I don't know what i'm going to do until 2024 when this season ends. I hope they surprise us and reveal like that YI Ti animated series is well into production and ready for release in 2023 or something.
Yeah it’s gonna be rough. Though for my high fantasy fix in between well have a Witcher spinoff and regular season of The Witcher.
Reading the book again I caught something about Daemon's relationship to a particular dragon that I didn't catch before. So not only was Vaegar his late wife's dragon, she was also ridden by Daemon's father Prince Baelon as well. Adds a lot more personal subtext to the eventual confrontation that I never really thought about < book/show spoilers
Kim Renfro makes an argument for why Rhaenys doesn't kill the Greens here that I can sort of buy. I'd rather think of her decision as a strategic/political one rather than the moral/emotional one that Condal gave in the aftershow. Makes sense that outright torching the Greens and the newly crowned king would would not play well with the public perception and would probably hurt any public support of Rhaenyra's making a rightful claim.
Storms End scene might be the most visually impressive scene in the history of the show/GoT. Holy SHIT. Aemond tries to stop Vhagar but can’t.
Will be curious if the show has Rhaenyra tell Aegon about the prophecy or if the passing down or the prophecy ends with her? Or does she end up telling anyone else, maybe Alicent? Going to have to check on how each king died before Viserys took over because I thought at least one of them died abruptly so it would be curious when each King told their successor - especially since being King doesn’t end like being President does - or maybe I’m not remembering how Viserys explained it in the first episode.
Jaehaerys obviously had time to tell Viserys...there is definitely a question of how Jaehaerys was told. The most logical explanation would be that his older brother Aegon, who was Aenys' heir but was usurped by Maegor, was married to their (aegon and Jaehaerys's) sister Rhaena, and she could tell him. While Aegon was killed before he could ascend to the throne or presumably tell Jaehaerys about the prophecy, Rhaena lived long into Jaehaerys' reign, and it's very easy to assume Aegon as her husband told her about it, and she told Jaehaerys.
Wow the design of Storm's End is a lot different looking than what i pictured in my head/seen in illustrations < episode 10 leak spoiler
That was fantastic almost entirely in line with the plot leaks, no big surprises beyond but the slight change of what happens in the climax from the book. That change with Aemond/Vaegar...I don't know how I feel about it. I'm going to have to think on it in the interim. < major finale leak spoilers
Nope. The only time we ever really got close to it was the Renly/Stannis showdown, and all we saw there was the basement tunnels that Davos smuggled the Red Woman into. But they never actually show us the castle.
The shot of Vhagar flying overtop of Arrax in the clouds is one of the best shots in any episode of this show
Aegon I died of a stroke after a long reign, he almost certainly told his heir prince Aenys. It's never confirmed but i am betting Aegon also told his sister-wives. Aenys I died of illness unexpectedly after a short reign, his direct heir Prince Aegon "The Uncrowned" was immediately usurped by his uncle Maegor. Maegor I usurped the throne when his older brother died with help of his mother and Aegon I's widow Visenya, killed Prince Aegon, but then died mysteriously without children. His heir in those final days was his niece/wife and Prince Aegon's widow Princess Rhaena. When Maegor I died Aenys I's last surviving son Prince Jaehaerys then become king overstepping his older sister Rhaena's claim. < first half of Fire and Blood spoilers my summation is that Aegon I told his sister-wives Rhaenys & Visenya and his direct heir Aenys. Aenys I told his direct heir Prince Aegon. Maegor's mother Visenya told him. Maegor I told Princess Rhaena. Princess Rhaena told Jaehaerys I. Jaehaerys I eventually told Viserys and so on
Yep people online are freaking out about something in the episode leak. Worth critical thought, but not "i'm never going to watch this again" over that like some dorks online are saying. Again be careful what what you see on twitter until it airs I actually don't mind the change now that i've thought on it. Adds a degree of character development and depth to Aemond that he lacked in the book. Instead of him just being one-dimensionally evil killer out the gate like he is in the book, he's depicted initially as pretty much a poser Daemon LARPer who holds onto a childish grudge..then he inadvertently kills a family member due to his false hubris, is forced to double down on the reputation of a heartless kinslayer that gives him, and then that puts him on a path where he gradually evolves into the truly evil genocidal psychopath we know from the book. actually kind of brilliant now that i think about it. < MAJOR EPISODE 10 FINALE LEAK SPOILERS BE WARNED
Ok so this is probably wrong lol. There were episode photos released and it seems it was a different bald person with a beard and not Graham McTavish.
No. Near the end he flies off on his mission to do that, but we don't get to actually see where he flies off to this season.