imagine being this boy, and having to ride a dragon with a king consort who wants you super dead, and it's your first time ever ride on a dragon, and you have to pretend that's a very natural thing to do and act cool, also, why would you not question the calm ass dragon not giving a shit when her rider is snatched in front of her, or why would you leave the dragon there
I swear at this point the source material has been thrown right out the window. Ormond and Daemon never met and Daemon sure as hell never took Daeron as a hostage. This is just getting ridiculous.
In the books it was clear neither side was "the right side" which is what made picking a side fun. There were plenty of reasons for each side being the better side even coming from a black. It made debates on the war interesting now all it is the greens having a stroke because Alicent is a moron(they're right completely) and the blacks hating on Corlys. While I'm a black I think the green fighters in the books are cooler than the blacks. Criston in the books is awesome but in the show all they do is try to make him pathetic and somewhat succeed in doing so. They make Aegon a bully of Aemond for no reason. Rickard Thorne basically nothing. I won't even begin with Lord Wylde. In this scenario they've concocted there is no good reason to pick the greens because the show runners have literally stripped the greens of everything they had except they're sigil which is and always will be better than Rhaenyra's(if you're a black and think Rhaenyra's is better I know you're lying)
One of my favorite things about ASOIAF world is how interconnected the timeline is. Characters we often think of as belonging to completely different "eras" actually crossed paths.
For example, Cregan Stark, the legendary Lord of Winterfell who marched south during the Dance of the Dragons and presided over the Hour of the Wolf in 131 AC, lived long enough to witness the reign of Daeron I Targaryen and later Baelor I.
Even more incredible, the aging Cregan didn't simply retire to the North. During the invasion of Dorne under Daeron I, he answered the Iron Throne's call one final time. There, he reportedly fought alongside none other than Aemon Targaryen, the future Dragonknight—arguably the greatest knight in Westerosi history.
Think about how wild that is.
Cregan Stark is usually associated with the Dance of the Dragons, Rhaenyra, Aegon II, and the Hour of the Wolf. Aemon the Dragonknight, meanwhile, is often linked with a completely different generation alongside Baelor the Blessed, Naerys, and Aegon IV. Yet the two legendary figures actually shared a battlefield and even fought each other which the dragonknight stated "he had never faced a finer swordsman".
It really puts into perspective just how long some of these characters lived and how history in ASOIAF isn't neatly divided into isolated periods. Someone who helped end one of the bloodiest Targaryen civil wars later fought beside the man who would become the one of the greatest knight of the Kingsguard.
What are your favorite examples of characters from different eras unexpectedly overlapping in ASOIAF?
Show is fun though
Helaena your son is dead! Alicent your grandson is dead! Rhaenyra your side murdered at babe! You got angry at Daemon and sent him away because of it! That's how he ended up at Harrnehal in the first place!
someone please! Aegon we need you!
I mean shit, you could have at least tried to pretend that was your son.
He said those white boys ain't my blood.
The fact that everyone else who died has been brought up more than once posthumously in this show but little Jaehaerys’s name hasn’t even been mentioned since episode two of last season and that’s just pure comedy.
This death should have been the driving motivation for Aegon, it should have been the breaking point for Helaena, should have radicalized Alicent and the Green supporters, but I guess we can’t focus on it because then we’d have to criticize Rhaenyra and Daemon. The fact that Helaena and Alicent aren’t even a little concerned for Jaehaera now that they’re imprisoned is crazy considering they both believe that Rhaenyra and Daemon are responsible for the death of their child/grandchild. It’s pure favoritism, that all the deaths on Rhaenyra’s side have had some kind of lasting impact but quite possibly the most innocent life lost in this conflict is swept under the rug.
I hope I am wrong and Aegon or god forbid Helaena bring him up later this season but I don’t have much hope.
If Jon had kept fucking Dany, she would have felt loved and protected by a westeros insider. Therefore, she wouldn't have believed that the only way she could hold power was with sheer brutality and fear. So Jon really is to blame here when you think about it. Men have made worse sacrifices than fucking their hot aunt.
Hide yo crumbs smallfolk....She's coming after it all....