Previous >>221340177Queen Jaehaera edition
>>221344704After binging all of Knight of the 7 Kingdoms, watching the new House of the Dragon episode is complete and utter whiplash in terms of character quality, writing and fight scenes. Holy fuck the ship melee was bad. Also they really just killed off the Lannister bros?
>>221344767>Also they really just killed off the Lannister brosYes
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Imagine living in this absolute desolate shithole and just having no idea wtf is going on for years and years at a time.
How do they get away with so much bullshit?
>>221344944Seems like a blessing considering the rest of the world is busy killing itself with magic nukes 100% of the time. And they'd be safe from the White Walkers for longer.
>>221344944>Aeron knew some Farwynds, a queer folk who held lands on the westernmost shores of Great Wyk and the scattered isles beyond, rocks so small that most could support but a single household. Of those, the Lonely Light was the most distant, eight days' sail to the northwest amongst rookeries of seals and sea lions and the boundless grey oceans. The Farwynds there were even queerer than the rest. Some said they were skinchangers, unholy creatures who could take on the forms of sea lions, walruses, even spotted whales, the wolves of the wild sea.
BURN THEM LOCAL
I think Gurm realized the Others being a bioweapon is lame as fuck and that's one of the many reasons he's not finishing the books
>>221345249They’re not a bioweapon, they’re the vengeful spirits of the trees possessing the magical body of azor ahai
>>221345413Well yes, that would be a cool possibility, but I think Gurm's original plan was really just them being a bioweapon the children of the forest made to kill the first men and like I said that is so lame in retrospect he doesn't want to commit to it.
>>221345015what do they eat
For me, its silverwing
how are dragons so op? Just build a bunch of balistas and shoot them simple as
>>221345469Sandwiches.
>>221345537this only works on baby dragons
Why must the rightful queen of Westeros be surrounded by incompetent baboons?
>>221345615im confusedis this a man or a woman who thinks she's a man or what because it looks like a normal woman
>>221345535>fixed
>>221344767Tyland didn’t die
>>221345535
>>221345631Do you mean the actress or the character? Rhaenyra is just a regular woman and D'arcy dresses like a man but idk if she is full tranny or not
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>>221345535So Chudstealer is on the bigger side?
Thinking about how cool Thoros of Myr was. Drunken priest chosen by the lord of light to keep Berric alive.
>>221345662>when you stretch your foreskin
>>221345442>but I think Gurm's original plan was really just them being a bioweapon the children of the forest made to kill the first menI don’t think so necessarily, in the original pitch George had invading others and the “neverborn”. this to me implies that vengeful spirits denied reincarnation or something like that were always the plan. I don’t think they actually planned to make a bio weapon, in the show behind the scenes they describe the night kings sacrifice as a “failed ritual”, so otherization wasn’t the goal. The goal was probably to make a puppet king out of a powerful man leader but the spirits of the trees had other plans
>>221345535where rhaegal?
>>221345535pathetic
>>221345535mah boi caraxes
I haven't started the new season yet, but I'm guessing that kiss wasn't in the books right? Just like a ton of other biased shit the tv show does to make the Blacks likeable and the Greens unlikable. Whatever. They could never make me hate her.
>>221345535sunfyre is baeno need to learn valyrian either, he knows its bullshit too so just talk in english
westeros got BLACKED in this show
>>221345674Yeah, in the book Daemon thought he could take down Aemond and Vhagar with Caraxes and Sheepstealer alone so him and Nettles set out every day to hunt them down in the Riverlands.
>>221345762By the seven that's amazing I can't wait to see it in live-action HD 4k 60fps CRT filter
I think it's hilarious that the writers wanted to whitewash all of the women's behavior to make them more sympathetic and seem like good guys and they end up being the most insufferable retards in the franchise.
Alicent was NOT manipulating Aemond. She was caught off guard and didn't know how to react. If she WAS manipulating him, she would have put more effort into the kiss. Make it more convincing, throw in a little tongue action in there. Know what I'm saying?
>>221345656He simply removed his armor mid drowning by himself, or he found a helmet with an air pocket
Stop raping, ser!
