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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a question about this last episode.  As Rhaenys is escaping the castle, they show a fire in one wing of it.  Was that the room she'd been locked in?  As in, they intended to burn her to death?[/quote]

She left when it was dark out and reappeared when it was daylight.  You'd think she traveled really far but then the Queen and her posse appear like it wasn't far at all.

This show is so corny, so predictable, and a total ripoff of GoT.  It is the same show - fighting for the throne.  [/quote]

Uh, how can it be a "rip off" of GoT. It's literally part of the same fantasy world and based on a book written by the same person who wrote the books GoT was based on. They aren't "ripping off" GoT. It's part of the same story and has some producers in common (though new showrunners/writers, for which I'm very grateful actually) and they also appear to be using many of the same sets, costumers, etc. It makes sense that it explores many of the same central themes and and has some of the same drivers of conflict, like the fight for power.

I actually have not found the show predictable. One major improvement over GoT is that the show is that they've hired more female writers and directors (GoT had none) and that has greatly improved the way issues like rape or the interior lives of female characters are handled, IMO. The GRRM books from the GoT series actually had a lot of interiority of the female characters (as it is told from a rotating POV) and explored the politics of gender in this world with more nuance and sensitivity (and definitely didn't portray rape as titillating, as the show did). It's great to see that incorporated more in this story, which is based on a much dryer text (written as a history of the Targaryen civil war, not from the POV of the people it portrays).

Anyway, I do agree it's corny at times. But many things I love are.[/quote]

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