It's actually fucking disgusting how sarah hess keeps putting alicent in positions to be sexually humiliated season after season. It's like they think she needs to be raped to be deserving of sympathy
It’s discouraging how many people think House of The Dragon criticism is only due to book purism. HOTD if you look at the show in a vacuum is an incoherent and unbalanced political drama one minute and weightless eye candy the next.
- they were less compatible than they thought. Unfortunately, she's also underdeveloped as a character, relegated to the love interest role, she could have been so much more. And I'm 100% convinced that Sidious killed her by using her life to save Anakin from his fatal wounds
She & Anakin truly love each other, but they were too young & caught up in their "forbidden & thwarted" love situation. Sometimes I think that if they'd been free to live their love for longer & without opposition, they could have separated peacefully over time, discovering -
I love her, but she needed more space. Also, she had no need (nor, in my opinion, the inclination) to become a mother (but sequels don't exist in these house, so no problem). She'd hate to hear it, but in terms of personality, she's more similar to Anakin than Luke is
He's the best character & the best Jedi, too good to be true, my cinnamon roll, a daddy's boy at heart (who also saved the galaxy thanks to this), and he's never done anything wrong. Ever. (I'm delulu so the sequels doesn't exist for me, & neither does the disturbing incest kiss)
- unwitting patricide. He was often hypocritical & manipulative, & handled many things in the worst possible way. Psychologically, I understand why he acted the way he did, but I wish people would judge his mistakes with a tenth of the severity with which they judge Anakin's
People love his character so much that they glaze him & refuse to acknowledge his flaws: he was too proud to admit he wasn't ready for a Padawan, too loyal to the Order to see its flaws. He was also wrong for leaving Anakin to a slow death & for manipulating a young boy into -
- state, the lingering trauma of a mother still held in slavery, a young inexperienced master with a mostly incompatible teaching style, the pressure of the Order's constant judgment, plus Palpatine's constant grooming, the Fall was inevitable for him, not a choice
People are unfairly harsh in judging him bc they overlook the psychological impact of his being a former slave & a victim of grooming. The arbitrary standards to which the Jedi Order held him (rather than giving him the support he needed) made it worse; in fact, given his mental-
Teenagers have started calling AI art "boomer art" and consider it cringe, and YouTubers have stopped using AI-generated thumbnails because teenagers find them cringe and won't click on them. I honestly couldn't be happier.
AI is so popular because it gives uncreative people the illusion that they are creative. It lets them skip right to the part where they get validation. It’s not only parasitic, but extremely narcissistic.
If you poured a gallon of poison in a CEO's pool, you'd be arrested, for attempted murder.
They pour 10,000 gallons into your drinking water, that's just business.