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this was also v solid

one thing I will say though is I feel like the time skips (which are only gonna get more prevalent from here I imagine) does limit my investment in the characters just a bit, but that's kinda just gonna be the nature of this story. I do think they're doing a good job with it considering

w2g Viserys, at least you're not a pedo but you went and married your daughter's best friend (or love interest?) instead. OOF! He really couldn't have gave Rhaenrys a lil heads up on that rather than blindsiding her at the small council?

Daemon/Corlys team-up is p exciting

disappointed they're just reusing the GOT theme for this. C'mon! I get the feeling that was an HBO mandate for ~brand consistency~ but who knows. If every spinoff is really gonna use that theme that's just gonna get silly

I got hyped for the new theme tbh hahahah I just wish they did something else for the blood and gears I DUnno

it's a banger theme but I can't help but recall the bad times rather than the good when I hear it now

I’m just reliving the glory days and I’m happy we have content again

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w2g Viserys, at least you're not a pedo but you went and married your daughter's best friend (or love interest?) instead.

Who is also 15… so not that much better. Definitely could have handled it with his daughter a little better.

Dragon scenes were cool, liked it a lot. The crab people are a cool design though I think they are just gonna get burnt to a crisp next episode.

What did Otto give Alicent before they left for dragonstone?

Dyl @ 3/9/2022 21:44

Quote w2g Viserys, at least you're not a pedo but you went and married your daughter's best friend (or love interest?) instead. Who is also 15… so not that much better. Definitely could have handled it with his daughter a little better.

yeah it's weird, I guess she was 18 in the books so not sure why they aged her down here. Only thing I can think of is they wanted her and Rhaenrya's ages to be closer to sell their closeness? But wouldn't really be stretching it for an 18 and 15 year old to be BFFs so doesn't really seem necessary

Seeing as how I love everything Daemon and Rhaenyra are doing, I liked this episode.

The only nitpick I have is I wish we got more from the King's perspective on HOW exactly this marriage would benefit the realm in his opinion, knowing the discourse it would sow with the most powerful house in the realm. It's obviously the wrong choice. I guess his thinking is that he'll get a son, dis-heir his daughter, and things will be hunky dory? That's the only thing that really makes sense. He would have to believe his daughter, his brother, and the queen that never was will just roll over and be fine with that come his death. But then he tells Rhaenyra he wants her to remain his heir, which I would have to guess he's lying about, otherwise he comes off even dumber.

That said, characters will character! I can't mind too much someone making questionable choices if it makes for an interesting story.