#black team

Well, for starters, when I watched season 2, I haven’t read Fire and Blood yet, and I’m still not done with the book, but let’s talk about the differences I’ve noticed up to now.

Reading the book and comparing it to season 1, something became clear as the day for me. Our not-so-beloved showrunner Ryan Condal hates Daemon. All the changes they’ve done on his character on season 1 leaded me tho that conclusion. All the things that made him a gray character were cutted off, and he was left pretty much as a walking red flag.

Let’s begin with his first wife, the one that in the show he killed with a rock. In the book, Daemon isn’t even a suspect, because if I recall well, he was fighting at Stepstones, or something similar.

Trying to sleep with young Rhaenyra though, that rumor actually is in the book, but again, he’s considered a “gray” character for a reason.

Now, the point I truly wished to get to in this first part. How Daemon/Rhaenyra/Laena thing was adapted.

For what we read in the books, the three of them always have been super close. Daemon and Nyra didn’t spend a decade apart, because Daemon and Laena weren’t on Essos, but in Driftmark, that is super close to Dragonstone by dragonfly. Now, about Laena’s unfortunate death. Not only Rhaenyra was there the whole time with her, but she didn’t marry Daemon in the next day, but something about six months later.