Mallory Rubin

The Reach, they still think, as Plummer with his delightful little Ashford chair bit, indicates this is a life of luxury and fresh fruit and wine, right?

But I think the key thing for the time frame is what Joe said.

The...

it's not just that the dragons are gone.

It's that they still live in memory.

Like Sir Arlen had seen the last dragon.

So it's recent enough.

And I would say like, that is a more precarious position for the Targaryens to be in actually than a distant memory.

It's like for people who are alive to remember what your might and your strength looked like, but for you to not possess it in that form is a tenuous field on which to try to rule.

Right?

And then also there's like something like, you know, the king right now is Darren II, Darren the Good, who fought his bastard brother, great bastard brother, demon Blackfire, sick fucking name as Joe said, in the Blackfire Rebellion.

And he's the king who finally fully brought Dorne into the fold.

And on the one hand, it's like, this is a titanic achievement in the history of Westeros.

He marries a Martell.

We'll talk about some of the hair color of some of the Targaryens we meet after in the rest of the season.

But not everybody loves that and is super into it or into the preferential treatment that Dorne is getting through those political alliances.

So whether people think that actually Daemon Blackfyre should have been king or why are you like giving Dorne X, Y, and Z or any number of other things, it's Westeros.

Someone's always bitching about something, but the Targaryens are trying to maintain a hold there.

after another call from inside the house.

Like, we are still covering a show about a Targaryen civil war.