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I'll have to rewatch these scenes. Sir Otto reveals that his actions, besides ambition, was also based on trying to protect his daughter in case Rhaenyra turns on her in the future. In looking closer I believe that the story of this dynasty will continue into Season 2. It will not be resolved in Season 1. Episode 5-10 will introduce new characters, in particular several royal children and there will be time jumps as they age from childhood, teenagers, and finally adulthood.

Yea, agreed. That annoyed me. She was badass and heroine-like.

Galadriel is a disappointment. I like looking at her pretty face but her character sucks. I was hoping for a younger, more active and goddess like version of Galadriel (with connections to the retired, passive version played by Cate Blanchett in Fellowship of the Ring)

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Aemond, my most anticipated character:

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what do you mean about terrible Queen? Which conversation? The promo shows that there will be an albino looking teenaged Aegon II (her son, but the aged-up actress is still really young looking lol). The new actress for R has a much deeper voice and could possibly be meaner. I think we will see the relationship between these two women worsen until there is the Dance of the Dragons. And now Sir Criston is on Alicent's side. Daemon will continue to be interesting and I am personally most looking forward to meeting his badass nemesis and seeing how King V's story plays out.

Yea, Paddy's acting has been very diverse and nuanced. I think it is award worthy. There is an easter egg regarding the disease that is killing him. He refuses to amputate his fingers, which causes the disease to spread into his arm and into the rest of his body. This is a metaphor for his compassionate/peaceful and procrastinating/complacent style with dealing with politics and how he sows the seeds of destruction for House Targaryen. He is way too slow to act, and when he acts it is already too late and the ambitious people are hovering around him, ready to strike. He is ultimately a man of peace who doesn't cope well with high stress and fear, tends to make vacillating decisions, and retreats into his hobbies (model building) and drinking. A nice guy, but not mean enough to be a good king. I recall from watching interviews that GRRM played a major role in selecting the original cast for GOT. It sucks that Daemon Blackfyre's youtube channel got deleted for copyright violations. It used to have the story of every character, organized. Even minor characters had 30 minutes of screentime. Regular characters had an hour or more. Major characters had hours. In House of the Dragon we have characters with very little screentime- that we barely know- getting major pivots. In this episode I guess they just had to follow the source material, which is just a condensed history compared to ASOIAF

@Matt!

what's your favorite characters in this show? Mine are Daemon, King V, and Princess R

There's some tropes in play here, but with GRRM style variations. All good but still not at the level of buildup, casting and charisma as the original GOT. It looks like a key here is that in the original GOT, the buildups were long and deep-often occurring over many seasons, while in this show the timeframe is rushed so the payoffs are comparably a lot more short and shallow. -Dying King, with succession issues. -Princess R is basically a variation of Dany from GOT -Ex-best friends conflict -Forbidden romance conflicts -Powerful Badboy -A potential Cersei like character (obsessed with protecting her children), except not evil -Patriarch that protects the family at all costs -Political marriage with a -Sneaky guy with all the inside info -Arrogant and pompous prince -Of course, a wedding celebration...

"Many who have been tested, wished to have been spared it" GRRM

This episode was very good and super dramatic, with nice imagery. But it was also weird/rushed in places. The Fireplace scene with King V is one of my favorites of the show. Real truth. "Many who have been tested, wished to have been spared it". Paddy's acting is excellent, so is Milly's. I am going to miss her. The two dramas with Alicent and Sir Criten are too rushed and should have been given more scenes to make the payoff make more sense. Daemon continues to be a bad-ass, Club foot guy is basically a Littlefinger type character.

Emma looks way prettier in this show than in real life. The hair suits her. New characters will appear in the second half of the season,

^ These make me miss the game, I want to watch it on youtube.

She looks like an archetypical rich lady. For cougars I think of Jenn Connelly. Man, she got older. Time flies since a "Beautiful Mind"

this girl has such a sexy voice

Before "woke" there were "liberal" billionaires that emerged in the 1990s, like Steve Jobs. California, the home of High tech is culturally liberal. Bezos is a later entrant. In the 1980s and earlier American "liberalism" was actually a lot more socialist. So American liberalism moved closer to conservative views in the 1990s. Both US conservatives and liberals are pro-capitalist, the main difference is in degree. Liberals have more socialist policies; conservatives are more hardcore capitalists.