible it was for Bertha to force her into this marriage (and Bertha definitely deserves the consequences of it), Bertha was ultimately right: Gladys and Hector are well suited for each other. But probably not in the way she originally thought. I believed both are content with being mid- Gladys doesn‘t seem to have much interest in being „at the top“ and good for her! I also don‘t think Hector had much experience before her, he seems really awkward and unexperienced when dealing with women other than his sister.

I also liked them both getting more comfortable with each other and I hope they‘ll form a genuine love along the way. (However, I have an odd feeling Gladys‘ pregnancy will end in miscarriage and they‘ll either use that to go the divorce/seperation route or it‘ll end with them moving closer together)

I know the show has done a lackluster job at adapting some characters from the books and I think Rhaenyra is one of the characters they „butchered“ the most in their quest to have her appear morally superior at all times.

I‘m generally very black-leaning, but I find the writing of her in EP 3 very good (after multiple episodes of „What would you have me do??“ last season). The idea that she would obviously struggle to rule since she was never prepared for it and apparently never considered the logistics of actually ruling seems like a good contrast.

What‘s also interesting is that both Rhaenyra and Aegon were somewhat unprepared to rule and generally for what it meant to be king/queen, but Aegon had the advantage of having an entire horde of people behind him who had been running the realm for years at this point, a full treasury, and just the general favor of the Faith. Rhaenyra lacks a lot of those things: Her council in KL consists of Daemon, Mysaria and Corlys- who have experience in their own right but who work terribly together. It‘s also going to bite her back that she left her other council on Dragonstone. I think she wants to handle everything alone and be seen as a strong ruler, but she‘s eventually going to come crashing down when she realizes that‘s not working. She also inherited the empty treasury, the general issues of the war and the pissed off smallfolk- all while dealing with her own grief. (And pissing off the nobles while she‘s at it)

I think she wants to uphold her own principles of being a champion of her people (which the show made quite important for her) but may end up burning more than one bridge this way. I like this writing more where she makes obvious mistakes that also somehow make sense for her character, rather than what we got in S2.

All in all the Episode was good. Far from book Rhaenyra, but the show made it clear that this ship has sailed a while ago.

Rip Jace and Vermax my boy, you will be missed.

The way they went out in the show was so tragic, albeit a bit stupid. I think it was intentional though, his death is equally tragic and sort of stupid in the book where it‘s said he flied too low, and it makes sense for him as a character.

He was eager to prove himself and got distracted by getting away from Sheepstealer, and also probably never had seen scorpions like these before (I reckon they were an invention of the stepstone war to take down Seasmoke or Caraxes).

Ever since February/March, I feel like I am shedding much more hair than usual. I have very long and somewhat thick hair, so a few hairs always look like a lot but idk I just feel like it‘s significantly more than usual.

I brush my hair in the morning and when I do, I loose a huge amount of it. Like there‘s hair on the floor and all over my brush. During the day, the hairloss is fewer though. I think my middle-part has gotten wider and my hair has gotten somewhat thinner in general too.

And I didn‘t change anything about my routine AT ALL, the only thing I did was a diet from Dezember to now that made me loose a few kg. Do any of you know what might be wrong? I‘m so scared that I‘ll loose my hair as it was the one thing I didn‘t hate about myself :/

I think Paula might have something done to Rosa to teach Agnes a lesson, considering we‘ve seen how close Rosa and Agnes are and how Paula apparently disapproves of it.

Rosa speaking up about the matchmaking might give Paula the „reason“ she is looking for to have to punish her and thus get Agnes back into line. I think their earlier conversation about shooting a lame horse and how Paula liked the fact that other Martha had her tongue removed also implies a horrible fate for Rosa…