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Septon: “I can’t crown you until I have proof that Aegon is dead.”

Rhaenyra: “Excellent. I’m going to start bombing Oldtown. Every hour you refuse to crown me, another building disappears.”

Like… she wouldn’t even have to actually do it.
Just isolate the Septon somewhere, send a dragonrider to Oldtown, politely explain to a sufficiently nervous maester or septon that it’d be in everyone’s best interest to write a letter saying, “Please reconsider. Everything is on fire.”

Congratulations. Crown acquired.

Yes, yes, I know. Plot.

Who the fuck is guarding this?

She cries after killing Otto? “Look at her snot nose crying.”

She doesn’t cry? “She’s a stone-cold bitchy psychopath.”

She mourns her son? “She’s so dramatic and this is award season bait.”

She doesn’t spend every scene mourning him? “She’s a terrible mother.”

She kills Otto? “Girlboss feminism.”

She doesn’t kill Otto? “Rhae Rhae needs her pedo uncle to do everything.”

For fuck’s sake, what is she actually supposed to do without getting criticized? And the same goes for Emma. Every other day it’s people trashing their acting, as if they’re not one of the only actors on the show to be nominated for two Golden Globes, with years of professional theater experience to back it up. You don’t have to like Rhaenyra, but pretending Emma can’t act is just so unserious.