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House of the Dragon Ruined Rhaena & Nettles (Patreon)

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2026-08-24 00:00:09
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2026-11
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Yeah, this season of House of the Dragon has a lot to answer for.

Nettles Art by Euralis Weekes

Sources & References:

✨ The Complete Weird Tales Omnibus of Conan by Finn J.D. John

✨Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll

✨"George R.R. Martin considered giving the Targaryens dark skin" https://winteriscoming.net/2019/10/16/george-r-r-martin-considered-making-targaryens-black/

✨"CONCERNING GREY WORM" https://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Concerning_Grey_Worm

✨"House of the Dragon’s Ryan Condal Explains Helaena’s Revelation, Daemon’s Deception, and the Greens’ New Addition" https://www.ign.com/articles/ryan-condal-interview-house-of-the-dragon-helaena-pregnant-daeron

✨George R. R. Martin Answers Fan Questions:
https://youtu.be/7R4c_2uaxT8?t=80

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House of the Dragon Ruined Rhaena & Nettles

Yeah, this season of House of the Dragon has a lot to answer for. Nettles Art by Euralis Weekes Sources & References: ✨ The Complete Weird Tales Omnibus of Conan by Finn J.D. John ✨Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll ✨"George R.R. Martin considered giving the Targaryens dark skin" https://winteriscoming.net/2019/10/16/george-r-r-martin-considered-making-targaryens-black/ ✨"CONCERNING GREY WORM" https://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Concerning_Grey_Worm ✨"House of the Dragon’s Ryan Condal Explains Helaena’s Revelation, Daemon’s Deception, and the Greens’ New Addition" https://www.ign.com/articles/ryan-condal-interview-house-of-the-dragon-helaena-pregnant-daeron ✨George R. R. Martin Answers Fan Questions: https://youtu.be/7R4c_2uaxT8?t=80

Comments

M. I. Nunes

Wow. I'm really sorry that this was a negative video for you to make, but I really appreciate you making this! You captured so many of my feelings, as another Black fantasy fan who also grew up watching and reading this genre, and getting more and more frustrated with how we were portrayed, and how the wider fantasy audience treats us. You took a lot of thoughts out of my mind and it was refreshing, thank you! I also really liked when you pointed out how much the general ASOIAF fandom ignores the themes and aspects where George R R Martin is trying to engage and subvert more problematic aspects of typical fantasy writing. I literally clapped when you pointed out how nobody seemed to have a problem with GoT killing off/underwriting/miswriting the few Black characters and then undercutting Sansa and Catelyn! I feel like Martin writes with so much intersectionality but most of the online fandom just misses that. (Not race related, but another example is how I feel like Robert Baratheon never really loved Ned's dead sister (I forgot her name) and it's made really clear in the books, but most of the fandom seems to be missing this because they just rushed to memeify Robert). I don't even know if I'm going to watch season 4 when HotD comes back. I genuinely don't know what they're attempting to do with the writing at this point, and while the actors/actresses are trying their hardest to make it at least watchable, the show is just exhausting. ! And another part in the latest season that was oddly racialized; the part where Rhaenyra grabs Baela's face just before she makes the "disloyalty is in your blood" or w/e comment. This season had too many white people randomly attacking these black princesses to try and pretend that it was woke! Excellent video!!!

MK

You mentioned Sansa and Catelyn being mishandled early on which I agree with, particularly Sansa (they never could figure out how to interpret more internal characters), but I would also add Dany to the list. While not my favorite character, I feel like they also failed to translate her from the text, leaning into a strange almost one dimensional rah rah direction, when Martin was clearly writing someone more conflicted and complicated to support his anti- colonialism messaging. And then it all went over the cliff with that ending. Maybe they thought the messaging would ruffle too many feathers. I find the race bending in House of the Dragon to not be totally satisfying in-show, especially because it seems to have cost us Nettles, a canonically black character with major importance to the narrative. Though they provide visual representation, Laena, Baela and Rhaena, Addam, and Alyn, feel a bit underdeveloped despite the best efforts of the actors. Some of that is on the show for failing to deliver on book material and maybe on screen time and pacing. But to lose a character with a ready made narrative potential like Nettles for something subpar seems like such a waste. Also shout out Legendborn, Children of Blood and Bone and the works of NK Jemisin. There’s definitely work by black authors and pocs and it doesn’t get adapted and when it does get adapted there’s often a cloud over it. Very frustrating.