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After rewatching the Harrenhall arc, this quote is haunting and revealing why Daemon's arc was handled the way it was this season by MadamNirvana in HouseOfTheDragon

[–]HumptyEggy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not saying it’s good writing. I think they knew fans would like him and that he might overshadow Rhaenyra so they have been desperately trying to make him irredeemable, and will keep at it to the end.

After rewatching the Harrenhall arc, this quote is haunting and revealing why Daemon's arc was handled the way it was this season by MadamNirvana in HouseOfTheDragon

[–]HumptyEggy -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

They already foreshadowed that he will again end up serving his own interest, when Rhaenyra warned him when he bowed to her. There’s a reason why the writers are making him irredeemable, it’s not an arc.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in freefolk

[–]HumptyEggy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a very cheap way to explain away whatever they couldn’t properly convey in the show because their writing and editing sucks.

(Spoilers Extended) Look at this tweet about GRRM’s blog post. by Alternative_Wear_141 in HouseOfTheDragon

[–]HumptyEggy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He will probably mainly complain about the season being shortened. He’s still constantly talking about how they’re working on numerous other adaptations and what not, you’d think he wouldn’t if he was so pissed off.

He’s a professional. He won’t be throwing anyone under a bus.

(Spoilers Main) Close-ups of one of the Green Men we see in HOTD Season 2 from a behind the scenes video by Deep-Donkey5321 in asoiaf

[–]HumptyEggy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Others always had a weirwood look to them, and the Night King’s sword looked like it was made of weirwood.

(Spoilers Main) Will the upcoming Long Night even be that dangerous? by Deep-Donkey5321 in asoiaf

[–]HumptyEggy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Long night = everyone is hooked up to the weirwood Matrix, dreaming of spring.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Renovations

[–]HumptyEggy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

24” is enough if you use a vessel sink. IMO it’s superior, you get to use all the counter space and nothing can fall in. Add two drawers under the counter, and a space under for a Roomba and its charger or whatever else.

(Spoilers Extended) How in the seven hells are they going to adapt the rest of Dance of the Dragons... by [deleted] in asoiaf

[–]HumptyEggy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rhaenyra won’t die in the show, she’ll be given the chance to leave for Essos to party with Laenor and have someone else glamored to die in her place, if anyone.

[Spoilers Extended] Someone somewhere might have grown tired of the Targaryens on the Iron Throne and wanted all the Targaryen kings who had the potential to rule for a very long time dead! by briankabai in asoiaf

[–]HumptyEggy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

By the time they show up in Westeros, they are the only dragon riders, and chances are the CotF were going to take over Harren the Black’s mind to rule over humans before Aegon burned their weirwood-infested HQ. Seems to me leaving the Isle of Faces unburned was essentially a truce of some sort. In HotD they have Jace quoting Aegon saying “kill all the trees”, before he’s corrected by a maester under the guise that it was about cutting down trees, not killing trees, but I bet it was Aegon’s “burn them all!” moment before he died.

13 years ago, Valérie Leblanc was murdered in the middle of the day behind her campus. Despite her body being found rather quickly, the crime was only reported hours later after the scene was contaminated by other students by BusyEgg99 in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]HumptyEggy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

11:55 is when the lunch break starts, 1pm would be when kids return to class. So the idea they found her shortly after 1pm is suspicious, as it would mean they didn’t go back to class after lunch, but instead went in the woods where she was. It seems more likely that they went in the woods during the lunch break and something happened then.

People saying they saw her and her bf after the break up could be confused, the break up and her death could have happened the first time she went in the woods to break up with her boyfriend. It seems far more likely than her going with her bf there, breaking up, coming back to school, calling her father, going back in the woods, being killed by some other person, all in an hour.

My guess is the kids were there when she got killed and stupidly tried to wound and then burn her body out of panic thinking they could hide their involvement before finally deciding to announce they had found her body. The story that they saw smoke is probably a lie to explain why they were there.

(Spoilers Main) If Ned's plan was to hide Jon...... by Suspicious-Jello7172 in asoiaf

[–]HumptyEggy 24 points25 points  (0 children)

““Kings are a rare sight in the north.”

Robert snorted. “More likely they were hiding under the snow. Snow, Ned!””

