Azamra K.

Jax failing to deal with her trauma, along with internalized transphobia and misogyny, which lead her to pushing everyone away before ultimately ending herself is sadly not uncommon for a lot of trans women, especially for us older folk, born in the 1900s.

I'm Gen X and so many of my generation are missing, buried deep in the closet or even the ground from the hell we were raised through.

So while what happened to her isn't "good" representation in the fact it's not positive, it's good representation in that for many, it's all too accurate. It's good that we can now talk about these things out loud, instead of hiding in shame in the shadows as we did in the past.

[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - Gamecube]

The game has been modified in the following ways in this gif:

HD texture pack , Widescreen mod

she's glowing

It's really, really good, but I think for a lot of people it was so subtle they never realized it was happening. They got boiled like a frog. Episodes 1, 2 and 3 all have big action scenes and a central Adventure Plot to be resolved... still, every episode has a subplot where deeper emotional conflicts happen during the adventure.

However, this structure instantly falls apart by episode 4, when Caine takes a suggestion and has them work in a fast food place. That episode has no action scene, no "adventure plot" to solve, they just have to work a job for a whole day. The entire episode is just character drama. Then by episode 5 the structure is just gone. The lightning round format means none of the adventures even have time for a plot, it's just scenario, scenario, scenario, one after the other, and it becomes clear that the real point is the character drama, the history of these people, their traumas, the way they interact.

Episodes 6 and 7 (haha) are the last dying gasps of the adventure format. Episode 6 doesn't have an adventure plot beyond "shoot eachother" because Caine literally doesn't care anymore, and so the episode is really all about exploring the tenuous burgeoning friendship between Jax and Pomni, again focusing almost exclusively on character drama. And episode 7 is the calm before the storm, the characters trying one last time to get out of the circus, the show's last attempt to be formatted like a normal story that adheres to narrative convention, only for the complexity of Pomni and Jax's characters to deny Caine the narrative format he wanted.

The Last Act is not an action movie. I understand why they included episode 8 with it, because 8 and 9 form a pretty cohesive single two-part episode. And it is ALL character drama. The show was never about running away from monsters or going on adventures. It's about people, exploring their dysfunctions, the struggle of relating to eachother. That's all the movie is.

. 𝖄𝖆𝖟 13

When Baelor tells Dunk “I’m a prince of the realm. I’m blood of the dragon, not a hedge knight.” A lot of people read that as a cool or factual statement, but what Baelor is saying here is that there is a fundamental difference between them. Not because of character or virtue but because of birth.

Dunk is a hedge knight a poor wandering knight with no lands, no family connections, no wealth, and virtually no institutional protection.

Baelor is a prince. His authority comes from bloodline and inherited status. And that’s exactly how feudalism works. Sometimes people gets so caught up in admiring individual nobles that they forget what these systems actually are. Baelor may be one of the better princes in Westerosi history, but he’s still a prince. His position exists because society is structured around hereditary privilege.

In the same way people say “there are no ethical billionaires” because extreme wealth requires participation in unequal systems, there are arguably no fully ethical feudal princes either. Their status is built on a hierarchy where some people are born with immense power while others are born with almost none.

That doesn’t mean Baelor is evil. It means he benefits from a fundamentally unequal system. And I think that’s part of what makes Dunk such an important protagonist. Dunk constantly exposes how arbitrary aristocratic privilege really is.

He’s braver than many nobles. More honorable than many nobles. Kinder than many nobles. Yet society still treats him as lesser because of his birth.

Meanwhile mediocre or cruel nobles can command enormous authority simply because of their surname. Even when Baelor helps Dunk, it’s worth remembering that he isn’t working from outside that system. He’s working from the very top of it.

Unlike Egg, who spends much of the story deliberately crossing class boundaries and living among commoners, Baelor remains a prince first and foremost. His worldview is shaped by that position. When Baelor intervenes on Dunk’s behalf, there is genuine fairness there, but there is also politics. A prince cannot act without considering royal authority, public perception, and the reputation of his house as @moompl said HERE.

His actions are tied to preserving the image of the crown and maintaining social order. That’s not necessarily cynical. It’s simply the reality of being royalty. Which is why I think the line is so interesting. It’s not just a statement about who Baelor is. It’s a reminder that even one of the most respected Targaryens in the series still sees the world through the lens of class and hierarchy.