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Ok this was bad...
This scene was really bad, she could have said that sentence in her sleep, while eating dinner, anywhere and any other time and it would have been better than THAT MOMENT...
GIRL GIRL GIRL
PLEASE PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER
That was just pathetic
And the whole "but I possess the heart and spirit of a king" doesn't even work for her?!
Like isn't the entire point of her actions is to prove she's not any less than a man for taking the throne?
And here we are bringing down women because the label "king" is apparently superior for C&H
Yes yes I know is a quote from queen Elizabeth but I'm talking about how it doesn't work for rhaenyra, IMO...
u/OkNature7813 — 9 days ago
A reminder that this scene, IS INSANE!(and not in a good way)
You know what my reaction was the first time I watched this? As someone who didn't know anything about this world and its characters, as someone who hasn't read the books?
"WTF"
like I can't even think of one reason that this is a good scene.
TELL me if I got it wrong:
Your husband(the king) is dead, he has named his daughter heir to the throne, but you have a (stupid) moment of "misunderstanding" and think he changed his mind.
So you send people to drag your son back from where he was hiding from you because he didn't want to take the throne, you MAKE him take the throne.
The war starts and your enemy kills your grandson, you have like this one brief moment of sadness because "look what they've done to my daughter" not "my children" or "my grandchild" just "my daughter"!
(Forget about the fact that this happened because you borrowed the guy who was supposed to protect them)
Then you have a meeting with your enemy(BFF) and she tells you that you misunderstood your husband, the same person who married and slept with you when you were 14 and didn't gave a sh!t about you or your kids so much so that he was IMO willing to torture your son who was already had his eye cut out because he DARED to speak the truth.
So after that you go to have a conversation with your son and instead of anything useful (forget loving) you drop these things:
"do you think simply wearing the crown imbues you with wisdom"
"In the hope that you might be half the king your father was"
Really??? yeah alicent you know what, book reader-not a book reader doesn't matter... F OFF
u/OkNature7813 — 11 days ago
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Hotd is really bad at showing the relationship between the characters
The title says it all With the exception of rhaenyra and her father/mother/children (for obvious reasons) I never feel like I'm watching a show about two "families" a lot of characters either don't give a crap about each other or don't even acknowledge each other's existence:
Viserys with Alicent children: he had like two scenes with Aegon when he was a baby, the driftmark episode, the feast, and that's it
ALICENT WITH ALICENT CHILDREN: awful relationship in season two
Corlys and Rhaenys: couple scenes with their kids, didn't give a crap when either of them died(maybe for 5 minutes) With the strong boys they're technically their grandparents? Nothing there With their granddaughters Rhaenys had two or three scenes when she was standing beside them and that was it, Corlys after Rhaenys death was upset for 5 minutes and then teamed up with daemon and rhaenyra
Aemond and aegon: in the feast when they teamed up against the strong boys was really cool, and then nothing after that...
Daemon and his kids: except the one scene with baela, not a damn thing
Aegon and helaena: their child is DEAD and we get nothing
All the green kids: don't feel like they're siblings
So yeah, please tell me if I missed something but I never felt like they were family and people who loved each other, more like people who KNOW each other...
u/OkNature7813 — 22 days ago
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Why everything in the show is so... Colorless
Ok so I haven't gotten the chance to read the books yet, but from what I've seen from fan arts and concept arts and arts from the books themselves, almost all of the crowns and clothing and dragons look really unique and beautiful.
But in the show they just look bland...
Jaehaerys crown for example, like why?
u/OkNature7813 — 26 days ago