I'm wondering if you've ever seen Gladiator. Jack Gleeson, who plays Joffrey, admitted that Joaquin Phoenix's portrayal of Commodus in Gladiator was a strong influence on his portrayal of Joffrey.

the fact you made notes is the cutest & most relatable thing ever x)

Your Maester Pycele impression was Epic!

"Who am I?" Lexi: "Wait, let me look it up...." 😄😍

Never noticed that her necklace glows before

Lol, Lexi has a lot of spice! I sometimes wonder if Jack Gleeson would not have had to step away from on screen acting if he hadn't done so well with this role....I thinkbthe first move I remember seeing him in was Batman Begins. He was the kid on the balcony interacting with Batman and in another scene getting a hand to the face from a jerk cop. He did well shedding his accent during those scenes.

I'd say Robert is more Joffrey's father; he was the influence on Joffrey and very similar in some ways. His immaturity, his insistence on his own way no matter how detrimental to the realm. And Joffrey wanted Robert's approval, not Jaime's. Jaime is nothing to him.

Love your lists of family trees ☺ You might need a map of Westeros as well, I found it really helpful to know where on the map people were at certain points. Makes it easier to keep up.

Omg how cute is it that you made notes!! Long live my reaction Queen!

Well, there's only one correct answer to "what do dragons eat?". It's "Whatever they want" :P

Aww, the papers with the names.. I think you need more like a notebook, because there will be more... And more... :D

Daenerys has a great uncle at the Wall (a great great uncle in the books but the show left out a generation in the family description he gives Jon Snow in S1E09). He wouldn't know how to feed dragons, though. He's not old enough to have known any.

When there was a king in every kingdom, the kingdoms were frequently at war.

Well done catching the lighting up of the stone in Melisandre's necklace. And no, she's not a Targaryen. She's a priestess of the fire god R'llor, the Lord of Light. She's from very, very far away, in the far east of the continent of Essos (the continent Dany is on right now, but on the opposite side of it) in a city called Asshai.

You are going to need more paper, lol

Lmfao 🤣🤣🤣🤣 at this: Jeor: Who am I? Lexi: Hang on, lemme look it up lolol 😂😂😂😂. Always love your reviews. I was sad when Buffy and Angel was over but I love that you're now doing two of my other all time favorite shows: GoT and Lost and you're not only funny but very smart for keeping a list for the GoT as there are many and it can be a very convoluted show at times. Also, I have a request that when you're finished with these you cover two other favorites: True Blood and Stranger Things, if you would :-).

You are missing Aemon Targaryen (the maester at the wall) from the Targaryen family tree. He is Dany's great uncle (in the show anyway, in the books he is her great great uncle).

Your girl dinner comment killed me 😂

Relationships between cousins aren't considered incest in Westerosi society. It's considered a bit weird, but not illegal. Tywin's wife was his cousin. Cersei and Jaime got the incest tendencies from him lmao. Also while Robert says that incest was the reason Aerys was "mad", that's not quite accurate. At least not in the books. Aerys' "madness" could more accurately be called a trauma response. He was captured and tortured by rebels until he was saved by Barristan Selmy. He wasn't the "Mad King" before then.

Ha! When Tyrion said about Cersei's cheekbones, following your earlier talk about Cersei, I thought, careful she might think it was flirting :)

"thats what we like to call girl dinner" LMAO

Who is worse, Joffrey or the Mad King? I think we will find out, or have already heard (from Ser Jaime, who was a member of the Aeris's Kingsguard, and a bit from Ser Jorah), some of what the Mad King was like. Lord Eddard's father and brother burned alive, for one thing. Joffrey has his path set out for him if he wants to be as bad as the Mad King, but though he's taken a couple of steps, he hasn't got that far yet. I repeat, yet.

I hope you have a great summer👍

Buenas Noches Guapa y dulce niña de verano, I love that you take it seriously, taking notes is very good to be able to assimilate the plots and in general to enjoy more of this great Saga made into a series. Priestess Melisandre of Asshai believes in the God R'hllor, the Lord of Light, the prophecy of the Promised Prince who will save us from the Long Night, you guessed that her necklace is very important

No comets do just hang there up in the sky more or less. That's why they used to scare the crap out of people.

