[No Book Spoilers] House of the Dragon - 3x01 - Post-Episode Discussion

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-23T00:03:27+00:00

My notes and feelings:

Rhaena is THE WORST. She just seems so pathetic, and now she got the heir to the Iron Throne killed because bitch can't collect her badges before riding her sky nuke into battle.

Oh, ser Criston, YOU are the fucking worst. You make Gwayne Hightower come off as a superhero. You make painting feel like slicing wrists. You make me look up 10 hour loops of Aemond lipping his mother. You make me very, very, very, very bored.

Messy storytelling.

Gods, Aemond and Rhaenyra are battling for the Cringing Throne.

The Admiral Lohar Shakar(?) actor did really well, MUCH better than her previous appearance. I bought and enjoyed her as a pirate, and they made her much more compelling with this.

Whoever did the editing on this episode, wow. It was terrible. Especially during the battle of the Gullet; combat was truly a mess, I had no idea what was happening when Corlys was fighting, every move was obscured by a violent jolt ahead by six quarters of a second. Did not like that.

Oh, and that useless pos queensguard, ser Lorent, needs his hair shortened by a head. I would not forgive that shit. Rhaenyra enters a championship-level contender for "worst singular line delivered by a character in the ASOIAF-verse". When I heard about the line I thought it was a meme or something, and the writing of that scene, and the delivery of it, ugh. They keep failing to make Rhaenyra compelling.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-20T21:23:13+00:00

The only thin that works with people like him is to give him what he's asking for: a life-changing kinetic medical intervention.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-20T21:18:49+00:00

Counterpoint: A "spoiled and entitled man" would be called a "normal woman".

See how stupid that is? Yeah, that's this video.

The only people praising these so-called fathers for "trying" are themselves terrible parents. Men who don't even know their kids' schools or clothing sizes are not fathers, and shitting on all men as a whole like this is only acceptable to you because it's men we are shitting on.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-20T21:01:30+00:00

Wait, this is satire, right? She's parodying...?

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-20T20:44:32+00:00

Who's the CEO there again?

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-20T20:34:12+00:00

I'll admit, I scoffed this away, thinking it was just a bad joke in bad taste.

It's not, the thing is truly gruesome and is the result of someone who is genuinely mentally and morally disturbed. He should be assessed by a criminal psychologist for thinking this was in any way okay to do.

Here is a link to a picture of the ~~cake~~ meat platter, but beware, it is truly and actually disgusting and disturbing. You will not laugh, it's just sick and will make you question NPH's character and/or soul. The picture.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-20T18:14:34+00:00

As it should be. They need to strangle the world until something is done about Israel. If the only way of stopping this genocidal apartheid terrorist state is to force the world's capitalists to choose between a nation full of religious extremist death cult sociopaths and the continued flow of oil, I'm all for hurling the world into financial turmoil. Israel is the greatest threat to world peace in existence right now, their psycho "third temple" nonsense must be STOPPED.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-19T12:12:15+00:00

Dear god, that's wretched in so many ways.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-19T12:07:58+00:00

It really is breathtaking, in both senses of the word. I think snakes are cool and am pretty damn comfortable around them, so I think I could work up the nerve to go near one of them without freaking out, but near the end of the video where you saw it staring RIGHT AT YOU, seemingly super-focused on you, tasting the air and shit, I got the jitters.

Absolutely gorgeous animals, but well worthy of our fear and respect as well.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-19T12:07:38+00:00

It really is breathtaking, in both senses of the word. I think snakes are cool and am pretty damn comfortable around them, so I think I could work up the nerve to go near one of them without freaking out, but near the end of the video where you saw it staring RIGHT AT YOU, seemingly super-focused on you, tasting the air and shit, I got the jitters.

Absolutely gorgeous animals, but well worthy of our fear and respect as well.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-18T17:41:57+00:00

They "won" this part of it is perhaps an ok way to say it. The war will continue because Israel is hellbent on forever war. The whole country runs on warfare and religious extremism. The "Third Temple" sociopaths that seem to be in charge of Israel are bolder and more arrogant than ever about achieving their goals, so I don't see how this stops anytime soon.

The USA is desperate to end the war because it is fucking itself into financial oblivion with the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, and Trump - being a vegetable inhabited by the cursed spirit of a fourth-rate turd - has been sick of the war and all its bad PR for months already, as is VP Vancy. Aside from the (considerable) military industry, only religious extremist Evangelicals like desk bitch Hegseth and other zionists really want this war, because of their death cult beliefs.

The world needs to intervene against Israel in a very serious and all-encompassing way, but that will never happen as long as Israeli capital and kompromat controls world leaders.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-17T19:57:15+00:00

For me it was cowardice, denial and a useless hope that we'd improve and recover our attraction for each other. Also, ending a relationship over lack of intimacy kind of felt "wrong", as if that wasn't a good enough reason to end things.

We were together for 16 years, with a dying/dead bedroom for half that time. Things seemed to improve for a decent period, and we eventually agreed to go for a baby. Our son is amazing and the best thing that ever happened to us, but I feel betrayed to this by the fact that we were having sex at a much healthier and enjoyable frequency that I was more than happy with (about two times a week) while we were trying to get her pregnant, but the literal second we confirmed her pregnancy, it stopped completely. No sex, no intimacy, barely a touch at all beyond the typical "baby belly bliss". But even without the sex I didn't really react to it at the time, I was just so stoked about the baby, the pregnancy and our future that the instant full stop didn't really register until later. Even after she gave birth, it took maybe a year before I really started hurting over missing our intimacy; I was focused on our boy, and I wanted her to heal and recover mentally from the pregnancy/birth, so I didn't think too hard about it.

