#why is hbo like this abt team black

[jonquilspool]

i toil and toil in the mines of this website to try and make team black weird and interesting only for hbo to release a STUPID and BORING team black trailer and undo months worth of work. could you not have a single member say something interesting rather than generic action movie slop??? not even DAEMON??

#team black #hotd #why is hbo like this abt team black #they have so much POTENTIAL #stop relegating them to the girlboss divine right team #make!team!black!weird! #anyways. sorry. had to complain

[knightsickness]

what do you think about how corlys and rhaenyra were adapted bc i haven’t heard any takes on them outside of incessant team discourse

(anon amended to rhaenys in a follow up) i like the decision to have corlys ride really hard for rhaenys’ inheritance over viserys and it being ambiguous as to exactly how self-serving this is thats fun. like he does love rhaenys a lot but theres this Other element of him as a guy who is intensely ambitious specifically for proximity to the iron throne. would have preferred them to keep him significantly older than her esp w this dynamic between them i think his seniority is interesting though i see why they didn’t. his willingness to overlook the strong boys parentage to have his name on the throne even if he knows they aren’t blood is soo something esp bc hes patently wrong abt history remembering names not blood EVERYONE remembers whose blood the kids were its a great historical joke. self centred proud and ambitious hes kind of classic targ i love his early rivalry w otto and wish they’d done more w the idea hes this intensely worldly strategic genius. i probably will not be watching his spinoff if they do one tbh i think pure hbo projects in the got world are doomed to fail but lovee steve toussaint in the role

rhaenys clearly conceived for the show as a proto-feminist mentor-type which i do have some problems w i think she jumps between that and extremely jaded and defeated by how a patriarchal society has fucked her over and instead of feeling like shes supposed to be both of these all the time they tend to feel like two different hats. she puts herself forwards and is publicly rejected in front of the eyes of the entire realm and that takes a political and psychological toll. in ep2 when she remarks to rhaenyra abt men putting the realm to the torch before theyd submit to a woman thats not said w intent to change it its put as an immutable fact of life w almost vindictive pleasure. just you wait. she seems for the most part exhausted by the idea of throwing herself back into politics shes relegated to a sort of eyerolling commentator while ambitious corlys tries to gently cajole her back into caring about her claim for what shes fully aware are partly his own ends. what anchors her as a member of the family and as a successful woman in society is her kids laenor and laena are both sweet and attractive and make great matches and shes very close with them both and then theyre both killed practically overnight. then corlys is dying possibly dead and even though shes literally in kl for the succession conversation she ISN’T invited to the viserys last supper before he dies shes the only other family he has and no one even considers inviting her. rhaenys loses everythingg while being basically ignored and then both teams immediately jump at the chance to have her blessing for the optics. and all this is really solid interesting rhaenys stuff and then occasionally they have her wear a modern feminist talking point mouthpiece hat and scorn alicent for not girlbossing her way to the top of the patriarchy when rhaenys herself is INTIMATELY aware that isn’t doable. i love rhaenys i hope they do rooks rest well and i really hope they explore her extremely mixed relationship w daemon and rhaenyra. need more team black infighting theyre playing dysfunction catchup

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #hotd #house of the dragon #rhaenys targaryen #corlys velaryon

[caatws]

tagged by @dorotheuh​ !!! <3 thanks fam!! :)

answer 30 questions and tag 20 people you’d like to know better

name: madison

gender: all of them (but fem aligned)

star sign: sagittarius

height: 5’0

time: 10:18 pm

birthday: december 17

favorite bands: u2, paramore, of monsters and men!!!!

favorite solo artists: taylor swift (we know this)!!!!!!!!!

song stuck in my head: “like a river runs” by bleachers

last movie: ww84

last show: idk if it counts as a show but i watched a docuseries abt a cult the other day on hbo max

when did i create this blog: summer 2018 but i’ve been on tumblr since december 2012

what do i post: multifandom let’s goooo probs mostly mcu and she-ra these days? occasionally with other shows/movies i watch or non-taylor artists i listen to hehe. also just random memes bc why not

last thing i googled: “long story short taylor swift lyrics” bc i wanted to make sure i got the lyrics right before my last edit on my side blog klsdnfb

other blogs: too many..... i’m most active on @loverdlx (t swift), @hanyuusfurude (anime/pokemon), and @madisonspkmncollection​ (my pokemon collection)

do i get asks: not really :(((( even tho there are over 600 of you here...... pls talk to me

why i chose this url: i thought it was a funny pun when crazy rich asians came out and it was supposed to be temporary but then it just stuck ksdlfnb

following: 236

followers: 644

average hours of sleep: 7ish probably ??

lucky number: i’m too uncool to have one :/

instruments: i can play guitar and a little piano :)

what i’m wearing: a black widow christmas sweater patterned t shirt over a long sleeve shirt with gray leggings

dream job: showrunner of my own tv show!

dream trip: i rly wanna go to nyc and japan again !!!

favorite food: hmmmm hard to choose but i think right now i would say pho!

nationality: american

favorite song: how do you pick ONE? i abstain

last book i read: noelle stevenson’s (the showrunner of she-ra!) memoir! the fire never goes out: a memoir in pictures :)

top three fictional universes i’d like to live in: POKEMON!!!!!! honestly there are even subworlds within pokemon so i’ll just rank that: 1. being a pokemon trainer 2. being a pokemon on a rescue team 3. detective pikachu universe

idk who to tag so i’m gonna cop out and just say WHOEVER WANTS TO DO THIS! hehe

#madison.txt #about me #this was fun!! thanks tiana :)))