Reminder to everyone here that the actors have no control over the writing. None.
Tom Glynn Carney went round and round with Sara Hess about making Aegon a rapist. He lost greatly.
Nikolaj Coster Waldau had an interview a few years back where he talked about going to D&D and the rest of the writers time and time again, begging them to stop making Jaime such a big waffler. They told him he is an actor and to act, let them do the writing.
The actors have no power. They are contracted for multiple seasons as actors and if they tried to quit, they'd be sued for breach of contract.
Since I’m part of the Asoiaf side of social media and not the Got/Hotd part I’m a much happier person
I miss the good old days when Rhaenyra and Alicent could hate each other in peace, as GRRM intended. They were never friends, there was a 10 year age difference between them and they really hated each other. Not to mention Alicent could be a conniving b*tch with a real agenda. No “doe eyes”, no “misunderstandings”, no nothing.
Since HBO took over, we have to endure some sort of twisted queerbaiting and a complete downgrade of Rhaenyra Targaryen because oh dear women simply hating each other for good reason is just not in accordance to today’s political agenda.
Is this a fucking joke?!
ALICENT has never sacrificed anything?!
Alicent has sacrificed EVERYTHING
She sacrificed her choices and happiness for Otto by marrying the King. She sacrificed her friendship with Rhaenyra. She sacrificed her bodily autonomy to give the king a male heir. She sacrificed her own safety for the safety of her children. She was prepared to die by dragonfire for Aegon, sacrificing her own life for his
But no. She has never sacrificed anything. Everything has been handed to her on a silver platter according to these writers
Meanwhile wtf has Rhaenyra sacrificed? A random knight so she could marry Daemon? A ton of innocent people for more dragons? Those aren’t personal sacrifices the way Alicent’s are. She’s sacrificing other people for herself
Not the same at all
And everything she has, she has been handed on a silver platter. Daddy named her heir, despite her treason in passing off bastards as heirs to Driftmark. She fucked off to Dragonstone and still was heir. She got the Riverlands because of Daemon, not anything she did. She got the dragons through evil means. Alicent offers her everything she wants
It it’s Alicent who has never sacrificed anything?
And now she’s being forced by the writers to sacrifice her son; the person she did all this to protect. Now she’s choosing Rhaenyra because this is redemption to the writers instead of the character assassination that it is
At least Olivia tries to save what she can by making Alicent have a panic attack
tfw you are scrolling through that weirwood.net trying to get critical information on blackfyre whereabouts but you actually see your great-grandpa having a coked-out prophetic blood nightmare because you put the wrong daemon into the search parameters
I find myself agreeing with this woman’s thoughts on Alicent’s character this season. Which is a shame in many ways…
(Tagging those who might be interested in what this video has to say, I apologize if any of y’all have been trying to get this off your mind only for me to tag you here lol)
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smut's fun. have you ever read soul crushing, heart aching, head throbbing comfort that makes your eyes burn out of your head to the point where you just have to crawl into a ball because your inner child feels so safe? haha... yeah smuts fun.
At this point,the only reason I want S3 is because I really, really, really want to see who plays Daeron, see him in costume and interacting with the other characters. HOTD Casting team have always been great at their job, so I know I can trust them!
I read it somewhere, but when they mention how a young man is highly appreciated by women it's a huge hint that it's HBO's way to tell us that the character will be gay.
And if it's true, now I'm afraid.
Considering how they handled Loras in GOT reducing almost all his scenes to his sexuality when actually he was soo much more than that, they're gonna do the same with Daeron.
Like, c'mon Hackondal and Mess, Daeron is described as Rhaegar Targaryen vibes even before Rhaegar Targaryen was a thing! But unlike religious zealot Rhaegar who cheated on his wife and caused a war because of an idiot prophecy, Daeron was Ned Stark's levels of loyalty. All his qualities will be reduced to... well, what he does when the lights go out.
But ofc they're gonna ruin him. I can see it coming, like winter. Oh well, what's one more character assassination in Team Green, right? *insert I'm tired boss meme here*
I suppose now the Greens' only dragon is Vaghar, and always has been. And his rider conveniently sabotages his own family from within.
Sunfyre: basically inexistent until it was time to put it down and be left *long in the dying"
Dreamfyre: does this dragon even exist in hotd?
Tessarion: conveniently made too small to be of any use when it's not supposed to be like that, and cherry on top, make his rider look like a Hightower, because that totally Alicent an hypocrite for whining about the Velaryon boys (who let's repeat, look like NEITHER of their parents or supposed relatives).
Meanwhile: give Rhaena an extra dragon, by omitting a character that serves to question whether Targaryens are really that special to be the ones who can claim exclusivity to the dragons.
Daeron fans finding out that Show!Daeron plays the lute:
i think the daeron talk between alicent and gwayne is my biggest win this episode