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It's started in Season 2 after TG were disappointed she "wasn't grieving properly."

But wait, why is Helaena criticized for that, but not her drunken, rapist husband?

With Rapegon, TG always go into fantasies about "his entire world revolved around baby Jaehaerys🥹" even if that never happened on screen.

Rapegon didn't raise that child. He didn't care about him. All he did (only after becoming king!) was parade him in front of the court, saying "my heir." Even on the day his son lost his head, he cared about his own life first, his reputation second and his son only last.

Was this grief long-lasting? No, Rapegon went to a party a couple of days later. But it's awkward to talk about that, isn't it?

It's much better to attack Helaena for being apathetic to things and not showing her grief openly. Helaena torments herself with visions of the future - if she knows the end of history, it's hard to even imagine her mindset. It's all a mix of what's happening, what has happened and what's supposed to happen. She knows the man who killed her son is a walking corpse. She knows almost all of them will be dead within the next six months. You can criticize her for not trying to change that, but that's a different matter.

Long story short: hatred for Helaena that's currently raising head is nothing more than a double standard, until people who hate her start hating her fucked-up husband, too.