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This blog exists solely as a catalogue of my journey through A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin one chapter at a time.
Coverage will include Game of Thrones, Tales of Dunk & Egg, Fire & Blood, House of the Dragon, etc.
Readthroughs will begin/resume during television hiatuses.
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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 3 Episode 5 — "Unbowed and Unbent"
TESSARION, The Blue Queen HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 1, "Salt and Sea, Fire and Blood"
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 3.05 - "Unbowed and Unbent"
Since you brought up nettles did you see what Condal said to justify cutting her. I’m so glad I dropped this show
Whenever I read a condal interview I feel like I’ve just read a ridiculous Reddit post written by a fan with no experience in storytelling
Like this basically says
“Having daemon have an “affair” with an underage girl and having Rhaenyra be lowkey classist and racist towards her might make them look bad and that ruins our uncle/niece power couple goals so naturally, we decided to take this boring feminine character who was a truly innocent party in this war, have her claim a wild dragon so she could become “wild” too and be so traumatised she cuts off her hair and goes to live in a cave which makes her far more interesting to us.”
Stopping watching was a good call on your part. Not one woman has an interesting storyline this season. They could have used this Rhaena storyline to give Baela and Rhaena some good scenes together at least but she’s been MIA since Jace died so I’m not holding out hope.
And here’s my thing: the affair was made up!! It was a rumor made by Mushroom. You don’t HAVE to make Daemon have an affair with an underage girl!
But let’s include unneeded SA scenes, because it pushes the plot forward apparently.
The Nettles-Daemon relationship was not completely made up but the show could’ve given them an emotional, platonic bond and still included Nettles’ story and the conflict it added to Daemon and Rhaenyra’s relationship and even touched on the power imbalance within Nettles’ relationship even if he hadn’t tried anything sexual.
I agree, we don’t need to see an underage black girl being SA’d. Especially when the show has already shown an underaged Alicent being raped and they already added TWO scenes this season where Alicent is SA’d, including by her own son. Those scenes added nothing to the plot, we don’t even see Alicent struggling in the aftermath or any change in her mental state.
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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 5, "Unbowed and Unbent"
This statement from Ryan Condal only confirms what everyone had already realized.
cutting Nettles and merging her storyline with Rhaena's was purely motivated by a desire to protect Daemon and Rhaenyra ("Daemyra") from the audience's judgment.​Of course that’s what it was! The showrunner himself admits that the main focus was to avoid an "infidelity storyline" because he believes the audience "really wants to see this couple work out."​Claiming that it’s "interesting to pair a wild dragon with a noblewoman who becomes wild herself" sounds more like a script excuse to give Rhaena screen time than organic development. In the books, the dynamics between Nettles and Daemon added massive layers of ambiguity (was she a lover, a daughter, or a protégé?), something that is completely lost by putting his own daughter in that role.
Sansa Stark 🤝 Rhaena Targaryen
Being shoehorned into another girls’s story that should be focused on the experiences of lowborn girls but your writers thought your actual arc as a feminine woman learning on how to utilise their soft power in the vale wasn’t interesting enough
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 3x04 "Tumbleton"
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the original sin of house of the dragon is that it's an adaptation, not of the source material itself but the way it's constructed within another medium.
practical changes most certainly need to be made, they are necessary to fit within the limitations of an audiovisual medium. however, the story itself must remain intact. if the core themes of the source material are bent out of shape and exaggerated to fit what the showrunners, writers, and directors personal biases are instead of the original author, then at what point can it even be called an adaptation instead of something that is loosely inspired by? does it even resemble the original work anymore after being painted with the brush of thinly-veiled social commentary fit for a more contemporary setting instead of the quasi-medieval one for which serves as its foundation?
the sheer obnoxious arrogance to shrug, wave, even laugh off criticisms of the author and fans of his work (which itself isn't a sacred text free from any scrutiny) as opposed to taking a knee and observing why certain deviations garner frustration speaks volumes about how even as a collaborative effort, belligerence runs amok and squanders potential for improvement. it is understandable that certain aspects of art get lost in the adaptation process, but when that art is appropriated to service the sensibilities of so-called "creatives" who take a mile when given an inch and made more palatable for distribution, all the while fundamentally misinterpreting the author's vision and intent, how else are fans supposed to react?
..not positively, that much is evident.
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON ; S03E04 “Tumbleton”
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 4, "Tumbleton"
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S03E04 — “Tumbleton”
Alicent's misery is clearly projected onto her children, while the show is trying to paint Viserys as a good king and husband in a rather shameless revision of his character. The writers seem to have lost their way. Instead of depicting a woman in crisis who misplaces her anger and blame (since that was the only way that makes any sense to interpret her character in season 2), they're glorifying and justifying her actions against her innocent family (because her children are ALL innocent in regards to her), while downplaying the faults of the man who married her as a young bride and neglected their children.
This toxic tendency to blame children or dismiss their legitimate grievances is getting out of hand. Jace, for example, is being unfairly ridiculed for daring to confront his mother about the obvious flaws in her actions. It's as if he's supposed to be grateful for the prospect of sacrificing his life in a civil war caused by the very adults around him, even though he clearly sees that his mother's mistakes will only bring more trouble his way.
At this point, all we see are two women who refuse to take responsibility for their mistakes, while their children and grandchildren bear the consequences. They're portrayed as symbols of peace, surrounded by evil men who supposedly want war. But we overlook the fact that there wouldn’t be a war if Rhaenyra simply stepped aside. Her claim to the throne only brings more problems and reasons for conflict, something that anyone with common sense should recognize as a bad idea.
As for Alicent, she pushed for her son to sit on the throne, motivations that were carefully built up throughout the first season. But now, the narrative cowardly backtracks, with her shifting the blame onto her children, who were basically groomed to follow her wishes. The dynamics have completely shifted, with the children existing solely to serve their parents rather than the other way around. Rhaenyra might be shown playing with her kids or mourning her dead son because the show wants you to know she is a good mother, but when it comes down to business, it’s always them who take the fall for her.
It almost seems like this could be a compelling show, but the writers refuse to portray the main characters honestly, based on what they wrote in the first season. Instead, they concoct weak excuses and grander narratives to avoid acknowledging Rhaenyra as driven by self-interest, just like everyone else. This refusal to present her true motivations is significantly undermining the show's quality, especially as it attempts to compare itself to the golden age of GOT.
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my personal grievance is that helaena’s levity downplays the death of Jaehaerys. book Helaena refused to leave her rooms, to eat. now show Helaena is talking about wanting to raise chickens. in the same episode Rhaenyra’s maternal grief lives so deeply. Rhaenyra has so many horrific compelling motivators with these spectacular emotional scenes I just wish the Jaehaerys’ death and subsequent grief over him held a comparable weight for the Greens.
James Norton as Ormund Hightower HOUSE OF THE DRAGON
