A Lot Of People Wanted Haelena To Emote More During Blood And Cheese. First Of All, Y'all Have Clearly

A lot of people wanted Haelena to emote more during Blood and Cheese. First of all, y'all have clearly never experienced an adrenaline rush so hard you trip past outward panic and right into dissociation. But second of all, Haelena is a very witness to this event.

Haelena in the books is an ordinary young woman. Haelena in the show is a dreamer. She witnesses the tragedies in her family happen before they happen. She has already seen her son's fate and from the moment the scene begins, she knows she is helpless to stop it. It's like being in a recurring nightmare for her. You can see the moment where she stares in horror and fumbles for words before simply pointing. Because she knows she can't save her son so she's going to save her daughter.

When she goes to pick up her daughter and just walks as quickly as she can away, she is brimming with emotion, but she doesn't have the luxury to feel it because she has to get to safety (or else these men could kill her or her daughter next). She goes into shock and she moves.

It was an excellent performance by the actress. Not what we'd typically expect, but still deeply impactful

honestly we don’t talk enough about meera reed. not only are the reeds super interesting and mysterious or whatever but like she’s also the only person i completely have respect for in the whole series. i mean when you look at the posse of people meera currently has with her you got her incredibly weak and malnourished psychic fifth grade brother who is always ominously talking about when he will die, a disabled and also psychic fourth grader who is your liege lord, a very strong but developmentally disabled man who is disabled due to aforementioned psychic fourth grader (though she doesn’t know this yet), and an undead creature who proclaims himself a monster and we know nothing about. she’s the most competent person there, actively trying to take care of them despite the fact she’s currently in an arctic wasteland in winter and she is from a swamp and can’t remember her last winter which happened when she was a baby (because she is max 18 years old) and you know what? she keeps going. she doesn’t know what’s happening, where she’s going, or even truly who she is with, but she just keeps going. mad respect. she’s struggling through the snow despite being pretty small compared to coldhands or hodor but she keeps up? hunts for real food for them instead of just “pork”. is being pursued by the horrors beyond your comprehension. meera baby you deserve the world.

It is so absurd disrespectful tactless and stupid I hate the casting and I hate that I hate it because I was genuinely excited before

Okay but genuinely what are we doing here. Why would you do that. That’s so fucking stupid okay— THE WHOLE THING. THE WHOLE THING WAS THAT WESTEROS IS DEEPLY RACIST. AND THATS WHY THE BLACKFYRE REBELLION HAPPENED. THATS LITERALLY THE WHOLE THING. RACISM. AND THEN— and then!! — YOU GO AHEAD AND TAKE THOSE CHARACTERS. THE ONES WHOSE DORNISH APPEARANCE IS THE WHOLE FUCKING THING. AND YOU DO WHAT? You do. WHATTTTT????

For the purposes of this poll, major recurring characters are recurring characters who interact directly and routinely with the main cast but who are not the subjects of the plotlines being followed in s6.

main character edition

Y'all have seen this, now spin the wheel

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