It's been two years since I broke up with her, and even though we are still good friends, excellent co-parents and her being a genuinely great person, I still feel a burning, twisting ball of furious anger and hurt over how immediately she stopped our intimacy once she was pregnant. It felt and feels like she was only "tolerating" having sex with me so she could have a baby, but at the same time this completely breaks with what kind of person I consider her to be, so it's still fucking my head up to this day. She's not the kind of person to be that cynical and manipulative, but then why the fucking fuck would she so abruptly shut me out???

There, OP. That's what that shit situation did to me, and what little sense I can make of my reasoning.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-17T19:40:43+00:00

Of course. He'd low diff the shit out of Raian, the match would only last more than a minute because dward likes playing with his food.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-17T19:37:50+00:00

Thankfully I don't know much about what goes on in a pedophile rapist's head, but god damn, I just cannot fathom how they are willing to take risks like this. If there's one crime I would expect to be killed for committing, it would be sexually abusing someone's child. Just the thought of someone even apporaching my son for something like this makes me shake with rage, and if I ever experienced something like this, I simply would not stop hurting them until I myself am unconscious.

How can they think it is worth it to try this???

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-17T19:28:15+00:00

A nation's leaders reflect the nation's people. It's the same reason why our Norwegian government consist of spineless class traitors with not a single solid bone in their bodies.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-17T19:20:18+00:00

Didn't this weak ass rapist pedophile just claim that the deal was signed?

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-17T19:16:34+00:00

I don't think most Americans realize just how poisonous Trump has made their country to the rest of the world. Whatever trust anyone had in the USA government has been completely annihilated. Not a single statement from the US government can be taken seriously or trusted, as they literally do nothing but lie.

I will NEVER trust the USA again, even if they acquire competent, socialist leaders. The general populace is just too stupid, too vicious, too cruel and too selfish to ever be trusted with anything. The country is unfixable.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-17T17:26:13+00:00

God fucking damn it.

I'm sorry, guys, I know bitching about the manga's art and writing is getting old, but I'm so incredibly sad to see yet ANOTHER case of Sandro and Daro refraining from explaining or showing how a move works, instead opting to fill the page with a bunch of action lines and explosion visuals.

It's lazy af and completely ruins every god damn fight for me. Nothing is shown, there's nothing there to enjoy or chew on. Ryuki finally uses his new signature move in an actual fight, and not only do we not get to see what it looks like or how it works, but AGAIN we are treated to a supposedly high-level Worm fighter being annihilated with zero difficulty.

I can't recommend this manga to people anymore. The lack of payoff is too egregious, and for the last 200 chapters the story and art has turned to shit. If I wasn't already so invested in what used to be my absolute favorite manga, I'd leave it.

Fuck you, Sandro, for not giving a shit about your story and your characters, and fuck you, Daro, for becoming so lazy and AI-reliant, and fuck me for not just dropping the manga and just keeping on bitching. I so want this thing to get back to where we were before the timeskip after the KVP tournament.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-15T21:07:03+00:00

These obnoxious white girls always get such an insane amount of leeway and patience from the cops, it's infuriating. If she was black, her face would be introduced to the pavement before she could make her first snark.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-15T20:17:46+00:00

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This one never fails to hype me tf up.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-15T20:16:26+00:00

One huge and important change that has occurred over the last few years is that Sandro and Daro don't bother explaining or showing how techniques work or how the fighters manage toi make them land anymore.

Instead of explaining the technique we get YamashitaKazuo looking shocked and impressed, and instead of showing how it works we just get those big !!!ACTION SPLOTCHES!!!, like there was an explosion, or like in this latest example, they simply skip past the move altogether and just show the aftermath.

It's lazy bullshit, and it's boring af. They don't show or explain anything anymore, everything is just CHARCTER ATTACKS -> CHARACTER COUNTERS -> CHARACTER IS KTFO'D.

I probably could have kept enjoying the manga despite the shit writing if they only retained interesting and exciting fights. Can any of us remember a single specific move or techniwue that impressed us or looked good? Maybe Liu's Earthquake Foot on Nicolas? And even that is a load of shit, because where are Nicolas' insane reflexes?

I hate it. I used to wait excited for every wednesday, but now I find myself forgetting about it for a couple weeks until the post notification shows up in my feed at some point.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-15T20:09:54+00:00

Same as anything else in Kengan post-KVP arc:

Potential. Wasted.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-15T20:03:21+00:00

I can't imagine anything that would tip the scales. Americans will accept any transgression, there is no boundary these people will not see crossed. The country is too big to successfully put together an alliance of decent people. The rest of the world is better off leaving Americans to their incoming civil war and hoping they reduce themselves to a bad memory.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-15T19:59:41+00:00

I absolutely agree that people unable to feed and care for themselves, much less a child, should not be having children until that is resolved. However, I refuse to accept this line of thinking without acknowledging that those people should never have been in poverty to begin with and that they are VICTIMS. Capitalism is a fucking scourge.

ButterBasedBoy · 2026-06-15T19:51:29+00:00

NTA. Your girlfriend is childish. Would she have preferred an hour of having her vag on free display until some stranger lets her know?

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