u/Mountain_Gain1299

https://discussingfilm.net/2026/06/18/house-of-the-dragon-season-3-review/

Pathetic characters are my kryptonite.

If Rhaenyra had been written with a single admirable leadership quality in either F&B or HOTD, I’d be team green. I prefer the green dynamics and I character arcs more interesting, particularly in the source material. In most stories, that would be the side I naturally gravitated towards.

But you just can’t create a character that doesn’t have a single win in the entire story(that’s not some other character’s idea) and tell me not to root for her. You can’t write her making a moronic decision that leads to her death(going to dragonstone instead of the vale) and tell me that’s not my girl.

The fact that F&B Rhaenyra is incapable of making one decision during the entire war that’s not stupid unlocks a maternal instinct in me that feels she should be protected. Even with HOTD being pro-Rhaenyra, she still comes across as a limp noodle. She’s like a little baby bird.

Pathetic characters are my kryptonite.

If Rhaenyra had been written with a single admirable leadership quality in either F&B or HOTD, I’d be team green. I prefer the green dynamics and I character arcs more interesting, particularly in the source material. In most stories, that would be the side I naturally gravitated towards.

But you just can’t create a character that doesn’t have a single win in the entire story(that’s not some other character’s idea) and tell me not to root for her. You can’t write her making a moronic decision that leads to her death(going to dragonstone instead of the vale) and tell me that’s not my girl.

The fact that F&B Rhaenyra is incapable of making one decision during the entire war that’s not stupid unlocks a maternal instinct in me that feels she should be protected. Even with HOTD being pro-Rhaenyra, she still comes across as a limp noodle. She’s like a little baby bird. I am desperately rooting for her to do something, anything even if I know how it all ends.