KL should have, and from what we can gather has, three sources of food beyond locally caught fish or game from the kingswood (both of which are probably neglible amounts from the masses' pov) and whatever the immediate area around the city can produce. 1, imports by sea, mostly one assumes from the vale via gulltown or especially the day or so trip across the narrow sea to the vast fields on the flatlands around pentos. This one obviously is now cut off due to the blockade 2, food from the riverlands loaded on barges or carts and sent to KL via the blackwater river or the kingsroad. I guess we're meant to assume that while the riverlords currently aren't willing to raise their banners for Daemon, they are sufficiently opposed to the green's/scared of Caraxes that they're not sending those shipments right now. 3, food from the northern reach, carted up the roseroad. This one should still be open, but the lack of a waterlink probably means it's just nowhere near enough to feed half a million people via a single road, logistically. Transporting anything by land is at least 10x slower and more expensive per kg than by boat, both historically and today. Presumably the decades of peace have caused the city's importers to rely chiefly on the cheapest and most plentiful source of food, aka the vast slave-run fields around Pentos, which is probably faster to get at by sea than food from the reach over land anyway. Add to that a panicked hoarding of food by those in KL who can afford to, thus gobbling up what little does come in from the south, and it's at least somewhat realistic how after a month of this the city is, if not yet starving, then at least dangerously low on food with sky-high prices. It requires some squinting, but it's not impossible or bad storytelling imo.
Guys, I'm pretty sure they've confirmed weeks ago that Daeron will be cast for season 3 and won't show up this season. Unless they're lying he will only be mentioned doing things offscreen this season and have his prominent role to play in seasons 3 and 4. Whether that means that they push back the honeywine battle until early S3 (in which case my god is that season going to be saturated with bloodshed) or just mention it by the end of this season as some huge disaster that means the Black's window of opportunity to take the throne is closing and so let's hury up, we shall see.
By trying to make Rhaenyra and alicent strong women, In a weird round about way…they’ve somehow removed all agency from them and made them such weak characters.
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0:18 agreed!
KL should have, and from what we can gather has, three sources of food beyond locally caught fish or game from the kingswood (both of which are probably neglible amounts from the masses' pov) and whatever the immediate area around the city can produce.
1, imports by sea, mostly one assumes from the vale via gulltown or especially the day or so trip across the narrow sea to the vast fields on the flatlands around pentos. This one obviously is now cut off due to the blockade
2, food from the riverlands loaded on barges or carts and sent to KL via the blackwater river or the kingsroad. I guess we're meant to assume that while the riverlords currently aren't willing to raise their banners for Daemon, they are sufficiently opposed to the green's/scared of Caraxes that they're not sending those shipments right now.
3, food from the northern reach, carted up the roseroad. This one should still be open, but the lack of a waterlink probably means it's just nowhere near enough to feed half a million people via a single road, logistically. Transporting anything by land is at least 10x slower and more expensive per kg than by boat, both historically and today.
Presumably the decades of peace have caused the city's importers to rely chiefly on the cheapest and most plentiful source of food, aka the vast slave-run fields around Pentos, which is probably faster to get at by sea than food from the reach over land anyway.
Add to that a panicked hoarding of food by those in KL who can afford to, thus gobbling up what little does come in from the south, and it's at least somewhat realistic how after a month of this the city is, if not yet starving, then at least dangerously low on food with sky-high prices. It requires some squinting, but it's not impossible or bad storytelling imo.
Guys, I'm pretty sure they've confirmed weeks ago that Daeron will be cast for season 3 and won't show up this season. Unless they're lying he will only be mentioned doing things offscreen this season and have his prominent role to play in seasons 3 and 4. Whether that means that they push back the honeywine battle until early S3 (in which case my god is that season going to be saturated with bloodshed) or just mention it by the end of this season as some huge disaster that means the Black's window of opportunity to take the throne is closing and so let's hury up, we shall see.
The utter disrespect to this magnificent being still cuts to the core.
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By trying to make Rhaenyra and alicent strong women, In a weird round about way…they’ve somehow removed all agency from them and made them such weak characters.