In a present completely awful with horrible folks, it takes a particular form of jerk to make the viewer cease and say “OK, maybe that’s a bit much, dude.” Yet one way or the other, Ser Criston Cole manages to do all of it the time, like a man who’s decided to win a secret competitors for House of the Dragon’s greatest jag.
The newest instance of this was on this week’s episode, “The Green Council,” an intense hour that chronicled a swift coup of the Iron Throne on behalf of Prince Aegon, and by extension, Queen Alicent. It’s at the begin of this coup, when the Small Council begins to make swift plans to put in Aegon as king, that Criston continues his proud custom of performing like a dingus.
As it turns out, Lord Beesbury is one of the few council members that isn’t down with changing Rhaenyra as inheritor, and he isn’t quiet about it. After he threatens to go away, Ser Criston goes to power him again into his seat, however with such power that the previous man’s head slams towards the desk, killing him. This unintentional homicide is handy for the council’s targets, so Criston isn’t actually punished, though it’s clear that everybody current thinks he’s an actual bonehead.
Sir. Ser. Wyd. May I like to recommend a therapist. You can inform them about all the methods you’ve been a instrument, and maybe even work by means of them. Consider:
- His absolute confusion that Rhaenyra, a younger girl who has needed nothing greater than to inherit the Iron Throne, would not need to run off with him and stay like a no one in Dorne.
- His refusal to cope with the undeniable fact that Rhaenyra was all the time going to marry another person, trying so surly at her wedding ceremony celebration that when Joffrey guessed he was Rhaenyra’s paramour, he beat the man to loss of life.
- Continuing to carry a grudge towards his ex to the level that not solely does he develop into her finest frenemy’s lackey, however he additionally bullies her youngsters!
It’s a credit score to Fabien Frankel’s efficiency that each time Criston Cole seems on display screen I swear below my breath, questioning out loud what this whole nincompoop goes to do subsequent. Frankel has completely nailed the hottie bait-and-switch, reworking from suave Dornish swordsmith to monstrously petty ex. Frankel is each superb at coming throughout as the form of good-looking that he’s each unaware of his beauty but in addition confounded at the thought that somebody would say no to his fairly face. It’s a set of abilities good for depicting Ser Criston Cole’s life as one of unexamined Hottie Privilege.
What a disgrace. It did not need to be this manner for Ser Criston. If solely he studied the methods of the himbo as a lot as he studied the blade. Being a Kept Boy wouldn’t have been so dangerous! He may’ve had a shot at being the solely pleased particular person in King’s Landing.
