After Watching House Of The Dragon, I’m Not Sure I’d Want ANY Of These Characters On The Throne. 

Miss Lambe and...

I can’t be the only person who thinks the show might be setting up Miss Lambe with...Sidney Parker? 

A lot of British viewers have complained that the show doesn't have a “happy” ending and that they want a second season. 

The show is only just now airing in the U.S., so who knows? 

Hmmm....that’d be a twist from the usual Jane Austen formula!

I don't think anyone has said this but let me say this...the real foils in the ASOIAF is Dany and Bran. She don't look back on the past and he is going through the archives of it!?

I am definitely rereading the books whilst I am on vacation and making notes, this is going to be my hyperfixation for the last three weeks in December!

The Pride of Dijon by William John Hennessey, 1879 / "cowboy like me" by Taylor Swift

My Favorite Evelina Quotes + Marie Antoinette Screencaps

Ser Davos last night

Sansa : What about the North? Dany : Let it go…let it go…!  I can imagine Emilia Clarke singing. 

Edmund: My only....sister. Yep, that’s right... [Starts to sweat]

I love Mansfield Park—there's a reason it's so important to my dissertation—and it's not only for the things that seem appropriate enough, but also the ones that kind of break my brain a little.

For me, the Peak WTF has to go to Edmund (surprise), after his sisters have separately run off with two fairly shitty men. He greets Fanny in a burst of emotion:

she found herself pressed to his heart with only these words, just articulate, “My Fanny, my only sister; my only comfort now!” She could say nothing; nor for some minutes could he say more.

I always think ... well, having Edmund refer to Fanny as his sister that late in the book, while simultaneously disowning his actual sisters, is certainly a choice. I don't actually mind it because I don't read MP for Fanny/Edmund, lol, but I find it interestingly bizarre.

(It reminds me distantly of Lord Orville presenting himself as a brother figure to Evelina in Evelina, but iirc that pretty obviously falls apart further from the end and it's clear that he doesn't really see her that way.)

My opinion exactly.

While I was cringing and unhappy about the Arya vs Sansa stuff from last season, I am rather enjoying Dany vs Sansa - because these two have reasons to clash. Both of their positions make sense for their characters and their objectives. This isn’t about pitting women against each other for once. The problem I’ve seen is within the fandom, not the writing. It’s Team Dany vs Team Sansa. It’s fandom being fandom. But really when u look at it, outside of the zombie apocalypse and the for-now-distant threat of Cersei, this internal power struggle is perhaps the most interesting development this season.

Personally I never cared much about the magic stuff in this show. Yeah dragons and direwolves and crows and resurrecting priestesses are cool. But for me the meat of the show has always been the politics.