“Can we pose Team Black vs. Team Green?”
Matt: “Hell yeah, we can.”
Matt & Tom immediately understanding the assignment & then there’s Fabien, what a cinnamon roll LOL 🥹
FASTEST FIVE SECONDS OF MY LIFE BUT HOLY SHIT 🥵 never recovering tbh.
I would be irrationally angry too if I had tried to warn my brother numerous times over 20 years that Otto Hightower was a snake & before Viserys’ body was even cold in the ground, the throne had been usurped, my unborn daughter & stepson killed in the immediate aftermath, etc 🤷🏻♀️
I just opened TikTok and saw I had 1.2k comments and immediately closed the app lmao holy shit. I guess my rant slideshow about the HotD fandom went viral…this is what I said regarding S2 btw
ngl it kinda breaks me a bit seeing how much hate daemon’s storyline is getting, especially considering matt put his entire targussy into his performance this season
if GRRM is this unhappy w/ HotD, he should have written Dance as a POV narrative & not a history book, demanded more creative control, OR just said no….it’s a tad icky to me that he’s an EP & shitting on it in the middle of production when the cast & crew will def be impacted 🥴
I fucking loved the finale & then I open social media & see everyone just tearing it the hell up & it’s just so draining & tiring. I’m so relieved the season is over at this point, it makes me sad. I had ideas for all of these tiktoks I want to script & now have zero desire tbh.
“Rhaenyra’s throne was usurped because she is a woman, and now her son was killed at the hands of the Greens, so it’s an all-out war where eventually, no sides will win. It’s a tragic story.” Fixed it.
Showrunner Ryan Condal says there is no “right” side in the Dance of the Dragons:
“There are heroes and monsters that wear green and heroes and monsters that wear black in equal measure.”
There’s a difference between thinking critically of media vs. nitpicking every little thing, continually trashing the cast and crew, and review-bombing an episode because you didn’t get your way. Hope this helps.
Funny how they left out the fact he said I love Olivia right after this, then again that’d be admitting they can’t separate actors from the fucking characters they play. JFC.
I’ve been saying Daemon & Aemond are on the same journey (but heading in opposite directions), & I’m now headcanoning that they passed each other in this moment because Aemond burned Aegon on purpose in the same episode, something Daemon would have NEVER done to Viserys.
man is chronically offline, never hear of a bad fan interaction, one of the best actors out there, looks like a cinnamon roll is a cinnamon roll, & yet some ppl in the HotD fandom hate him purely for the character he plays & how said character impacts their ship, couldn’t be me
They meant it when they said Daemon & Rhaenyra are the same person—stubborn, refusing to reach out, both floundering at a loss for what to do, going in circles, making poor choices. they’re a fucking mess atm. he ignites her targ fire & she quells his, they need each other 💯
Daemon: “What would you call the husband of the Queen?”
Simon: “Well, the King….Cosort.”
Daemon: “That last bit seems unnecessary, don’t you think?”
…kind of like a bit of this storyline seems a little unnecessary at times.
Aemond: “Every king needs a Hand. I’ll make it your responsibility.”
Larys: “My prince, it is an honor I’d never considered for myself—“
Aemond: “No, not to serve as Hand, you toad.”
Whether you thought the sept scene was dumb or not, let it be known Rhaenyra tried every fucking way under the sun for peace before unleashing the dragon within, that’s our rightful queen right there
Me, all season: “Daemon and Aemond are on the same journey in different directions.”
Last night’s episode: *Daemon kisses Viserys out of love and Aemond kisses Aegon out of veiled threat*
I STAY WINNING
yes pls but also the fact that allll the micro-expressions were lost during this scene because of how fucking dark it was, like his small smile here when he felt her behind him, literally my 13th reason fr
“You are the true queen, Rhaenyra. First of her Name, Protector of the Realm. I am meant to serve you…until death or the end of our story.”
“Leave me again at your peril.”
“I could not. I have tried. My queen.”
FRAME THIS & HANG IT IN THE GD LOUVRE 😭
People are saying Daemon’s Harrenhal arc is boring & they miss the real Daemon but was he really supposed to just stand around & keep saying cunty things after losing his brother, unborn daughter, & stepson? After his life-long Hightower usurpation nightmares came true? bffr
i think my biggest gripe w/ this scene & the continued Alicent/Rhaenyra dynamic is that it’s too late, too much shit has happened, they’re both mothers, children have literally died, for any of this to be remotely believable, them clinging to a friendship that ended 20 yrs ago 🤷🏻♀️
“I love this scene to end the season because it brings us all back around to what this series was originally about, which is Alicent and Rhaenyra, and their two experiences that carry us through this horrible war that they’re fighting.” So true Ryan
u think I give a fuck?
the Liv stans who hate Matt & say awful things about him—it’s not the hot take you think it is, JFC I’m losing my gd mind. y’all realize he’s not daemon right? y’all realize Matt & Olivia would laugh about this together right? get f*cked. so over it.
probably one of my fav daemon moments of the entire season, boy is physically spiraling after he realized he done fucked up again, realizing rhaenyra was right about his impulsive and reckless nature 💯
“He’s actually quite loyal in his head.” How many different ways can this man say Daemon doesn’t want the throne for himself and that he’s devoted to his family before everyone gets it, asking for a friend.
Continuing our HotD S1 rewatch….my sister: “Rhaenyra really had Daemon’s d!ck ONE TIME and hatched this master plan for them to get married, must have been good” 💀🤣
Gods Eye isn’t happening until middle or last half of S4 guaranteed, they’re going to push it as long as possible, they’ll reorder events to do so & I feel like this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone imo 🤷🏻♀️
“We have always been meant to burn together.”
Literally screaming, my Matt Smith & Emma D’Arcy signed Daemon & Rhaenyra wedding photo came today 😭😍 (Thanks
@swau_official
!)
I love it so much 🥹
I feel like GRRM is just confirming now more than ever that the show and the text are two entirely different things and that in order to even remotely enjoy HotD, we need to stop comparing the two (for better or worse)