r/HOTDGreens

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

Thats what’s gonna cause Helaena and Maelor to kill themselves. Rhaenyra will wanna see if it’s Aegons son and Helaena is going to be terrified of having her baby torn from her or hurt or killed and thats when Helaena jumps with Maelor. That way;

1. It’s Rhaenyra’s fault KINDA but not really, there’s plausible deniability they can say ‘the maesters we’re misogynistic and stretched the truth when they blamed Rhaenyra’

2. It’ll play into their favorite trope of ‘hey look at Alicent’s karma’ (bc the queen who never physically harmed you once yet demanding the princess and heir and favorite daughter bring you their son is the same as demanding a hostage bring your baby up to a woman who actively wants to kill your brothers/husband and killed your grandfather)

Rickard Thorne as a character in the show is another butterfly effect that GRRM referred to. In the book, >!Ser Rickard died protecting the young prince Maelor in Bitterbridge as a true loyal knight!<. However in the show, he laughed at Rhaenyra when she unsheathed her sword, "that's something that we haven't seen before." The writers deprive characters on the green side from their merits, and add misogynistic characters on them. It feels contrived, unrealistic, and shallow.

I know the writes are trying to convey the ideas of how women are being oppressed in a patriarchal society like Westeros, which I totally support. But this is not convincing. This comes across as trolling.

Rickard Thorne is one of my favorite characters during the dance of dragons from the books despite the short descriptions about him. The reason I am Team green in the show is honestly reverse psychology. The more they are trying to depict the blacks in a positive light, the more I am leaning to the other side.

English is not my first language. So please understand my phrasing might not be very natural. Thanks!

When Rhaenyra serves rats to the nobles because the common folk are supposedly starving while the nobles live in luxury, is that hypocrisy, since she herself is no different from them? Or is the show trying to portray how evil the rich are and suggest that Rhaenyra genuinely cares about the common people?

There is also the blockade, which was carried out under Rhaenyra’s orders and caused the city to starve.