Post by voice on Aug 30, 2017 3:39:40 GMT
greywaterwatcher recently blew our minds with a BIG implication of the show's version of RLJ...
So this family tree can now be updated. We now know that Jon = Aegon. Does that make him Aegon VII since Rhaegar already fathered a son named Aegon? Questions like this contribute to my criticism with this episode and more broadly the season as a whole. Season seven progressed rapidly ignoring nuanced details that once made the show great. Very little explanation for major plot lines.
Jon=Aegon=Aegon?
As silly as that is to write, let alone watch in HD, it's looking like that's what the show is giving us. While RLJ in the show doesn't surprise any of us, this name might give us all reason to wonder just how many characters D&D have combined in their hybrids.
Sophie Turner's role is a great example of this hybridization. In the show, she's a combination of at least three of GRRM's characters:
- Sansa
- Jeyne Poole
- Alys Karstark
In this same way, D&D have combined Kit Harrington's character with that of GRRM's character, Aegon Targaryen. Whether book-Aegon is the real deal or a fraud remains to be seen, but there's no question that D&D have borrowed from GRRM's "Aegon Targaryen" character when writing Kit Harrington's role for seasons six and seven:
GRRM's "Aegon Targaryen"
- Is seen in a vision with his mother while sweet sad music is playing (ACOK Dany IV)
- Dany entertains the notion of being his partner (ADWD Dany I)
- Is proclaimed "the prince that was promised" (ACOK Dany IV)
- Is removed from his mother, given a false identity, and is adopted by a new father (ADWD Tyrion VI)
- Desires to make common cause with Daenerys Targaryen (ADWD Tyrion VI)
- Is discovered to be the heir to the Iron Throne with an even stronger claim than Daenerys Targaryen (ADWD Tyrion VI)
- Is named "King" in defiance of Dany and the Lannisters (ADWD The Lost Lord)
- Ignores protective counsel and bravely departs to meet his enemies personally (ADWD The Griffin Reborn)
D&D's Jon "Aegon Targaryen" Snow
- Is seen in a vision with his mother while sweet sad music is playing (by Bran S6 E3)
- Dany entertains the notion of being his partner (S7 E6-7)
- Is proclaimed "the prince that was promised" (by Mel S6 E4)
- Is removed from his mother, given a false identity, and is adopted by a new father (S6 E3, S7 E7)
- Desires to make common cause with Daenerys Targaryen (S7)
- Is discovered to be the heir to the Iron Throne with an even stronger claim than Daenerys Targaryen (by Bran & Samwell S6 E7)
- Is named "King" in defiance of Dany and the Lannisters (S6 E10)
- Ignores protective counsel and bravely departs to meet his enemies personally (S7 E2)
So, given that D&D have demonstrated this tendency to merge book characters when creating their characters for the show, I'm left wondering to what extent they have done this for Emilia Clarke's character.
Kit's character needed help from Emilia's character this season, and pretended not to be interested in her sexually. In the books, Jon Snow needed help from Val, and pretended not to be interested in her sexually. They do a bit of teasing back and forth, each pretending to be unavailable. Jon and Val in the books, Kit and Emilia in the show.
So I think there are certainly hints that D&D borrowed from GRRM's Val when writing their scripts for Emilia this season. But what if Val isn't the only one they borrowed?
There is another woman in the books that causes one of our POV characters some sexual frustration. It's Septa Lemore. Granted, the POV character that was caught oogling her was Tyrion, not Jon, but in the show, Jon isn't Jon. In the show, Kit is playing both Jon and Aegon Targaryen.
So I'm now wondering if GRRM's "Aegon Targaryen" has been scoring some boatsex like D&D's "Aegon Targaryen".
The show is absurd, and it is exponentially more absurd to infer book plots from the show, but I can't help but wonder, now, if Septa Lemore (like Dany) is helping a hidden prince in more ways than one.