Good luck with Craster's family tree, by the way.

you dont have enough paper if you wanna do that for all the characters that will show up

13:13 - 13:33 😍🤍💙 27:01 - 27:06 You can never hate Joffrey enough.

THE KING IN THE NORTH!!! Sure hope nothing happens to him,😉 🔴👰. You know what I mean 😉 I love how the Hound is defending Sansa right in front of Joffrey and he doesn't notice l. Also am I the only one who had a huge crush on Melissandra

Love your reactions can't wait for you to reach HOTD

If you like dragons, there's this show called House of the Dragon that you might like. It's a prequel.

"You're prettier than half my daughters..." Lexi: "Blame yourself and your inbreeding, Dumbazz." LMAO I so love the sass.

Actually Jaimie didn't stab Aerys in the back - not literally. Aerys was facing Jaimie when he was killed.

I don't think they go into Tywin's reaction much on the show. But he is basically in denial, he chooses to believe Stannis is lying.

She loved her brother hated him too but she still loved him and joffery isn't crazy because of incest it's because of his upbringing like look at the Lord of the vale and also think of joffery role models growing up ,Jamie isn't his father he takes after Robert joffery is proud to be his son Jamie is a estranged uncle joffery considers himself a barbarian more than a lanister

You will be glad to know that Joffrey totally turns it around and winds up one of the series' most beloved characters :)

Request: After you've watched the first 3 seasons, could you please do a quick reaction to the Honest Trailers video (on YT) for GoT Volume 1 (Seasons 1-3)? Just think you'll really enjoy it. :D

13;59 well I guess it's very hard

Jack Gleeson (Joffrey) did his job so well, that he took a break from acting. It's not easy to play someone so hated...

You didn't Need ti cover your eyes.the baby was killer off screen

Trust me, this isn't even the worst thing Joffrey does in the show.

Cersei is actually the one who orders the killing of the bastards in the books... Idk why they changed it, probably just to make Joffrey more "hate-able".. idk... I think the writers enjoyed how much the audience hated Joffrey in s1, and dialed it up to 11 in s2... sometimes it works, other times its kinda annoying and gratuitous. Cersei is the one making these types of political calculations, Joffrey is more of a cruel, petulant, spoiled brat

When I said that Cersei could have stopped Ned's execution, some people argued that the guards and Ser Ilyn wouldn't listen to her. I present as a counter-argument the "power is power" scene. Those guards were totally willing to kill the Master of Coin just because Cersei felt like making a point. She could have at least _tried_ to directly call off the execution. She's much more like Joffrey than she might initially seem, she's just better at hiding it - she's petty, inept at wielding power, lacking in foresight and a monstrous narcissist. She's smarter and more self-aware than Joffrey, but proximity to her idiotic sadistic fuckup of a son-nephew and the fact that she's at least pretty effective at scheming her way _to_ power (even if she's awful at using it for anything practical) make her look a lot more capable than she actually is.

If you think you hate Joffrey... just wait for it.

Yes, he is

Joffrey is such a wonderful king! Truly a blessing from the gods!! LOL Oh, Dany does have one living relative although she doesn't know... Maester Aemon at Castle Black! But it's clear that he took his vows and joined the Night's Watch many years before she was born.

Tywin Lannister married his cousin. Siblings and cousins are both fine. Lions don't discriminate.

