Game of Thrones spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight ordered to HBO series

[137th Gebirg]

Sorry for the tangent.

Now who’s lying?

 

[Thestral]

We have seen only tiny bits of the current crew compared to the HotD Targaryens so I can't agree.
What do we know about Maekar other than him being a brick or Daeron compared to the black and Green family members ?
I assume they are only more compelling because you find the show more compelling and it's nothing to do with characters or actors.

We know that Maekar is the kind of man who doesn't think you should talk to your horse, and that Egg doesn't consider him a good father. We know that he's ashamed of Aerion's behavior and cowardice, both in words and the way he drags Aerion offscreen by the ear, but when the chips are down he'll stand by his son in a matter of trials and faith. We can tell he feels overshadowed by Baelor, but loves and respects his brother.

About Daeron? The guy got 2 scenes, and in one of them the audience only knew him as some random dick highborn. But the weight of his dreaming is communicated so much more effectively than poor Helaena, who's also a dreamer and should have one of the most emotional scenes in the show so far, but the showrunners decided it would be better to show us Alicent banging Criston Cole.

It's nothing against the actors, but the directing and writing is just so much less... human.

 

[Saul]

I got my timeline mixed up because I assumed Egg was going to turn out to be the Mad King. Thankfully not.