iirc, the idea that this aemond/alicent storyline was originally something aegon was supposed to do comes from a source who often had valid leaks. they claimed a year or two ago that aegon assaulting alicent was a cut scene from S2, though i have no idea where it was supposed to fit. were c&h gonna have his son killed and he's just like 'better assault my mum now!' or something? im a bit iffy about this claim, though it's possible. its impossible to even try to verify, since the S2 scripts are not available to read at the wga library (if this was in the final shooting script at all, could have been cut much earlier in the writing process).
while i do think it's plausible that c&h just want alicent assaulted by a son no matter what, i don't think aemond's scene with alicent is a 1-to-1 of aegon's, if aegon's existed at all. i think they probably had the wonderfully regressive thought of 'he's attracted to an older woman in the book he must want to fuck his mum then. no other reason someone could find a 40 year old woman hot.'
Oh now I remembered early s2 leaks era. Lord. What a nightmare was. Whatever I was not completely a believer of that leak when comes out. Because leaks involving Aegon usually feels to off landing.
But I never thought was impossible.
There is a reason they casted team green so close in age, because is easier to frame the subtext between them that way.
And in s2 I think it made more clear to me what is going on. A lot of scenes where Aegon and Alicent are arguing it is frame as wife and husband arguing. Like Alicent entering in his room without permission. Even when he is a man and he being so comfortable with it. It shows a share of intimacy only wife and husband have regarding their own room. And then the way she argued with him, is framed as bitter wife and husband and then he goes to fight and get all burned.
And of course in s1 the whole Diana stuff. Could be easy played by a jealous wife. And maybe if Helaena was closer to her book counterpart. All those scenes would fit her like a glove.
And I think that is the point, is not to show Aegon is into his mother. But how that marriage was doomed to fail because Alicent was always crawling inside, Aegon and Helaena can't be happy together because they can't communicate with each other, there is no space there for them to do so.
Alicent doesn't know how to play the mother so she plays the bitter wife that wants to control her husband. Whatever Aegon only look to her as a mother . And Tom play that way.
With Aemond is different a bit. Remember that scene in the second season where she enters the small council and trying to get to him she touches his face? That made me question, if everytime she tried to soften him a bit in the past to get him to do something she used physical touch as well. And again if you go back in S1 when she asks him to go after Aegon she holds his closer too. And with Cole in-between them. Considering Cole is also a potential love interest.
So there is a element here of physical reward almost if he does what she asks. And that can fuck up someone mind. Specially as someone that grow up in such a incestuous family.
Back in S2 Ewan said that Aemond fired Alicent because she is his Kryptonite and he can't properly function when she is in the room. And he plays Aemond as if he is in love with his mother. Like please this is not platonic look lol:
And that also leak to Heleana as well.He is trying to get to her in the same way Alicent does to him. By physical touch. But that doesn't work with Helaena so is not just the emotional but also the physical rejection that hits him like a truck.
And maybe Alys can be used as someone that kind helps him to develop in a more positive way and make him figure out things up or feed into that psychosis even more. Only time will tell.
So for me is like oh they come with the idea of him being into Alicent because of his desire for older women from the book but in the show the subtext sort of path a way to it.
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