hotd s2e8 spoilers:
what an absolute master class in the character assassination of alicent hightower. in one scene they stripped her of all integrity, made her a coward, and a traitor to her king and family. what was the point, the point of anything of it.
alicent's character is arguably one of the most changed aspects of hotd from fire and blood and for what point. they tried to make her more sympathetic, less of a villain, and seemed to have only succeeded in destroying her loyalty and backbone.
edit: want to clarify that this has nothing to do with whether i think alicent did the right thing or not, it's that it's a complete betrayal of who she is as a character and an insult to what she personally upholds, especially in terms of fire and blood
i'm gonna lose it if hotd keeps trying to tie itself to the plot of got because it's never going to come to anything. the white walkers and song of ice and fire isn't for another 170ish years, please spend more time on the war that is currently happening and less trying to pander to dany fans.
tfw you are scrolling through that weirwood.net trying to get critical information on blackfyre whereabouts but you actually see your great-grandpa having a coked-out prophetic blood nightmare because you put the wrong daemon into the search parameters
He is so me
septon eustace giggling and kicking his feet while writing his self insert oc daeron targaryen into the histories
I read it somewhere, but when they mention how a young man is highly appreciated by women it's a huge hint that it's HBO's way to tell us that the character will be gay.
And if it's true, now I'm afraid.
Considering how they handled Loras in GOT reducing almost all his scenes to his sexuality when actually he was soo much more than that, they're gonna do the same with Daeron.
Like, c'mon Hackondal and Mess, Daeron is described as Rhaegar Targaryen vibes even before Rhaegar Targaryen was a thing! But unlike religious zealot Rhaegar who cheated on his wife and caused a war because of an idiot prophecy, Daeron was Ned Stark's levels of loyalty. All his qualities will be reduced to... well, what he does when the lights go out.
But ofc they're gonna ruin him. I can see it coming, like winter. Oh well, what's one more character assassination in Team Green, right? *insert I'm tired boss meme here*
"your honour, i love them" i say about a character i would fistfight in real life
I find myself agreeing with this woman’s thoughts on Alicent’s character this season. Which is a shame in many ways…
(Tagging those who might be interested in what this video has to say, I apologize if any of y’all have been trying to get this off your mind only for me to tag you here lol)
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me writing the worst paragraph of my life knowing that a sexier, more hydrated version of me will fix it later
i think the daeron talk between alicent and gwayne is my biggest win this episode
one of the things that bothers me this season, is that they used jaehaerys' death for the daemon targaryen character arc.
rather than to show aegon's full rage potential, helaena's awakening to the power of her dreams or aemond's reaction.