“lucerys was a bastard”, about the same boy who idolized you and didn’t want to become lord of the tides because it meant you would be gone
“jacaerys lived and died as a bastard”, about the same boy who died defending your fleet
(and he even went after joffrey - the writers only remembered about him to shit on him)
all this to not give alicent one of her most famous lines, when she’s the one who spent a whole season condemning rhaenyra’s sons as bastards and hating them for being born
the only way to save this season/show is to go back in time and make sure it’s never made
also, vaemond got his head split in half for saying this, but i guess because daemon isn’t there rhaenyra won’t do shit bc she’s just a girl and can’t do anything by herself (not even protect her dead sons’ memories, apparently)
“speak again of bastardy, and i will have your tongue out”, i will mourn you until my last breath
and yes, the “did it make you feel better” line from helaena to rhaenyra about killing otto is indeed in there, and no idgaf that she was just curious, i gaf about the fact that rhaenyra wasn’t like “yes bicth it fucking did”
“my own father kept their plot from me”, glad to see we’re still pushing that little tale as if we didn’t hear him tell her aegon should be king after his birthday and before leaving for oldtown (and i'm willing to bet they spoke of it between episode 7 and 8 too), and as if we didn’t watch alicent tell aegon it was either usurpation or death - but no, none of that happened, so obv she had nothing to do with it
“so my position is such that i must hope for the capture and death of my son”… BRO YOU DID THIS, literally two episodes ago you manipulated him into going to harrenhal, knowing damn well you’d told rhaenyra where he would be and thinking she’d readied something for him there
WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING
i understand alicent wanting to rewrite history bc objectively what she actually did doesn’t make her look good (and it seems like helaena didn’t know about her selling aegon out, so wonder if they’ll address that, but i doubt it bc ofc), but why the fuck does rhaenyra not say a fucking word?
side note: i haven’t seen the whole episode, just random snippets here and there