“The Green Council” made some meaningful moves away from George R.R. Martin’s book. roundhoward breaks down the references from this week’s HouseoftheDragon episode:
Alicent’s motivation behind installing Aegon as king. The show frames Viserys’s revelation about the Song of Ice and Fire prophecy as the reason why Alicent so fervently believes he wanted his son to take the Iron Throne, a tragic misinterpretation of the king’s actual wishes. But the Targaryen family’s generation-spanning secret Ice and Fire prophecy is completely new to the greaterFire and Blood
would simply have it that she and her allies believe the throne is Aegon’s by rights, prophecy be damned.Both book and show follow Viserys’s death with the same next victim: Lyman Beesbury, the Master of Coin, played by. When Alicent and Otto assemble the small council to discuss the matter of succession, only Beesbury protests about the treasonous act.
as Harrold Westerling, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard. Saying more on this point could constitute a major spoiler in the eyes of someviewers, so move onto the next sentence with some caution. Still here? How about one more sentence to give you some room to decide on whether you wanna stay or go? Hope that’s enough, because here we go: Harrold Westerling is not in the small council scene in the book, because he’s already long dead by the time the Dance of the Dragons begins.
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