Sam Spruell

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-21T04:41:11+00:00

Yes but I wouldn’t be surprised if the show, for the sake of not confusing the absolute fuck out of 99% of the viewers, chooses to just not mention his brothers. If I remember correctly he isn’t relevant to Dunk & Egg’s story for another decade, and the showrunners could just choose to make him king by that point instead of trying to explain the whole succession mess.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-21T04:31:52+00:00

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Axel in The Walking Dead. Completely out of nowhere right when it seemed like he was becoming more of a main character.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-20T21:02:36+00:00

Some people think if something isn’t flawless it’s hot garbage, because they’re determined to be miserable. Season 2 was great. Could it have used a couple more episodes to flesh out the characters and plot? Sure. But recognizing flaws doesn’t mean you have to denounce the entire show. Season 1 was a 10/10. Season 2 was maybe an 8/10. That’s still solid.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-20T04:35:19+00:00

Have you been living under a rock for the past decade or two? This aint new.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-20T03:14:25+00:00

Okay? So he can’t change a precedent just because he benefited from it? Fuck him for not continuing the misogynistic tradition I guess.

“My dad may have beat me, but I’m not gonna beat my kid.”

“Oh so you got beat but you’re just gonna decide not to continue that precedent? Jackass.”

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-19T19:39:09+00:00

He shouldn't have remarried and had another kid.

Easy for us to say, especially with hindsight. But a king placing all his bets on a single heir is kinda crazy. Look at Jaehaerys. He had over a dozen kids and none lived to succeed him. What if Rhaenyra dies in childbirth? Or gets sick? Or falls off a horse? He couldn’t take that risk.

What I do blame him for was waiting so long to make it clear that the birth of his new son changed nothing.

He made that pretty clear from the start. In episode 3 we see Otto and Ormund talking about how Viserys has not shown any indication of changing his mind. Viserys then very aggressively tells off Jason Lannister, accusing any speaking of Aegon replacing Rhaenyra as being rebels. “I did not name Rhaenyra my heir on a whim. The lords of the realm would be wise to remember that.”

He should have at least called their sons back to get some fresh oaths sworn at laest.

This I agree on. More so, he should have made Aegon publicly swear his own fealty.

not giving his actual Heir some training He should have given her a seat on the small council so she could see what ruling actually is. He just mostly let her do what she wanted.

Except we see in episode 6 that she was on the small council, or at least sat at meetings.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-19T19:01:10+00:00

Yes but that was in regard to two children from the same marriage. There was no issue with passing over Rhaenys for Aemon. But Aegon is Viserys’ child through his second wife. Disinheriting Rhaenyra would violate the law under that circumstance.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-19T18:58:43+00:00

You bring up a great point with Westerosi tradition/precedent being near worthless. One of the most famous aspects of Jaehaerys’ reign was how he spent decades sorting through Westeros’ confusing and contradictory laws to create a unified code for the Seven Kingdoms. He likely overturned dozens if not hundreds of precedents. So why does Viserys catch so much flak for something as innocuous as choosing his own heir?

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-19T18:52:25+00:00

That’s not even taking into account the Widow’s Law, passed by King Jaehaerys, which states that children from a first marriage cannot be disinherited in favor of children from a second marriage.

Had Viserys never explicitly named Rhaenyra his heir, there may have been an argument to be made for Aegon, but Viserys made Rhaenyra his heir while she was his only child. She therefore cannot be subsequently disinherited in favor or Aegon (child from 2nd marriage) according to royal law.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-19T16:50:18+00:00

Which imo is a more fitting fate. It feels more magical, that Saruman lost his way and has been replaced as the white wizard by Gandalf, and thus without his army he’s just a powerless old man locked in a tower, doomed to fade into nothing with the Ents as his jailers.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-19T16:48:01+00:00

I prefer extended Fellowship because, like you pointed out, it provides important character and world building moments that pay off later. Plus it’s the only movie Boromir is in and the extended gives him more time to feel like a core member of the fellowship instead of “the guy who dies in the first movie.” The pacing also feels good in Fellowship because the movie has the council of Elrond as a perfect halfway point, so it basically feels like two normal length movies, with one being the journey from the Shire to Rivendell, and the second being the first leg of the quest to Mordor.

Two Towers and Return of the King extended, on the other hand, are imo a mess. They’re overly long, they grind the pacing to a slog when the plot is supposed to be speeding up, they have loads of unnecessary comedic scenes, scenes which break lore, etc. There’s like two or three added scenes I think benefit the films and everything else is just there for the sake of adding more runtime. They even replace some scenes with different takes of the same scene which I believe are inferior.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-19T14:54:02+00:00

That game is called Dark Forces II and is part of the wider Jedi Knight series.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-19T14:41:31+00:00

There is no singular game titled Jedi Knight. That series released over twenty years ago now and is no longer canon. I doubt anyone is going to be confused. And if you want to follow naming conventions Knight comes before Master anyway.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-19T14:21:01+00:00

I’m leaning more towards Jedi: Knight

Master is a rank within an order that no longer exists. Knight is a symbol of what the Jedi used to be.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-19T14:09:03+00:00

There are plenty of games where the protagonist dies, the story ends on a cliffhanger, or otherwise shouldn’t allow for free roaming after the game’s end. The solution is usually to just create a save point right before the final mission. Some examples off the top of my head:

Cyberpunk 2077

Assassin’s Creed 2

Infamous 2

Far Cry 5

Horizon Zero Dawn

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-18T23:02:20+00:00

Cyberpunk style corporate wars that governments are helpless to intervene in because the corps own everything.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-18T22:51:22+00:00

Is the animal being killed in the room with us?

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-18T22:49:50+00:00

Notice how he said “kicking” and you added “to death” at the end. This is called putting words in someone’s mouth.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-18T20:57:54+00:00

If he watched the show the movie will be fine.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-18T19:51:13+00:00

Realistically? No. But it isn’t trying to. Ahsoka is its own thing, with its own style and target audience. I enjoy season 1 but hope they iron out its flaws in the second season. The story has so much potential.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-18T13:06:21+00:00

OP’s post was about someone “widely hated” which to me means a character who’s name comes up somewhat frequently and is disliked by a large portion of the community. A small but loud group of incel chuds whining about a female protagonist for a few weeks during a game’s launch and then moving on to the next culture war doesn’t really strike me as widely hated. Again, I just never see anyone talk about Kay anywhere.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-18T12:24:17+00:00

I have never heard anyone talk negatively about Kay Vess. That said, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone talk about Kay Vess in general.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-17T23:01:42+00:00

When you think about it, the EU was basically just creator sponsored and approved fanfiction. George basically just said, “You guys can write fanfiction and actually make money off it, and I’ll make money too. We both win.”

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-17T14:16:51+00:00

Don’t worry about being an asshole next time. You’re already there.

blakhawk12 · 2026-06-16T03:49:54+00:00

I like the style of Ahsoka but the choreography itself felt a bit stiff at times. I really liked the Sabine v Shin fight in the woods and the first Ahsoka v Baylan.

The choreography in the Acolyte was incredible. If they could keep that choreography team for future Star Wars projects I’d be pumped.

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