Anyone notice how every “neutral” subreddit meant to facilitate conversation between TG and TB ends up being entirely run over by Greens? Even their own subreddit started as a general HOTD one before the diehard LARPers woke up like sleeper agents during S1 and turned it into a circle-jerk of misery and spite. We quite literally can’t have anything in this fandom broaching civility.
And sure, TB isn’t absolved of blame — we’ve had our moments — but it’s never been nearly as bad as *that*.
With the recent season coming out and the theory that the skull Rhaenyra is crying over is Viserys’, they’ve now resorted to whining (again, like they always do) that they’re being “villainized” by the writers and Condal hates them and doesn’t want to adapt them fairly … and when someone says “oh wow leaving Viserys’ corpse there is horrible” their knee-jerk reaction is to use Aemma’s death as a justification for desecrating him, as if 1) the greens, who explicitly wanted Aemma’s bloodline to END, would care,& 2) as if THEY care. Because they don’t lol. They just need a reason to excuse every single thing that faction does even if to them it apparently doesn’t make sense.
I even saw a comment blaming the Blacks for the war starting as far back as Aemond losing his eye. Mind you, Rhaenyra was on the verge of conceding to Aegon entirely right up until dumbfuck Aemond decided to bring Luke on a haunted Storm Ride where he terrorizes him so badly Vhagar is like “I got you boo” and kills both him and Arrax during. Liiiike.
Reading their analysis of the show makes me want to play Russian roulette with an AK47. They all sit there and claim to want the canon material adapted but good luck having fans at all when they’re 10x worse in the books without Condal ruining every other character in order to make them remotely likable in the show. And then they act like they actually read the source material? Really? Are we being fucking serious right now? They’re sitting here moaning about VILLAINS being VILLAINS. If you don’t like VILLAINS, don’t support the faction OF VILLAINS. A faction that STARTS on the desecration of a family member’s body, to usurp a claim that wasn’t theirs, and progresses a needless conflict because they commit an insanely huge societal taboo ISN’T SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD.
But, because Condal loves $, he’s contrived a non argument from thin air that somehow the message we’re all supposed to have gotten from the book is “everyone is bad lol”
Yes GRRM the liberal activist wrote 100s of pages of women being fucked over just so you can support a bunch of one dimensional medieval MAGA wanna-bes and ramble about how wronged they were all along. Fuck off.
There’s literally no point in trying to be diplomatic with these people (unless they’re actually self aware). Because they don’t WANT to be diplomatic. They’ve taken over every “neutral” sub and mass downvote opinions they even slightly disagree with then act like they’re so agreeable for not keeping their glazing to the Green subs instead. To the point where *we* can’t interact in any of these subs anymore or risk tanking our Reddit karma because they throw fits whenever someone isn’t nodding along with the bullshit they spiel on a regular basis.
I can’t wait for this show to end.