House of the Dragon took Black Aly, one of the more interesting women of the Dance and reduced her to “the woman who killed Criston Cole”
In Fire & Blood, she fights throughout the war, avenges her brother, commands 300 archers at the Battle of the Kingsroad, survives the Dance, helps shape its political aftermath and eventually becomes Lady of Winterfell.
The show barely lets her speak.
And the irony?
The book doesn’t even specifically say she killed Criston Cole.
Black Aly deserved a story.
Not a kill shot.