I Genuinely Think That House Of The Dragon Initially Wanted To Be Neutral

“I genuinely think that House of the Dragon initially wanted to be neutral”

I don’t think so at all, they’ve been whitewashing Team Black the minute they cast 19 year old Milly Alcock so no one clocks just how disgusting Daemyra is. Do you think the ship would be as popular if we watched 41 year old Matt Smith groom an 8 year old?

Moreover they made Aegon II the love child of Joffrey Baratheon and Ramsay Snow, thus destroying any chance for neutrality. The Dance is now between a rapist who runs child fighting rings vs. a woman whose flaws were deliberately ignored in the show.

Wow… I wonder who HotD wants me to support from a moral standpoint 🤔

Any chance for nuance is coming solely from a fan perspective, the writers have the subtlety of a reversing dump truck. There’s nothing neutral in their Team Black = heroes and Team Green = villains writing.

In the beginning stages of the show, yeah I believe they wanted to be neutral. When they were writing the show, they made the choice to give positive characteristics like Alicent who in the book is your stereotypical evil stepmother. I think it's small things like that which show they wanted to do but this isn't Game of Thrones where the books are fully written with fully established dialogue, setting, characters, etc. Fire and Blood has conflicting reports on characters and most events are briefly described in a paragraph. GOT was easier to adapt cause they basically got a finished script in the existing books, Fire and Blood not so much. I imagine they wanted to be as compelling as GOT but with too many "blanks" in the original text, they realized they would have to write out said morally grey characters, which isn't always easy. So I think they gave up and went with the easy route of heroes vs villains. Hope this makes sense :)

@witchy-v1xen He was decorating the castle when the interviewers caught him off guard 🤷‍♀️

If Westeros had a news station Pt 3

The vibe I’m trying to create for these two in my fic

Garmund Hightower: Lady Rhaena I brought you flowers from the garden

Rhaena: Wait, why are your arms red?

Garmund: There was some poison ivy next to them but it’s doesn’t matter since I got your favorite color, pink.

Rhaena (internally): I swear to the Old Gods and the New when this war ends I will drag down a septon from Oldtown and marry this man

Jacaerys Velaryon walked into Winterfell and possibly seduced two members of House Stark. He really said I’m not leaving till I get my momma an army

It’s not that I can’t write smut. I would probably post my smut but just under a completely different name/account. Then I would pray no one recognizes my writing style

So I think we can all to some extent believe that the dragons understand their riders both because of their bond and the Targaryens speaking High Valyrian. That being said, do you guys think the dragons understand when the Targaryens refer to themselves as dragons? If so do you guys think they get offended??? Cause they have to drive around these white-haired weirdos everywhere + be their flying nukes for every conflict and they have the nerve to call themselves dragons.

Live reaction of the dragons hearing that: