the way alicents “soft power” is poised deliberately against rhaenyras “hard power” in a moralistic way makes me so uncomfortable. how are these actual female protagonists in the year of our lord 2026?
Every single time people try to tell me to "see the show as its own canon and stop comparing it to the books" Ryan Condal comes out with a shotgun full of "its a faithful adaption" and "its tremendously faithful to the books" buckshot and shoots it point blank at them
but yall hated me when i said that hotd’s downfall was in the very beginning when they aged alicent down to a child bride and made her rhaenyra’s bff. literally pandora’s box.