I think violence and how psychologically--and often physically!!--difficult it is SHOULD be depicted in media more often. The plastic fake version we get is incredibly damaging in so many ways that have real impacts -- like the "sterile" bombing from way up high idea of warfare as just numbers that numbs folks in the US to what is done with their money and in their names.
That kind of depiction particularly belongs in *anti-war* works, which I think House of the Dragon is. OTOH, it is an issue that when we do get that it is more often that the strain and misery of it and inherent trauma is deconstructed with female characters. You read honest war poets or something like Slaughterhouse 5 or other sincere depictions of war trauma for boys and men and it's clear it's a *human* thing to be traumatized by it, to find it physically and emotionally wrenching even against an enemy you hate. But that side of it isn't shown as often as it should...
