HOTD S2E05 video out now!
Added 2024-07-20 12:51:35 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAhgHqYnduc
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Could it be that Aegons dream was just a vision of his dagger killing the nights king and his army? And he assumed it was him cause he has the dagger? Then as time passed it became this prince who was promised story as each king passed it down….
Boxing Love
2024-07-21 10:44:53 +0000 UTCI'll be sad when the season ends. Your videos as well as your bastard brother's videos with Glidus make my day.
Rhae Dae
2024-07-20 20:18:35 +0000 UTCDaemon "suggesting" the Blackwells put the Riverlands commoners to the sword really reminded me of Tywin Lannister ordering The Mountain to do so in ASOIAF. Both Tywin and Daemon are utterly abhorrent men doing anything for power. Tywin claims his actions are all for the power needed to maintain family legacy (complete garbage, imo), while at least Daemon is honest enough to admit it is all for himself to gain power. I always thought the claim that Rhaenyra was so passive in the book was more bias by Archmaester Gyldayn. Yes, Viserys reigned during peacetime and the meetings Rhaenyra was serving in didn't cover a ton of conflict. However, you'll never convince me that when Viserys named Rhaenyra as his heir, he didn't arrange for her to have the same comprehensive education any son Viserys had would've received from youth to prepare that hypothetical child to rule. All boys receive that education. Aegon II and little Jaehaerys were both shown to be getting it (RIP Jaehaerys). Why wouldn't Viserys do the same with Rhaenyra once she was named? The man was intelligent and would certainly make sure she was not only prepared to be a monarch, but for the potentiality of Aegon the Conqueror's prophecy of the Song of Ice and Fire to come true during her reign. Dude was super frightened of that and would've wanted her prepared. Rhaenyra wouldn't be silent in war councils. I'm not saying she'd have good ideas, but I'm more inclined to think that the men around her (who had no more battle experience than she did and likely studied the same battles as her) disagreed with her ideas or they felt insecure that her tactics contradicted theirs; so therefore historians (particularly Gyldayn) discounted what they said about Rhaenyra's contributions in war councils as face-saving measures for either Rhaenerya or themselves. Just my theory. (Don't know if I articulated that well enough to make sense LOL) I strongly dislike Alicent, yet... yikes, this particular episode has screwed her over. It's hardly surprising when she's sided with the group who's whole belief system is founded on, "Women are weaker and unfit." I can't forgive everything she's done as her being brainwashed by a horrible upbringing and patriarchy since birth, but you can't help but feel a little bad for her in this. I thought I was imagining things when I believed the only person to interact with Alys Rivers was Daemon. I didn't go back and re-watch everything, so I figured I had just misremembered something. Glad I wasn't making something up out of nowhere! So creepy!!!
Mandi Mateer
2024-07-20 17:33:26 +0000 UTCI like the idea that Corlys did all of the voyages for Rhaenys. Remember, house Velaryon didnt start off as wealthy and influential. That was all built up by Corlys. Even the castle he lives in now was built by him, I think that the originalhad fallen into ruin. Even if he is a lord, his house was very minor before he came along. I can imagin how it was like when Corlys was a young man, his house dismissed as unimportant, living on the noble lord equivalent of nothing and seeing Rhaenys, a fiercom dragon princess who could one day be queen. He probably felt unworthy of her and so set off on his travels to prove himself. Slowly building up himself and his house, he wants to be seen as worthy of her, "I came back from the ends of the earth for you, " he said. And he kept going. Kept trying to win glory to his name, which was now hers too, kept trying to make her queen, get her children, her bloodline, into the succession, fighting in battle, travelling and trading all across the known world and eventually siding with Rhaenyra just to feel worthy of her, even after she tells him she just wants him and their children. But it's not enough, because he doesn't feel like enough. He still feels like the young man from the overlooked minor house that no one pays any mind to and is not good enough for his princess. So he both hides and fights, is fiercely loyal yet has moment's of weakness and betrayal and lashes out. Now she's gone and he thinks "why did I bother, why didn't I listen to her?". His fault wasn't just heedless ambition, it was also relentless self doubt. Now he has lost the one that meant the most to him. I love Corlys, he's one of my favourites on this show. He and Rhaenys both deserved so much better.
Natalie Watson
2024-07-20 13:51:32 +0000 UTCWoah! A day early!!
Derek Best
2024-07-20 13:14:55 +0000 UTCLOVE IT. Best way to start a Saturday!
Elijah Lidkea
2024-07-20 12:53:20 +0000 UTC
