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Do you really think rhaena was gonna be able to handle her? Aemond was barely able to do it and he was trained.

Im team aemond on this one, he was pretty much defending himself till luke threw dirt in his eye and sliced him. But ultimately, he was right, if they wanted the dragon, they shouldve claimed her, he was the only one that had the balls to do it. Also hes way more regal than his brother. Props to him for protecting and calming down his mom. I get the sense that hes probably a mamas boy. If Aego isnt a fat robert type king or wuteva by the end of this, Id be shocked. So we're just not gonna show daemon bonding with his daughters at all? I couldnt care less about his relationship with his niece. Daemon went from independent to under rhae's thumb in no time flat. Watching Corlys and rhaenys slowly drift apart is painful. I legit hope they're not broken up by the end of all this. Also, fuck Laenor. Some guard doing his job lost his life so he could be free and Im supposed to feel good about that? wtf From his earlier conversation with his brother, I believe hes hinting at wanting the throne, his sister wife as queen etc. It was a half-hearted attempt at getting aegon out of the way

Which brings up a whole nother issue. Whats gonna happen to laenors dragon? Dont imagine he has use for a dragon anymore and he cant go around riding one if he wants to stay hidden

She doesnt have to kill everybody, just enough to get the message across to keep your mouth shut or else. I believe she has enough power to do that with ease.

Whats to stop a pissed off rhaenyra from offing her step children and in laws to keep that secret and inheritance for her kids if they did decide to deny them?

I was wrong last week, but ultimately what corlyss proclaimed makes more sense. All proclaiming Harwins kids as bastards by cutting him out of driftmark would do is put his granddaughters in danger. No idea why she (or I) was shocked at Corlys's proclamation when he was ready to marry off his 12-year-old daughter to that old man. That being said, I dont get why he'd give his other bargaining chip to daemon when he got nothing out of that particular arrangement. Also way to fuck over your top ally rhamon damn. Two kids in one week. Ouch.

The two main antagonizers of this war are women, civil war seems to be more about power than sexism. Though admittedly Alicent is using sexist reasons to justify her reasons.

Dany being fireproof is a d and d only thing. Her walking into the fire in the first season was supposed to be a one-time miracle. Even George himself said she wasn't fireproof but yes that little dragon stunt didn't last night didn't help matters. Targs might be resilient but they sure as heck can burn up just like anybody else.

Aint about blackmail, its about gaining future capital. He's banking on king Aegon. I dont think he wants anything from Alicent at the moment. I doubt he hates his family, they just stood in his way of getting more power. I'll give him a break on the symbol thing cuz Id assume theyre wearing that for us the audience.

Corlys doesnt strike me as someone who would be cool with having his lifework inherited by people who arent his heirs.

Larys is my type of villain, hes not a villain for villains sake like joffrey or ramsey and hes not a simp getting revenge due to unrequited love like Little finger. This dude is ambitious to the bones, which makes him much more fun since controlled chaos is intriguing. Sucks that rhanerya has to deal with 4 kids since even Laenor cant be bothered to knock her up or even play the father role other than naming one of the kids after his dead lover (good cover there, genius). That being said presenting 3 bastard kids as legitimate is beyond ridiculous. At this point you're just asking for the scorn. That ten-year time jump is stupid it just yada yadas a lot of important stuff and leaves more questions than answers. Also, doesn't allow me to connect with characters like Laena or Harwin before their deaths since I barely knew them before that. Im not totally against team green cuz Alicent does have some points, but Cole just sucks at this point. Im interested in seeing what the kids become, because those are likely to be the real team green when they grow up.

