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Added a bit regarding the "I am your king" line in episode 2 echoing GOT 3x10.
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* Including an echo to Game of Thrones, in the episode "The Rogue Prince", after Corlys criticizes Viserys' choice to marry Alicent, Viserys declares "and I am your king" to shut him down. In the Game of Thrones episode "Mhysa", Tywin shuts down Joffrey with "Any man who must say, 'I am the king' is no true king." This subtly hints at Visery's lack of true authority for most of the series.
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* Otto Hightower manipulating Viserys into marrying his daughter Alicent, an act that can be pointed to as the cause of the Dance of the Dragons, makes Aerys' utter refusal hundreds of years later to even consider allowing his son Rhaegar to marry Cersei Lannister more understandable; he remembers what happened the last time the royal family married the daughter of their Hand.
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* Otto Hightower manipulating Viserys into marrying his daughter Alicent, an act that can be pointed to as one of the cause causes of the Dance of the Dragons, makes adds new meaning to Aerys' utter refusal hundreds of years later to even consider allowing his son Rhaegar to marry Cersei Lannister more understandable; he Lannister. He remembers what happened the last time the royal family married the daughter of their Hand.
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This belongs in WMG. Sliver hair is not solely a Targaryen trait, it is for those who are descendants of Valyria.
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* In the first episode, Mysaria offers to bring Daemon a maiden with silver hair when he has trouble performing sexually. Throughout the rest of the series, silver hair is considered a Targaryen trademark, to the point where the penultimate episode has a guardsman recognise a random child as a bastard of Aegon II's based on their hair colour alone. Now consider the fact that, much like Aegon II, Daemon is shown to spend significant amounts of time in pleasure houses, in a setting without reliable birth control. Unless it's a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, Mysaria may have offered Daemon the chance to...ahem...''deflower'' one of his own illegitimate children.
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* Littlefinger's famous speech about how there are only a few hundred blades that make up the Iron Throne gets an ironic twist here. There are only 200 or so swords in Littlefinger's time, but here, the throne takes up an entire dais. It's not the story has been told over and over again until we forget that it's a lie, it's been told over and over again until the truth is ''worn away''. It's a way of connecting it to the idea of the show itself, that rather than the unreliable narrators who tell the story in the books, the camera is a neutral observer, and the differences are what's getting lost in the retelling, and to the overall story of Westeros in that Game of Thrones begins with a Night's Watchman bringing a CassandraTruth to Ned Stark and losing his head fr it.
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* Littlefinger's famous speech about how there are only a few hundred blades that make up the Iron Throne gets an ironic twist here. There are only 200 or so swords in Littlefinger's time, but here, the throne takes up an entire dais. It's not the story has been told over and over again until we forget that it's a lie, it's been told over and over again until the truth is ''worn away''. It's a way of connecting it to the idea of the show itself, that rather than the unreliable narrators who tell the story in the books, the camera is a neutral observer, and the differences are what's getting lost in the retelling, and to the overall story of Westeros in that Game of Thrones begins with a Night's Watchman bringing a CassandraTruth to Ned Stark and losing his head fr for it.
* In the first episode, Mysaria offers to bring Daemon a maiden with silver hair when he has trouble performing sexually. Throughout the rest of the series, silver hair is considered a Targaryen trademark, to the point where the penultimate episode has a guardsman recognise a random child as a bastard of Aegon II's based on their hair colour alone. Now consider the fact that, much like Aegon II, Daemon is shown to spend significant amounts of time in pleasure houses, in a setting without reliable birth control. Unless it's a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, Mysaria may have offered Daemon the chance to...ahem...''deflower'' one of his own illegitimate children.
* In the first episode, Mysaria offers to bring Daemon a maiden with silver hair when he has trouble performing sexually. Throughout the rest of the series, silver hair is considered a Targaryen trademark, to the point where the penultimate episode has a guardsman recognise a random child as a bastard of Aegon II's based on their hair colour alone. Now consider the fact that, much like Aegon II, Daemon is shown to spend significant amounts of time in pleasure houses, in a setting without reliable birth control. Unless it's a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, Mysaria may have offered Daemon the chance to...ahem...''deflower'' one of his own illegitimate children.
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* Littlefinger's famous speech about how there are only a few hundred blades that make up the Iron Throne gets an ironic twist here. There are only 200 or so swords in Littlefinger's time, but here, the throne takes up an entire dais. It's not the story has been told over and over again until we forget that it's a lie, it's been told over and over again until the truth is ''worn away''. It's a way of connecting it to the idea of the show itself, that rather than the unreliable narrators who tell the story in the books, the camera is a neutral observer, and the differences are what's getting lost in the retelling, and to the overall story of Westeros in that Game of Thrones begins with a Night's Watchman bringing a CassandraTruth to Ned Stark and losing his head fr it.
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* Otto Hightower manipulating Viserys into marrying his daughter Alicent, an act that can be pointed to as the cause of the Dance of the Dragons, makes Aerys' utter refusal hundreds of years later to even consider allowing his son Rhaegar to marry Cersei Lannister more understandable; he knows what happened the last time the royal family married the daughter of their Hand.
