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the biggest issue with hotd s2 is that it's not long enough so I'm not gonna rag on it too hard when I literally just want more. its really warner bros discovery's fault this time around compared to GoT also the martell sibling povs getting cut from the show broke my heart, I fear you may be sparing yourself even more pain by skipping out on s8

The “critics” who criticized HotD like that aren’t critics, they are grifters. Similarly to how Th3Birdman has been exposing lately, like The critical drinkers, it’s not about legitimate criticism, it’s culture wars issues.

I hated season 5 of GoT i was hate watching it by season 6, i only watched season 7 and 8 only because it became a tradition to watch the show with my dad. Similarly to you i was invested in a lot of the books that was cut. HotD so far is great

Metal head here… it’s okay to like other genre….

What if I don't want to fight Tom? I just want to wish a happy birthday, to whom it may apply.

GLOBAR mention! Don’t let schwift hear bout this

20:27 fuck yess! 😅

This is an excellent theory, but I underestimated it the first time I heard it a year ago: The reason is your emphasis on the idea that Dany is the green-haired girl Dany played with in the Water Gardens. But Arianne is ten years older than Dany, so they wouldn’t have been play fighting together as kids of roughly the same age. They’d be way too different in size and maturity. Moreover, Arianne would have been 13-14 at the time Dany w as only 3-4 and it wouldn’t even be safe for her in the water pools yet; she’d be too likely to drown. Furthermore, if the point was to disguise a platinum-haired Dany with violet eyes by dying her hair green the last thing you would want to do is put in her water every day that would continually wash out her hair dye as she played so she would come out of the Water Gardens tending to look Targaryen even then she went in with darker green hair. So I think it’s very safe to say the green-haired girl was the daughter of the Archon of Tyrosh just as Doran says. This makes much more sense than her being Dany. But to me that’s not the strength of the theory, after I heard you describe it a second time on Interesting Nerds. The strength of the theory is that Dany took a similar journey to Myrcella through Braavos but she and Viserys ended up in Tyrosh where the real House with the Red door is, and that there was a plan to send Arianne across the sea to be with Viserys, and maybe also to bring Dany back to start playing in the Water Gardens or at least be in Dorne at about age 5 or 6 (when she would be old enough to learn to swim and play in the water) but it never happened bc Arianne’s mother freaked out and then shortly afterward William Darry dies in Tyrosh, most of the gold and jewels were stolen, and Viserys panicked and went on the run. When you combine this idea with the information that “the House with the Red Door was moved from Tyrosh to Braavos from a draft” isn’t it more likely that George revised the draft to reflect a mistake by Dany about where she was from one to five but kept the original idea that she was in Tyrosh. -A Theory of Ice & Fire discussion space on quora

This is really a great video, I enjoyed all your takes. You definitely deserve more views and subs! ❤

I liked, only a couple more likes and you'll be watching season 8 🌚

Glidus 👌👌👌 love that guy! Thanks for your vid Meera, a great one as per usual! (Also I wanna say I didn’t like s2 of HotD cause of what I consider to be big issues, and no critique would’ve changed my mind 😉 I’ll admit the first four episodes were great though and s1 was really good)

I'm glad this wasn't particularly about hotd, having still not seen it or engaged with it hahaha. I will say about nickelback though, on the point of forgiving artists for making things one might personally despise, that they're real people, with real feelings, and only the fat stacks of cash insulate them from how god damn mean people are about them. The only rock radio station that can be picked up where I live is in Vancouver, and they do an annual contest where local unsigned bands get their singles played on the radio, listeners pick the best ones, then the station supports the winning artist, and long ago, nickelback was one of them. That station plays so much god damn nickelback and I hate every single song of their's, but they were just kids, and they fuckin Made It. Pumping out the same shit over and over isn't particularly artistically impressive, but that's part of Making It, this is what their fans like. If I had never heard a single song by them because they never got popular, then someone played one for me and told me "this is off a self released EP by some pretty canadian boys" I would be confused why they weren't HUGE, because they play music designed to BE huge because that's what they want out of their art. I'm talking myself in circles, but at one time had some sort of point about the war between art and commerce and how deeply unhelpful the vast majority of discourse is. Thats why you make the videos and I watch em hahaha.

