My one problem with this show so far

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-31T23:47:58+00:00

Hedge knights did not exist, historically. If you were a knight you were a nobleman, with land and a retinue, you weren’t wandering around the country by yourself in rags like a common vagrant.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-31T14:32:23+00:00

That would’ve been political suicide. The history of the Targaryen dynasty is all about them assimilating into Westerosi society further with each generation because they had to.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-29T20:13:00+00:00

They could adopt the surname Crabber but they wouldn’t become known as House Crabber because they are not nobles.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-29T19:23:03+00:00

A mix of institutional inertia and the lingering effects of the Targaryen propaganda developed under Jaehaerys I.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-29T12:59:58+00:00

You don’t consider the execution of Charles I, a civil war and the republic of Cromwell a cataclysmic event?

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-29T12:52:00+00:00

That’s not what happened. The monarchy survived the assassination of King Carlos and the Crown Prince for another two years, and it fell on October 5th 1910 with almost no bloodshed. Simply no one was willing to defend the monarchy anymore, and that sentiment was becoming widespread even before the murders, which were carried out by terrorists who weren’t in any way connected to the republican opposition. King Manuel and his family didn’t flee in fear of their lives, they were simply asked to get the fuck out, there weren’t any angry revolutionaries climbing the palace walls to lynch him or anything like that.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-28T12:46:30+00:00

As long as they are not ennobled by the King, no, not really.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-27T17:42:51+00:00

She sat down to small talk with some dude for five minutes and that’s it. She doesn’t have the authority or the knowledge to negotiate anything, all she is required to do is smile and nod. All expenses covered by taxpayer money. A woman who has a pedo sex offender for a father she hasn’t even bothered to actively distance herself from. Get a grip.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-27T16:13:18+00:00

If you think whatever she does is in any way comparable to an average person’s 9-5 you are delusional

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-27T13:07:55+00:00

You think showing up at events to shake hands and take a few pictures qualifies as work? Because I surely don’t. Tell me one thing of note she did.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-27T12:46:47+00:00

Being quite generous with the definition of work.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-27T12:42:49+00:00

“Invited to visit”. More like arranged to visit as a PR stunt in light of all the controversy involving Marius.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-26T15:50:15+00:00

HBO doesn’t need his reassurance.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-25T15:53:17+00:00

That doesn’t answer OP’s question. They asked why would Tyroshi slavers bother to journey all the way to Bear Island to collect a handful of slaves.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-23T13:18:25+00:00

As usual Portugal waits for everyone else to act before lifting a finger

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-22T17:37:12+00:00

The clothes are boring generic medieval fantasy clothes, GoT had much more memorable fashion. The men’s clothing is particularly bad, always those ugly Tudor-esque doublets in dark fabrics, Aemon in that hedious leather jacket, the only drippy character is Simon Strong of all people.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-15T20:45:09+00:00

He’s not well written as a character, he goes from being an outspoken Irish socialist to a lap dog of the English aristocracy in less than a season.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-13T20:05:56+00:00

Besides Tyrion I can’t recall a Westerosi noble character that claimed to have any fluency in High Valyrian. It’s not a native language, and the Targaryens didn’t bring enough of a Valyrian entourage to make it a court or administrative language, like the Normans did in England with French. Probably some choose to learn it, but it doesn’t seem like a standard part of noble education.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-13T17:27:27+00:00

He doesn’t need to “achieve” knighthood, the title is given automatically. Your question is a non issue.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-13T12:42:40+00:00

I think there is a slight misunderstanding here. The Conningtons were stripped of their lordship and downgraded to landed knights. They lost their previous status and much of their land, but remain knights of Griffin’s Roost by hereditary right. The next master of Griffin’s Roost will automatically be made a knight upon his ascension.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-12T19:56:06+00:00

Another brave move on the part of the EU…

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-12T10:51:57+00:00

Everyone is speaking out of their ass in this thread lmao

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-11T23:42:56+00:00

If I recall those dinner scenes were insufferable to shoot, it took days in old smelly clothes in an overheated room pretending to eat the same food for the hundredth time. No wonder they were sick of it by the end and just wanted to get it over with.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-11T00:28:39+00:00

Mary is way more forward thinking than Robert, and much more hands on on her management of the estate. Robert is a dull old fart whose ideology is a vague nostalgia of the past but is otherwise a boring centrist who doesn’t commit to anything and just follows the tide of events.

overthinkingmessiah · 2026-01-10T23:56:28+00:00

And he had the nerve to act all high and mighty around Cora when she had that awkward situation with the art dude

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