>>221345615>Though I have the body of a woman>I have the mind of a KANG>*Weeps* like a childHoly fuck, are they letting Tumblr interns write this show?
>>221346101That area they were in didn't seem so bad for swimming. It was already pretty shallow. If you didn't get wounded hitting rocks, he could probably stand up on them and get his head above water
glad that cringe pirate lesbian died
>>221346011She was she just didn't realize how effective she was. I hope they start fucking and she gets into it. I cannot express how much I want momcest in this show, especially if she starts out disgusted and reluctant.
>the whole Gullet scene
mfw the starks showed up
Petyr Baelish is literally me. I'm horny for book!Catelyn, and therefore book!Sansa by extension.
>>221345747trueit's bad enough the books are shite for their portrayal of the greens, but the show is flat out dogshit lol
>>221344704
I’m gonna have to leave these threads since my mental health rapidly deteriorates with every passing day I post here. I'm not even being ironic, over the past couple of weeks I've been feeling some sort of progressing manic/paranoidal anxiety onrush that makes the insides of my chest roil with restlessness. I had to smoke half a pack in an hour yesterday night just so I could calm down the existential angst caused by mouldering here and go to sleep at like 3 am. It has been creeping up on me for quite some time and likely coincided with other stuff, but I'm pretty sure I can pinpoint these threads as a tipping point. I don't know whether it's the ritualposts that reinforce that sense of being in a schizophrenic loop, the inane offtopic discussion, the femcels, the pedos, the shitposts, the (you) addiction/chase or what have you, but I'm reaching my lowest point.TIl probably come back when casting news come out. Until then.
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>>221347007Cute. She should be in a different TV show.
Just finished the new ep because I didn't even know until yesterday the new season was out>super cool sea battle>tranny dies>seasnake goes down fighting>allan comes into his own>jace death (he was annoying)>larys being a snake (I hope he gets his dick and his feet cut off)>cringe line from rhaenyra about heart of the king or whatever right after she had a woman moment tearing up her battle garb and I say this as a foid myself >i started feeling a lot of sexual tension at the alicent and aemond scene>thought maybe it's just because I find both of them really attractive>"your incest mind is working overtime, anon">aemond goes for the kiss>my jaw drops>sexy as fuckPlease let them bang Solid start to the season, although if I were a book reader I'd probably be mad although I would like some unpredictability Is Sarah Hess off the show? I didn't see her in the beginning credits but I remember how badly she sucks at this sort of writing Does anyone wanna refresh my memory on how this episode further fucks up the canon from the books because I've sorta forgotten all the spoilers I read aside from Nettles being written out
>>221347007>picking the most deranged people they could find for targaryens
>>221346149stops raping, looks down at my feet, puts hands in pockets, kicks stone
Rhaenyra, make me Master of War
How comes nobody in AGOT has ever seemed to put serious thought into developing strategies for fighting with dragons? They only ever throw them into battle where they just roam around torching random stuff. As soon as somebody brings out a bunch of scorpions, they start flailing and have no real counter for it.
>>221347007I blame Traennyra for this, Rhaena used to be cute before she got brainwashed by her.
Does anyone have a bingo card? Did we cross anything off yet?
>>221347367>as a foid myselfT I T SITS
>>221347418>Jaehaera full of needles>Maelor torn to pieces>Jaehaerys' head chopped off>Aemond stuck at the bottom of the lake>Daeron burning>Helaena in an eternal fall>Aegon drooling poisonwell that's depressing
>>221347212We're only one episode into the new season and I don't even care enough to shitpost about this show.
>Oh shit hotd is back, guess I'll give it a shot>Opening montage reminds me how shit this show is>most of episode continues to be unapologetically lame>found the naval battle to actually be pretty sweet>even got to see an annoying youtuber meet her endColor me pleasantly surprised by a neat little naval battle, I'm certain it will be the best thing I see for the next several episodes of forced feminist schlock and humorless melodrama
>>221348334>humorless melodramaIf they tried to do more humor this show would be ten times worse.
>>221348409TrueI think Dunk made me realize how little fun it was to watch hotd, not that I think the hotd team could produce anything better.
