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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • Things I liked

    • New intro still rules. I may have to re-watch it, afaict it didn’t change from a week ago.
    • Laughin’ out loud at Daemon smirking in his own corner while the Black Council was trying to figure out Blood & Cheese.
    • The scene between Daemon and Rhaenyra was incredible.
    • Seasmoke Sighting!
    • Daeron Mentioned!
    • The brother’s duel

    Weird Things / Random Thoughts

    • The cut at Rhaenyra with Viserys/Aegon was odd… I thought that was a flashback of Aegon with Jaehaerys/Jaehaera.
    • The Seasmoke scene… for a second there I thought that was John Macmillan (Laenor’s actor)
    • Tom Glynn-Carney is the early MVP and IMHO most improved actor of this season. I really hope they update all imagery of HotD to feature him vs Rhaenyra for S3 and beyond.
    • Phia Saban (Helaena) is a masterclass at saying so much without words (or as few of them as possible).
    • Shoutout to the twins, once the Cargyll duel started - I was on the edge of my seat - and unable to tell them apart.



  • Things I liked

    • The new intro - IMHO it is much better than 3D Valyria model, but not as good as OG Planetos’ map.
    • Seeing the north, Winterfell and the Wall again
    • Cregan Stark was better than I expected.
    • Meeting new characters, a lot of time spent with this Alyn fella in the docks with Corlyn 😉
    • Rhaenyra and Jacaerys mourning scene was the standout scene for me.
    • Looks like they’re using humor to humanize Aegon II.
    • Seeing everyone over at r/asoiaf loose their mind over Blood and Cheese ROFL

    Things that puzzled me.

    • Torren knelled at the wall ?
    • Cole x Alicent - IMHO it came out of nowhere.
    • The pacing of Blood & Cheese and the fact that the final minutes of the episode was split into 3 scenes: Blood & Cheese, Helaena’s random walking and finally her entering Alicent’s chamber.

    Random Thoughts

    • So… is Maelor chillin’ with Daeron (The Daring) over at Oldtown ?
    • Change the intro as much as you like, every season if you will. As long as OG GoT theme song plays, it will never be skipped.
    • I love that they are still leaving us with the idea that, just like F&B, some events are still not completely understood/shown. We never see Daemon give the explicit order to target <redacted/> - same as we never see Daemon explicitly say “Heir for a Day” back in S1.
    • I really think that Rhaenyra will be furious at Daemon - not only because he single-handedly plunged everyone further into a MAD scenario, but Rhaenyra’s side (probably) just lost the moral high ground.






















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