I’ve never really liked a film or tv adaptation of fantasy I’ve loved. I think hotd (and got for that matter) is entertaining but can’t hold a candle to the immersion of the books. I don’t understand the folks that are insisting on hotd season 2 being this huge drop off in quality. But then again I’m not that invested I just think the show is pretty.

Thank you for making this! Many of the things people complain about with season 2 actually do make sense if you approach it with good faith instead of immediately writing it off as bad. My favorite is the people who say that Alicent was written inconsistently because she tried to protect Aegon at the end of s1 but then gave him up at the end of s2, as if she didn’t have a whole character arc that led there. I wouldn’t say the season is flawless, but it’s doing a lot of really cool things with the text and I can’t wait for season 3.

I've been bingeing your videos and cursing myself that I didn't find them sooner. I wrote my master's on ASOIAF, movement, undeath and the racial O(o)ther this year and I think your input about fae and these pacts would have been incredibly insightful. I think some ASOIAF channels don't really get the deeper meaning and themes of the books beyond a general idea that "monarchy=bad" but your videos actually get at the heart about the intersection between feminism, subjective reality, class and magic at the heart of the books.

This was amazing. The best HotD video I've seen.

Ok but Nickleback rhymed "sorry" and "story" because Canadian and they have a bit of my respect for that

In fairness, the missing battles in season 2 were the ones that probably should have taken place in episodes 9 and 10, and it is unfortunate that the season wasn't as long. But one of the reasons it's unfortunate the season wasn't as long is that it was great.

Female metalhead here. Yes, lots of gatekeeping about metal, what is metal, what isn’t metal, what’s good metal, etc… I think part of it is because metal is usually more technically intricate than many other kinds of music that we have a superiority complex about it. A lot of metal is symphonic or classically inspired and/or composed, not to mention the techniques used for power metal’s operatic vocals and even death growls and black shrieks. I love Glidus’s videos and observations and mainly got hooked on him with his Season 8 episode one comparing Cersei to Bart Simpson “I want en elephant!” That was in my head when watching her complain about the lack of elephants and he was the one UA-camr who satisfied me in that regard, lol. Very well done video and I’ll be watching more from you

Thank the gods for ASOIAF UA-cam and thank the gods for Ryan Condal and writers. Great video Meera!

As someone who loved HOTD S1 and S2 and felt insane trying to follow the discourse around it, THANK YOU.

…you’ve made me realize something about the toxic viewers (assuming it isn’t just clickbait)…as rational people, we think the hardest hitting criticisms are those that have the most truth to back them up, the most evidence: we weight them by “most LIKELY to be true”…. Toxic non-informed viewers….weight things by “most damaging IF they were true, no matter how ridiculous” For example, a criticism most LIKELY to be true / harder to disprove is “too many redundant scenes were spent on the three core characters, time taken from secondary characters like Cregan Stark, Helaena, Rhaena with Jeyne Arryn, who were relatively underused” The weighting based on “most damaging if true” would be “Sara Hess is a cannibal”. Is this what algorithm fueled politics like pizza gate has done to us as a society? People automatically believe the worst about their opponents? Ultimately making a WEAKER counter argument? Rather than a measured assessment and critique of their actual faults?

33:30 that’s not a real complaint made by the major ASOIAF themed channels: King’s Landing and Dragonstone are close enough in Blackwater Bay it wasn’t an issue: to an extent some yelled “how did Ser Arryk even get through the blockade?” But that’s a separate issue. NO ONE “teleported” in season 2…in terms of time constraints. Rhaenyra sneaking into KL was a bit silly but it’s not a timeline issue - people who hated it wanted a “gotcha moment”…. But why not just argue the real point? “I don’t think this makes sense for their character arc”…..basically they’re trying to build straw man arguments…they COULD build a strong argument about story arcs that’s like 60% effective….but they WANT something that’s an 100% slam-dunk against it - even if they have to invent it!

