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helaenahightower · 2 years

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i don't disagree with people criticizing the lack of screen time laena has gotten but i am confused by how many people i've seen acting like book!laena wasn't a cardboard cutout who existed to ride vhagar, be rejected by viserys, disappear from the story completely for ten years, return to be daemon's placeholder wife, give birth, and then die

#i would've loved to get more than 3 episodes of laena #but she's such a non-character in the book that i was expecting...... pretty much what we're getting lol #it just seems inevitable that a season covering ~30 years in only 10 episodes would have to sideline characters like laena and harwin #like harwin has only had like one single line of dialogue so far and he's probably dying in tonight's episode!#honestly i feel like having just 2 more episodes in each half of the season and a bigger dragon budget would solve a lot of problems #cuz with only 10 episodes everyone who isn't particularly relevant to the dance ends up getting sidelined for the sake of plot #and i understand that choice but it's sad that side characters with potential end up being neglected as a result of the tight timeline #anyway all that being said if i had complete power over this show season 1 would be like fourteen episodes and also it would be animated #eliminating the need for a big enough time jump to justify an actor switch and letting us spend more time with laena laenor and harwin #during those ten years we're skipping in the show

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