Id still argue that the kingdom is more corruptible than before as its now gonna be easy to buy influence if one wants to be king. And we already see corruption starting with Bronn as master of coin for no other reason than Tyrion owes him a favor. I don't imagine if D and D did that on purpose but gj if they did. Probably should've made Yara master of ships and Davos master of laws. Whether its the king after Bran or the King after that one, one of these kings is just going to go lol, no, it's back to hereditary and the wheel will be rebuilt. It makes no sense to grant the North independence, especially since you're starting back up the Night's watch. Who's even going to watch them now? Only reason they were granted it was so Sansa could have that cool crowning scene. Still feel someone up north will eventually take it from her. Jon's ending probably works the best. You can see he was sick of dealing with putting everybody else's needs above his, and he got to hang with his peeps without wading into the political pool.

Im assuming nothing. The brothels were previously run by Littlefinger, Littlefinger had no heirs, pretty obvious where they revert to. Fine, since you insist. From everything we've seen on the show, she was clearly in love with him. Since you refuse to believe that she was a naïve young girl taken advantage of by a predatory older man feasting on her beauty, then she was a narcissistic bitch who ran away with a married father of two that didn't care about the consequences of her actions. Does that make her actions better because she was in control of them ?

She wasn't thinking. Even from the best reading, she barely knew the dude and ran off with him knowing the consequences so it can either be chalked up to youthful naivete, narcissism or stupidly believing in a prophecy told to her by a guy she just met. There was no good reason regardless. They're talking about bringing back Brothels, so I assume its government run. Also doubles as a way to have that honeycomb call back.

She was engaged to Robert on the show, even if they didn't make it obvious, they did imply she wasn't particularly happy about it. I tend to give Lyanna a break in regards to her running off with a married man being that she was so young when this all happened and susceptible to someone like Rhaegar. They tend to be government run and if not there tends to be some form of government payment for them to look the other way.

While being a nice bit of trivia, still no reason for Arya to be there. Matter of fact it would've made more sense for Arya to be at winterfell, to allow Bran and Sansa to travel to kings landing. There are no lawyers here, Davos shouldn't have been there either. And Bronn should've been there instead of Sam but I'll chalk that up to Sam representing Bronn. I get that they needed that final goodbye between the starks which is why they were all there, but they definitely could've handled that better.

Lyanna was a young girl stuck in a loveless betrothal, Rhaegar offered her a way out. Because Brothels make a lot of money for the city

Bran was there cuz he sensed that he had to be there. No idea why Arya was there other than to make "a cool threat" to Yara. No need for Davos either really. I do like that Bran said if you gonna make me rule this shit hole than you're gonna do all the work. While I go um look for that dragon.

Still changed nothing other than Jon surviving. Also, who was watching over Winterfell? Did both Arya and Sansa have to be at that meeting?

To be fair it was either be lord commander or be Sansa's guard in winterfell. This was a promotion for her.

Basically the only thing it meant was that Sansa was able to use that information to cause turmoil in Danys inner circle. It literally did nothing else. He didn't even come close to the throne

So Sansa's qitn and shes going to lose that in about a year. They barely respected her with Jon there, I can't imagine they'll do so when she doesn't even have protection of the crown anymore. You put a mercenary as your master of coin. Yea I don't see how that's gonna go off the rails. Jaimes knight guard entry being lengthened was the only thing I called, even if it wasn't Brienne I saw doing it. So Aryas entire arc was to kill the night king. That's it, nothing else apparently. Tyrion being kingsmaker was weird as hell, though I didn't hate the fact that being hand is more of a punishment for him now. The end of hereditary rule and the beginning of election by council is likely not going to end up well. This is the exact sort of thing that'll allow a littlefinger type to become king. Also I love that Bran is abandoning council meetings to go watch tv now. Nights watch will be about rebuilding the wall I assume.

kinda crazy that the most intriguing part of this season was something that's probably not going to happen in the way we described from a usually reliable spoiler.

Cuz they're more attached to the spectacle and less to the emotional cost. Probs wouldn't have really worked anyway with the lack of light. Would've loved to have seen wight summer

To be fair, what hinted me off on Dany's madness was her almost orgasmic reaction to fire. Its always been there just , her heel turn came out of nowhere. Crazy thing is they had to be convinced to add on another season. This was originally planned to be six then seven seasons before HBO convinced them.