Its all about duty. Always. Daemon’s vision and his consequent change of heart proves it.
Rhaneyra’s duty to the prophecy and the unity of the realm and the promise she made to her father and her being crushed under that duty and paralyzed, inactive.
Daemon’s newfound duty to overturn the events of the future. His duty to his wife and him running away from it. His duty to the legacy of his House, the one thing he has always cared about more than anything and has always been excluded from.
Alicent’s banner of duty and virtue and it amounting to nothing for her this season. Her duty to the honor of womanhood, to the status of queen, a duty she never wished for herself, her duty as a mother that she is incapable of performing, her duty as a daughter that has been her undoing.
Haelena’s duty as a dragonrider and her refusal to comply. The dragonseeds duty to Rhaneyra and breaking their morals for her. Aegon’s duty to the realm that he is incapable of shouldering. Criston Cole’s duty to the oath that he breaks time and time again out of his own twisted idea of love. And above all the Dragons’ duty to their rider, the strongest bond there ever was, unbreakable loyalty and their downfall.
This is exactly why all that happens is so heartbreaking because all these twisted intertwined beings were just doing their duty to each other and to the realm all for loss and pain and just to set the same wheel in motion that their foremost duty was to.
The vision was the best thing about the whole season and it had made ryan condal’s vision with the show a lot clearer.
