I follow news on ASOIAF, Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, Lord of the Rings, a bunch of other stuff, and post on YouTube.
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Advanced reviewers revealed that House of the Dragon Season 2 episode 6 is written by Eileen Shim, who previously wrote Season 1 episode 8 "The Lord of the Tides" (generally considered the best episode of season 1).
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@cspan
@kaitlancollins
The one thing we need is people willing to say followups. On any level. Just shouting "You didn't answer my question" is worth more than a hundred questions. Points out falsehoods. Yes there's fear of getting your mic cut off, but you have to stand for something.
@ThisGrayArea
I really hope that the issue of the black haired grandchildren next episode will be used to prompt Rhaenys to remark that SHE had black hair in her youth but it grayed with age. I don't know.
@ForArya
"You don't have any black writers weighing in on how you write Grey Worm and Missandei" "well, we have one Asian writer we promoted up who wrote 3 episodes in the past 3 years"
#GameOfThrones
What I was told about the Long Night prequel is that the way it depicts black people is cartoonishly racist.
1 - their “fix” for racial diversity was to cast only black people to play Children of the Forest
2 - given that CoF are green under prosthetics (1/2)
@oochotd
I like that they kept the detail with the girls that Baela dresses plainly and functionally, as a warrior, while Rhaena is a girly-girl with elaborate hair, nice clothes, and lots of jewelry.
An Alicent Hightower wedding dress scene was indeed filmed for House of the Dragon episode 2, but was cut for time. It wasn't a wedding scene, but Alicent putting on her dress in preparation for it.
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#EmilyCarey
The exact same thing that happened to House of the Dragon Season 2 happened to The Last of Us Season 2.
They were supposed to have 9 episodes, were told to cut it to 7.
After TLOU 2 airs, will people realize "It's not the writers, it's HBO"?
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#TheLastOfUs
Dear god...for the first time we're seeing Westeros with *actual cinematography*: Camera Movement, MONTAGES, Day for Night filming, not just a string of tight closeups! Even Sorkin-seque walk and talks!
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Oh gods...it just hit me...hit me like a diamond shot through my forehead:
Rhaenyra and Laenor's eldest son is Jacaerys
R + L = J
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#RhaenyraTargaryen
@JustAboutGlad
If everyone could afford a home, it would be chaos. You wouldn’t be able to tell who’s homeless and who isn’t anymore. A homeless person could be living right next door to you and you wouldn’t even know.
@propheticbug
I’m probably reading into this, but I like how Helaena saying “this is for my boy” emphasizes “I’m just as much a mother as you, stop treating me like a child, I’m more directly affected by this than you, and shut up your sex affairs don’t matter compared to my son’s death”
@ForArya
"It seems that the GoT writers room was a “safe space,” shielded from criticism & outsider perspective. In a way it’s a relief to finally understand why the show went in such a bizarre direction; there was no one there to tell Benioff and Weiss that their ideas were nonsensical."
@RedTeamReview
I thought it was perfect; it had “cinematography” and not the gratuitous gore porn D&D overused with Ramsay.
It’s like Hitchcock vs Rob Zombie.
8:00 -..... I had to double check that they weren't joking, this really happened:
#EmiliaClarke
baked cookies for Conleth Hill and delivered them with a handwritten letter on the day they filmed his death scene, she was so sorry her character was killing his character.
So it was going to be a simplistic “Thanksgiving” story (this term was used) of these indigenous people who are black humans uniting with the white colonizers of their continent to fight off a common enemy...only for THE BLACK PEOPLE TO BE MAGICALLY CURSED
@WiCnet
You used the child versions twice, and Jon Snow with a white wig, but you left out Maester Aemon, King Jaehaerys I, Baela & Rhaena (young and teenager), and all of Rhaenyra's sons. All five of her sons.
Ok going through reviews by people who see screeners of HotD 2’s first 4 episodes we can refine our outline:
Ep 1 - Blood & Cheese attack is the very last scene, not start of ep 2. Jace at Wall.
Ep 2 - ends with Cargyllbowl
Ep 3 - definitely has Burning Mill, possibly Eyrie
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@WiCnet
Seriously? A full year after all of the backlash to Season 8, and you're still trying to push it for awards?
