A knight of the Seven kingdom works because its not trying to be anything other than what it is. A knight of the seven kingdoms.
House of the dragon continues to fail because all it ever tries to be is a game of thrones ripoff done by performative writers
The leaks are all over twitter and team Black stans already hating on Corlys
The character is completely different from her counterpart anyway. We've gone full fanfiction and Rhaenyra of all people is wielding a sword, at least let Helaena go out swinging. Let her 1 V 5 all the other dragons and die a dragon rider death. I'm so sick of the infantilization of her character. If the show could at least give her a better ending, something that I wasn't even too happy about in the book to begin with, I'll at least enjoy that.
Edit: Yes I know we should've gotten Helaena riding Dreamfyre during Aegon's coronation but we didn't even get Aegon riding Sunfyrec, the dragon he loved more than anything. I'm begging for table scraps from writers that actively hate TG I know
One of the biggest differences between the show versions of team Green and team black from their book counterparts is that TB in the books was never as united as TG. From the beginning, TG was mostly on the same page and stuck together from the beginning till the end of the war with the major players never betraying each other other or keeping secrets. While TB had constant infighting that just got worse as time went on. TB had many advantages (including imo author bias) but they were a powder keg that eventually exploded by the end.
Daemon chose Nettles over Rhaenyra
Corlys chose Allyn and Addam, and eventually Baela, over Rhaenyra
And Rhaenyra's overall decent in desperation and paranoia essentially makes her choose herself and her children over everyone, including the kingdom and never once fight for daughters to inherit the same way sons do.
Meanwhile TG never strays from each other. Aegon and his siblings, yes Helaena too, are loyal to each other till the end. Even after the end in Aegon's case with how he wants to build tributes to his brothers. There's never a mention of Larys ever creeping on Alicent and the worse Aegon does is fire Otto but Otto stays in KL.
Now ofc the show flipped the script on TG and made them the backstabbing ones, but we're at a crossroads.
Either the hotd writers will either have to continue "everything is a mistake or accident" which isn't working anymore, they've already turned on Rhaena and many TB stans are calling for her head
Or
They're all gonna have to deal with the whiplash of TB no longer having TG as scapegoat as they turn on each other. TB falls so hard Allyn married Baela just to cheat on her with their niece. This is the highest TB will ever be, Rhaenyra on the throne. Its all downhill from here for them.
Beyond humiliation, since that’s a given, what was the point of burning and crippling Aegon in the show? They’ve already cut so much integral things from the source material, and even in the social material I thought it was a little contrived and only done because the war would’ve been over significantly faster if he wasn’t, but what was the point in the show of crippling him, exploding his penis and disfiguring him to such an extent if they are just going to have him still running around and being only minorly inconvenienced? In the source material at least the burning/crippling was accompanied with him being in and out of a comatose state until it was convenient again for the story to use him. Here it feels like it would’ve been easier for the production just to have had Aegon hurt from the fall, but not to the extent they made it seem like his injuries were in the last season. Maybe it’s just me, but it feels like they took a lot of extra steps just for nothing.