>>221348409Nah it takes itself way too seriously. It truly would be a better show if it was a dark comedy
>>221348455All I can imagine is the disrespect the writers showed to Daemon being multiplied by emasculating dick jokes and the like. I don't think they have a comedic bone among them.
uh, guys??
>>221348072Same. I'll just repost an old green.>Infinitely respawning Riverlander armies + Northmen approaching King's Landing>All Green dragons dead, Aegon severely crippled>It's Ottover.jpeg>Bloody Ben and Cregan waltz up to the city expecting total victory>See an army of ratkin instead>otherstakeme.avif>"ADVANCE QUICK-QUICK!!! KILL MAN-THINGS FOR THE KING!">Sunfyre's corpse, imbued with copious warpstone dust, rises out from behind the city walls, his scales shining an iridescent green>Aegon, his body also suffused with a fuckton of the green stuff, rides on his back, a warplock jezzail in hand>7hells.gif>"BURN THEM ALL, WARPFYRE!"
>>221348696Lady Stark, I'm Master of Coin.
>>221344704egg is icsh
>>221345662Caraxes is such a fraud lil bro only killed one dragon in the dance
>>221347367>incestdeadass hope this happens
>>221348455Modern writers can't do comedy.
>Solves all the mysteries in your path
>>221348941>distracts the masses with empire of dawn schizophrenia so I can horde the real actual secrets to myself Based retard false prophet
>>221346011>>221346403>>221347367>>221348876Well I got some leaks for you Aemond is going to have missionary sex with Alicent. The way the scene is shot is an exact callback to when Alicent was getting fucked by Viserys. Next morning Alicent drinks moon tea
>>221345747she's a woman so they had to make her an honorary black and have her turn on her own children, because, obviously, that's what any good mother would do
>>221349036There has been a lot of moon tea in this show. Why are the women written to be so sexually irresponsible and to value unborn children so little? I only remember it mentioned in GoT when margaery was accused of being a whore and the proof being her asking for the tea.
my man didn't deserve to get drafted...
>>221346011>rotting old man>selling foot pics>doing the targaryen classic
I miss Rickard Thorne.
You now remember Harrold Westerling.
>>221346011>Alicent was NOT manipulating Aemond.idk how anyone could say this seriously when in the span of a few minutes she was love bombing the fuck out of him telling him how great he is and how he should be king while getting all close touching him
does /hotd/ approve of this change?
>the first episode was supposed to be the finale of the last seasonexplains how jarring it was to jump into
>>221349169That is the obsession of the show writers. It started with the "horrors of childbirth" in episode 1, the entire theme of the show is modern womens' grotesque resentment toward traditional feminine motherhood. The show is a fucking antinatalist feminist protest pamphlet with dragons.It's a miracle they crafted an excellent character in season 1 Viserys, but he furthered their narrative, so he's probably the best character they are capable of writing.
poppa bear?
>>221349541I don’t care about either character
>>221349036Lol there's no fucking way this is real
>>221345655heh
>>221347007lmao what a ghoulshe looks ridiculous with that white mop on her head in the show, and somehow even worse irl
>>221345535Caraxes and The Cannibal were my favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QMQOJTYRBUadmit it, this shit was cool until the le big epic battle with naruto at winterfell
>>221347367>Please let them bangi agree with this degenerate trannya mom son incest scene would be hotalso>jace death (he was annoying)wasnt this nigga supposed to be BFFs with the starks dude? and they didnt even talk, what a blunder
>>221349755NO IT FUCKING WASN'TNOTHING POST S4 WAS COOL
>>221349755kino...
>>221349541yeah but to claim her dragon she FUCKING ABANDONED RHAENERYS BABIESthese idiots wrote themselves into a corner, oh no they didnt, they're never bring this up again
>>221349541I don't mind that they gave Rhaena Nettle's storyline, makes sense for the tv show, I'm annoyed they cast an ugly chick and the writing for the entire show is shit.
>>221349755>blue man on bat nukes entirety of the nights watch in literal seconds >Jon Snow sentenced to return to nights watch at the end its like they actually tried to piss me off, they put effort into doing so
>>221349755Was Viserion's breath supposed to be hot or cold?
