interviewers keep telling actors their characters are unlikeable like they don't already have to deal with enough deranged people who can't separate fiction from reality... i'm sure they're aware 😭
@joshoconnr4real yeah, lots of subtle moments like that. i get they didn't want to follow the book to avoid an all white cast, but i still wish they explored racism in more depth in both shows, the way they did with pedophilia, homophobia and even religious intolerance 🫤
i need to get in the writers room and make them give jehosheba a subplot about what it’s like being a black girl in gilead married to a commander who’s a “true believer”. they could easily explore gilead’s racism and white supremacy in a meaningful way, they just choose not to
I could write an essay on how they're both designed to be "hated," but only because Gilead is harder for them in ways the audience (and often even the writers) fail to recognize
@kisscofever i’ll be there explaining in details how we can have a show with a diverse cast without ignoring that patriarchy and white supremacy are deeply connected
@percinfiniti that scene of her panicking and lashing out at her martha was one of the few times she felt like a real fleshed out character to me, it came off like her fear was tied to knowing she’d be judged harsher than the other girls for her mistakes, i NEED to see more of this 😭
I could write an essay on how they're both designed to be "hated," but only because Gilead is harder for them in ways the audience (and often even the writers) fail to recognize
sure, i'm skeptical about how the scene will be handled, but after seeing how viewers mocked both aemond and alicent whenever their sexual trauma was depicted on screen, i don't think all the blame falls on the writers
i'm not that stressed about the kiss scene because i understand, or at least hope, that it's just the story showing how the normalization of incest within the targaryen family has poisoned and destroyed their ability to form any sort of healthy family bond
and i think aemond, with all his insecurities, desperately wants to fill the role left by his absent father, who was never the parental figure his family needed, especially after he lost his eye. i think that's when he started blurring the lines of what alicent is to him
“I have a hunch that Rhaenyra still perceives Alicent as her sort of judge and jury, regardless of how polarized their relationship becomes. And I think that dynamic plays out in a way that’s sort of really interesting and acute this season.” #YEAH