Aegon also married both of his sisters, Rhaenys and Visenya, according to the extremely nasty family tradition of keeping their bloodline “pure” - a word which here means “dragon-riding and potentially insane.” If there’s one dead Targaryen the people on Game of Thrones mentioned most (besides the Mad King and Rhaegar), it’s Aegon “The Conqueror.” He founded the royal line by taking over the majority of the Seven Kingdoms and uniting them under his rule. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Aegon “The Conqueror” Targaryen and Rhaenys Targaryen The Targaryen family tree in all its incestuous branches.
Only the most relevant children in each generation are included, since fully outlining the dozens of rogue cousins, usurpers, minor monarchs, and temporary heirs would literally take longer than just watching the first episode. This is the family tree as it exists at the start of House of the Dragon. Needless to say, there are a lot more Targaryens around in this time than there were during Thrones, and remembering who’s related to who is a lot harder in this show. House of the Dragon turns back the clock to the weird old days of Targaryen rule - more specifically the period before and during a civil war called the Dance of the Dragons. Then came the story of Game of Thrones… and we all know how that turned out. They were House Targaryen, and they ruled for centuries until one of their descendants fumbled the bag and let Robert Baratheon usurp the throne. They actually took several steps into the debate when they didn’t have to.Once upon a time in the fantasy land of Westeros, a clan of fireproof, dragon-riding blondes took over the Seven Kingdoms and committed a shocking amount of direct sibling incest. “So there was just so much that the show did,” Jim points out, “to give representation to a gay character, which would have been ground breaking enough, but it also showed multi-dimensions to what being gay meant. He also notes that the character of Steve is not ashamed at all - actually, he’s matter of fact about it - when Archie finds out about him, which is yet another positive of the episode. And Archie just didn’t have his eyes open to it.” (Sony Pictures Television) But what it does show is that the macho man, the confirmed bachelor who’s an arm wrestler and big and beefy, and a former play player, whom Archie idolizes and hangs out with in the bar all the time, has been gay all these years.
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While any stereotype has some truth, what the episode took pains to show is that it never tells you whether Roger, Mike’s friend who wears the ascot and is very boisterous, and free talks with his hands, is gay or not. In 1971 people probably thought all gay people were tiny, feminine, limp-wristed men with lisps - just all the stereotypes.
“Not only did they have gay representation, but they also were breaking the harmful stereotypes that were the only thing in that day and age people knew about gay people.
“So that’s why it was so groundbreaking and gutsy of All in the Family,” he continues. The All in the Family wiki offers up this plot description: “Archie thinks he knows a homosexual when he sees one and when Mike invites his flamboyant photographer friend Roger (Anthony Geary) to the Bunker household, Archie automatically assumes that Mike’s friend is a “flamer.” Retreating to the safety of Kelcy’s Bar, Archie chooses to spend time with his “he-man” pals, notably his old arm-wrestling crony Steve (Philip Carey), who, when hearing about Roger, reveals himself to be gay - which Archie never suspected.” One example is episode five, “Judging Books by Covers,” which presented an unexpected take on the subject of homosexuality - at a time that nobody was dealing with it. Which, of course, is the reason that the show went after some of the most controversial story material it could from the moment it hit the CBS schedule.
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Insofar as series creator/producer Norman Lear was concerned, if an episode of All in the Family wasn’t pushing - if not tearing to little pieces - the envelope, then it wasn’t worth doing.
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