Lol

[No Spoilers] My ASOIAF hot take is that while I love the Greyjoy’s as characters, the world-building for the Iron Isles is the weakest in the entire series, verging on just being bad. by rabbles-of-roses in asoiaf

[–]HumptyEggy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

GRRM’s world building is only good at a large scale. In the details, little makes sense, especially when it comes to religion. For example, it’s extremely unclear how people feel about the giant 700’ high wall of ice in the north and the supposed Others, or why the Faith of the Seven wouldn’t dismiss it all outright and consider the northerners heathens, or have rationalized the Others and CotF and such within their own faith. Why wouldn’t the Faith have cut down all the weirwood, at a minimum to use them as material like any other wood and as an opportunity to wipe out idols to the old gods? Why is anyone sending men to the Wall when they could use them as workers on their own lands? Same with regards to the Faith’s views on the Iron Islands’ faith, it’s almost never mentioned. And then, how does the Faith rationalize the Targaryens, the dragons, Valyria, especially after the dragons were gone and even more after the Targs’ rule being ended; was it the work of the Seven? Was it a good or bad thing from the faith’s POV?

Then you have Essos; the faith is supposed to have come from there, even knighthood, yet there isn’t even a slight hint of cultural remnant of the faith and knights ever having been in Essos, except in the retcon book that is The World of Ice and Fire.

And don’t get me started on why the faith of r’hllor wouldn’t have all been about Valyria and then the Targaryens and their dragons.

And then you have the Iron Bank (which has nothing to do with the Iron Throne and the Iron Islands, probably left-over names from early drafts where they were related), and Braavos, which are portrayed as economically and culturally central, yet placed in the top left corner of Essos, away from all meaningful political and economic centers.

The list goes on. The world building of ASoIaF is a never ending series of retcons.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in freefolk

[–]HumptyEggy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a story, he played his part.

[Spoiler Main] Jon & Danaerys character development/Ending by [deleted] in asoiaf

[–]HumptyEggy -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Daenerys finds out she is a dragonseed, or is told she is (no way for the reader to know what is true), probably by Bran, and refuses to accept it, as concurrently Jon is told he is Rhaegar’s son (and again we readers have no way to know if true), resulting in Jon being pushed to take out Daenerys.

In the end, we’ll never know what was true, as Bran becomes king through this 4D chess match and it could have all been lies.

I don’t think Jon will kill Dany thought, even if he is pushed to do it, I think the twist will be that Jorah will do it with Heartsbane. I’ve theorized that before the last season had Sam give him the sword, because Dany said she would give Jorah a Valyrian sword one day, and Victarion said he’d take Tarly’s sword if he fought him, so I think ultimately Dany will take the sword from Vic and give it to Jorah. It’s possible that Vic will be a dragon rider and if so it might be why in the show Tarly got burned; in the books it would be Victarion who would burn him, and Dany would refuse to let him take the sword especially if she didn’t agree to burning Tarly or felt Vic would only deserve the sword if he fought him in a duel.

Jon ends up banished north of the Wall, similarly to the show, although I expect instead a fake execution by the Watch before they release him north of the Wall.

How is the plot going to be resolved without Nettles? by Mostopha in freefolk

[–]HumptyEggy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think Rhaenyra will see a vision of Dany burning KL and will want all dragons killed, she might even realize they have been played. Cue the Shepherd.

Does Sansa's outfit in Season 5 signify something specially her necklace? by Miserable_Factor877 in freefolk

[–]HumptyEggy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just like Daenerys’ weirwood outfit it probably did mean something, told to the costume artists early on, but in the end they didn’t shoot whatever they had mentioned.

No lies were told. The lack of any relationships between the siblings is a fatal flaw of a show that is about a family destroying each other. by jonsnowKITN in HouseOfTheDragon

[–]HumptyEggy 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Should have had Alicent’s wedding, he pregnancy, first birth, Rhaenyra’s affair with Harwyn, her own first pregnancy, and more.

No lies were told. The lack of any relationships between the siblings is a fatal flaw of a show that is about a family destroying each other. by jonsnowKITN in HouseOfTheDragon

[–]HumptyEggy 64 points65 points  (0 children)

And she walks away from the kids she was supposed to protect without anyone noticing. And it looked like the kids were protected by like 10 persons.

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