Explaining the Gwayne Hightower Dornishmen Joke to Criston Cole (House of the Dragon 203)

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Gwayne Hightower is either very calculated and funny or never received his geography lessons at the Citadel when he was growing up. Gwyane calls Criston a Dornishmen and I'm not sure if it was meant to be a funny joke or Gwayne is incompetent. Keep in mind too that the Houses of the Reach, as well as the Stormlands (Marcher Lords in particular) do not like the Dornish.
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This scene is from House of the Dragon Season 2 episode 3, The Burning Mill.
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  • @MondayMorningMaester
    @MondayMorningMaester11 күн бұрын

    Thank you all for the fun dialogue and conversation! Please consider subscribing for more House of the Dragon and GoT universe fun!

  • @Lorath333
    @Lorath33318 күн бұрын

    I have no doubt about it being deliberate. Kinda like saying "sorry, I don't speak Mexican" to someone from Spain.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    18 күн бұрын

    If I’m to lean one way, it’s that he’s being snarky and knows what he’s doing opposed to being dumb. As someone else pointed out, and I forgot this from season 1, Cole has dornish heritage (despite never talking about it on the show besides the couple times a Hightower mentions it). Seems like an unnecessary addition if they’re not going to meaningfully use it in the plot. Also there’s marcher lords from the Reach too. Not as many as Stormlands but there’s a few. Mainly House Tarly. So there’s disdain for the Dornish from the Reach lords too.

  • @hectorsanchez1377

    @hectorsanchez1377

    11 күн бұрын

    The thing is that mexican spanish is actually different from spain spanish.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    11 күн бұрын

    @@hectorsanchez1377 I recall this from Spanish class in high school. Thank you for the clarity. Keep in mind I didn’t make that comment in the first place. I appreciate you watching.

  • @ignacio4159

    @ignacio4159

    10 күн бұрын

    ​@@hectorsanchez1377about as different as US english is to UK english.

  • @santividal9387

    @santividal9387

    9 күн бұрын

    ​@@hectorsanchez1377 Not that Big of a difference to matter. It's like British Vs American

  • @scififantasygirl
    @scififantasygirl17 күн бұрын

    He was intentionally throwing shade at Cole. Remember, Cole just replaced Otto as the Hand of the King.

  • @melvinbrotherofthejoker436

    @melvinbrotherofthejoker436

    18 сағат бұрын

    He knows

  • @bohunkmusic9473
    @bohunkmusic947313 күн бұрын

    It’s definitely implied that he is Dornish by blood and Westerosi by nationality. Alicent makes a point of showing this during his introduction, but the lack of a Spanish accent shows us he’s been in The Seven Kingdoms his whole life

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    13 күн бұрын

    @@bohunkmusic9473 yeah they don’t remark on it much. Geographically I could see him having ancestors that are stony dornishmen that resemble the rest of the realm due to geo proximity to the southern part of Stormlands, but his complexion a salty dornishmen like Oberyn, just no accent. Im not surprised by the no accent cause I take it Cole was in southern Stormlands his whole life opposed to the coast of Dorne. Thank you for watching!

  • @bohunkmusic9473

    @bohunkmusic9473

    12 күн бұрын

    @@MondayMorningMaester no problem! In any case I do think that Gwayne was going for a type of insult equivalent to calling a Romanian a Gypsy or a Scotsman a Brit.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    12 күн бұрын

    @@bohunkmusic9473 Gwayne had no jokes for him in episode 4 😂 I think he was genuinely horrified by him. Things changed quickly.

  • @bohunkmusic9473

    @bohunkmusic9473

    12 күн бұрын

    @@MondayMorningMaester I love their dynamic so much hahaha

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    12 күн бұрын

    @@bohunkmusic9473 yep me too. Kind of brings something to hotd that we would see in thrones like Arya the hound, Brianne and Jaime, etc. two clashing personalities forced to work together.

  • @aguspuig6615
    @aguspuig661511 күн бұрын

    Cole does have that signature stormlander temper

  • @bentooreo9849
    @bentooreo984919 күн бұрын

    Cole's ethnicity is Dornish. His nationality is not. His blood is of the Roynar. There are plenty of dornishmen living in Westeros that ally with the crown and not dorne itself

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    19 күн бұрын

    Where is this from? His ethnicity that is. Unless I’m forgetting something from the show, there’s nothing linking Criston to Dorne other than his daily struggles with them as a vassal to a marcher lord. Even his intro to Rhaenyra on the show when she selects him to Kingsguard is all about southern stormlands and Dondarrion. Thanks for watching.

  • @bentooreo9849

    @bentooreo9849

    19 күн бұрын

    @@MondayMorningMaester when criston cole defeats Daemon and is unmasked to gain Rhaenyra's favour, Alicent says "The gods, he's Dornish."

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    19 күн бұрын

    @@bentooreo9849 so she’s saying that based on the complexion of his skin not because she has some high level knowledge of his lineage. Seems like a reach to say he has Rhoynar blood. Guy could just have a nice tan being that close to Dorne.

  • @bentooreo9849

    @bentooreo9849

    19 күн бұрын

    @@MondayMorningMaester I think you're thinking too logically about it. It's exposition. The show wants him to be Dornish so people comment on it once in a while.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    19 күн бұрын

    @@bentooreo9849 fair point. Kind of ruffles people’s feathers up before he even dons the white cloak. Certainly pisses off Otto and any other person from the reach/stormlands

  • @badnoodlez
    @badnoodlez9 күн бұрын

    alicent literally says "gods, hes dornish" when cole first appears at the tourney in S1

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    9 күн бұрын

    @@badnoodlez Alicent also misunderstood Viserys and made Aegon king

  • @heavensresidences

    @heavensresidences

    3 күн бұрын

    Been looking for this comment

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    3 күн бұрын

    @@heavensresidences hard not to point it out despite what the show wants CC to be

  • @derekclinton9438
    @derekclinton943810 күн бұрын

    The show implies that he has Dornish ancestry despite this never being mentioned in Fire & Blood. However, since he lived near the Dornish mountains, you would logically think he would be descended from the Stony Dornishmen (Andal and First Men ancestry). Despite this, he instead looks like the Salty Dornishmen (coastal Dornish of Rhoynar descent).

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    10 күн бұрын

    @@derekclinton9438 completely agree with you. Stony means he wouldn’t stand out on the show though, and not be visibly dornish, therefore they make him salty/sandy.

  • @BCrane-ej4iq
    @BCrane-ej4iq4 күн бұрын

    Don’t you love it when fandoms overthink things to justify writers’ forgetting their own lore continuity? ☠️

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    4 күн бұрын

    @@BCrane-ej4iq lol yeah pretty much

  • @NRSGuardian
    @NRSGuardianКүн бұрын

    Those who are saying the show runners are dumb or made a mistake, and that the lore people responsible for catching such mistakes just missed it; I think don't know much or are forgetting the IRL history of the English Marches that GRRM based the Dornish March on in the first place. The Anglo-Welsh and Anglo-Scottish Marches were places of endemic conflict, feuding, raids, and counter-raids. You had English lords ruling Scottish lands and vice versa, same with the Welsh Marches. Having Criston Cole being a Stormlander, but with notable Dornish features/ancestry would be entirely appropriate for the Dornish March and its history. People forget just how muddy and convoluted the relations on the borders of Medieval England actually were. A lot of times which "nationality" you identified as, such a concept barely existing at that time, depended greatly on which side of the border you grew up and who your liege lord was, and what he identified as. Rahter than your actual ancestry and how much Celtic or Anglo-Norman blood you actually had flowing in your veins. While Braveheart gets a lot about the history of that period wrong, the comment that Scottish nobles were just as rich in English titles and lands as they were in Scottish has some basis in history. A prominent example is that the Tudor's claimed to be English, and became kings and queens of England, having some English ancestry, but were predominantly ethnically Welsh, as demonstrated by their red hair.

  • @hudsonlewer7486

    @hudsonlewer7486

    Күн бұрын

    I get that my point would be if he is noticeably Dornish enough to run casually racist jokes about it (in universe) I feel like it’s relatively important to bring up as a plot point that’s a really interesting story he is ethically Dornish or mixed but living in the stormlands fight them I feel like at some point that’s Gotta be brought up like if that really is the case I’m more mad at the writers for not making that an interesting story and just using it as a fucking bit.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    20 сағат бұрын

    Agree with this completely. If they wanted to make that a show creation, fine, but actually make it meaningful opposed to bringing it up two times in 15 episodes.

  • @user-cz8nh6jz9k
    @user-cz8nh6jz9k6 күн бұрын

    Ser Criston Cole may be a Marcher/Stormlander by nationality, but he is ethnically a Dornishman, I assume that’s why he’s played by a mixed actor (he’s I think half Indian?) but his father in the who don’t quote me on this is a Dornishman, and he’s the steward of Blackhaven, and a vassal of the Dondarrions, who was only recently raised up to such relatively high a position, it’s likely he just happened to be a Dornishman who either was born in the Stormland side of the Marches, or a Dornishman who emigrated to the Stormlands, fought for House Dondarrion, and was raised up for his service. So Criston is “Dornish” and can be insulted for it, just in the same way that an American with Irish grandparents is “Irish”, and could be made fun of for being a ginger or looking like a leprechaun.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    5 күн бұрын

    @@user-cz8nh6jz9k this is a show creation so I think they had fun with how close Blackhaven is to Dorne and decided to make CC dornish to make him even more divisive when surrounded by powerful Reach folk like the Hightower’s. The thing is, they’ve mentioned it twice so far. Like why not let the Caron knight make a shady remark to CC when chosen over him for KG. Like “he’s not even a marcher, he’s dornish” etc… I can’t see the Dondarrions or anyone on that border taking in a dornishmen to their house. I can’t stress enough how much they hate each other. Like serious hate and distrust. Read Oakhearts’s chapters in Feast for Crows and you get a sense of if, and he’s on the far side of the Reach by Westerlands. Not even close to that border. I appreciate you watching 🙏

  • @lillielavelle9738

    @lillielavelle9738

    3 күн бұрын

    He's Jewish, French and Italian.

  • @KingSlayer_.
    @KingSlayer_.12 күн бұрын

    Im so down for the Gwayne and Criston bromance😂

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    12 күн бұрын

    @@KingSlayer_. I love how ep 3 Gwayne laughs at Cole and ep 4 Gwayne is legitimately in awe of how crazy he is 😆

  • @enderman_666
    @enderman_66615 күн бұрын

    they made him Dornish in the show for whatever reason, I suppose it wouldn't be unheard of for ethnic Dornishmen to find themselves in the service of a Marcher lord, but it's a strange choice I guess the people just opposite the Red Mountains would be Stony Dornishmen and have more of a First men/Andal background, and be more culturally similar to the Reach and Stormlands

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    15 күн бұрын

    @@enderman_666 yeah it just seems like a pointless show creation since they don’t do much with the change. And that’s a good point. Yronwood, Wyl, Fowler, Manwoody and Dayne would all resemble that. Those are the closest houses to the stormlands/reach border. Obviously that doesn’t mean a salty or sandy dornishmen wouldn’t be fighting in the boneway or princes pass, but it would be more likely a stony dornishmen. But I guess that wouldn’t be as exciting.

  • @xxThunder07xx

    @xxThunder07xx

    Күн бұрын

    They made him Dornish for DEI purposes.

  • @BudravenOG
    @BudravenOG5 күн бұрын

    No. Because in the first season Alicent and Rhaenyra call him Dornish. So if anything the showrunners are just fucking dumb.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    5 күн бұрын

    Yeah it was a dumb show creation. They don’t do anything with it.

  • @RhadaGhast100
    @RhadaGhast10013 күн бұрын

    I think it'd be very funny if Gwayne was witty. It'd also be a great chance to add personality to him since all we really know of him from the books is that he's the son of Otto Hightower and uncle to the King and served as Commander of the City Watch.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    13 күн бұрын

    I think we got a good start with Gwayne. In general the show does a good job adding humanity to the characters we read about in Fire and Blood. And they need a lot since it’s a historical recollection, no pov’s, no inner monologue, etc. Aegon and Aemond have been great. Especially thinking of TGC performance as Aegon in a Son for a Son. Thought he had a lot of variety and range.

  • @PtownSoccer15
    @PtownSoccer1512 күн бұрын

    No he’s throwing shade because Cole replaced his dad as hand, in all for hating Cole but the Hightower is being childish

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    12 күн бұрын

    @@PtownSoccer15 yeah no doubt. He has that Reach smugness about him.

  • @thurstarca4995
    @thurstarca499515 күн бұрын

    I personally think that the actor who portrays as Gwayne Hightower could've been a PERFECT young adult Aegon, Tom's killing it don't get me wrong but I just can't help but imagine 💯

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    15 күн бұрын

    @@thurstarca4995 yeah good call. He has the snark to him no doubt. TGC is doing a great job as you say. He showed a lot of range in a son for a son.

  • @poggerz6567

    @poggerz6567

    14 күн бұрын

    I think he's to old for aegon cause aegon is supposed to be 21 or something like that

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    14 күн бұрын

    @@poggerz6567 they learned their lesson from casting Robb and Jon to play 14 year olds lol. They looked like they were mid 20’s.

  • @Winter-Alpha-Omega

    @Winter-Alpha-Omega

    12 күн бұрын

    Gwayne Hightower is hot. I don't know why, he's simply so alluring.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    12 күн бұрын

    @@Winter-Alpha-Omega Gwayne reluctantly following Criston’s lead is a storyline I’m following intently. Lot of fun when those two are on screen together.

  • @Al4___
    @Al4___Сағат бұрын

    In episode of the show, I think either Rhaenyra or Alicent refer to Criston as "dornish" so I think it's just a call back

  • @sunnytyler001
    @sunnytyler00118 күн бұрын

    Oh he was trying to piss him off. 100% XDXD

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    18 күн бұрын

    @@sunnytyler001 completely agree. Them cheeky men of the Reach 🤣

  • @hugoyuugo1300
    @hugoyuugo130011 күн бұрын

    Rhaenyra or Alicent said in Episode 1 and the tourney that Cole was Dornish. Cole also spoke about Essos ships when he wanted to disappear with Rhaenyra, and I thought this was reminiscent of his origins. He fought Dornish invasions but in the show they made him Dornish it seems.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    10 күн бұрын

    @@hugoyuugo1300 well they wouldn’t be able to stay in Westeros so naturally they’d need to go somewhere else like essos, for their safety probably further. It’s Alicent that shouts he’s dornish when he lifts his helm. Literally no one else. With the ton of dornish exposure she’s surely had in her life.

  • @LordVelari
    @LordVelari9 күн бұрын

    More like “the show writers kinda forgot that Cole is from the Dornish March, not Dorne”

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    9 күн бұрын

    @@LordVelari whether it was an error or a lazy show creation, they haven’t done anything with it other than a line from Alicent and Gwayne, which makes me ask why even make the change in the first place? I’d wager they have a lot of stuff fact checked in terms of lore and find it hard to believe they or Grrm would miss that. Either or I’m not a fan of it

  • @robertblume2951

    @robertblume2951

    6 күн бұрын

    No. It was a racist insult.

  • @devanman7920
    @devanman792011 күн бұрын

    Remember during Criston Cole introduction he takes his helmet off and Alicent and Rheanra go "oh and he's Dornish" was that a writers error or what?

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    11 күн бұрын

    @@devanman7920 yep that’s the only time we get a dornish comment about him till Gwayne in s2. Someone else mentioned his character profile on hbo mentions he’s dornish and I went to check and it does indeed say that. Did it say that from the pilot? Not sure. Did they make a mistake and then have to own it? I doubt it. I would think they have asoiaf fact checkers to make sure they don’t make any blunders. Even though they just made another one in last weeks episode with the Darklyn family crest. It has seven white symbols on it to represent the 7 KG knights they’ve contributed. At least one of them takes place after the Dance. They either missed it or didn’t care. As for Cole, I think they wanted to make a show creation that made his character more divisive as Dorne is not under the iron throne rule during this timeframe. Way off actually.

  • @hudsonlewer7486
    @hudsonlewer7486Күн бұрын

    Dude, can we be real for a sec this is a case of the writers skimming through the source material reading Dornish marches and just assuming it was Dorne both of the two options you said are giving the writers too much credit

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    21 сағат бұрын

    @@hudsonlewer7486 I hear you, I do, but the more I think about it I really do believe they just tried to make him more divisive without spending any more screen time on it. Like, let’s make Cole more different but not explain that Dorne is still independent so people from Reach and Stormlands may not like him from the jump. Thank you for watching !

  • @prototyrant3335

    @prototyrant3335

    8 сағат бұрын

    No it wasn't, the show creators decided to show the "actual events and truth" of the dance of the dragons because the maester that wrote fire and blood wrote it like a century after the fact and was obviously unreliable. I can get behind this explanation and think it's an interesting concept that works for this show.

  • @proudsaiyanprince2651
    @proudsaiyanprince265116 күн бұрын

    They mention point blank in season 1 Cole is ethnicity Dornish. How is it so difficult for people to just pay attention?

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    16 күн бұрын

    @@proudsaiyanprince2651 I hadn’t rewatched the season recently but realize that now. It’s pretty forgettable when they make it a lazy show creation that’s mentioned one time and not built upon until Ser Gwayne gallops into King’s Landing and is feeling cheeky.

  • @wikipediaintellectual7088

    @wikipediaintellectual7088

    5 күн бұрын

    I think Alicent was just speculating, but she's probably right.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    5 күн бұрын

    @@wikipediaintellectual7088 yeah she usually is

  • @wikipediaintellectual7088

    @wikipediaintellectual7088

    5 күн бұрын

    @@MondayMorningMaester I'm uh... Going to have to mull that one over

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    5 күн бұрын

    @@wikipediaintellectual7088 lol. She’s on a bad streak right now.

  • @aguspuig6615
    @aguspuig661511 күн бұрын

    Its either a very clever joke or the writers wanting to show racial tension with the one non white looking group

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    11 күн бұрын

    @@aguspuig6615 yep that and Dorne still being independent adds some tension too

  • @saskiaviking9447
    @saskiaviking944714 сағат бұрын

    He's basically calling a Texan a "Mexican". Or calling a Greek a "Turk".

  • @romulus4690
    @romulus46904 күн бұрын

    In the first season he was introduced has a dornishman by alicent I think

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    4 күн бұрын

    @@romulus4690 yep you’re right. Alicent the Wise. Thank you for watching!

  • @airixxxx
    @airixxxx8 күн бұрын

    Cole is from Dorne in the show, it's stated in the first episode. It was changed for some reason, maybe because the actor looks dornish? he doesn't look like the book.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    8 күн бұрын

    It’s also Alicent that states and we know she doesn’t always come to the right conclusion 😂 though it seems like the writers thought this high level show creation was worth it, despite only mentioning it for the second time when Dwayne gets snarky.

  • @Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs.
    @Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs.7 күн бұрын

    It's passive aggression. He's mocking Cole but doing it ever-so politely, so he can deny he's being rude if challenged. If you ever get on the wrong side of a middle-class Englishman, this is what you'll get.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    7 күн бұрын

    @@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs. hahah I’d love to see it. Thank you for watching !

  • @laabitres
    @laabitres8 күн бұрын

    I think Ser Gwayne was just being an asshole

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    8 күн бұрын

    @@laabitres yeah same here. Thanks for watching!

  • @wikipediaintellectual7088

    @wikipediaintellectual7088

    5 күн бұрын

    That did not end well for Joffrey in the first season.

  • @YourGraceMyLady
    @YourGraceMyLady5 күн бұрын

    Doesn’t Alicent call him Dornish when she first sees him at the tourney in the first episode?

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    5 күн бұрын

    @@YourGraceMyLady yeah she does. I find it funny how quickly she says it. Like she’s met a thousand dornishmen in her life. Alicent the Wise.

  • @YourGraceMyLady

    @YourGraceMyLady

    5 күн бұрын

    @@MondayMorningMaester 😂😫💀

  • @july9566
    @july95668 күн бұрын

    Didn’t Alicent call him a dornishman in ep 1?

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    8 күн бұрын

    @@july9566 Yes she did. It’s funny how many people take Alicent at her word in this moment. She gets one glimpse of CC and knows his full lineage. I can’t imagine Alicent has been exposed to many dornishmen in her short life. It’s like she saw a picture book of the seven kingdoms and was ready to show off what she learned. Thank you for watching!

  • @heavensresidences
    @heavensresidences3 күн бұрын

    Alicent said he’s Dornish in season 1 though

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    3 күн бұрын

    @@heavensresidences yes Alicent the Wise

  • @BobSmith-bs1bj
    @BobSmith-bs1bj4 күн бұрын

    Cole looks Dornish

  • @AtheAetheling
    @AtheAetheling13 күн бұрын

    I think the show can't decide on whether they want racism or not based on skin tone. Honestly making the Valeryons black has caused a lot of knock on effects for how they portray Westeros and its response to skin colour, Cole being the obvious example. A more minor example are the accents. In Game of Thrones accent was sharply tied to where you came from, but not so much here; several actors retain their natural Scottish accents despite coming from regions that don't have such accents. Compare to Elden Ring, where you know a Welsh accent means a character is from Liurnia.

  • @SonderDAzeX

    @SonderDAzeX

    11 күн бұрын

    Maybe, but doesnt Dorne border The reach?

  • @xxThunder07xx

    @xxThunder07xx

    Күн бұрын

    Several changes were obviously forced for purposes of “diversity, equity, and inclusion”… Cole being Dornish, Velaryons being black, etc.

  • @kiddbuu5178
    @kiddbuu51788 күн бұрын

    The show changed it a little bit theyre considering it dorne even if its sworn to the stormlands.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    7 күн бұрын

    Bad look the show then

  • @matthewbalsinger3238
    @matthewbalsinger32387 күн бұрын

    No, Alicent very clearly says "He's Dornish" in the first season when he removes his helm. We don't actually know where Criston Cole comes from in the books, because he's lowborn anyways. The show decided to make him Dornish, so yes...Criston Cole is Dornish.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    7 күн бұрын

    No. House Cole is a vassal of the Dondarrion’s of the marches. Meaning Stormlands. That is where he is from. The book is quite clear. The show takes liberties cause of how close they are to Dorne for shock effect cause Dorne are still independent during this time. It was a lazy show creation cause they don’t do anything to make it more meaningful other than mention it two times in two seasons. Also putting weight on anything teenage Alicent says is funny. She’s probably only ever seen dornish people in picture books from the citadel. She also commits the biggest fumble ever by thinking Viserys meant for Aegon to sit the throne when he was dying.

  • @JohnnyCatFitz
    @JohnnyCatFitz12 күн бұрын

    That slam was plain prejudice against Dornish ancestry. What's interesting is that he is a privileged, highborn, from the ruling class and it says a lot about relations in the Reach. And more, about what he thought of Alice giving her favor to him.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    12 күн бұрын

    @@JohnnyCatFitz the reach may be a little forgotten sometimes in the conflict against Dorne when you compare to Stormlands. Seems like there’s more marcher lords there. Some epic moments between Tyrell’s and Dorne during Daeron’s conquest. My beef is that if they make Cole Dornish can we add some value to the show? Why doesn’t Otto make remarks about it? He’s a prominent member of the reach.

  • @JohnnyCatFitz

    @JohnnyCatFitz

    12 күн бұрын

    @MondayMorningMaester Do you mean add to the knowledge and backstory of Dorne in general? Well, Cole has Dornish ancestry but isn't Dornish and he's not going to bring it up. PlOtto isn't interested imo. His entire career has been laser focused on weaseling power. Away from prominent families of the Reach ( like the Tyrell's) and mostly gaining influence and positioning himself as he eventually did, to weasel into the Royal family. His daughter was His lifetime achievement ! He never tried to marry His son to Rhaeynera, never brought him to court because they don't see women as legit rulers/ or pliable enough for their ambitions. Dorne means nothing in his long view. But I do wonder on just how lucky Cole got. Who added him? Is it all pre luck and desire to serve? Or was he planted as a choice that plOtto knew about vía young Alicent maybe making a comment or Otto heard of Cole asking her favor and hoped what happened would happen? There's a lot of scheming off camera !

  • @SonderDAzeX

    @SonderDAzeX

    11 күн бұрын

    Tbf there are lesser houses, similar to how there are Lord Paramounts, great houses, and vassal houses and then there are knighted houses.

  • @shinsenshogun900
    @shinsenshogun9008 күн бұрын

    All that brain trauma Gwayne got from Daemon in Viserys's tourney probably affected his wits and restraint against upstart retainers such as Kingmaker Cole

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    8 күн бұрын

    @@shinsenshogun900 I’m surprised he got up from that! That was a nasty fall

  • @attenberg
    @attenberg4 күн бұрын

    It pains me to see how uneducated people talk about nationality and ethnicity in the comments.

  • @flameduelist81
    @flameduelist8112 күн бұрын

    Great jape

  • @TheUrobolos
    @TheUrobolos11 күн бұрын

    The marches are a frontier zone. No surprise that people both sides tend to look closer thanks to countless intermarriages. Cole by skin alone shows to have a heavy dornish ancestry, despite being born on the other side of the frontier

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    10 күн бұрын

    @@TheUrobolos frontier to stony dornishmen. Doesn’t explain the salty/sandy dornishmen complexion. That’s the show going for shock value.

  • @TheUrobolos

    @TheUrobolos

    10 күн бұрын

    @@MondayMorningMaester I doubt the television show canon lore of westeros (split from the books according to Martin himself) has such divisions among the dornish. Every single character show from Dorne in both shows are clearly of the Salt subgroup. Just like in the shows canon Targaryens and Velaryons are apparently the last individuals in the world with silver hair, while in the books canon you can still find quite few of them in Essos

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    10 күн бұрын

    @@TheUrobolos yeah I agree. They’re not going to take the time to explain why Arthur dayne looks like he could be an Arryn

  • @hafsahassan394
    @hafsahassan3949 күн бұрын

    I don't think there was a House Cole. Lol. Cole maybe from Stormlands, but he was just a son of a steward who keeps rising in rank due to proximity with royals.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    9 күн бұрын

    @@hafsahassan394 on the ice and fire wiki it shows the house sigil for Cole and what it derives from. Grrm even comments on it. Seems like Criston is the only Cole that’s given a name in the history of the house.

  • @lawrencereid2767
    @lawrencereid276717 күн бұрын

    First to take the black 🖤

  • @yc6018

    @yc6018

    17 күн бұрын

    First to take black aly’s arrow rather than

  • @sonicshadow5788
    @sonicshadow578811 күн бұрын

    It's make-believe dude😮😮

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    11 күн бұрын

    @@sonicshadow5788 oh damn

  • @MrReded69
    @MrReded6918 күн бұрын

    Making Cole Dornish was STUPID!!! Dorne defied Targaryen rule until almost a hundred years after the Dance. Until the reign of Daeron II. A Dornishman joining the Kingsguard then becoming Lord Commander, then Lord Hand is just ridiculous. Especially with a Reach lord like the Hightowers in charge. The Dornish raids did massive damage to The Reach. They would have assassinated him ASAP.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    18 күн бұрын

    @@MrReded69 I completely agree. I think it’s a dumb addition for shock factor. Especially when you see Cole say nothing about it. When he gives his resume to young Rhaenyra he talks about stopping Dornish incursions and being knighted by a Dondarrion knight. He cares nothing about this and the show doesn’t do anything to add value to it. It’s a lazy tv creation.

  • @CuntyMisanthrope

    @CuntyMisanthrope

    18 күн бұрын

    People are more complex than their nations' history tho

  • @JohnnyCatFitz

    @JohnnyCatFitz

    12 күн бұрын

    He is a Westerosi but obviously of Dornish ancestry. Seems like a long standing prejudice. He's not a Dornishman.

  • @godemperorletoatreidesii6971
    @godemperorletoatreidesii697115 күн бұрын

    It’s like how we call every Asian Chinese or every Hispanic Mexican even though they hate each other 😂 absolute ignorant disrespect

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    15 күн бұрын

    @@godemperorletoatreidesii6971 I can’t imagine how the stony dornishmen feel

  • @cnmcnm5853

    @cnmcnm5853

    12 күн бұрын

    Sorry, but that is it more ignorant. Hispanic people don’t hate each other. Historically, Latin America has had very few wars between countries. Y siempre decimos que somos hermanos! Sin dudar tenemos diferencias pero eso es otra cosa muy diferente.

  • @Rex73777
    @Rex7377718 күн бұрын

    Very simple. The showrunners don’t understand what Marches are. So when they heard he is from the Dornish Marches. They thought that was part of Dorne.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    18 күн бұрын

    @@Rex73777 to the old gods and the new, I hope that’s not the case. Can’t see GRRM letting them get away with that ignorance. Condal seems to know his stuff so I think they just want to make a reference to his complexion, which I think is unnecessary.

  • @dawsonlucas369
    @dawsonlucas3696 күн бұрын

    Criston is dornish go watch the show pay attention I would suggest

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    5 күн бұрын

    @@dawsonlucas369 why would anyone believe Alicent the Wise?

  • @scififantasygirl
    @scififantasygirl17 күн бұрын

    He was intentionally throwing shade at Cole. Remember, Cole just replaced Otto as the Hand of the King.

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    17 күн бұрын

    @@scififantasygirl yeah no doubt. I just find it odd that Gwayne looks at Cole as a dornishmen opposed to a stormlander

  • @kenroycherrington148

    @kenroycherrington148

    13 күн бұрын

    @@MondayMorningMaester Gwayne, very likely a snob, resents that a LOWBORN (Show still makes Cole a DORNISHMAN) man that's now his boss

  • @MondayMorningMaester

    @MondayMorningMaester

    13 күн бұрын

    @@kenroycherrington148 yeah no doubt. Gwayne grew up differently than CC did 😂

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