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Hello everybody! Today I wanted to talk a bit about the Lemongate theory in GoT. But, even if you know this theory and think it’s absurd, stay with me, because my point is not about if the theory is possible or not inside the story, but what it represents for the story itself.

For those who aren’t familiarised, the Lemongate theory presents the possibility that Daenerys and Viserys weren’t raised in Braavos as they believed, but in Dorne, based in the fact that Daenerys always mention the lemon tree in her window in the Red Door house. Why is that important? Because based in the geography of the World of Ice and Fire, it’s impossible for a lemon tree to grow in Braavos, as the island is in the same level of the Iron Islands, who also have a tempestuous clime that makes hard for plants to grow. Arya herself mentions how there’s no wood in Braavos as she arrived.

At the same time, in a lot of moments during the books, we see characters making clear that Dorne is the only place in the Seven Kingdoms were lemons grow easily, they’re so common there that the common folk even throws them at people. So, people claim that when the children were took away by Sir Willem Dary, they didn’t go to Braavos, as the kids themselves were leaded to believe, but to a more distant castle in Dorne. Now, there are other more crazy ramifications of this theory, like one that says that Daenerys is not the daughter of the Mad King, but Rhaegar and Lyanna’s, what would make her the princess who was promised. Others say she might even be Ashara Dayne and Brandon Stark’s bastard child, and was taken as a Targaryen after the real princess Daenerys died together with queen Rhaella in the birth.

I myself don’t believe in any of those ramifications, although George already said that there’s something about Dany’s past that it’s connected with the lemon tree, I prefer the most simple explanation, that is that when George first wrote Daenerys past, he meant for her to live in Tyrosh, which is in the same level of Dorne, and therefore, has lemons.

Hello, everyone! Welcome back to my weed induced reflections about the 100, and how some things just don’t make sense.

In the first part, I ranted about how a Commander doesn’t make sense, but even more than that, I dare to say that the whole concept of the Grounders doesn’t make sense.

Let’s start with the basics, if everyone (or at least the very majority of people) that were later going to become the twelve clans were all American, so why the hell did they switched to a whole ass new language of everyone there spoke English? A century is about four generations, it’s not that much at all, not enough for the language to change so much. In the most absurd case, it could be something they came up with to avoid the Mountain Men to understand them, but then only the warriors would know that language, and the rest of the people would still speak English, instead of the other way around as they establish in the show.

If anyone should have a new language, it is the Ark, as big countries like China and Russia were also part of the Ark, so would make sense if they created a new language to be fair to everyone, especially when you realise that the Ark is actually a communist state (I’ll do a future post going deeper into that).

Now, speaking about how the whole concept doesn’t make sense, like I said before, a century isn’t that much time, so how could they come back to a whole tribal setting if it’s likely that people like Indra and Lincoln met people who knew the world before it went to hell. They didn’t know a thing about technology, or pretty much anything about the old world, and that’s simply absurd. For that to work, it should have passed something like, 500 years, then it would make sense a society who changes so much. Besides, a nuclear war like the knew they portray in the show would take much longer than just 97 years for Earth to be habitable again, so it’s really just not enough time.

Hello everyone! I’m here to talk about a subject I rarely really dive into, but this is something that always bugged me. In the “The 100” show, we’re firstly introduced to the Grounders already in season 1 of course, and since that beginning, we’ve heard about “The Commander”. Later in season 2, we found out that the Grounders are divided between 12 clans (not counting the Skaikru), and they are ruled by one nightblida Commander who can be from any clan.

Everything was fine until this, but the problem begins in season 3, when they tell us that Lexa was actually the one who created the coalition between the clans, so my question is, if before Lexa the clans were all separated and at war among themselves, what exactly is the Commander for?

It’s not like they have outside enemies apart from Mount Weather, but they never really fought against Mount Weather, so it can’t be counted as this “Greater enemy”, so why they even have a Commander? We know that Azgeda killed Costia, and they were never officially punished for that, exactly because at the time, the coalition didn’t exist.

There are another things in The 100 that just doesn’t make sense, and I’m not even talking about the last few season, which were terrible, but I plan to approach those inconsistencies in another post. For now, I’m staying with this one.

Hello everyone! I’m here to talk a little about why I just can’t like the Wednesday show.

At first, I was super excited, as a Addams Family show directed by Tim Burton seemed to be the perfect match, and I do like Jenna Ortega, even if she’s a “fake” Latina, but then I started to watch it… First season was okay-ish, although I think they made Wednesday so much of a “I-hate-everyone-and-everything alive-except-for-Enid” that it became too caricatured.

But then, season 2 came out, and thing got worse, because now it feels even less as Addams Family, and more as a poorly done X-Men AU. It kinda of reminds me of the last movie of Twilight, to be honest.

Hello everyone! Here I am, now to talk about my favorite supernatural creature, the vampires.

My love for the undead started a very long time ago, and started with the Twilight Saga (Terrible, I know, but in my defence, I was nine) and from that, I started to watch/ read everything related to vampires I could.

Before I realised, pretty much at that age, I started to watch the TVDU, and since that time, it still is my favourite show ever. But, after the ending of The Originals, I decided to expand my vampire obsession and went to look for the other major shows. First I watched True Blood, which is the worst between them, I honestly just watched it because of Eric Northman.

Now (actually in 2023, but I just came back to it now) I’m watching Buffy, and since the first episodes, I’ve fell in love with it. I’m currently at the middle of the 4th season of Buffy, and I can’t help but notice how similar it is to TVDU, or better, how TVDU is similar to Buffy, since Buffy came first.

Now, as always, spoilers under the cut:

As always, spoilers under the cut.