Continuing my book facts tour!: The Tourney on Joffrey's name day is said to be an attempt at being as grand or grander than the Tourney for the Hand, but because of the war, there are very few actual men of note. Sandor Clegane calls the assembled men "gnats"instead of knights. Don't look down too hard on Ser Dontos Hollard. He had one of the saddest backstories of any ASOIAF character(not that the show paid it any mind). King Aerys "the Mad"(before he became the Mad King)was called to the castle of Lord Darklyn, a minor House of the Crownlands whose port town was losing revenue and wanted to have similar rights to another kingdom. Tywin Lannister told Aerys not to go, but Aerys had gone to the point where Tywin telling him "no"meant that he would do the opposite. When he was in the castle, the Darklyn's arrested him and imprisoned him, keeping him hostage for a year while Tywin besieged the town. Lord Darklyn expected Tywin would eventually give better terms, but failed to understand who Tywin was. The king was eventually rescued by Ser Barristan Selmy, who killed Lord Darklyn's champion, Ser Symon Hollard and avenged a brother of the kingsguard who was killed defending Aerys. Aerys ordered everyone with even a bit of Darklyn or Hollard blood killed(though the worst fate went to Darklyn's mistress, who apparently gave him the idea)and Dontos was spared being killed as he was only an infant(and Barristan asked King Aerys to spare him, which Aerys could not refuse after Selmy saved his life.) Dontos(who will return) had a bigger role in the book during book 2. Sadly, it got cut down. Dany is only able to help her dragons survive because she remembers the lessons Viserys taught her about dragons when they were children, including that only dragons and humans eat cooked meat. Because they made her say he didn't know anything, they take away a lot of nuance of the relationship(they also removed how she named her three dragons. The black dragon is Drogon(named after her husband). The green is Rhaegal(her eldest brother)and the white is Viserion(named for her brother, who she says will have the strength Viserys didn't.) Stannis Baratheon is one of my favourite characters. Not so the show runners, who didn't like him or understand him. While he's serious, he is, despite all that, a really good man. He is not a religious zealot or anything and they take away part of his reasoning. He saw his parents ship destroyed and sink within view of home during a storm, with his mother and father drowned. He swore that since the Seven would be so cruel, he would give them no part of his worship. Another reasoning for his choice of the red god R'hllor is a story he tells Davos. In the story, he found and raised a goshawk he found injured and nursed it to health. However much it would sit on his shoulder and flit about, it would never soar. He named it Proudwing, but Robert taunted him and called it Weakwing. Eventually, he was convinced to choose another bird and Stannis abandoned the hawk and chose another, as he realized he was making a fool of himself with Proudwing. He states that he chose a *red* hawk when it came to his god. Maester Cressen gets more characterization in the book, having the whole prologue chapter from his POV. In it, he talks about how Stannis was his favourite of the three brothers, the one he thought of like his son and the one who needed him the most of the three. Cressen initially nearly convinces Stannis to make terms to join with Robb Stark, only for Stannis's zealot wife to convince him otherwise. Melisandre also humiliates Cressen and Cressen, feeling that killing her is the only way to save Stannis, drinks the poison that he shares with Melisandre. While she survives, Cressen dies. Later, Stannis admits that he never wanted Cressen dead and his not summoning Cressen to a meeting was him trying to give the old man a peaceful retirement, as he had served for so long and was growing older. Lightbringer, Stannis's sword in the books CONSTANTLY glows as if aflame. However, the show omits this awesome detail because the show runners are lazy. Same goes for Robb's crown of bronze and iron with the longsword shaped points and Stannis's red gold crown with the flame points. Melisandre is from Asshai, which is the location farthest east on the world map. There is very little information about the location, only that there are black stone buildings, people from here are supposedly magically inclined and there are no children in Asshai. The direwolves are huge now, but sadly, now we see them a lot less as a result. Don't expect a lot of the dragons either. Cersei is the one who begins the Baratheon child purge in the books, not out of fear of their threatening her sons legitimacy, but out of sheer hatred of her dead husband. There is talk of a few more, including a pair of twins from Robert visiting Lannisport(which Cersei have murdered and has their mother sold to a slaver). Mya Stone(Robert's oldest)is safe in the Eyrie(she serves the Arryn's), while Edric Storm, one of Roberts only acknowledged bastards(since his mother was highborn)was safe in Storm's End, the Baratheon stronghold(Mya and Edric are both cut out of the show, to our great regret). The girl who mothered Barra also dies trying to defend her daughter as well in the book. Alright, next episode is "Garden of Bones", which is one of the most uncomfortable episodes for me. You know why....

To be fair, this is one of the few acts Joffrey has done that I support. The history of Westeros has repeatedly proved that royal bastards can be dangerous, especially during the war.

you are "excited to find out" why pycelle pretends to be lame... Well... unfortunately....

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