Here it is, the moment we have all been waiting for. has unveiled its most anticipated moments from the Fire & Blood book, but fans are divided over its on-screen depiction. picks up not long after after Rhaenyra Targaryen’s second son Lucerys Velaryon is murdered by Aemond Targaryen and his dragon.
But, as well as showing the characters both mourning and preparing for war, also treats us, or rather subjects us, to one of the book’s most brutal and bloody moments brought to life. . To avenge Lucerys, Daemon Targaryen appoints two men, named Blood and Cheese, to murder Aemond, but they accidentally stumble upon his sister Queen Helaena and ask her which one is her son Jaehaerys; the pair then decapitate him off-screen, but we can still hear the squelching sounds from the murder.
However, in George R.R.Martin’s Fire & Blood, Daemon purposefully sends Blood and Cheese to Helaena’s quarters, and after being asked to pick which child to kill, they threaten to assault her daughter.
Whilst crying, she points to her youngest son Maelor, and Blood cuts his head off with one swing of a sword. As shocking and upsetting as the scene was, it seems that viewers are a little underwhelmed by "The way they played out the Blood & Cheese scene was tremendously disappointing and annoying," one fan."They watered it down and I kind of hate that.
” Another , "For such a gamechanger event, it was a little lame." But is that really a bad thing? Does anyone really want to see a woman and chil.
