Now that the thoroughly excellent Dunk and Egg TV show has finished its limited run, the publicity machine is already kicking in for the the third season of House of the Dragon, which is only a few months away.
Unfortunately, it looks like the people who sell that TV show are ignoring the complex and loud subtext of the story and are sticking with a 'whose side are you on?' theme. And that is bonkers to me, because it's missing the entire point of the thing.
With all the fictional reference books about the history of Westeros and the world in exists in, there are a thousand weird stories to tell about the people who live on that world. The Dance of the Dragons isn't particularly one of my favourites, but it is still an intense and stylish show.
But it is properly annoying when a pop-up ad on some news website demands to know if I'm for the Greens or the Blacks, and I do find it somewhat offensive, because that's the kind of thinking that sparked this fictional war and the infinite carnage and untold misery caused by some cunts who think they deserve to rule the land.
Both sides in the Dance of the Dragons have some despicable and nasty people doing things in their names, and both sides have innocents, and both sides are full of good people forced to do what they can for the survival of their families.
It's these complexities, these details, that make the vast brushstrokes of this story so vivid. And it's certainly not dependent on whose side you are on. If you're not on the side of the smallfolk and other innocents, it doesn't matter who you support.
They're all monsters. They're all dragons.
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