Mallory Rubin

But the shorthand, it does rhyme.

The redgrass, there's not a person he could be addressing there who wouldn't know what he meant.

Like that is the way that this looms, this latest civil war looms over the realm and history.

So you pair that conflict and the fact that where they are in history right now

Some of the people that the Targaryens are interacting with might be like, really glad that Daeron II, Daeron the Good won.

And some of them might not feel that way.

13 years after Civil War, it's not like everybody is in agreement.

The dragons, as Jo noted.

And then you add in this little delicious aspect of the brown hair on Baelor, which is actually worth talking about because...

You don't have a dragon and you don't have that signature silver hair that's supposed to instantly remind you that you're closer to a god than a man.

That shit that you Targs are always talking about.

Now, for Dunk, for Sir Arlen, for the readers, for the viewers, the fact that you see Baylor, like in the novel, it's a little different in the novella.

Dunk, and I actually thought this was a really interesting change that here, I thought the implication was that Dunk sees them go in and he's like, I'm going to go, well, here's my Hail Mary.

make the pitch directly, right?

Whereas in the novella, he is just going to seek out Plummer again, happens upon them, literally is speaking to Baelor before he has any idea who he's talking to.

And then in real time, it's like, oh my Lord.

So he's dressed more plainly and simply.

Because his father, the king, married a Martell, his mother's Adornish princess.

So he has like common hair, right?

And some people are like,