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i'm not talking about shipping or anything, nor about whether I like these characters or not, but really about how they interact with each other, after 10 months during which they only spent a few hours together.

okaaaay, he made a strong impression that day, he was understanding, nice, whatever you want. but that doesn’t change the fact that they worked together for one day and then nothing. nothing.

langdon clearly said he had contact with no one during those months so… wym she runs to him and clings to him like that when he comes back ? wym she talked about him so often to her sister ? wym she answers him things like "you never let me down" ? wym she doesn’t trust santos professionally, even though she worked with her for months, but has no problem trusting this guy she worked with once ?

that he clings to that positive relationship, given the icy atmosphere with robby, santos, and the indifference from the rest, except al-hashimi, okay, maybe it "makes sense".. bur still… that he isn’t more surprised than that..😐 but how did such a positive dynamic even happen in the first place ? it didn’t give "he made a good impression on my first day, I’m curious about his return" but "omg my bestie that I’ve known for months, maybe years, is finally back after 10 months !!"

even her being stressed about the deposition doesn’t justify it. when exactly did she have time to develop such a strong, reassuring connection with him ? and i’m not saying she wasn’t supposed to show any sympathy. it could still fit her character arc to be the only one openly nice to him because she had a good memory of him.

but here, it’s really written as if they’d been close/coworkers for a long time like… wtf ? did the production seriously forget S1 was 15 hours and not 15 months oooor ?

The answer to that question is very simple.

Joffrey and Ramsay were just cartoonishly evil, so to speak. They were fun to watch and read about sometimes. They made good villains, and they knew that they were villains (never attempting to hide it).

Alicent and Cole (and Otto as well), on the other hand, are the kind of people you meet in real life as well. The kind of people you absolutely can’t stand for their false piety, their hypocrisy, their gold digging, their double-standards, their constant judgmental attitude, and cruel intentions.

In other words:

Joffrey and Ramsay are TV/book villains.

Why the hell do some Daenerys fans say that Cregan would hate the surviving Stark children? Sure, maybe he'd find some of them annoying or dumb or whatever, but he wouldn't hate them. And he certainly wouldn't hate them for not trusting Daenerys- she literally wanted to rule and subjugate them with dragons despite the fact they their brother and mother and many Northmen died fighting for Northern independence In a horrific way, might I add. That Arya saw!!! And Sansa was trapped in King's Landing surrounded by enemies when she heard. Bran saw people of his house die right in front of him- people who defended their name and home.

Like, excuse me if I'm wrong, but Cregan seems like he'd respect Sansa for putting her family and The North first, and he'd respect Arya's skills and savagery. Bran...he'd probably think Bran is a freak. A correct freak but still.

I haven't read the books yet, so correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems he'd hate Daenerys's elitist attitude and wouldn't respect her burning all the crops, dumb decision considering winter was coming and they needed food badly. He also wouldn't respect her fake pleasantries, especially considering the fact that Daenerys's family has committed atrocities against the Stark family multiple times, but she only ever apologized to Jon after he snapped at her.

Don't tell me he wouldn't remember all that. He wouldn't like someone who wants to rule over them again despite all their crimes against the Stark family and would 100% support Arya and Sansa and Bran's suspicion of her.

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No. That argument does not track, because if she truly was so afraid, she'd have done everything in her power to have Rhaenyra be as close as possible to her children. She would have fought tooth and nail to have all five siblings be best fucking friends and love one another. But she didn't. She made them enemies by fearmongering and insisting to her sons that Rhaenyra would kill them when there was zero evidence she would.

You don't placate an "enemy" by making them hate you - by usurping their lawful birthright - you placate them by not being seen as a threat.

There is no evidence Rhaenyra wanted her half-siblings harmed, and in the books she insists she'll take them back into her heart if they bent the knee, but they were so twisted by Alicent and Otto's and their own greed for power that they were raised to hate her because Alicent and Otto filled their heads with the lie that Rhaenyra stole their birthright.

Rhaenyra didn't steal anything. Viserys, the King, named her his lawful heir and successor. The greens usurped the lawful heir, and Rhaenyra fought back only after she lost her daughter and her son to the greens; she, at first, wished to fight diplomatically. The greens drew first blood.

Rhaenyra would never have had to harm her half-siblings if they knelt and allowed her to ascend the throne bloodlessly. They didn't. And don't start by stating " but the lords would have risen in revolt!" Possibly, yes, but if the lords revolted and wanted Aegon on the throne, and Aegon had knelt and proclaimed Rhaenyra his lawful queen and refused to be their puppet, he'd be innocent and the rebel lords would be punished for treason.

Rhaenyra could have given her brothers places at court, or even married them to her supporters. But she wasn't given a chance to do that, because Alicent and Otto forced Aegon to usurp her, and then he tasted kingly power and wanted Rhaenyra and her family dead.

Also, before you come at me saying that Rhaenyra, in the show and book, wanted Aemond "sharply questioned", to try and "prove" she'd have killed her brothers, and think she means tortute, thats incorrect. That isn't what that means. It means aggressively questioned. Abruptly. Intensely. Not tortured.

"He should be sharply questioned" means "he should be intensely questioned with verbal force as to where he heard the rumor my sons are bastards" AKA Viserys should have pulled rank as King to demand the truth as to where Aemond heard such treason and thought he could spew it himself.

"Aggressively" also doesn't mean physically so, but rather this:

Example: how Dumbledore asks Harry if he put his name in the Goblet of Fire in the movie. That's questioned sharply.