Was looking forward to later posts since that one seemed to only address the first 2 seasons. But with that being said, his criticisms were very silly and didn't have a ton to do with the show's shortcomings IMO. It was more about him apparently being lied to by someone over certain plotpoints. Well, that's my theory anyways since it makes very little sense for him to speak out in the way he did when he basically did nothing like this during latter seasons of GoT.
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He was in communication with Ryan Condal but he didn't have credits for writing like he did in early GoT. He does have a former assistant of his (Ti Mikkel) who works as a writer on the show now and that's likely how he's getting leaked info on future seasons that he's seemingly not happy about.
Or, knowing that people are upset with HotD currently, wanting to take the heat off of himself for not finishing the books like he should have by now.
Didn't know all that. I would have assumed, after what happen with the original series, that he wouldn't have allowed any more to be made if he didn't have some kind of say so in the overall plot... I suppose this makes the Nettles thing even more likely to be truth.
He would probably prefer this, but it's probably not in his contract. He basically sold the development rights for the franchise to HBO, how much control he does or doesn't have probably isn't a factor of said contract. He has input as a producer, but probably no veto power when it comes to stuff. This is why the pilot for the Long Night series was such a mess and he's sort of hinted at being glad it went nowhere.
I knew it was happening from last season's reveal but it really, *really* soured this premier for me. When the show was first announced forever ago, Nettles was like the ONE thing I was looking forward to. The lore implications of having this commoner nobody who had no apparent dragonblood whatsoever was awesome. It widened the world and what was possible. It was like that kid at the end of TLJ picking up the broom with the force out of instinct.
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I'm going to continue to go the naive route and assume that at worst it'll be something Rhaenyra is convinced is true but isn't. Her driving herself nuts out of jealousy certainly makes less sense when Nettles doesn't exist though so I'm not sure how they'll get there. But I'm probably in the unpopular camp of Nettles not being Daemon's lover anyway. I think he was obsessed with her because of what she was able to do, but I don't think that means his relationship with her had to be that kind.
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My ideal situation would've been Nettles leading Daemon on but never actually putting out, but Rhaenyra sees this as them having obviously been together much the same way people suspected her of having slept with Daemon before she actually did and that projection makes her spiral into paranoia. Throw in a scene of Matt Smith having another hallucinatory sex dream, this time of Nettles, so that even he thinks it might've happened and bam- best of all worlds. But no now we get a nothing character put into this moment solely to inflate the tragedy in the moment at the expense of a much better story.
Yeah, I think the tragedy of the books - Jace entering battle because Aegon the younger escaped and warned everyone at Dragonstone would have worked just fine. Yet we didn't see him or Viserys so perhaps that storyline won't even bother being established before the show ends? Who knows.
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I maintain that the major plot-related issue just from a plot-construction standpoint with the show is that they turned Alicent into a main character when she isn't one in the source material. What they did with her was smart for the sake of angst and history between her and Rhaenyra, but the issue is that because they cast Olivia Cooke in the role they have to give her a bunch of random shit to do in the story and a lot of it makes no sense given who the character is and the position she has (dowager queen). The notion that she let Rhaenyra take King's Landing is completely plausible idea but it's not really written about like it happened that way.
I've seen people say this elsewhere and back when they showed him but the actual rotting dragon was Meleys, Rhaenys' dragon....not that it still rotting weeks after they both died at Rook's Rest makes any sense.
Well they did make a point of showing those gigantic incense "dispensers" at the camp they were sitting at lmao
Obviously, we can say they are hatched with magic, but we're not exactly certain if blood magic is always required or not, given we know that's how Dany hatched hers. As far as how Dreamfyre (or possibly Vhagar's) eggs ended up in Pentos is pretty much plotted out in Fire & Blood. The short of it is that Dreamfyre's original rider, Rhaena Targaryen (Aegon the Conqueror's first grandchild) had a female "friend" from House Farman named Elissa Farman, that got up to a whole bunch of hijinks and adventures. She basically stole a clutch of eggs from Dragonstone and it's generally assumed they were Dreamfyre's due to her relationship with Rhaena as well as the she-dragon's reputation for being prolific.
