I noticed in your TWOIAF review, you mentioned how the Greens came across as a “bunch of chumps,” and after rereading TRP and TPATQ, I have to agree. Even though Daemon and Rhaenyra were so tyrannical, I couldn’t help but feel like the reader was supposed to root for the Blacks. Do you think GRRM intended for the two of them to be more sympathetic than they ended up coming across as?

I think GRRM intended it to be more of a “plague on both their houses” situation. Didn’t quite pull it off, but I think that was the intent. 

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