It's honestly so disappointing...
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I recently finished HOTD S2.
It's honestly so disappointing that we haven't seen how Helaena felt after the Blood and Cheese incident. They've downplayed it so bad! In this season, they've shown us Rhaenyra grieving in a lot of scenes (Rightfully so, she lost 2 sons) but so did Helaena! However we've barely seen Helaena grieving (like less than 30 seconds) . Like she herself was a child or teen and would be more traumatised or devastated. And they barely mention it later. It was absolutely horrific in the books and was too much to just ignore it later on. They made her dirty. Poor girl was caught in the crossfire.
Not to mention, we've only seen Helaena on Dreamfyre in her dreams and not that actually happening. I find that that the books gave her more character than it did in the show cuz she actually loved flying around on Dreamfyre (minus the prophetic visions which wasn't that highlighted in the books that I'm actually grateful for).
Again, they also removed Maelor (makes no fking sense, cuz that's why she killed herself in the first place).
Show didn't do Phia Saban justice on the show. It's sad that we might not see her again.