the thing about the aemond-alicent relationship that i personally find interesting is that because aegon is a useless loser and viserys was seriously ill and incompetent even when not ill for a lot of his second marriage, aemond seems to have been somewhat parentified from a young age by alicent (see: the multiple times in season one when he reassures her about things, even including the scene as a child immediately after he lost his eye where he has to be the one to stand up and diffuse the tensions after viserys refuses to do anything). this seems to have contributed to his control freak tendencies and belief that he is the only competent person in his family. unfortunately this does not seem to be what the writer's room of house of the dragon finds most interesting about their relationship.

Stranger things this heated rivalry that what about me. Why aren’t we all talking about me.