And their families have been feuding before HotD from the age of heroes.

It fit well in Rhaenerys story well with how childish she felt everyone was acting but then looked back and was impressed when she saw the boy kill the knight insulting him.

Cricketer12

United States14000 Posts

September 16 2022 00:56 GMT

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On September 16 2022 09:38 Sermokala wrote:
I don't think in world its given any significance other than more random violence between knights like we saw at the tournament.

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I also liked how blackwood boy mentioned Targs are new to Westeros/dont have first men blood, and then later Rhanyera lies in front of a heart tree.

Chewbacca.

United States3634 Posts

September 19 2022 03:48 GMT

#23

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Holy shit this episode was the best yet. Feels like this is the start to the series and the previous four episodes were just the prologue to introduce the characters. Everything is now connected/intermingled and there are a bunch of sources of conflict

Cricketer12

United States14000 Posts

September 19 2022 13:00 GMT

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Criston being allowed to leave makes no sense, but otherwise great episode

emperorchampion

Canada9496 Posts

September 20 2022 22:06 GMT

#25

On September 19 2022 22:00 Cricketer12 wrote:
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Criston being allowed to leave makes no sense, but otherwise great episode

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agreed

I'm a huge anti-fan of alicent - knew she would be trouble since the get-go

emperorchampion

Canada9496 Posts

September 26 2022 04:38 GMT

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weird getting used to the new characters, still hate alicent, kinda meh on the episode overall but I think it’ll be better after I get used to the new peeps - also amazed that the king is still alive, I thought he’d be dead after episode 2 lol

TaKeTV

Germany1200 Posts

September 26 2022 11:22 GMT

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Content of the episode was alright but the timeskip was poorly done I believe. Cutting of events in E5 into full timeskip E6. I guess its alright but it felt weird to me. Took time to find into the series with this skip again. Overall there are also decisions in this episode where I cannot follow or see motivation

in any case still high level just pales in comparison to especially E5

vitika

15 Posts

September 26 2022 14:23 GMT

#28

Maybe we should stop all the Spoilers tag ?? People should expect to be spoiled in this thread.
And some nice meme I found

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emperorchampion

Canada9496 Posts

October 03 2022 04:02 GMT

#29

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so did renearya(sp?) plan to have her husband survive, or was that the lover that called an audible?

Jubinell

333 Posts

October 03 2022 04:11 GMT

#30

Episode 7. OMG Ser L***** haha...

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so did renearya(sp?) plan to have her husband survive, or was that the lover that called an audible?

I guess we will find out in the next episode.

emperorchampion

Canada9496 Posts

October 03 2022 04:29 GMT

#31

On October 03 2022 13:11 Jubinell wrote:
Episode 7. OMG Ser L***** haha...

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I guess we will find out in the next episode.

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Thinking some more, it kinda seemed like she was trying to tell him about the plan when they talked near the end so I’m thinking she was being “kind” and giving them an out.

Cricketer12

United States14000 Posts

October 03 2022 05:00 GMT

#32

Daemon said they needed a witness, that way there could be no doubt the burnt body was laenor's

Acrofales

Spain18317 Posts

October 05 2022 06:55 GMT

#33

On October 03 2022 14:00 Cricketer12 wrote:
Daemon said they needed a witness, that way there could be no doubt the burnt body was laenor's

I think Daemon wanted a witness so that there was no doubt who was the murderer.

My gut feeling says Rhaenyra planned the whole thing, giving Laenor an out and herself a "better" husband. Daemon thought Rhaenyra was agreeing to murder Laenor, while she organized the details with Qarl and Laenor behind Daemons back. Daemon believes Laenor dead. I don't think Daemon believing Laenor still alive would fit either his character or the scene he had with Qarl.

Cricketer12

United States14000 Posts

October 05 2022 16:23 GMT

#34

On October 05 2022 15:55 Acrofales wrote:

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I think Daemon wanted a witness so that there was no doubt who was the murderer.

My gut feeling says Rhaenyra planned the whole thing, giving Laenor an out and herself a "better" husband. Daemon thought Rhaenyra was agreeing to murder Laenor, while she organized the details with Qarl and Laenor behind Daemons back. Daemon believes Laenor dead. I don't think Daemon believing Laenor still alive would fit either his character or the scene he had with Qarl.

Daemon's only consistencies are his love for rhaenyra and need to sexually be in control. I'm honestly not sure what is and isnt in character for him at this point.

Sermokala

United States14145 Posts

October 05 2022 17:15 GMT

#35

I think this was totaly the plan. We see Daemon killing someone right before the fight and that doesn't make sense to include if thats not the body that they toss into the fire. tossing someone into the fire like that leaves a body but doesn't make it recognizable. The guy who fled gives the story that his former lover came to confront him and they started fighting. the body says that he lost. the knight being gone now says that he's fled. The new Laenor looks different enough if he stays bald and can go across the sea to allies Daemon knows and would owe him a favor in exchange for making a few dragon passes.

emperorchampion

Canada9496 Posts

October 05 2022 17:29 GMT

#36

Certainly there is no way this plan can go wrong

Cricketer12

United States14000 Posts

October 05 2022 18:03 GMT

#37

On October 06 2022 02:29 emperorchampion wrote:
Certainly there is no way this plan can go wrong

This is quite the departure from the source material, though I can't tell if it's to make Rhaneyra look less evil or to make things more interesting later.