24:00 have you seen the supercut i use as the cover video on my channel, of the “Last Watch” documentary on Season 8? It worked too well and revealed just how disastrously incompetent they were: I sardonically spliced in key interviews with Benioff, Weiss, and Cogman laughingly boasting about how unqualified they were. I call it “The Last Watch & the Last Word”

20:44 Glidus

20:25 Season 8 actually is that bad.

19:55 the reason all of these cuts and condensations happened was to push the core actors into big “emotive” scenes…to pander them for awards. To vicariously pad D&D’s resume so they could jump ship for Star Wars films. There is no “artistic” reason: “Beyond the Wall” exists as awards bait to try to win Harington an Emmy. BAD awards bait that didn’t even work.

18:50 “just because everyone CAN have an opinion on something doesn’t mean everyone has an INFORMED opinion”

It wasn’t like this during season one. What platforms were you on before if you only engaged with it on UA-cam in season two?

I take issue with your assertion that battles are boring because - though I'm really interested in characters - battles are very dramatic and they explore environment and even culture. War is one of these strange human things which talk about our relationship with non-human things - nature. In its 'pure' form and how it manifests in 'civilised' (i.e brought out of a state of nature, an immersion in nature) human beings. War is primal aggression 1% of the time and practical logistics 99% of the time. And the environmental exploration is just so fascinating and vital, I kind of *need* to see characters go outside and interact intimately with valleys and forests and ditches and villages. It feels rich and also a new framework for exploration of character. Characters have a different set of concerns, usually more immediate and intense (do or die? risk myself or help others? or use them as human shields or as a trap almost, like Aegon suddenly became). Also, I admit I never could get into ballet. But battles are... balletic. A dance of dragons. I can appreciate ballet via this comparison. They're both full of human feeling without words, without explicit meaning. Right? Tell me if I'm wrong.

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Meera, as always, great video. and Bumblebee was a Volkswagen bug

BTW my favorite grrm battle ive read has to be the tyrion battle they cut from the show. Reading it was droll when I first got the books, but when i got the audiobooks it quickly became my favorite!! Roy dotrice gave the whole thing this voice (as you mentioned), this anxiety, this reality of the situation that i didnt capture on my first read. made me appreciate the battle scenes more 🤸‍♀️

the map debacle was so tired, like out of all the things one could critique about the episodes, people chose maps? fantasy maps drawn up by maesters who are using a loosely scientific metric system? arbitrary maps drawn by an author who doesnt specialize in maps? this is what people took umbrage with? Idk it just was so distracting online given how good the episodes were 🐂

I feel like I really like you, but not the 'tubers that you like

I want GRR Martin to watch this video. His response to HOTD has been disappointing and it’s sad to see him completely missing the point of adaptation and why/how adaptations have to be different from the source material.

love a new meera reed vid! sat and at attention 🫡

Oh man I knew exactly where that story was going when you said Avril's name. I got shamed out of liking her after her third album Best Damn Thing.

This was a really solid video about Freebird.

Awesome video! I honestly can say I don't love nor hate HotD season 2. I enjoyed it, but really disliked the finale, but I'm still going to watch season 3. Its an enitre season of a show, it can have good stuff and bad stuff. Also, I really enjoyed your take in this vid, and you did a really good job of putting my thoughts on HotD and Nickleback into words.

The motherhood and a song of ice and fire video you are looking for already exists in my opinion, and was made by bookborn (also this was a great video that made me reconsider some things about my views on season 2 of HotD)

How comes I am subscribed to this channel , I'm pretty much GoT fan , yes , but don't remember ever saw any of this lady videos before

Plot holes? In a film adaptation of a book that heavily relies on it being an in universe text? Why, I’ve never!