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* Otto Hightower manipulating Viserys into marrying his daughter Alicent, an act that can be pointed to as the cause of the Dance of the Dragons, makes Aerys' utter refusal hundreds of years later to even consider allowing his son Rhaegar to marry Cersei Lannister more understandable; he knows remembers what happened the last time the royal family married the daughter of their Hand.
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* The Velaryons being given a RaceLift in the series was obviously in part an effort to make a more diverse cast but it was also very much a case of PragmaticAdaptation. In the books they have the same pure Valyrian features as the Targaryens (i.e. pale skin, white-blond hair, violet eyes). Given the amount of time skips and how often the two families appear on screen and intermarry, it would have been seven hells trying to tell them all apart visually. This approach had a crucial advantage for an important story beat, though. The Velaryons' darker skin appears to dominate offspring between the Velaryons and Targaryens but given that both families have white-blond hair, that also gets passed down. Ergo, when Luke, Jace, and Joffrey come along and their parentage is questioned, it's easier to see that the people doing the questioning have a point. After all, blondes having a brunette baby is rare but not unheard of. But to be brunette ''and'' have neither the pale skin of the Targaryens nor the significantly darker skin of the Velaryons would be enough to raise some eyebrows.
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** It also echoes how England[=/=]Britain (which Westeros in many ways is known to be based upon) was ruled for centuries by royal dynasties who primarily and often exclusively spoke their ancestral language at court rather than the local language.
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** There's every chance that the dragons themselves are also inbred to some degree, particularly with there being so few of them.
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* Otto Hightower manipulating Viserys into marrying his daughter Alicent, an act that can be pointed to as the cause of the Dance of the Dragons, makes Aerys' utter refusal to even consider allowing his son Rhaegar marry Cersei Lannister; he knows what happened the last time the royal family married the daughter of their hand.
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* Otto Hightower manipulating Viserys into marrying his daughter Alicent, an act that can be pointed to as the cause of the Dance of the Dragons, makes Aerys' utter refusal hundreds of years later to even consider allowing his son Rhaegar to marry Cersei Lannister; Lannister more understandable; he knows what happened the last time the royal family married the daughter of their hand.Hand.
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* Otto Hightower manipulating Viserys into marrying his daughter Alicent, an act that can be pointed to as the cause of the Dance of the Dragons, makes Aerys' utter refusal to even consider allowing his son Rhaegar marry Cersei Lannister; he knows what happened the last time the royal family married the daughter of their hand.
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** Viserys makes it clear that the telling of Aegon the Conqueror's dream is a tradition from.king to heir. Almost certainly, the Mad King forgot to pass this tradition on. And even if he did...no one would have passed it to Robert Baratheon. One wonders if The End was even triggered by the fall of the Targaryens...
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** Viserys makes it clear that the telling of Aegon the Conqueror's dream is a tradition from.passed from king to heir. Almost certainly, the Mad King forgot to pass this tradition on. And even if he did...no one would have passed it to Robert Baratheon. One wonders if The End was even triggered by the fall of the Targaryens...
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** Viserys makes it clear that the telling of Aegon the Conqueror's dream is a tradition from.king to heir. Almost certainly, the Mad King forgot to pass this tradition on. And even if he did...no one would have passed it to Robert Baratheon. One wonders if The End was even triggered by the fall of the Targaryens...
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* The casting of Ty Tennant and Creator/TomGlynnCarney as young and adult Aegon received criticism for the just so-so resemblance in a franchise that usually aces SeparatedAtBirthCasting. However, the main difference is Tennant's very defined bone structure compared to Glynn-Carney having a naturally fuller face, which can also be read as puffiness that Aegon has contracted from years of excessive alcohol consumption. In the books, Aegon II was also said to have a puffy face, albeit from overuse of milk of the poppy.
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* The casting of Ty Tennant and Creator/TomGlynnCarney as young and adult Aegon received criticism for the just so-so resemblance in a franchise that usually aces SeparatedAtBirthCasting. However, the main difference is Tennant's very defined bone structure compared to Glynn-Carney having a naturally fuller face, which can also be read as puffiness that Aegon has contracted from years of excessive alcohol consumption. In the books, Aegon II was also said to have a puffy face, albeit from overuse of milk of the poppy.poppy after the injuries he got in his duel with Baela.
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* The casting of Ty Tennant and Creator/TomGlynnCarney as young and adult Aegon received criticism for the just so-so resemblance in a franchise that usually aces SeparatedAtBirthCasting. However, the main difference is Tennant's very defined bone structure compared to Glynn-Carney having a naturally fuller face, which can also be read as puffiness that Aegon has contracted from years of excessive alcohol consumption.
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* The casting of Ty Tennant and Creator/TomGlynnCarney as young and adult Aegon received criticism for the just so-so resemblance in a franchise that usually aces SeparatedAtBirthCasting. However, the main difference is Tennant's very defined bone structure compared to Glynn-Carney having a naturally fuller face, which can also be read as puffiness that Aegon has contracted from years of excessive alcohol consumption. In the books, Aegon II was also said to have a puffy face, albeit from overuse of milk of the poppy.
