Lauren. ASOIAF/GoT/HoTD/Shakespeare analysis + original verse, #ShakespeareSunday. profile pic by @sanrixian No H8 for S8
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Just watched the first episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. What a treat! The tone is spot-on, and Dunk is just so darn genuine and lovable. I had very high expectations for whoever played this role, and I am already just so impressed by Peter Claffey.
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I tend to think that Lady Macbeth is more the character who holds Macbeth by the hilt, until Shakespeare kills her off because she’s overpowering the storyline. But this is fantastic.
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This was so much fun! Thank you Merry for having me 🐉 ❤️ loved getting psycholiterary with you!
"Smallfolk" have found the Heart of the Dragon! @shakesofthrones joins to talk feminine character archetypes, including how they influence Rhaenyra and reveal the potential of Alys Rivers.
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A little late in my review—but I enjoyed S2E1 of #HotD. It felt a little clunky even for a table-setting episode, but that’s to be expected for the first episode after a season that had a lot of time jumps. Biggest issue for me was wondering how Jace grew out his hair so quickly-
*yawns and crawls out of hibernation* I heard dragons flying overhead. Is it true?? 🐉 #HotD
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What I keep thinking about is how good Daemon is at compartmentalising husband role vs. subordinate/advisor role, and how it’s weirdly harmonious between him and Rhaenyra considering that relationship duality…EXCEPT when the topic of “dreams” comes up.
Could not help watching the scene of Meleys bursting through the stone, again. The smoked silhouette of Rhaenys, drums beating...magnificent. What. A. Scene.
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All right, so there are some surface-level King Lear vibes in HotD: succession issues, daughters, losing eyes, power and status as identity, bastards, all or “nothing” …however, let’s be clear that Viserys is not a Lear analog and Rhaenyra is not a Cordelia or Goneril or Regan
There’s two things that these characters in this world want, and it’s to either be loved by Westeros or to escape to Essos. I can’t count on one hand the characters who get either of those things.
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Rhaenys sitting on a dragon in front of team green, could have toasted them all, but she took the high road and sent them a howler 🐉 #HotD
“Virtue and cunning were endowments greater
Than nobleness and riches: careless heirs
May the two latter darken and expend”
⁃Pericles, III.ii #ShakespeareSunday
Still thinking about last week’s #HotD episode and how Viserys’ characterization can be seen through the lens of two tragic kings in Shakespeare’s histories—Henry IV and Richard II.
My mom texted me to saying she’s catching up on “dragon house” 😂 it makes #hotD sound like a reality tv show lol
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Just caught up on #HotD 😭 Ep 8 goes down in history as the only thrones episode to make me cry.
For all those applauding and whooping when Laenor made it out alive (me included), remember that an innocent still had to be murdered for that trick to work.
Yep, we’re all getting more horrible. #HotD