Game of Thrones - "House Of The Dragon" Official Threads (NO SPOILERS....ZERO)

[Ozymandeas]

The Ancient Starks were a bunch of scoundrels rapist, and wife stealers just like the rest of them. Dishonorable many of them. Nobody in Westeros is “clean”. Nobody in Essos is “clean” either for that matter. Maybe some of the Summer Islanders that avoid conquest.

I take it you were raised near the Dreadfort

 

[Eternally Jaded]

If Targaryens we're supposed to be black Grrm would've made them black

Y'all don't find it funny that those books started 26 years ago and GRRM is just now throwing out this "they were supposed to be black " shyt?

Grrm is hopping on the coulda woulda shoulda pander to black folks wave just like everyone else

That could definitely be so but I can easily imagine a publishing agent asking him to change the Targaryens to a more acceptable hue.

Not saying it happened but if it did I wouldn't be surprised.

 

[voltronblack]

That could definitely be so but I can easily imagine a publishing agent asking him to change the Targaryens to a more acceptable hue.

Not saying it happened but if it did I wouldn't be surprised.

It does happen

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory hero 'was originally black'

Roald Dahl’s widow and biographer say first Charlie was black but writer was persuaded to make him white

www.theguardian.com

Roald Dahl originally wanted the eponymous hero of his much-loved children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to be black, his widow has said.

In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today programme for Roald Dahl day on Wednesday, Liccy Dahl said: “His first Charlie that he wrote about was a little black boy.”
Asked why it was changed, she replied: “I don’t know. It’s a great pity.”

Her husband’s biographer Donald Sturrock, who was also being interviewed, said the change to a white character was driven by Dahl’s agent, who thought a black Charlie would not appeal to readers.

“I can tell you that it was his agent who thought it was a bad idea, when the book was first published, to have a black hero,” said Sturrock. “She said people would ask: ‘Why?’”

 

[Lord Beasley]

Nicca, the throne about to be in chaos within the next yr or 2. You think Brandon the Broken, the great military leader and commander is gonna defend the people of Westeros? That gay nicca (yes, he sent Meera away, he's gay) gon be zooted out of his mind while the whole country burns around him, warging into birds like a lil sicko watching his sister have sex.

war is inevitable, but you niccas aint . your whole set fate rested on the shoulders of an emotional dragon thot and now you not here.

Jon is a stark so i dont want to hear you datblasted EXTINCT mfs trying to claim him. hold that eternal L. bran will be finr

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

I didn't know the people treated the houses like sports teams in here
all I know is the Targs should be black by canon based on what George said and they have the dragons and they can't get burned
I'm going with them

You never chose a set back in the day?

I mean, welcome to #targset but one of the things folks made you do when you entered the thread was choose who you riding with.

 

[humminbird]

You never chose a set back in the day?

I mean, welcome to #targset but one of the things folks made you do when you entered the thread was choose who you riding with.

i only liked the targ set in the GOT series with the exception of Robert stark
oh wow i didn't know that

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

i only liked the targ set in the GOT series with the exception of Robert stark
oh wow i didn't know that

You could probably find in one of the threads where nikkas held me at digital gunpoint until I chose who I was riding with. I been targset ever since

 

[MidniteJay]

If Targaryens we're supposed to be black Grrm would've made them black

Y'all don't find it funny that those books started 26 years ago and GRRM is just now throwing out this "they were supposed to be black " shyt?

Grrm is hopping on the coulda woulda shoulda pander to black folks wave just like everyone else

I don't care either way but to me it just sounds like GRRM was too shook do it. Which was what I was getting at when I quoted you. Like JK Rowling posthumously outing Dumbledore. They didn't want to alienate that crowd or fukk up their money while they were writing.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

If Targaryens we're supposed to be black Grrm would've made them black

Y'all don't find it funny that those books started 26 years ago and GRRM is just now throwing out this "they were supposed to be black " shyt?

Grrm is hopping on the coulda woulda shoulda pander to black folks wave just like everyone else

And the fact that he carved out “black places” with naath, summer islands and sothoryos…like he really mentioned black people in these places but somehow got cold feet in making Valyrians black? Nah, black folks are a sideshow to his European and Middle Eastern world of Westeros

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

i only liked the targ set in the GOT series with the exception of Robert stark
oh wow i didn't know that

You been cool in other forums, but you just claimed the wrong set. Official neg on site status

#Wolfgang #starkest #mustbethesnowman

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

It does happen

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory hero 'was originally black'

Roald Dahl’s widow and biographer say first Charlie was black but writer was persuaded to make him white

www.theguardian.com

Explains why he made them dirt poor with an entire family too lazy to get out of bed

 

[Biscayne]

I take it you were raised near the Dreadfort

fukk the Bolton’s too. Skin flayers and all around demons. They’re all evil. I’m nobody set. I just see Westeros for how it is.

 

[Ozymandeas]

And the fact that he carved out “black places” with naath, summer islands and sothoryos…like he really mentioned black people in these places but somehow got cold feet in making Valyrians black? Nah, black folks are a sideshow to his European and Middle Eastern world of Westeros

At bare minimum, he should have added an Egyptian/Nubian equivalent or a Mali equivalent somewhere in ASOIAF

And Ghis don't count since they're more Persian with some Carthaginian aspects thrown in

He couldn't really use the different time period excuse either since he's mixing and mashing already. He was cacing and didn't care

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

fukk the Bolton’s too. Skin flayers and all around demons. They’re all evil. I’m nobody set. I just see Westeros for how it is.

Choose. A. Set.

 

[Roid Jones]

Way behind in the thread... But I'm not sure if this is going to hit the same as the OG game of thrones. I hope these characters start leveling up quick

It's only one episode chill