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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 3 Episode 5 — "Unbowed and Unbent"

and if helaena is this all knowing prophetess the writers are trying to establish her as, then wouldn't she know that alicent's dumbass plans aren't gonna work? i love helaena, but she has spent the last two seasons being nothing but a walking spoiler, doing NOTHING to try to help her family or protect herself bc blah blah blah, nobody can stop this, this is how the story must go. the way they're currently writing her, it seems like the writers want helaena to have just enough agency to Make Things That Need to Happen Happen but not enough agency to do anything "bad" that might make her morally complex and not the blameless infantilized autistic girl that they've already established her as. she's FINALLY allowed to have her own thoughts and wants, she's finally allowed to show anger, to show any emotions AT ALL, but only when it shows how horrible of a mother alicent is. and so much of the first two seasons was spent establishing her as a non-person that it just feels hollow and self contradictory.

Show!Alicent doesn't love her children. She wants her sons dead and sees her daughter as an accessory, not someone with her own thoughts and desired. Alicent only liked Helaena because she did as she was told, unlike her brothers. Ugh, and let's not talk about her weird relationship with Rhaenyra after all these years. Book!Alicent would NEVER.

She is not allowed to exist as the complicated political operator she was in the book. Instead, she becomes whatever the writers need in that moment: Rhaenyra’s lover, moral adviser, secret strategist, or convenient obstacle for Rhaenicent shippers to attack.

The only reason Alicent does anything "for Helaena" is because she sees her as her young self and the only person showAlicent loves is herself.

The door to the psychiatrist is on the right.

Yet here we are, with only three episodes left, and the only thing this shitshow has accomplished is becoming more incoherent and ridiculous every week. Whatever romantic geometry they thought they were creating, it certainly was not compelling television.

>just removed from a few high school libraries. Fully available in public libraries, book stores, and online.

>book is marketed towards children yet describes sex acts in explicit detail and markets them as positive and cool things to do.

>just removed from a few high school libraries. Fully available in public libraries, book stores, and online.

DAEMYRA TRIUMPHANT!! (i know we'll go backwards next ep but let me have this!)

Apparently, Bugs Bunny didn’t wear gloves for a bit after the color cartoons came, but audiences asked why he stopped wearing them so the animators changed it back.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

I didn't do so right away but jesus wept I PUSHED myself to learn to read SPECIFICALLY so I could read The Hobbit! It is, in fact, a children's story! And children only see page count as 'there is a lot of this fun story to read!'

Like... come on man, 310 pages isn't even what I would've considered a particularly long book as a kid.

This is their idea of writing a believable parent-child bond, which says everything about how fucking inept they are. 😑