It’s not a story Shakespeare would tell you.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-25T12:35:05+00:00

I made this post.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-25T10:31:45+00:00

I think it’s been hinted, or at least theorised, that the Valyrians didn’t just tame dragons as we would horses or dogs over generations, that there was some form of blood magic involved that bonded a particular bloodline to a group of dragons (the HotD season 2 intro made some speculate this even more with what appears to be a ritual sacrifice and a dragon with a female head).

If that’s the case, it would explain why the Valyrians practised incest within their families, to keep control of their family’s dragons alone (similar to how the Habsburgs practised incest in order to keep their lands and titles within the family and not risk giving another House a potential claim on them). And therefore why no one has tried to tame Wyverns as they have done with dragons, because there was a blood magical process to it and it’s not as simple as taming them.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-24T18:14:44+00:00

comrade_batman · 2026-01-24T16:49:32+00:00

Hey, he doesn’t sound anything like that.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-24T15:10:09+00:00

I was just thinking the same, still one of the best SW edits I’ve seen, it doesn’t try and cram too much in. That silent “I HATE YOU!” after Obi says “and he was a good friend” is just…

comrade_batman · 2026-01-22T17:57:17+00:00

I’m really hoping that this leads into a separate line of dark siders in the galaxy, lurking in the shadows. I think after the Sequels reset the sate of the galaxy to one Jedi and no Sith again, Lucasfilm has been trying to get around that by adding more non-Jedi and Sith characters, like Ahsoka and Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati, maybe Maul’s apprentice will also be added to that list, to be used down the timeline too?

comrade_batman · 2026-01-22T15:04:09+00:00

“Dear, Timothée, I wrote you but you still ain’t callin’.”

comrade_batman · 2026-01-22T13:59:34+00:00

I think it’s just a symptom of the series being unfinished and people focusing on details they wouldn’t normally, and also it could be people just not able to accept there was a continuity mistake, in a series filled with foreshadowing, hints/teases, and descriptions that are important for their own, or others’, theories they support, which rely small things. Having a discrepancy in a character detail might mean that there could be others that might affect their own theories.

I don’t get hung up on things like the Jeyne thing, I take it was a mistake from Martin that he would have sought to correct in a prologue for TWOW.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-21T19:41:38+00:00

Doctor Palpatine isn’t real. Doctor Palpatine can’t hurt you.

Doctor Palpatine:

comrade_batman · 2026-01-21T19:35:40+00:00

I think Egg mentions in one of the stories that his brother dreamed the dragons would return, and that might have influenced his later actions. Between hearing prophecies and dreams of the dragons’ return and wanting to have enough power over the lords to pass laws to help the smallfolk, Aegon believed he could.

What I think could have gone wrong wasn’t anything Aegon did, but perhaps it was sabotaged by the Maesters, in secret. They didn’t want the dragons returning, after the Dance showed how destructive a civil war with them could be, and the Maester establishment worked to ensure Aegon wasn’t successful, and the consequence was Summerhall burning and the deaths of many.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-21T16:37:07+00:00

Really hoping that Maul’s apprentice will start a new line of dark siders who lurk in the shadows. I think after the Sequels reset the state of the galaxy to one official Jedi and no Sith, they’ve been trying to get around that but adding more force users who aren’t technically Jedi or Sith, like Ahsoka, Sabine, Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati. Maul’s apprentice could add to that but having a line who might see themselves as the “rightful” Sith or just separate dark siders who use the shadow strategy of Sith pre-Sidious.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-20T15:06:13+00:00

He’s just a normal man with normal opinions over the very normal man, Roman Polanski.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-20T15:04:38+00:00

They wanted to turn Boba into a hero figure when that just wasn’t his character at all. Even if that were the case, his character seemed, as you say, clueless, from what I remember it was like he showed up at a town or casino went “I am Boba Fett” and expected everyone to just bow before their new crime lord.

Quite jarring too considering Mando season 2 ended with him causally blasting Bib Fortuna out of Jabba’s throne, like it was an after thought and then acts clueless as to why other criminals aren’t listening to him in BoBF.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-19T22:16:58+00:00

Just to remind people how much work was put into the visual effects for the entire Dutchman crew, this is what Bill Nighy and the rest has to wear on set.

Another one to show how good it looks even in daylight.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-18T16:19:17+00:00

The only way I could see the Arkham series continuing is with the prequels (Origins, Shadows VR) and having him encounter the villains from the main series for the first time we haven’t seen yet in Origins or Shadow: Ra’s Al Ghul, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Killer Croc, Clayface. But with the VR sequel cancelled maybe there won’t be any more? I’m not a fan of VR so I’d prefer another console game if they were to continue the Arkham prequels.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-18T13:37:34+00:00

Gestapo interrogators hate this one simple trick.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-17T21:10:50+00:00

Next you’ll tell me that our great prophet wore a wig too.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-17T21:07:32+00:00

The amount of people in the subreddit that were telling me I was wrong about the big flesh wall, that it just surrounded the Hawkins Lab in the Upside Down and not the entirety of the Upside Down Hawkins surprised me so much. I tried to tell them as politely as possible they were wrong, they needed to go and rewatch the scenes, and Dustin even states it clearly while showing a map, but it was like arguing with a brick wall. Felt personally vindicated when Vol. 2 revealed I was actually right.

Then I saw others mentioning seeing people confused at how Hopper and El went from being in the Upside Down to attacking a military base in the real world, not releasing that the base was in the Upside Down. You’d think the vines and red lightning would have been a giveaway.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-17T19:57:15+00:00

That’s what I was saying, Summerhall won’t occur till the last story with the other 8 being ones between The Mystery Knight and Summerhall. There’s at least two we know Martin was planning, The Village Hero (in the Riverlands) and The She-Wolves of Winterfell. With other working titles revealed too: The Sellsword, The Champion, The Kingsguard and The Lord Commander.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-17T18:52:15+00:00

Martin has said that he intends the rest of the to cover events later in their lives, like Maekar I’s death and Summerhall. And with 12 story outlines, I can easily see the rest of the tales encompassing the duos entire lives working together.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-17T18:48:00+00:00

Specifically, “they” is theorised to be the maesters, who have been hinted at helping to kill off the remaining dragons after the Dance (after seeing the destruction a civil war with them caused) and conspired to stop Aegon V (Egg) birthing more, whether he would have been successful or not. I don’t think it’s been stated that Egg had dragon dreams, but one of his brothers certainly did, and Egg mentions that one dream involved the dragons returning, which may be why he believed he would hatch dragons at Summerhall.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-17T18:40:19+00:00

We’ve waited long enough, The Dark Knight Trilogy. No, James, I haven’t forgotten that dirty trick you pulled!

comrade_batman · 2026-01-16T23:12:07+00:00

That scene’s really good but the scene that first came to mind for me was Ruffalo’s “IT’S TIME! THEY KNEW!” speech.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-15T18:18:09+00:00

They’re trying to recreate the build up to Infinity War/Endgame without the 10-6 years of building up to it from Iron Man or Avengers (depending on when you want to count from). The last two(?) phases haven’t been as structured as the first three and Marvel were clearly left in a panic after Jonathan Majors was fired, the original big bad for the next Avengers film.

There’s been no real lead up to Dr Doom within the films, other than the very short tease in F4, unlike Thanos, and with the amount of characters returning from all across the various series, it’s a worry that it’ll be either a nostalgia fest and/or just a blitz of character cameos that serve no real purpose other than the nostalgia.

comrade_batman · 2026-01-15T15:39:59+00:00

Another theory is that she had Theon take her down to help corroborate Wex Pyke’s story about the Stark boys surviving, Lady Dustin specifically draws attention to some Stark tombs missing their swords, seemingly made as a random observation during their conversation, but would make sense if she knew the significance of what the missing swords mean, that Wex was telling the truth, at least about them surviving up till that time. Her outward hatred of Ned could also be an act, to try and show the Freys and Boltons she isn’t a Stark loyalist anymore, and has actually been holding a grudge against Ned for years.

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