@@sergiomendoza4850 I was referring to how the video got taken down due to copyright then put back up but okay

We are black folks

Twice lol

You were away… (?) 🤔

@@gregbors8364 video got taken down for a bit

Exactly my thoughts. He’s a shades-of-grey character, but his love for his family is never really in doubt. He was extremely somber at the funeral.

No he's a total sockcucker

Exactly! They show LOTS of gore and brutality, but then shy away with an "heir for a day!" line. This literally means Daemon doesn't mean it in a demeaning way. He has always been blunt, he said they just grieve differently, and it's true cuz he is a different person. He likes to fck and see people fcking, so that's what he did to take out his stress. He also did it when he was reprimanded with his City Watch actions, he went to Street of Silk to fck. The whores and his Gold Cloaks just see it as their absolute win cuz their fave person, who spends time with them like they are his equal, will be an heir. Also, I don't even know why Viserys ranted Daemon wasn't grieving by his side or Rhaenyra's when he did not even talk to this daughter after Aemma's funeral. He's beaming with hypocrisy.

In the book its not necessarily him mocking the baby. More like stsking his claim. Also its from otto who obviously hates him. So its never said of he did it in a bad way. And the show, shows him sad before he gives his toast. Like he was honoring his nephew. Also a fun fact is that he does love this brother. As kids they were really close and its y viscerys loves him so much. B fun going forward

Well, the story is supposed to be written by the Maesters so they could be embellishing. Daemon didnt deny he said it.

I had heard a lot about Milly Alcock being good in the first episode, so maybe my expectations were a bit too high... but she was nothing special in this first episode, imo. I was a little underwhelmed. But not disappointed. Hopefully she really steps it up in later episodes. Paddy Considine was fantastic though, and Matt Smith was pretty damn good too. I also think the actress that plays the older Alicent Hightower will be really good.

Completely agree ,the nailed the casting here. I was completely transported. Loved it

Well Said!

Milly is so sexy

Paddy Considine always gives an A+ performance, but damn, this is his finest, and it's only one episode.

This is how I felt. I loved this first episode.

Same! 6 years now and look forward to reviews and podcasts.

Same!!!

he's such an underrated actor. And thoroughly nailed a southern American accent in "The Outsider"

@@kevinw712 He was so good that when I saw he was playing a King in a medieval inspired fantasy show based on European royalty, I was initially disappointed. I thought "why did they get some dude from the Southern United States to play a King on HOT D"? He was that convincing. Such a fantastic actor.

@@AdoreYouInAshXI he isn't. He's English born with Irish descent, and he is a phenomenal actor. He was in Peaky Blinders too.

@@aegonbreakspear9102 Yeah, I know that now lol.

@@aegonbreakspear9102 ye mongrel ye

It wasn’t a Starbucks cup. :D

Starbucks cup was the least of that seasons problems

Starbucks gets $90 million in free marketing because of a cup that came from the tea wagon parked outside the set.

Starbucks was my favorite character (maybe that was a different show… oh, right, it was “Battlestar Galactica”)

It's where Daenarys inheritently got that from. These Targaryens are closer to the true way of them than Daenarys, but she still inheritently has the class they hold.

I like that they left it intentionally ambiguous. He probably said something like “although he was only heir for a day, we toast to him” but it got twisted out of context by Otto and Daemon knew there was no way to explain the context to his grieving brother without looking like he’s just making insensitive excuses. Such a sad scene.

@@kiera_rdh6697 Otto Hightower, a most accomplished gossip magazine journalist.

Well he came back and sat in the Throne and said he was still going to be his brothers heir before the birth. So clearly he was worried that he might not get it hence the first scene in the brothel but he was hoping his brother’s baby was a girl or died clearly

Whatever it was. Otto played in how his character is. He made himself easily victim of a situation like this. I think Otto is a figure like little Finger if he is comparable to someone.

The series premiere hit record numbers for HBO, let's hope it stays good because people will watch. The series premiere proved that

The source material is pretty thin.

@@jayc5373 as long as they don't let D&D write it

@@LawrenceArnell - for sure.

@@jayc5373 There is very little dialog in Fire and Blood, and what Dialogue is quoted is pretty cringe. It sounds more like American middle schoolers than medieval nobles being recorded by professional scribes.

