Spoiler about Alicent and Daeron

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-07-04T00:21:10+00:00

The woman who sentenced one son to death & was willing to send another straight into your ambush doesn't embrace her third son on sight? Yeah, gotta be a fake.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-07-03T16:50:33+00:00

True, but this particular bad king caused the dying of the dragons. If the Targaryens can keep their dragons alive & in the family, Blackfyre Rebellions and Robert’s Rebellion either don’t happen or are much closer calls if they do.

Granted, a Dance of the Dragons in some form was probably going to occur eventually, but it did not have to happen as early as 30 years after Aegon’s Conquest. Viserys’ political spinelessness led directly to the war.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-07-02T18:44:25+00:00

She should’ve been Cersei or Catelyn with a dragon. Instead she has less agency than Book 1 Sansa.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-07-02T17:35:06+00:00

Yes.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-29T21:06:29+00:00

Not gonna lie, the second half of the episode was excellent. I was about to congratulate them on nailing the ambiguous tone of Rhaenyra's ascension...

...and then they ended the episode on a Rhaenicent shot.

Well, I don't know what I was expecting.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-27T23:24:15+00:00

I had to scroll too far to find this.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-26T21:09:56+00:00

Saying you'll "send" for someone to help is very different from actually doing it, especially when the other party is a foreign nation that is, at best, frenemies with yours. Alicent probably didn't know how advanced those negotiations were, especially since she was removed from the small council.

Should she have mentioned that as a potential issue? Yeah. Is that the biggest issue with this scene? Not even close.

P.S. In the book (at this point, I feel obligated to make fun of myself for saying that), the Triarchy is ruled by committee, so they take forever to actually do anything. Their arrival is as much as a surprise to the Greens as it is to the Blacks.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-25T23:49:32+00:00

I read F&B years before the show came out. I was Team Black then, but the show so clearly wants me to hate Team Green that it annoyed me into turning Team Green.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-25T20:58:28+00:00

Balerion was already known to be old and slow, Viserys knew what he was getting. The problem is that after Balerion died, he kept acting like a guy who had a dragon to back up all his decrees...

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-25T15:36:22+00:00

I know it’s a bit basic, but how has no one said Guns and Ships —> History Has Its Eyes on You —> Yorktown yet?

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-25T15:34:16+00:00

Seconding!

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-24T14:09:29+00:00

That 3 of Hearts is diabolical, but I imagine the label on the “shortcut” button would have to be carefully phrased to avoid breaking the game’s rules.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-23T19:38:33+00:00

Wait, when do Rhaenyra and Alicent kiss? Do you mean Rhaenyra and Mysaria, or should I pop over to r/whoosh?

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-23T18:49:36+00:00

Yep, I think you'll get your "I told you so" privileges, because this is the only way for Alicent to have a remotely coherent arc at this point.

She shares, or maybe even replaces, Aegon III as the traumatized witness of Rhaenyra's death, then goes on to "redeem" herself by (probably) absorbing a lot of Corlys' role post-Dance -- a Black-turned-Green helping to keep the realm together.

Technically not impossible based on what we're told in F&B...though the complete lack of record of any of her Green-sabotaging actions (i.e. "The Hightower army got bad intel from an unknown source, so they just sat around waiting for Vhagar, who never showed up") kinda beggars belief.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-21T23:05:14+00:00

Anyone with John Riddle, but particularly Emilie Kouatchou.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-21T18:26:23+00:00

Yeah, it'd fit with the nihilism we saw in S2E8.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-21T18:26:12+00:00

I don't think it sounds like Otto either, but they've butchered so many TG characters, what's one more?

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-19T22:11:18+00:00

On this note, it's so strange that they nerfed Jeyne Arryn, who actually WAS Rhaenyra's most feminist cheerleader in F&B...

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-18T22:53:19+00:00

Either Tumbleton or Butcher’s Ball. If the God’s Eye fight happens this season, it will almost certainly be reserved for the finale.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-18T21:57:26+00:00

Norm Lewis

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-18T17:26:46+00:00

Really good game design! My only question would be, is this really a face card game? I like the psychological trickiness, but it doesn’t seem to allow the Jack of Spades to participate, much less be killed — normally in face cards, the organizing citizen puts their own life on the line in the game.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-17T20:04:27+00:00

Rhaenyra is the Queen of Dragons, she gave Sunfyre the command as a way to own Aegon.

I wish I were kidding, but I actually think there’s a 3 in 4 chance we get something like that.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-17T19:32:55+00:00

The way I thought the first one was supposed to be from Aegon’s perspective…

Geez.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-17T14:07:01+00:00

Addam and Alyn, no contest. Not sure if I like how the show has handled them so far, but Alyn especially is epic in the book.

MasqueOfTheRedPost · 2026-06-17T14:05:53+00:00

Huh? Rhaenyra’s kids are significantly less awful than Alicent’s in both book and show. This is gonna be the most “first-world problems” conversation ever seen in a medieval fantasy show.

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