And a Webby? Specifically when a criticism of the Long Night battle was that the dark screen didn't take into account streaming compression issues?
I suspect people will start feeling better about House of the Drsgon as soon as new spy photos come out for large scale battles in Season 3 filming - Gullet and Fishfeed
Given that the CoF are green guys under heavy prosthetics...their “solution” was to retcon that the Children of the Forest at this time....we’re humans. Looked like black humans. To explain this discrepancy, they would later show that a “magical curse” turned them into monsters
Dunk & Egg filming begins TOMORROW.
I am STUNNED that the spy community hasn't found out a single actor on it, other than the two leads they publicly announced.
I don't even mean "major" actors, but...we'd normally see actor CVs posted by now for "Ashford Stableboy" etc
THR posted this literally 30 minutes after the finale ended...by what - skimming instant twitter reactions?
This is not "journalism".
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As my follower
@YourGirlTaena
put it, who is from Germany, “this sounds like something out of Mein Kampf”. Old school race theory. My follower
@HNHughson
from Quebec pointed out “its like they’re copying the Biblical Curse of Ham used to justify slavery”
@YourGirlTaena
@HNHughson
Plepler picked Long Night OVER Empire of Ash, the Doom of Valyria prequel! In which Sothoryos (Fantasy Africa) is a major location! In which Summer Islanders are main characters!! But I guess EoA was “too woke” and “too SJW” - so now you get cursed black people elves!!
On closer inspection...the better lighting in the new trailer seems to show that "Martin Reyne" has House Reyne's red lion sigil on both sides of his collar
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@ForArya
"Benioff and Weiss were elevated to success by HBO’s polished infrastructure, the architecture of George R.R. Martin’s books, and the immense talent of every individual that surrounded them, particularly the actors. "
Jack Cunningham-Nuttall, suspected of being Daeron Targaryen in House of the Dragon Season 2, just posted an image of what appears to be him arriving at Leavesden Studios?
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New spy photo from Kynance Cove, Cornwall from today (Wednesday): Corlys Velaryon, his son Laenor Velaryon, and young Daemon Targaryen holding a war council at a Velaryon army camp in the Stepstones
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HE WAS NEVER "GENDRY RIVERS" YOU IDIOTS!
1 - The Bastard Name for the Crownlands is "Waters!"
2 - HE WAS NEVER AN ACKNOWLEDGED BASTARD!!
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Cool, one of the 2 concept artists who designed the dragons in HotD answered my question about Vhagar - yes, she is of the "T-Rex shaped head" breed of dragons like Drogon & Seasmoke (some wondered if she was horse-head like Syrax, distorted by age).
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@YourGirlTaena
@HNHughson
Empire of Ash, the Doom of Valyria prequel - which I publicly leaked out last year. “Half the writing staff isn’t white” “half the characters aren’t white” “Sothoryos” “Summer Isles” “Biracial female dragon rider as a main POV character”:
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@HNHughson
GRRM never wanted to set a prequel story during the Long Night, he wrote no big stories set then. This was the LAST prequel pitched out of five! The others are based on the books! Richard Plepler, year of HBO last year, picked this OVER their other pitches...for name brand!
@thronesfacts
Consider that rather than using
#Missandei
screentime in Season 7 as a chance to give backstory on her & her culture - their religion, that they're total pacifists who reject violence to the point of not even eating animals - Benioff saw it as a chance for Davos to perv on her.
@YourGirlTaena
@HNHughson
Long Night WAS NOT the “diversity prequel” - Empire of Ash is! Long Night usurped it! Also? Just because a WHITE woman was showrunner was no guarantee it was a “paragon of diversity”! RACIAL diversity? Intersectional feminism, people!
So D&D changed the script at the last minute, de-emphasizing the burning of the Red Keep (the original target of Dany's wrath, not the city)….to get a cheap mourning shot of Dinklage...which they ultimately didn't even need the actors for.
I just saw a shockingly plausible speculation for HotD.
I said I don’t think Condal wanted changes, GRRM is fighting the studio for more episodes.
What if story changes aren’t all due to cuts…but executive meddling? That Condal feels he can’t fight?