>>221349541he REALLY should've kept dodging the question instead of saying "well we felt a need to give a retread of Aemond's plot to Rhaena"
why do ppl pretend the book was good and pretend to get upset at shit getting shifted around
>>221349541Both characters are useless filler, honestly adding the dread of a dragon that doesn't give a fuck what you say is the most interesting part of either the book or the show
>>221344704SER LORENT COULD YOU PLEASE OPEN THE DOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRR
>>221350529that poor innocent table. what did it ever do to you?
we want to see cannibal, have him fight sheepstealer or something. it honestly looks like the blew a lot of the VFX budget on the first ep
>>221350680Your brother Aegon, whatever happened there
>>221347685I've thought about something, but I don't know if it's cool or cringe. Maybe HotD should have war room council scenes where the Blacks and Greens move their dragons around a map and use drawing compasses to draw concentric circles of range around them. Like missile range maps. Older dragons can cover more distance in the same time and are more dangerous in a fight. The strategy considerations should revolve around trying to cover as much land as possible with your dragons vs. not spreading them too thin so they can't support one another.
havent read the books but it seems like strategy for fighting with dragons only consist of planting a dragon somewhere and lie in wait for an ambush, or to let an army soften a target fort or something up then have a dragon swoop in to join. they use the dragons sparingly, in the books do they use them more often? i guess i could understand why they would use them sparingly cos once one dies the rider loses all their power and aura
>>221350960they use them less in some ways, rhaenyra flies exactly once, baela only much later because her dragon is way too small, but the two dragonseeds + nettles (character that got sheepstealer in the book) fought at the gullet the main problem with dragon fight is they are very possibly lethal even if you win and your riders are usually you and your own family so it's way too risky to throw everyone into a fight even if you have more/stronger dragons
>>221350249it was much better than the show at least, most of the changes they made are shit
>>221345537>how are dragons so op? Just build a bunch of balistas and shoot them simple asthe chance of any siege weapon whatsoever of hitting a flying dragon or anything similar is from zero to next to zero. What the franchise shows happening might as well be a magical siege crossbow manned by the god of siege crossbows.
>>221349541I swear to God if they cut Dalton Greyjoy out as well
>>221351075what about a ballistae shotgun?
>>221345537very luck based and only works on small young dragonsvermax was tiny and in the book it was pure dumb (bad) luck
>>221351103any siege weapons that existed and any modifications that can be done will only have the result of failure.just hitting one is next to impossible, and just hitting meaning making the projectile have mere contact with its body. Not talking about damage, hitting a vital or functional spot and doing enough damage etc.young dragons would be used for reconnaissance at high altitudes and would only be in combat danger form other dragons. There is no weapon that can target an adult combat-worthy dragon and be effective. The only thing the enemies of dragons could do is use lots of arrows just in case even an adult dragon flew low enough so they can perhaps kill or injure the rider; which would have the result of getting all the archers killed. archer groups would be carbonizedsiege machine teams would be carbonizedthe series and franchise has destroyed its own assets. Dragons can be killed by any siege crossbow, even small machines, and the night king can throw hypersonic missle javelin that can kill them and at the same time he can die from a nobody "just add water and mix to get a magical naruto-tier ninja girl" with little training (faceless men are illusionists, poisoners, and trap-accident tricksters and suck in actual direct combat totally) despite being able to perceive BRAN EVEN IN ANOTHER DIMENSION and us surrounded by an army of wights and elite white walkers.
TIDF activated
i don’t give a single fuck about anything in this show now EXCEPT for the possibility of gratuitous mom/son sex in the plotline that’s nonexistent in the book
>>221349600it is BAFFLING they didn’t actually use it unreal the people they make showrunners
>>221345747here’s hoping it goes to full penetration! mom/son is the only road they haven’t gone down!
>>221349036ohhhh let’s fucking gooooooo
>>221347367you will never be a woman, faggot
For something that's impossible, "scorpion bolt kills dragon" sure does seem to happen a lot.
