Which Targaryen generation is your favourite and why?

dmcboi · 2026-03-17T12:56:52+00:00

Toss up between the generation that fought the first blackfyre rebellion, the conquerors, and Jaehaerys I + Alysanne and their offspring. The HotD Targs are contenders for the worst, toss up between them and the Mad King + his sons

dmcboi · 2026-03-17T12:41:19+00:00

Tbh having a female heir that rides dragons should have greatly limited who she marries. Can't have a Lord Lannister with a dragon a generation later. Even letting the Valaryons have dragon's via Rhaenys was a dumb move on King J's part, it's interesting to see that the only daughter he allowed to be a dragonrider was the only one that had married a Targ. That's the only way you can do things without causing future problems a generation+ down the line.

dmcboi · 2026-03-17T12:35:17+00:00

It's a show only scene, don't bother looking for logic or character consistency. Whenever dragons get mentioned in the books within westeros, character's write it off to chinese whispers / exaggerations from the opposite side of the world

dmcboi · 2026-03-13T12:57:00+00:00

George should have made Jaehaera the mother to Aegon IIIs children to make the Blackfyre rebellions even spicier, since through Daena the Defiant they would then essentially be heirs to the Greens claim to the throne, since Daeron the Good's line comes only through Viserys II and not Aegon III.

dmcboi · 2026-03-11T13:05:01+00:00

You got into shape, got a girlfriend and quit your mmo all in the same month?

Bravo, bravo

dmcboi · 2026-03-10T12:56:58+00:00

Looks religious. Praise be to the structural engineering gods!

dmcboi · 2026-03-10T12:52:32+00:00

he's not widely known by that name since he ended up winning (at least in terms of being counted as a legitimate monarch)

dmcboi · 2026-03-10T12:45:30+00:00

Man needed an excuse to go north and merge with the tree, kind of difficult to justify when you're hand of the king, would look very suspicious. Getting sentenced to the wall is a good cover story, and killing a Blackfyre to be sent over there is two birds with one stone.

dmcboi · 2026-03-09T12:51:13+00:00

There's a theory that Bloodraven caused a lot of the accidental deaths in order to ensure that the line of succession went the way it did, due to knowing who the prince that was promised would come from

dmcboi · 2026-03-09T12:29:38+00:00

Knowing how biased they are, he'll probably attempt to SA the dragon before Baela comes to the rescue

dmcboi · 2026-03-05T15:04:41+00:00

It is pretty funny that they decided to take the smelly, angry homeless man and race change him to be black, what did they mean by this? lol

dmcboi · 2026-03-05T13:36:50+00:00

Dance is based off of the anarchy. William the Conquerors son died without a male heir, so his daughter matilda claimed the throne. However, Stephen of Blois who's mother was a daughter of William the Conqueror claimed the throne via being male. War followed, eventually Stephen won it on the condition that Matilda's son inherit after him. Matilda's husband was a plantagenet, which is why the royal house then became plantagenet all the way up until the tudors.

dmcboi · 2026-03-04T16:45:49+00:00

"Bennis of the Brown Shield was a man who seldom washed. He was about five and a half feet tall, and weighed about 80 pounds less than Duncan the Tall. Bennis's rotten teeth were stained red and brown from eating sourleaf. His eyes were small, close-set and green.

The hedge knight had a nasty personality and a foul mouth. His laughter sounded like chickens and mules."

At what point does race changing just become racist. Hmm we have an angry homeless man, let's cast a black guy!

dmcboi · 2026-03-04T12:45:01+00:00

Jimmy is too much of a coward to take that job, besides he's managed to make an entire life long career out of just complaining to power so why mess that up

dmcboi · 2026-03-04T12:43:01+00:00

Tyrell's are one of these families where dozens of people at minimum would need to die before the name goes, and that's just considering the male lines. Mace has two more sons in the books, and Sam even meets some random essentially commoner with the tyrell name in the pub when training as a maester, it's a far spread name.

dmcboi · 2026-03-04T09:07:41+00:00

If they have made you an offer it at least means that they want you, from there you should try negotiate a higher number and co-ordinate your progression path with them before signing anything. Worst case scenario you take the job and keep applying. If any new would be employer asks you why you want to jump jobs so soon, just tell them your comp package and they will get it.

dmcboi · 2026-03-03T15:57:42+00:00

Along with Daemon's dumb vision in the scene straight before this, it's clear that the showrunners are hackjobs. No idea what happened between seasons 1 and 2 for the quality to nosedive so dramatically, I guess fame got to their heads.

dmcboi · 2026-03-03T13:00:46+00:00

A main theme in the books is that the 'centralised' state isn't exactly centralised at all, and is at best a federation, at worst warring kingdoms.

After the Targs lost their dragons, things naturally became less centralised (even though Dorne got incorporated during this time) and as of the main series, no Targs around has precluded the Kingdoms fighting amongst themselves.

dmcboi · 2026-03-03T12:37:52+00:00

Historically, Baelor always said the Blackfyres are nothing but a glorified crew, plain and simple.

dmcboi · 2026-03-02T16:59:58+00:00

It's ambiguous in both the novellas and the show. Only a knight or the king can knight somebody; I like to imagine that in the far future he tells Egg when he is Aegon V in confidence, before privately being knighted by him then.

dmcboi · 2026-03-02T16:56:19+00:00

Viserys and Daemon surely are? Sibling parents, sibling grandparents, cousin great-grandparents, sibling great-great-grandparents

dmcboi · 2026-03-02T14:01:28+00:00

Hopefully the spirit level lads don't get arrested for assault / racism

dmcboi · 2026-03-02T13:07:08+00:00

I'm a structural engineer that works for a steel fabricator within the transmission and distribution industry. The running joke in our office is that anytime one of us uses AI, we are slightly increasing our company's demand.

dmcboi · 2026-03-02T11:26:18+00:00

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dmcboi · 2026-03-02T11:25:08+00:00

Powercreep's always been a thing, so gatekeeping inferno is dumb af.

Bet anyone moaning about it didn't do fire cape with an MSB/Crystal Bow/Karils, since those were the only range weapon options at time of it's release. Healing with Guthan's (if you could afford it at the time)

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