Which way, Westeros man? (Like with the Amazon LOTR prequel, they too then all tragically died in Negrocaust)
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Inb4 Black Hebrew Targaryens were the original Targaryens
They have a black actor playing Corlys Velaryon. His children are played by half black actors and they all have the platinum hair. At one point the daughter talks about her racial purity (as a full blooded Valyrian) which got a laugh from me. It's all so ridiculous and very current year.
it's so stupid. the book made such a point about Valyria being ethnically homogeneous. especially Targaryens, who routinely engage in incest to keep the bloodline. even the characters in the story understood that to be the reason Targaryens have such a high frequency of madness in the family. but yeah, apparently they had black ones too.
I had a chuckle at that too
Conspiracy, treason, murder, incest, rape, torture... that's all fine, but whatever you do, don't point out the black guy who obviously isn't part of the family tree.
Don’t forget multiple, like an actually heinous number of characters, with super on the nose nicknames. Fucking the imp, the king slayer, the onion knight, sand snakes, etc…..
Smart money is that the show will finally address his race via an irredeemable villain character though.
And GRRM approved the race swap for what reason I don’t know. They could’ve done a show about summer isles if they wanted black characters. Targareyans are very clearly described. I guess Martin wanted to be woke and hip
Martin doesn't actually care about his series. He likes the idea of his series and that it being an HBO show means he doesn't actually have to write because he hates writing. Before he was world famous he was a competent writer because he needed to produce. Now he doesn't need to produce and he has no desire to finish anything.