was sansalicent

When Otto told Rhaenyra to “let daemon do it (his beheading) to spare him from been hacked at (by Rhaenyra herself)” she should have purposely HACKED HIM TF UP but instead we get her hesitating and crying over the man who stole everything from her. The man that has been plotting against her since she was a child. In fact it should not have been a botched beheading, It should have been overkill. this should have been the moment she released all that pent up RAGE

It’s not lost on me that both of alicents sexual assaults are portrayed as a consequence of her own actions. Blackmailed into being sexually humiliated by Larys is portrayed as hypocrisy for “being judgemental” over Rhaenyra’s affairs. He son assaults her in direct response to her manipulation of him. The other man assaults her under the guise that she is a traitor and because she chose to have one consensual relationship with another man. While she is saved from being raped, believed and her rapist was arrested, they have Orwylle say “I don’t know what you have done, your Grace” as if to remind the audience that she did something to the men around her, the men that assault her. This isn’t “leopards eating her face” this is misogynistic writers who think sexual violence and exploitation will humble or even punish the “bad” women who chose the “wrong” side.