>>221344704HULK SMASH
>>221345537>build a bunch ofIn The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), starring Milla Jovovich, the French forces on the ramparts do indeed fire a multi-barreled, volley-style weapon during the siege sequences.Historically, this multi-arrow thrower is a type of medieval "machine gu"n or organ gun known as a ribauld (or ribaudequin). It consisted of several musket-like barrels or arrow-launching tubes strapped together on a mobile wooden carriage. A Ribauld (or Ribauldequin) for arrows could absolutely work without gunpowder, but it would function like a giant, mechanical multi-shot crossbow rather than the traditional 15th-century volley gun.slow to reload, slow to move, not much for targeting, but great for killing humans especially in castle sieges.against dragons; carbonized you cannot target moving targets with siege weapons, let alone extremely fast flying ones
>>221345537Manually aiming a medieval torsion engine (like a ballista or springald) at a WWI biplane or a DRAGON yields a near-zero chance of a direct hit. The compounding challenges of the biplane's high speed, three-dimensional maneuverability, and altitude make this an impossible feat of anti-aircraft artillery.Dragon or Biplane Speed: A typical WWI biplane (like a Sopwith Camel or Fokker Dr.I) cruises at 150 to 180 km/h, translating to about 42 to 50 meters per second.Projectile Velocity: A ballista or springald fires heavy bolts at roughly 45 to 60 meters per second.The Math: Because the projectile and the aircraft travel at similar speeds, a medieval weapon aimed directly at the plane would miss entirely. To hit it, the crew would have to lead the target by hundreds of meters. Calculating this intercept trajectory without modern optics is pure guesswork.Engagement Ceiling: Ballistas have an effective flat-trajectory range of about 300 to 500 meters.Tactical Reality: WWI biplanes typically operated well above this, often cruising at 1,500 to 3,000 meters and so do DRAGONS. Even if a biplane or DRAGON swooped down to a low altitude, it can climb vertically at several hundred meters per minute, easily leaving a siege engine's maximum vertical range within seconds.Reload Time: Torsion engines require manual winching, which takes anywhere from 30 seconds to several minutes depending on the draw weight.The Problem: A biplane or DRAGON moving at 160 km/h covers 1.6 km in just 36 seconds. You effectively get one blind shot; the aircraft or DRAGON would easily evade or reposition long before you could reload.Wind Resistance: The heavy bolts fired by torsion weapons rely on a stable, flat trajectory. At altitudes where planes fly, erratic wind currents and varying air densities would easily throw off the bolt's aim over long distances.RESULTS; carbonized and melted military assets propagandized as dragonslaying weaponry.
>>221345537the worst things about this is that the army would collapse in totality and they would spread the news - the survivors that is - and the entire military apparatus would lose any efficacy and even basic discipline when dragons where involved even as a remote possibility. Even if not told about the "dragon-slaying" (my ass) siege crossbows and other such weapons they would immediately enter a get the fuck out of here no matter what mode once they saw the weapons and crews immolated and their efforts being utterly comical. on land;they would run in all directions avoiding groups and ignoring orders, killing officers and anyone getting in their way on landat the sea; immediate jumping overboard and mutiny with hacking up of all officers and the captain himself, ships would be abandoned and even without boatsat the castle or in fortified locations;a combination of the 2 above
>>221351053is it thought? king viserys played by paddie is like a show of its own. kinda like that escobar show. meanwhile in the book his chapter is like "he lived, he was the last who rode balerion, he died"
>>221350068how do you melt an ice wall with cold breath?theres a dragon that has a blue flame that may or may not be cut from HoTD
>>221350068>Was Viserion's breath supposed to be hot or cold?it was bad breath for sure - that thing should not have existed.
>>221350249>book was good and pretend to get upset at shit getting shifted aroundthe books were 6/10, fun for the first books and then martin lost it and then lost it completely.the series themselves are ass and get 1/10 to 3/10 at most.
>>221347007if an incel dressed like this everyone would make fun of him. but when its an "actress" its suddenly cool and unique. its so unfair
>>221345537has anyone here suffered serious burn injuries or any maiming, lost arms or legs etc?that fact that this would come from a dragon makes soldiers enter an absolute fox frenzy and get the fuck out.Greek fire was scary enough, fantasy wildfire scary indeed but dragonfire..... a flying huge monster breathing flame that can melt a castle....yeah, its overAnd the crab eater having his troops hide in the caves was utterly moronic. Troops in caves are flushed out by real world flamethrowers in history and these do not get to melt rock like dragonfire. who thinks up these scripts?
hes going in the next episode. based aemond, cant wait for the simon fan tears
>>221351650s1 was great and i stand by this
>>221351709we got anti-pregnancy propaganda, blacks in role that will never fit even in alternate timelines and a ton of idiocies in all aspects.the throne room is a death trap with all the swords like a hedge of death around it. its comical.
