editorialized torpedo

At least, Aegon didn't end up as poop, was recognized as the legitimate monarch, and the Greens ideology prevailed 😘

aegon ended up twisted and bent bcs he has his ass handed to him by baela (whose dragon was two times smaller than sunfyre), then was poisoned by his own people bcs they hated him so much. his wife flew out of the window and he didn't give a damn about it, his brother was taken out by their geriatric uncle, his other brother died bcs a tent collapsed. he said his sisters line must end but it was his line that ended: daemon played basketball with jaehaerys' head, maelor was torn apart and his limbs went on a tour around westeros, jaehaera was pushed out of a window by A GREEN SUPPORTER and she was so irrelevant that nobody cared about it. even his bastard was poisoned and died. his mommy regretted everything that she did and died alone and delusional hating the color green. rhaenyra's supporters fought until they put her son on the throne, and another one of her sons followed after him. rhaenyra's line survived and she still have descendants. meanwhile your entire team is such a bunch of irrelevant losers that you need to headcanon your way out of making them relevant, fun and interesting. does team green have any interesting supporters? where is team's green sabitha fray, black aly, cregan stark and jeyne arryn?

and yes, greens ideology did prevail! by preventing any woman from inheriting the iron throne ever again. glad yall admit that you stand for reaction

For a show that gave the viewers several scenes of painful childbirth, I find it fascinating that we never see Alicent giving birth to her kids. I wonder if that was just not on the creators’ mind or whether it was a conscious decision on their part, to show Alicent being a mother without the ugliness of childbirth. If so, the reasoning behind this decision is so interesting to explore, I think.

god, this bothers me so much. i didn't even notice at first until someone else pointed it out but it is SO important

rhaenyra has had two birth scenes and they were obviously emotional. alicent had zero birth scenes, even if she has four children and she's probably had her first child when she was around 16-17.

helaena also does not get a birth scene.

i know some said it's women in pain p*rn but the thing is.... it humanizes rhaenyra to the audience in a way that alicent and helaena are denied.

we see rhaenyra struggle through the pain but we also see her strength, we see her have joy as she handles her newborn and then we also see her grieve her stillborn.

it buys rhaenyra sympathy (as it should) that the audience does not have for either alicent or helaena. they are not granted the right to show the audience their own pain.

i mean, hell, there are people still denying that alicent was maritally r*ped because "not enjoying sex with your husband isn't r*pe" and "she seduced viserys" and "that's what she wanted".

some people totally misinterpreted her dissociation in the r*pe scene AND when she's holding her children because a lot of people don't give serious thought to what teenage pregnancy does to a girl, let alone a teenage pregnancy that's the result of marital r*pe.

and how that complicates not just her feelings towards herself and her children, but also how she handles them and how she copes.

there are so many nuances here that it's crazy. and the audience is already putting alicent in all these negative boxes (bad mother, evil woman, oppressor, etc.), something the writers knew was gonna happen, and refused to take one more opportunity to really hammer in the point that she is a victim, that what happened to her was wrong, that viserys had a choice, and that the choice is to witness a 16 year old girl being forced into this horrible situation, regardless of "the times" when it happens.

to me this denied the actresses' both an acting opportunity and the opportunity to be presented as human as rhaenyra.