ShakesofThrones

A thread of mine own #GoTShakespeare rewrites.

@Shattered_Jack Thank you for the info! I will get set up there before tye next episode drops

@shakesofthrones We have largely decamped to Bluesky for the discourse. Would love to see you there. I was actually thinking a few days ago 'Who do I know with a cello?'

Just watched the first episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. What a treat! The tone is spot-on, and Dunk is just so darn genuine and lovable. I had very high expectations for whoever played this role, and I am already just so impressed by Peter Claffey.

@HOTDNewsHBO The answer is always Bobellion

If you could get ONE spinoff, what would you like to see most? #HouseOfTheDragon

@ManuclearBomb Couldn’t agree more!

Massive shout to Archie Barnes who plays Oscar Tully. Kid had to hold together the scenes at Harrenhal while matching up to Matt Smith and Simon Russell Beale and he absolutely crushes it.

@shakesofthrones and I had a great discussion about the archetypes of the seven as a prism for gender roles in Westeros. The Mother and the Maiden become roles that limit how Alicent and Rhaenyra are allowed to perform gender and how everyone (themselves included) see themselves!

I tend to think that Lady Macbeth is more the character who holds Macbeth by the hilt, until Shakespeare kills her off because she’s overpowering the storyline. But this is fantastic.

@chazzofsheckys @booksandwine76 @FolgerLibrary @ShakespeareinDC @bardwars @TravelByBubble Thank you for this find!!

@shakesofthrones @booksandwine76 @FolgerLibrary @ShakespeareinDC @bardwars @TravelByBubble In the comments, the flip side of the poster is shown.

"Smallfolk" have found the Heart of the Dragon! @shakesofthrones joins to talk feminine character archetypes, including how they influence Rhaenyra and reveal the potential of Alys Rivers. buzzsprout.com/2374108/154752…

This was so much fun! Thank you Merry for having me 🐉 ❤️ loved getting psycholiterary with you!

@ellariasnake @MaesterMerry Statuesque!! I’ll take it

Recording Heart of Dragon with @shakesofthrones tonight! We're talking about feminine character archetypes, Rhaenyra's gender trouble, Alys River's witchy vibes, and the HAMLET of Daemon. Reply here or DM me with questions! (no promises that we'll have time)

@sanrixian @MaesterMerry I miss you, too!!

@sanrixian @MaesterMerry I live!!!

@ellariasnake MAMA! 🐍

A little late in my review—but I enjoyed S2E1 of #HotD. It felt a little clunky even for a table-setting episode, but that’s to be expected for the first episode after a season that had a lot of time jumps. Biggest issue for me was wondering how Jace grew out his hair so quickly-

@patman23 Arguably more hot goss than fire and blood!

@TheJoeMagician Well yeah, but I can extra smug know that we are Correct in our lawless interpretation

@shakesofthrones I don't think his "Gyldayn Uncertainty Principle" has really penetrated beyond superfans like ourselves who have taken the book as intended, which is a choose your own adventure style romp in the Targaryen dynasty.

First video of #HouseoftheDragon season 2 is up now! Talking about all the new information and implications we got about Aegon the Conqueror and Torrhen Stark, the King Who knelt and how Torrhen may have been told about Aegon's dream. Come and see! youtube.com/watch?v=KJ1Xtu…

@TheJoeMagician @ranabir_mitra Hey, we bought it and read it. And now the “well, actually” when it comes to catching stuff that wasn’t in the show but was in the book comes with it’s only side of “well, actually”. Brilliant.

@shakesofthrones @ranabir_mitra It was very clever to allow him to publish a very long wikipedia article as a book instead of filling in that tedious scene and dialogue stuff.

@TheJoeMagician @ranabir_mitra Honestly, it was SUCH a clever move on GRRM’s part to write a book that was “written” by unreliable historians in-universe.

@ranabir_mitra A base level skepticism to anything in fire and blood and the long past. Plus knowing that Martin retcons stuff all the time.

I have some more thoughts after rewatching S1 this week, mostly on the topic of loose words and how the nobles seem to be so reckless in who hears them. Eavesdroppers don’t even have to try. What an era of unbridled hot goss. But that will be for another post.

So there, I just name-dropped Shakespeare for the first time in a Thrones thread. Shakes is back!