In this ninth edition of Hands on HotD, Merry and Clint and Special Guest Hand Kristine Kippins cover Season 1 Episode 9 of HBO's niche arthouse property HOUSE OF THE DRAGON - The Green Council
In this episode we:
- Evaluate the good, the bad, and the suboptimal strategies and events of the Green Coup.
- Track Alicent Hightower's emotional journey from mourning to stressing to plotting and back to stressing SO HARD again.
- Celebrate Mysaria, the White Worm, for quoting not-necessarily marxist theory and listening to the Learned Hands Podcast.
- Pay respects to Lord Lymon Beesbury, He Tried :( .
- Critique Aemond Targaryen's historically and philosophically inaccurate interpretation of the line of succession.
- Check in with our EXCLUSIVE WBA Dragon correspondent Sanrixian on the extent of the damage to the Dragonpit.
- Enjoy Aegon's Wost/Best Hangover ever, where he gains absolute power, gets yelled at by a dragon, and his mom refuses to say she loves him.
- Appreciate Rhaenys' various girlboss power plays, from her dressing down of Alicent, to her casual war crimes, to her decision not to burninate the greens to embers.
- Seriously and solemnly evaluate Larys Strong's pornhub search history, and also what it says about Society.
Supplemental reading:
- Learned Hands Officially Legally Correct (kind of) Line of Succession
- Our Dance Party Episode on the Greens Coup
- Sanrixian on Patreon
Outro music courtesy Sid Luscious & The Pants. None of this should be construed as legal advice OBVIOUSLY.
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