This is what I thought was interesting. Her interaction with Vhager and whether or not Vhagar understood what she was asking adds some mystique to the dragons and their behavior/intelligence. I do think that whole sequence leading up to it could have been fleshed out more.
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IDK, in the books, he marries Rhaenyra like right after Laena dies and they have a child together in that same year. Like its barely half a year before he moves on. Either way, I think the episode did enough to show that he cared for his family for the most part. I think they didn't want to show him to be too soft and caring this episode, because it seems like they're going to go with him being involved with Laenor's death. It might have been weird to see him completely family-friendly this episode, then see a complete reversal of that in the next episode, where he's back to his old tricks.
I do agree though, Laena's death was a disappointment. They could have at least added a minute to the scene, and maybe showed her having a conversation with Vhagar first, or try to ride her one last time like in the books.
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When Daemon made his comment about Laenor's kids not looking like him, I was dude you shouldn't be talking
. Laena has a nice brown skin tone, but she's still biracial, and Daemon is white as hell. Ain't no way the twins should be darker than their mom
. They should at least look like Rashida and Kidada Jones. Is Daemon raising another man's seeds?Json
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Corlys genes said nah famWhen Daemon made his comment about Laenor's kids not looking like him, I was dude you shouldn't be talking
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Fwiw all of the actors they cast as Baela and Rhaena are bi-racial. The casting guideline specified that they had to have a white parent.
One of the big differences in the casting for HotD vs GoT, is that Thrones held a long and exhaustive search and audition process for the kid actors for Arya, Sansa, Bran, Rickon, etc, and were open to kids that have never acted in anything before.
HotD's casting process occurred during the pandemic, so their casting director cast the kid roles directly from UK/Aussie acting schools. And due to the rules of having kids on set (the amount of hours they can work per day, always having parental chaperones, school) they wanted to cast kids that were already acting professionally or were knee deep in prestigious acting schools with teachers the hiring director trusted.
With the pandemic covid restrictions causing delays in production, time really was money and they had deadlines to hit so they couldn't afford a long drawn out casting search or hiring more green actors.
But this approach also severely limited the pool of available actors they could choose from since the kids had to have a white and black parent, be in a prestigious acting school, have English/British ancestry for the accent, and reasonably look like they could be kids of Matt Smith. I imagine the pool would have been even smaller if they also would have specified 1/4 black ancestry, especially since they had to get it right twice, with two different actors for Baela and Rhaena.
This is who they ended up with for the children (Jace, Luke, Aemond, Helaena, Baela, Rhaena, youngest Laena)
Young Laenor was also one of the more difficult roles to cast, so much that they put out a casting call on facebook and passed it around in industry circles, which ended up getting leaked.
“One kissing scene”. Imagine being the breh that finally fits the description, being excited to be on Thrones, and finding out you gotta make out with another man.
they should’ve specified that in the casting brief
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Without spoiling the future for me, wtf is wrong with Allicent’s daughter? She’s a whole weirdo…will she matter (simple yes or no works)
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Another yes/no - will there be more than 3 factions warring? right now I’m expecting daemon vs rhae/rhae’s kids vs Alicent’s kids (dont tell me the sets, just yes/no on more than 3)
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I don’t know why folks in the main thread are tripping over light spoilers. I’ve read stuff in here and watch spoiler vids and I’m still surprised and entertained every week. This show is all about the execution.
This isn’t a show full of gotcha moments and surprises from what I can tell.
I’m familiar with all the major players and plot points but it doesn’t take away from the show. For example it’s clear as day Viserys is gonna die but if you said that in the main thread someone would jump down your throat.
This isn’t a show full of gotcha moments and surprises from what I can tell.
I’m familiar with all the major players and plot points but it doesn’t take away from the show. For example it’s clear as day Viserys is gonna die but if you said that in the main thread someone would jump down your throat.
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Fwiw all of the actors they cast as Baela and Rhaena are bi-racial. The casting guideline specified that they had to have a white parent.
One of the big differences in the casting for HotD vs GoT, is that Thrones held a long and exhaustive search and audition process for the kid actors for Arya, Sansa, Bran, Rickon, etc, and were open to kids that have never acted in anything before.
HotD's casting process occurred during the pandemic, so their casting director cast the kid roles directly from UK/Aussie acting schools. And due to the rules of having kids on set (the amount of hours they can work per day, always having parental chaperones, school) they wanted to cast kids that were already acting professionally or were knee deep in prestigious acting schools with teachers the hiring director trusted.
With the pandemic covid restrictions causing delays in production, time really was money and they had deadlines to hit so they couldn't afford a long drawn out casting search or hiring more green actors.
But this approach also severely limited the pool of available actors they could choose from since the kids had to have a white and black parent, be in a prestigious acting school, have English/British ancestry for the accent, and reasonably look like they could be kids of Matt Smith. I imagine the pool would have been even smaller if they also would have specified 1/4 black ancestry, especially since they had to get it right twice, with two different actors for Baela and Rhaena.
This is who they ended up with for the children (Jace, Luke, Aemond, Helaena, Baela, Rhaena, youngest Laena)
Young Laenor was also one of the more difficult roles to cast, so much that they put out a casting call on facebook and passed it around in industry circles, which ended up getting leaked.
“Look completely black” i swear nikkas dont know what real black people look like anymore.
How her daughters blacker than her
White people dont know how to portray mulattos right in any damn visual medium. shyt is frustrating and immediately takes me out of the experience
