#hotd actors

[horizon-verizon]

Phoebe Campbell saying about Baela and Rhaena “There’s a little bit of tension because of their separate upbringings, Baela was raised with grandma & grandpa, Rhaena by stepmom and half siblings. Rhaena feels quite a lot of resentment there.”

So... that garbage fanfic wants to put the dragon twins against each other ?? They aren’t Arya and Sansa, Baela and Rhaena actually love each other, and unlike Sansa, Baela never bullied her sister. And why would Rhaena resent the fact that she had to live with her stepmom and half siblings ??

This is if--and only IF--Phoebe is correct in how the show will decide to characterize Rhaena, and since they literally acted the character, shot all the scenes, and haven't gone on record with bad takes, I think we don't have much a reason to suspect otherwise.

Link to the article that came out today and what anon refers to:

BranwynHlfwitch over at Twitter has a whole thread pointing out other stuff how Ryan Condal has never had a great grasp on the plot or really of history & historians.

I think that part of it is they are trying to develop these characters for their larger roles they're planning during the Dance & the way they decided to go about that is to create conflict b/t the fan fav sisters. And I think they might try to to argue or imply that she is resentful bc of not just second-son syndrome, but basically Baela was picked by their grandparents to be closer and let Rhaena be. Why not both of them, if they are already seeming to break tradition? It will likely folow the theme of silent rejection the show allows the audience to quickly assume from episode 6, where Rhaena bemoans Daemon ignoring her bc of her not hatching an egg...which I already talked about.

Baela--for a very dumb reason--becomes the "ward" of the Velaryons & Rhaenys wants Corlys to name Baela as his heir...presumably without consulting Daemon, the girl's father or Viserys, the head of the house Baela is actually a part of and who would determine how his house's possible heirs inherit what over other candidates...bc Baela & Rhaena are both technically still in line for the throne though they aren't titled as princesses. Just way down and the claims would get stronger the more people before them die...which we already see in the bk.

Anyway, Baela is seemingly older than Rhaena instead of being her twin as by canon; she has a dragon where Rhaena does not; she is, bc she is older, taken to Driftmark to learn the ways of a leader as if she might become the head of a house or whatever even though we also know that Corlys has definitely not named her his heir by his & Rhaenys' conversation in the last episode (so for 6 years why is Baela there without being named when they could just visit each other--her and Rhaenys--by ship and dragonback [pic below] idk, the spectacle of it?).

And while Rhaena loved her dad, loved her stepsiblings/1st cousins-once-removed & I believe that Rhaenyra was a great stepmother to her, because the show did not show us their lives, they will take advantage of that and present us with a lot of stuff like this--breaking lore and going along with the breakage to build their own tale but also sometimes not showing a logical progression from that point of breakage [again, lok to the link abt cradle-bonding].

Yes, there's the argument that Daemon is merely worried over Rhaena's being singled put and left out or belittled, sidelined, for not having a dragon as he felt being a second son/child even with his dragon...but again, look to my post about cradle-bonds and the history of dragon bonds he supposedly knows and it becomes still dumb when he still ends up doing the very thing he's supposed to have feared for his daughter, to her.

Would it have helped if the writers actually developed these people's lives before the Dance and actually think through their plot decisions if they planned to make Rhaena-Daemon's deal this, absolutely! But we have what we have.

Show!Rhaena could come to just resent her sister for all this perceived favoritism.

I may be wrong, who knows.

[ride-thedragon]

The way everyone in the comments is supporting him.

[welightthewaysource]

Ewan Mitchell & Tom Glynn-Carney| House of the Dragon commentary

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

EWAN MITCHELL saying "mm-hmm" for 7 seconds in interviews.

[alicent-archive]

This will never fail to make me laugh; Alicent was experiencing quite possibly the worst night of her life, Rhaenyra didn't gaf about the deadly lasers being sent her way, and Laenor in the back was going hard for absolutely no reason.

[crouteann]

“im not gonna do anymore thumbnai—“

this one is fun, i will probably mess with the idea some more but i really want to make a rhaenicent print… they make me crazy

[myfandomprompts]

“I think method acting gets a bad rap nowadays, but if you consider it [in relation to] people’s time, it’s certainly not a bad thing.” - EWAN MITCHELL, for The Face

[The A24 Project]

[diana-foggy-master]

PHIA SABAN | EMMA D'ARCY | TOM GLYNN-CARNEY | EWAN MITCHELL

House Of The Dragon Season 2 Premiere

[florisbaratheons]

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

Someone please explain to me why "stans" are going after the actors again. ESPECIALLY THE ACTORS OF COLOR? Fabien is getting garbage on his socials again. Bethany is getting death threats. Give me a fucking break, this is ridiculous.

This is a SHOW. These characters are FAKE.

Ya'll need help because you obviously cannot separate fiction from reality anymore. Fucking wackjobs.

[minasvalentine]

(pic is from the hotd season 2 teaser)

[christophernolan]

The way Rhaenyra only had ONE line in the entire episode and the impact that had on society!!!!

[horizon-verizon]

Its so wild to me that the showrunners actively chose to include the worst, nastiest parts about Aegon II (the rape, the child fighting pits, the harassment of women, mistreatment and neglect of Helaena, deadbeat dad who tried to run away & abandon his children) and then they constantly go on interviews to talk about how sympathetic and minsunderstood he is. No tf he’s not, he just deserve to be killed in the most painful way possible.

I think TGC was saying that Aegon was "misunderstood" not in that he rapes bc he's been abused or anything like that, but that people misunderstand Aegon's...determination to lead or to fight or to make his own decisions. Because he says Otto wants to control him and underestimates how insistent Aegon is, which is actually true from the orig canon. Bk!Aegon straight up dismisses Otto and makes Criston Cole his hand. But elsewise, I think he's leaning into his character bc his rewatch with Ewan shows him hating on Jace and his posture in a more blank-faced tongue-in-cheek way. I'm not sure though bc he keeps his face mostly blank for all this. And I only watched these two clips from him so maybe I'm just misinformed-- but that's it for now. Did I dislike it being promoted as his "noble" determination to fight, sure, but that's how Aegon the character would see it and again, idk if he's just promoting a character as the others are. With Bethany, however, you can really see that she both believes as her character does in Aegon not being king, and not only is she just correct I love her enthusiasms, which is itself still promoting her character and the show bc it gets you hyped.

As for the showrunners that you were actually talking about...looking at you Sara Hess, a writer--who said that he "didn't know" he was SAing girls 🙄. We live with a global patriarchal film industry, what can I say? Where actors OR writers and producers will be compelled or actually believe that a male character is just "misunderstood".

[artnoonewants]

Someone asked where criston was in this post and this is my answer

[welightthewaysource]

House Of The Dragon: Defend Your Council

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

FABIEN FRANKEL, OLIVIA COOKE, TOM GLYNN-CARNEY, EWAN MITCHELL & PHIA SABAN TOGETHER, in New York City ahead of the ‘HOUSE OF THE DRAGON’ Season 2 Red Carpet on Monday.

[thesunfyre4446]

pleaseeeee not the TB stans hating on tom and ewan for rooting for their characters??? like sorry that they're having fun doing their job???? not to mention commenting about their looks and "ugh how can anyone find them attractive??" ummm that's the actors y'all are talking about, not even the characters. and evidently a lot of people find them attractive <3 y'all are embarrassing yourselves.