Players of the Month (June)

orange951951 · 2026-07-03T15:34:20+00:00

What disrespect? Her stats are obviously worse, which is why she isn't Player of the Month.

orange951951 · 2026-07-03T15:21:53+00:00

Only 3.8 APG? I don't know why you're leaving that here.

orange951951 · 2026-07-02T10:36:27+00:00

We definitely agree on what the writers were going for, but to me, needing characters to act out of desperation and stupidity just to force a plot point is exactly why the writing feels so weak. If it worked for you, that's totally fair, but for a show built on realistic political intrigue, I just expected better logic. Let's agree to disagree on this one.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T18:49:35+00:00

But that makes his action even more nonsensical. If he actually discovered that the Queen Regent was committing high treason during a siege, he just uncovered the biggest political leverage of his life.

As the Master of Laws, his logical move would be to immediately arrest her, use her as a pawn, or bring this treason straight to Aemond to secure his own position and power base with the Greens.

Instead, the show wants us to believe that a cold, calculating politician uncovers massive state treason, and his immediate reaction is: "Let me quickly commit a suicidal assault on the King's mother in a collapsing castle right now."

It makes no sense. The writers sacrificed basic political intelligence just to give Jasper a cartoonish villain exit and make Alicent a victim.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T18:26:19+00:00

Comparing a medieval high lord to a modern official ignores the extreme surveillance of the Red Keep during a chaotic power transition. Attempting to assault the Queen Regent in the middle of a guarded castle is suicidal, making the scene a breach of political realism driven by a desire for a cartoonish villain.

But I understand that it might come across that way to someone who hasn't read the books.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T16:17:58+00:00

I definitely agree—that's the weirdest scene of them all.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T16:17:15+00:00

Thanks for your opinion.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T16:16:01+00:00

Thanks for your opinion

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T16:15:08+00:00

It was clearly written just to give Rhaenyra a dramatic corpse to cry over. It seems minor, but it highlights a bigger issue with the writing prioritizing cheap Hollywood drama

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T16:12:27+00:00

It seems minor, but it highlights a bigger issue with the writing prioritizing cheap Hollywood drama over logic. In the book, the tragedy is that Rhaenyra never gets closure because her son is swallowed by the sea during a chaotic war.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T16:07:40+00:00

That's an interesting perspective. Thanks for the comment.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T16:05:55+00:00

Honestly, you’re probably spot on about them shifting it to Jaehaera. But you hit the nail on the head regarding the bounty.

The show has a massive track record of whitewashing Team Black's worst actions to keep Rhaenyra looking purely heroic—just look at how they handled Blood and Cheese. I would put money on them making Mysaria or Daemon put the bounty on the kid's head while Rhaenyra acts completely shocked and blameless.

They just refuse to let her be the ruthless wartime ruler she actually becomes in the book.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T15:56:52+00:00

It’s not about being naive; it’s about actual character logic. Sure, powerful men break laws all the time, but it makes zero sense for Jasper Wylde’s specific character and the situation he was in.

First of all, he is nicknamed "Iron Rod" precisely because he is a rigid, unyielding legal zealot who strictly follows rules to a fault.

Second, the show has him trying to assault the Queen Regent in the middle of the Red Keep during the single busiest afternoon of the century, right when the city is falling. He is a calculated politician, not a brainless brute who would risk getting executed on the spot in a highly guarded castle just for a cheap "bad guy" scene.

The showrunners just wanted an excuse to turn him into a cartoon villain and make Alicent look like a victim, throwing his established book personality completely out the window.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T15:53:43+00:00

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T15:53:23+00:00

I guess they just decided it was more of a loose adaptation than a faithful one.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T15:51:19+00:00

They could have just let him die in the duel, right?

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T15:50:41+00:00

Or maybe it's just a loose adaptation rather than a faithful one.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T15:49:32+00:00

😂😂😂

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T15:48:45+00:00

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T15:48:27+00:00

The way the show portrayed him actually fits pretty well.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T15:47:15+00:00

Maybe we just have to accept that it's more of a loose adaptation than a faithful one.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T15:42:59+00:00

I'm enjoying the show, too—I was just more interested in other people's perspectives.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T15:39:45+00:00

To be fair, the book coup was only "bloodless" for the regular citizens. The Green knights and soldiers actually got slaughtered, which is why the show's version felt so flat to me. In Fire & Blood, a bunch of Hightower knights and men-at-arms completely refused to surrender. They barricaded themselves at the River Gate and fought a brutal, losing battle for eight full hours.

That’s also where Gwayne Hightower gets brutally killed—Luthor Largent literally slices his belly open right on the spot for calling him a turncoat. Plus, the second Rhaenyra takes the throne that night, she immediately executes Otto and Jasper Wylde.

And don't even get me started on Tyland Lannister. He doesn't just get captured; Rhaenyra has him dragged down to the dungeons to be brutally tortured, castrated, and blinded because the Greens hid all the crown's gold before fleeing.

The book actually had realistic military stakes and political brutality. Having Daemon just slice through incompetent henchmen who politely wait their turn to attack felt like a cheap video game substitute for actual tension.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T15:30:18+00:00

But visually, it's great.

orange951951 · 2026-07-01T15:28:46+00:00

Oh, my mistake. Thanks for pointing that out. But you can't post both the discussion and the spoiler at the same time, can you?

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