Tom Glynn-Carney And Phia Saban On The Set Of House Of The Dragon Season 1.

Tom Glynn-Carney and Phia Saban on the set of House of the Dragon season 1.

I don’t write my characters, my characters write themselves and I just pick up the broken pieces left by their ill advised hijinks and repressed traumas and try to cobble them together into a coherent narrative

Random writing thought: the best stories are often the ones that only you could have written — but also the ones that you could only write at this one moment.

I couldn't write All the Birds in the Sky from scratch now if I tried. But the me of 2013 couldn't have written The Prodigal Mother either.

Dumbledore and Voldemort: This magic is so unknown... so arcane... no one except a select few in wizarding society will have ever heard of it. This intense obscurity makes it nigh impossible to defeat...

The Black Family:

Alicent Hightower the only one who gave the perfect solution to end the conflict by marrying Rhaenyra and Aegon. (Ten years apart, Rhaenyra could have kids in her twenties)

Alicent Hightower was the woman who left her husband to rot.

Alicent Hightower was the one who had supporters. The Queen's party, she was the boss of the Greens. And never the slave and victim they made her in hotd.

Alicent Hightower had no single reason to accept Rhaenyra as queen and all the reasons to crown Aegon.

Alicent Hightower started the war for her family.

Alicent Hightower told Jaehaera to kill Aegon. Very well knowing that that would end the Targaryen Dynasty as he was the last male heir as Viserys was presumed dead.

The TV audience was not ready for The Queen Alicent Hightower. She would have ruled the show.

Idk how more they will destroy her character in coming seasons.

By far, I think the "prophecy" is the greatest bullshit that has been adapted in HBO's House of the Dragon. It really makes no sense whatsoever.

Especially in the way it was used in ep.9. Basically the only reason for Alicent to start defending her children, as if she already didn't have enough reasons to believe that they would be at risk as long as she'd let Rhaenyra do what she pleased for much longer.

Rhaenyra watched Alicent's son in the only eye he had left since her child sliced it out, she watched as he was stitched up, she watched how Alicent forgot the very concept of decorum out of the rage and desperation that gripped her. Yet she demanded that Aemond be tortured for speaking the truth.

"And now you take my son's eye, and to even that, you feel entitled."

This is Alicent tipping over the edge. If it were me, Rhaenyra would've been lucky to walk out of that room alive.

She's not talking crap here. Rhaenyra really does not give a shit. She presses on, she accuses her of hiding beneath a mask that has now "fallen." How can anyone look at this scene, hear this line, and have the point of Alicent's words completely fly over their head? How can anyone think this woman was going for Rhaenyra out of jealousy?

Did she really need a misunderstood prophecy to put Aegon on the throne? Many like to see this from his point of view, which is being forced onto a position he does not want. Which is right in that case. But Alicent should've done it to keep her family alive and not for a dying man's last words. After Driftmark, she really shouldn't have needed any more reasons.

Aegon’s arc if the writers were competent