Introverteddaries - The Obsessive Corner

"she drew alicent into her intoxicating web" yeah in more ways than you will ever know crispy cole

luthen and cassian burning their life to make a sunrise their children got to see. i’m fine.

HOTD S2 EP1 SPOILERS

she blames me for starting the war after she plotted with my father’s council to usurp the throne

her grace is speaking in two tongues

House of the Dragon is an enjoyable show, but I think that to really appreciate it you have to have read the books, and I say this as someone who hasn't. The problem is that the first season went way too fast and it didn't develop some characters properly, and even this one just keeps introducing new stuff without giving the viewers time to adjust. I see book readers say how excited they are to see a new character, but I just can't share their feeling because we'll probably see said character for two episode before it's killed off. And this is a big problem in my opinion, because many things that should be heavy with feelings for the characters just fall flat. (ex. blood and cheese)

Where are the slow beginnings? Where are my filler episodes? GIVE. ME. TIME. TO. GET. TO. KNOW. THE. CHARACTERS.

His nose is so–GRAHH I need to take a seat.

hm. so the blood and cheese thing felt kind of anticlimactic to me. it just fell kind of flat? it wasn’t helaena’s reaction that ruined it for me—i think she was simply in shock and her actions make sense to me explained that way—but for a few reasons i just didn’t get the emotional impact from the scene that the scene in the book had. maybe i will come up with a more eloquent analysis of why later on but right now these are my thoughts as to why:

1. The characters of Blood and Cheese themselves felt flat and cartoonishly evil, so much so that it broke my suspension of disbelief and at one point during the part where they were sneaking around the tunnels i actually made myself laugh by thinking “this is like some shit out of bbc merlin”

2. The major issue stems from the decision to cut Maelor from the show. Idk about you guys but for me the most fucked up part about that scene in the book was the fact that they made Helaena choose between which of her sons they would kill (and then killed the one she didn’t choose anyway and made sure the one they spared knew she had chosen him to die). That’s the part that really stayed with me. That’s some serious psychological nightmare material. i could see them trying to reference that choice she made by having her point out her son, but it just didn’t pack the same punch as making her actually CHOOSE, and it felt awkward within the scene and just kind of shoehorned in there.

idk. overall i enjoyed the episode, but i expected more punch from that plot point

i’m a sucker for the “she fell first he fell harder” trope and i’m sitting here wondering why as if my childhood wasn’t defined by pjo and specifically percabeth

just occurred to me that eventually I get to watch Percy reject immortality for Annabeth

MATTHEW MACFADYEN, SARAH SNOOK, & KIERAN CULKIN pose with their Golden Globes for Succession (January 7, 2024)

Aegon giving away all the crowns resources back to the small folk

Otto Hightower: