“Phia Saban’s Helaena is a richer and more fascinating character than the one I created in FIRE & BLOOD” all the annoying book purists and helaena haters found dead
George R.R. Martin is completely starstruck by Phia Saban’s performance as Queen Helaena Targaryen in
#HouseOfTheDragon
Season 2:
In the book, she is a plump, pleasant, and happy young woman, cheerful and kindly, adored by the smallfolk. A dragonrider since the age of twelve,
what particularly pissed me off is how helaena is forced to mourn jaehaerys publicly but also alone. everyone is worried about how the child’s death affects them, personally or the realm. and helaena discovers appearances are more important than her pain
#HouseoftheDragon
phia saban not doing press with the rest of the cast, being ignored by the marketing team, not showing up on the hotd socials, not going to the premieres, like what is going on with her im getting sad
ben and jessie are apparently being paid by netflix to act intimate and “promote” darklina… how much was jessie paid to act like satan was going to take ben away from them here??? i say one million dollars
no amount of yelling on the internet about how much you dislike a ship or a villain is going to make you a morally good person if at the same time you treat real human beings like shit over words on a page and actors on a screen 🫶
phia said in a podcast that helaena’s children are the purest love in her life, and that helaena would probably be the one to change her babies’ diapers 😭
phia saban is officially signed with a pr agency and has a publicist! she’s signed to rogers & cowan pmk (clients include simone ashley) and her publicist is mk crooke (clients include freya allan and suki waterhouse)
“Helaena’s greatest joy in life is to take to the skies on the back of her dragon Dreamfyre” meanwhile the show claims she chooses not to ride her dragon. this is something that has always bothered me bc it’s so impressive that she claimed dreamfyre but we don’t see any of it
jessie saying alina can’t help but listen to aleksander during their bond scenes because even though she wants to destroy him, he’s a mentor figure to her and she feels alone
people in the quotes need to wake up and realize that half of the fandom is not welcome in your spaces. these are your friends, mutuals, hell mutuals in law. why would we kumbaya with you
shadow and bone including a shu han plot but not speaking about or addressing alina’s heritage even though they made it a point to include racism in the first season is very fucked up and that’s why i’m not doing free labour for them
the most interesting thing about the books was the darklina dynamic, it was GOOD, it was COMPLICATED, it was TRAGIC even and it got changed and reduced to nonsense