House of the Dragon Season 2 - A Catastrophic Fumble
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- This video is meant to be a critique of the TV series 'House of the Dragon.' I own none of the scenes or images shown in the video, and they remain in the property of HBO, with me having used them to advance my commentary.
They are so disgustingly averse to showing Rhaenyra as capable of wrongdoing, that they have went so far as to portray the *straight up evil people* in her court as good people by extension of just being around her. Fucking *Hugh Hammer* is now some kind of humble righteous family man who would risk his life for complete strangers and just wants a better life for his family... *LMFAO.* That's like saying; "Ramsay Bolton is a loving son and loyal Stark bannerman who always treats prisoners with dignity and respect who hates violence."
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They even try to completely remove Mysaria's pure evil and depraved nature, and they have the audacity to try and portray her as *A VICTIM* of Daemon, when *SHE WAS THE MASTERMIND OF THE ASSASSINATION IN THE BOOK.* They disgustingly tried to portray Blood and Cheese's actions as "an honest mistake in trusting bad people" when in reality the orders given to Blood and Cheese and the manner in which they conducted themselves leaves *absolutely no room* for doubt that they were given strict orders to murder Jaehaerys in a specific manner to maximise and cause as much suffering as humanly possible to Halaena and Alicent.
They didn't stumble upon Halaena and the kids, in an OOPSIE, they weren't sent to kill Aemond and failed to find him, *they killed Alicents bedmaid in her bedroom, tied Alicent up and gagged her, and waited for Halaena to bring her kids to visit grandma like they always did.* It was *deliberate.* It was *insanely pre-meditated.*
Their goal from the start was the brutal murder and decapitation of a toddler. And unlike the show, Rhaenyra's role in this heinous murder is *intentionally left vague.*
This is the same woman who fed people to her dragon who called her kids bastards to her face, for everyone at court to see. But would she truly order the death of an innocent toddler?
Like all good and balanced history, it only can give us "testimony" from two opposing sides and come to our own conclusion. The circumstances of Jaehaerys's murder that night *are not up for interpretation.* No one denies *what* Blood and Cheese did, nor *how* they did it. Not Eustace. Not Glyndyn. *Not even Mushroom.*
Watching this show after reading Fire and Blood genuinely feels as jarring and mind-numbing as watching German WW2 Propoganda. It's insane.
holy shit, I didn't even know all of that! that just makes the showrunner's decisions even worse knowing they didn't come from the book
I'm also convinced that they removed choosing between two sons and Heleana going mad with grief to make the Blacks look less evil. Show Heleana barely gives a fuck that her son was murdered in his bed, but Book Heleana's mind is completely broken by the grief/trauma of it.
@@nerongerikyeah, B&C 100% went for Jaehaerys because they went to the Hand's Tower where only Otto and Alicent lived, instead going to the part of the castle where the royals like Aemond lived. Why ? Because it was a common knowledge that Helaena was taking her children to Alicent to say goodnight before going to sleep. B&C were waiting for HER and her KIDS specifically, they didn't want Aemond and never went searching for him.
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I feel as Aegon is a deeply tragic characher. I truly sympathise with him. Betrayed by everyone, disrespected, his child brutally murdered, his wife ignores and watches over him, his brother nearly killes him. I am convinced that he would make a good king with the help of Otto and loyal council (as it was shown in the book).
Not even discussing his obvious right to be the king: king's legal son, his wife is king's daughter, they have THREE legal children, two of them being healthy sons.
Black people with blond hair exist in Oceania and apparently their blond is genetically different from the European blond, it evolved independently and has its own genetic properties. Valyrian silver is pretty much unique in that regard so it could be entirely possible for a black person to inherit that same Valyrian silver because it's genetically different from our world's concept of blond.
Anyway, the point is that the Velaryons are not supposed to be a black house tout-court. Only a precise line of Velaryons during this period of time is. King Jaehaerys I, in episode 1, was portrayed as a white man. Not even mixed, but white. His mother was a Velaryon, and not just that, she was the sister of Corlys's grandfather, Daemon Velaryon. This means that Corlys's grandfather was white too, and the generations before theirs were white too. That's also why Aegon the Conqueror is probably going to be white, even though his mother is a Velaryon.
It's likely that the Velaryons (precisely Daemon Velaryon's line, not necessarily all Velaryons) became black when Corlys's grandfather Daemon and later Corlys's father Corwyn both married black women from the Summer Islands. And we're talking about a family of sailors, so marrying foreign women from some exotic island doesn't sound so far-fetched.
