Yeah, talk about "character no one can really care about yet..." getting killed. This show is SEEMING more like Star Trek or Walking Dead - with plenty of "red shirt" characters you know can be killed off at any second (and at times feeling you even expect it by the end of the episode cuz they are 'new'), but no real 'risk' to the main players anymore. GoT never had that 'lack of risk' to main characters. And there is a definite difference.
Also - anyone else feel like Strong's attack on Sir Christo (whatever the Bitter King's Guard name is, sorry I suck at names) when he was taunting him about 'how one might defend their son' (paraphrased) could have ALSO been explained by Strong standing up and saying something like - "No its how I defend MY SWORN KING" and shut down asshole-guard with such a simple response?
I mean - that IS the sworn, identified, one-day-heir to the throne that Sir Christo is insulting the parentage of. As well as insulting the Rightful Future Queen - in a yard full of people. All he had to do to save his ass was make it about, I don't know, THAT factoid - instead of saying nothing?
Eh, much like the "drunk and horny" scene, its one of those interactions that just seems to dumb down the characters for the sake of plot, rather than actually adding to the political drama by giving an answer that SHOULD serve to be all he needed to say, in the world they are living in.
Aegon and his brother remind me of "Children of the Corn" - that may be also what creeps you out. Multiple kids with white hair
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