![]() ![]() Which is how you know you're watching a fantasy series. Aegon is just the worst.Īt the reception afterwards, nobody brought a casserole, or a shrimp ring, or a party hoagie, or Danish. Everyone, that is, except Daemon, who giggles, because he's just the worst.īut then the camera lingers on young Aegon, looking bored and generally insufferable, so Daemon, you're off the hook. Vaemond gives the eulogy in Valyrian, and throws in a few thinly-veiled barbs about how Velaryon blood is thick (must be all the fried clams) and will never thin, which causes everyone to clear their throats and throw uncomfortable glances at Jayce and Luke. I'm the kinda guy that smirks at a funeral No one can turn a eulogy into a me-logy like Vaemond (Wil Johnson). And creepy Ser Larys, slinking around the place like a silent-movie vamp. Ser Qarl Correy, Laenor's *throat-clearing noise*, as my mom would call him. Ser Criston Cole, being a smug jerk once again. Ottto Hightower, being Handy, once again. The king, the queen and their kids Aegon, Aemond and Helaena. Laenor's wife Rhaenyra and "their" kids, Jayce and Luke. Her mother Rhaenys, her father Corlys, her uncle Vaemond, and her brother Laenor. The gang's all here: Her not-so-grieving husband Daemon and her very-much-grieving kids, Rhaena and Baela. There is a fireworks factory in our future, reader, and our bus is just now pulling out of the school parking lot. I do not share this view, to put it mildly. ![]() Some folks have been complaining about what they view as the breakneck speed with which the show burns through its plot. Big things happen! Big changes! A dragon gained, an eye lost! A marriage ends in fire, another begins in blood! Battle lines get drawn - no but for real, this time we mean it, we're using permanent marker! And two characters, the two you least expect, get something that looks a hell of a lot like a happy ending together! Somehow! In defiance of all laws of God and Man! Especially when the Man in question is George R.R. ![]()
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