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JENNA BOYD AS INNKEEPER & FORTUNE TELLER

I mean, if there's Emma's hand in it (which I doubt), it doesn't paint them in the best light. Judging from all my fav shows where the main actor or actress thought themselves to be, er, qualified enough to be involved in developing their character, usually it ended up to be their last big role.

I think the line you are talking about it the supposed plagiarism. Of the Elisabeth speach.

Queen Elizabeth I delivered to her troops at Tilbury in 1588. Facing an imminent invasion by the Spanish Armada, she rallied her soldiers with these exact words:

"I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too."

In that context make sense, she is a woman leading a army in time that the king must be as or more suited to go to battle.

She is basically saying. I have the heart and straight to make hard decisions as a warrior and a king.

The answer is very simple.

In the book Rhaenyra put a price to Nettles head because she is a classist, paranoid bitter woman.

In the show. Rhaena caused her son death, by accident, but still responsible for it. She also is not going to put an target on Rhaena but in Sheepstealer riders that she supposedly don't know who is it. Only Daemon knows.

I have no thoughts, just rage. They are taking characters whose traits were lightly defined by George in the accounts of 3 people, then making up new traits, throwing in several original characters and creating undocumented crimes out of thin air to seemingly 'even the field' with crimes that Daemon and his men will be committing in Tumbleton, no doubt.

It's disgusting and petty, adding to that, Alicent's non canon sexual assault by Ironrod/Jasper Wilde (yes, that will happen as confirmed by screeners).

I'm trying to ignore these obvious provocations, like the destruction of Criston Cole's character, and just push forward and scoop the few delights I can get from this shit show. And boy are they few!

It's a curse that has and probably will always plague the "A Song of Ice and Fire" franchise for the rest of the days.

Edge Lord writing.

People involved in the franchise, especially its writers, are so hung up on the nihilistic setting and values of Westeros that they often use it as a crutch for shallow and performative character writing. They're not actually trying to write up to the characters in the world of GRRM, they're trying to write to the expectations of the franchise's reputation that people come to expect from it.

Therefore, rather than trying to write something different or deeper on a personal level in terms of characterization they just lean on shock-jock value and come off as university level sophomoric edge lord writing.

"Fuck you, Dad! It's Game of Thrones, but with queer themes and feminist dogma repackaged. Look how edgy I am, I took gender studies and applied it to a multi-million dollar franchise that I'm gonna kill! I'm so fucking cool!"

The truth? Condal is talented but he's not good enough to run a show. When they left him alone he fell apart, he choaked when it mattered most. He's a good staff writer on someone else's vision. But he's shown that he doesn't have a vision of his own. If he did, he wouldn't have a wildly unqualified ideological hack like Sara Hess running roughshod over him and actively ruining the show with decade old outdated and out of touch social political bullshit.

I've talked to people who've seen four episodes and saw some dailies for later episodes and they said that Season 3 is just stale. It's trying to pretend to be something its not. They think they're making Game of Thrones for a modern audience. But they're not talented enough to match GRRM's character building because they care more about their message than an actual story or believable characters. It's a show written by people that have no life experience beyond being in Los Angeles and trying to break into show business.

Just like on Tumblr, you'll have Sara Hess acting like being queer is somehow comparable to life and death struggle or war veterancy.

I'd say that Sara Hess is a ideological hack that doesn't belong anywhere near Genre - she doesn't understand it and she doesn't like it. But Condal, in some ways, is worse, because he's got some talent but he lacks enough of it to be good enough to be where he is.

And so you get what we have in Season 3. Good to mediocre cast - Emma D'Arcy is just an okay actress, she just ... fine - put together with wildly inferior writers that are straddling the line between their personal political bullshit and maintaining the facade of the Edge Lord branding of Game of Thrones.

“Anything is possible, but I think I have said what I have to say about Westeros.” In other words, don’t expect to see him getting hands-on if HBO decides to make another Game of Thrones spin-off, despite the fact that Condal just extended his deal with the network.