Lol, if that was difficult for you then you may never make it through the entire show.

@@AdoreYouInAshXI That was up there with Shireen’s burning. Both great scenes but when it involves kids just gets under my skin 🤷🏼‍♂️

@@Hay-sb5lz Well... good luck lol.

I literally fast forwarded through it. The worst was what he didn't even tell her!!!

Probably not the show for you.... that was nothing

I like that they do scenes like that, leaving it ambiguous for the viewers.

Apparently if this is a success we will get the dunk and egg short stories. In the first one of those is probably the best tourney described in any of Martin's work. It's a 3day tournament that on the 3rd day ends in 7 v 7 melee (on foot weapon battle) called a trial by seven, and it's brutal as hell.

When Daemon almost got dismounted by Cole and did that "rail slide" while barely on the horse... That was awesome.

Nicely put

GRRM said Paddy played Viscerys better than he wrote Viscerys and that it’s rare he feels a character in the show is better than the books. He said paddy’s Viscerys is more interesting with more layers and empathy and he loved it.

Really liked the music in that scene

Yep

Big fuckin facts, it really did make me feel like I was watching blind reviewers and I skipped a lot of videos because of it

dude I was about to comment the same exact thing lol

@@benl7057 honestly Nerd Soup has a hard time being negative period. They think The Last Jedi was a good film...

@@Captain_Insano_nomercy A lot better than the other channels bitching about "wokeness" all the time.

@@leonrobinson8180 I would take bitter truth over delusional positivity any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Don't piss in my face and say it's raining

Did you watch the first period?

you see a face get crushed by an axe

@@fuzzyhair321 yes i know, and a cock chopped off, and few hands, etc. What I mean is, I hope they keep it coming more and more and not just for this episode and never again.

@@PrincessLioness yes i know, and a cock chopped off, and few hands, etc. What I mean is, I hope they keep it coming more and more and not just for this episode and never again.

Kind of disturbing how much we love seeing fictional characters suffer gory deaths😂

Or maybe Bloodraven comes across it through the Wierwood network and then manages to pass it on to Rhargar?

@@magister343 It's already mentioned somewhere that Rhaegar round the prophecy through research, and then dedicated his life to learning how to fight.

Give it a rest. That’s totally missing what is going on in that scene. Try rewatching it without ur woke glasses on.

@@elaineleonard9526 the entire point of that scene is to highlight how women are disposed of to provide babies that don’t survive half the time. GRRM continuously uses that theme in his works. Sorry if it went over your head

Exactly this. It's interesting how the scene about what Damon said plays out. We as the audience never actually hear him say it. As he's beginning to mention the death of the baby and the Queen, it cuts to Hightower telling the king what happens. Even if we are to presume he said it because he doesn't deny it when asked- that also could be read as him disappointed in his brother believing the rumors. A big part of the text is even when we are reading it, we really don't know what the truth is. It's written from the perspective of a person that cites two extremely deviating sources.

@@ThatAnimalBlundetto I do think he said it but I don't think he said it in a mocking way but in like a sorrowful kind of way, obviously Otto Hightower is twisting it.

@@manvirshergill1739 yeah that would make more sense- the tone and context being different.

Agreed. No click bait here. They did a good job.

Which podcast?

@@TheCaesarion that other podcast

Will we see them fall though? It’s set 172 before Game of Thrones and Targaryen’s were in power up until around 20-30 years before that

@@Elcrisso1 the events of the show is called “The Dance of the Dragons”. The events of this civil war will spell the end of both heads of the Targaryen dynasties, and will lead to the extinction of dragons. The events here impact so much of what happens in GoT.

@@RangerHouston So there’s going to be time jumps?

@@Elcrisso1 yeah, right now Rhaenera is a young woman. There will be a time jump to her in her mid 20’s as Queen as the dance of the dragons continues.

Why do u sound like a generic bot?

Damn it’s only the first episode, let’s save the rewrites for after the seasons finished.

She had taken some opium

Absolutely agree. It even sounds gross to refer to it as a "birth scene." It was a MURDER scene, a scene of torture and horrific assault that happened to result in a birth.