In the book we don't have any information about Corlys's mother, or paternal grandmother. If they were ladies from relevant Westerosi houses they would've been mentioned, just like Alarra Massey was mentioned. In this couple of generations Daemon and his son Corwyn Velaryon had unnamed wives and by taking advantage of this "gap" they made Corlys and Vaemond black.
During Season 1 we saw multiple black silver-haired extras on Driftmark: they could be the other cousins that descended from Daemon Velaryon. In Season 2 we were introduced to Addam and Alyn of Hull. Corlys had an affair with Marilda of Hull. Since Addam and Alyn are showed as being black, rather than mixed like Corlys's legitimate children, it's likely that Marilda of Hull herself is black. And that makes me thing that maybe, in the town of Hull, there's supposed to be a significant community of immigrants from the Summer Islands, and their descendants. The fact that, unlike his brother Alyn, Addam has got black hair, it's also a sign that the genetic dominance of Valyrian silver is starting to waver in this particular generation. That's because Addam and Alyn descend from three generations of black women, whose genetic heritage (in terms of hair color) is starting to take hold, at least with Addam.
It's possible to assume, since there's a "gap" here as well, that Vaemond married a white woman just like his brother Corlys. We know that his son Daeron, who would be mixed, married a Westerosi white woman, lady Harte, which would make their daughter Daenaera look even lighter than mixed. And then we know that Daenaera will marry Rhaenyra and Daemon's son Aegon III, which is white, making their sons, future king Daeron I and Baelor I, almost completely white. In fact, Daeron and Baelor's last truly black ancestor, Vaemond's mother, would be their great-great-grandmother. In numbers, that's around 91% white and 9% black.
GRRM doesn't even like the way it's adapted
I always used to think of Martin as kind of a snob, but I find myself agreeing with him more and more as I grow older lol
book Alicent is completely different - the best adaptation of her on the screen was in episodes 6-7. She was smart, cunny, fierce mother who was advocating for her sons. She was plotting to put Aegon on the throne and was afraid of Daemon and Rhaenyra killing them.
in the entire show we get maybe 3 scenes of that Alicent, with the only major example being the time she showed up late for Rhaenyra's wedding in a green dress.
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perhaps other "epic fantasy" stories such as the LOTR series cannot be subjected to such critique, but GRRM has dug himself a hole with his insistence that A Song of Ice and Fire is based on historical precedent and constantly attacking other stories for being "historically incoherent." I am not sure I will continue this form of content creation since it takes a lot of energy and time, but even if you later choose to unsubscribe I am still grateful for your comment and support :)
14:17 ???? As if there aren’t old black men with white & grey hairs in real life???? I’ve even seen a man like show version of Coryls with long grey & white haired locs he’s been growing & managing since his early 20’s. I wonder do those REAL people look cheap to you?
Laenor was like 25 in the show, hardly an old man, and until you provide a factual example this "REAL" people are nothing more than hearsay, so while they perhaps do or do not exist, your personal recounting of their appearance certainly is quite cheap.
@@nerongerik it’s a fantasy show… based on a fantasy book series…. Literally in the same series there’s a man with a blue beard and hair. You’re nitpicking over something that’s ultimately arbitrary. Also, google is free. Look up black men with white hair whether it’s dyed or naturally white or gray from old age. Those people are very REAL and as accurate in the show as theirs white counterparts in terms of primary features for Valerians & Targaryens. If it looks cheap to you then it has to look cheap an all characters cause all of them are wearing hairstyles that aren’t their natural born colors or features. FOR THE CHARACTERS.
as Tom Clancy once said, fiction is often more realistic than reality since it needs to at least try and make sense. there are certain rules of worlbuilding and storytelling. just as it would be mind-boggling if aliens showed up in season 3 to kill Daemon with rayguns, so it doesn't make sense that there is 0 black people in GoT, yet the great-great-grandparents of those characters there were apparently black not even 200 years prior in HotD
@@nerongerika show abt dragons and magic but black people with white hair is too unbelievable.
Dude, i just started but you are saying EVERYTHING I WAS THINKING.
the mere fact that i went out of my way to defend even the woketersectional parta of this show because it was ao good only to now bite me in the ass for it... It is the HEIGHT of insulting
it's a good lesson for the future - never look past their bullsh*t
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