>>221351735yet, it's still better than fire and blood
>>221351735Making the Velaryons black specifically to make Rhaenyra's children obviously bastards was incredibly funny
>>221351785it was comedy gold, how could the actor not die from laughter when he was telling everyone that her children were not pureblood valyrians while he was a white rasta wearing black dude.reality is a comedy
>>221345015>Eight days' sailIn a world before longitude calculations, you've got a 50% chance of not even finding the island
>>221348767luke is icsh
>>221351806nah they got weirwood googlemaps
>>221351785>Velaryonsthese are not Velaryons!! neither are you isle of nath natives....at missandei actress was hot
>>221344704how exactly was not the ENTIRETY of the kingsguard and all men in guard duty, and everyone even remotely related to this, executed when the child was beheaded?everyone would be dead
>>221344704when the kid was beheaded the kingsguard would all at least fall on their swords out of shame of absolute dishonorinstead cole was "abed"what drug using retards write these mountains of shit?
>>221351356>>221351422Thanks ChatGPT
>>221352086yes, what did you expect making calculations on our own? jackass
I may appear to have the weak and feeble body of a 4chan incel but I possess the heart and spirit of a /got/ shitposter.
>>221344704>/got/hotdporn parodies are more loyal to the source material
>>221352235the only thing that matters in the source material are the bedding scenes
Just finished Feast. Reading the books for the first time. What a fucking slog, worst book in the series?
>>221349490She was manipulating Aemond into leaving, the kiss caught her offguard and was not something she expected, it clearly disgusted her and cemented her feelings about letting him die
>>221344704so sunfire will be crippled like aegon is from the fire etc and will eat R?storming of the dragonpit will be the next big action episode?we also have other fights
>be Sheepstealer>ugliest dragon on Dragonstone>doin' your thing, eatin sheep>meet some lil human girl>share some of your sheep with her>let her ride you cause that looks like fun>she leads you to her home>suddenly people shooting at you and shit, so you start torching>lil rider yelling some gibberish at you >keep burninating these boats>suddenly two other dragons there too>freak out because all your experience with other dragons has been the fucking Cannibal>start attackingSheepstealer did nothing wrong, Rhaena is the dumbest bitch ever, taking a wild ass dragon into combat first day.
>>221344704the atmosphere in egg and dunk makes it seems as if even filming it was a million times more fun than the train wreck of house of the nonthreatening dragons.
>>221352497they should have had him just eat her, it would have been more fun and better for the show.
>>221352497Sheepstealer is so far the only likeable character in this season. He is /our/ guy, even gave the niglet a hardboiled sheep.
>>221344704Jaeraehaethaea is a cute
>>221352497if sheepstealer wasn't there distracting jace people would be whining about how a crossbow/grapnel was able to kill a dragon on its own
He comes....
>>221352549>gets Jace killed>later marries a HightowerBased Rhaena was team Green all along.
Cannibalbros, in a world of "We collated Rhaena and Nettles because that worked in favor of the storytelling economy" I don't think we will ever see him.He literally serves no purpose except being an awesome edgy all black murderhobodragon for GGRM to be doing dragon powescaling, he's Shadow the Hedgeog level of DONUT STEEL.It makes NO SENSE to drop any resources into putting him on screen.Speaking of Rhaena, anyway...ugh, now they have to either conjure up from thin air a "YOU GOT JACE KILLED" plotline, or - as they often do - completely ignore the issue going forward.I can't say I look forward to either of those, I would have preferred Nettles.I guess it could be alright if this makes Rhaena go full "Who gives a shit anymore" (but even that is already Cole's plot) and go sort-of-rogue and only incidentally Green-leaning, until she becomes some cryptid dragon fire witch in the mountain like Nettles ended up being