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Alicent: "You may not rule and remain yourself. There is, in you, a door that must shut."
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Season 3 spells doom for Daemyra. House of the Dragon gifset.
Alicent: "You may not rule and remain yourself. There is, in you, a door that must shut."
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“go to emergency contact” and pointing to their parents 😭😭
The beacon on the Hightower, do you know what colour it glows when Oldtown calls its banners to war?
Green.
it seems the writers are trying to make alicent likeable in the eyes of the audience by continuously, egregiously victimising her. that scene was not necessary. it came out of nowhere. how about you actually continue to build her character and give her more important things to do in the show instead of being humiliated over and over again? no? ok...
i’d prefer if Alicent wasn’t sexually assaulted again for the rest of the series thank you
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i actually really like the scene of aemond and alicent because i think the show has flown a bit close to the romanticising-incest-sun with daemon and rhaenyra. other forms of sexual deviancy such as daemon grooming rhaenyra when she was a child, aegon being a rapist, alicent being groomed as a child as well — these are all things that are normalised in the show as "just part of the world".
adding that kiss was, in my opinion, a bucket of cold water for the cherry picking viewer to remind them that incest is, in fact, bad. it shows you just how far gone aemond actually is, and how powerless alicent feels hanging from the targaryen family tree the way she does. i don't think it was for "shock factor" as much as it was a reminder that we don't get to cherry pick which incestuous relations are acceptable and not
What I love about House of the Dragon (the show) and why I think it’s infinitely better than Fire and Blood (the book) is that the show is much more interested in unintended consequences. Almost every event in the books is the consequence of a character making a conscious choice to do something and it working exactly as they intended. This makes the characters less interesting to me. I'm not interested in characters who have complete control over their actions. But I also understand that's kind of what George was going for when he wrote a history. History books narrativize events and so you need to characterize the players as having agency and more control than is realistic.
What I think makes this adaptation so successful is that it's telling a more nuanced story. It uses Fire and Blood as just a blueprint of the major events but the characters living through those events are much more human. And almost every major tragedy in the show is not the consequence of an evil person making an evil choice but of characters trying to control forces much larger than them. It's about hubris and the illusion that you can control the world around you. The dragons are the perfect example of this. The Targaryens don't actually have complete control over their dragons. By attempting to use the dragons to influence events around them they end up causing much of the suffering in the show. Aemond didn't want to kill Lucerys but he couldn't stop Vhagar. Rhaena wanted to help in the battle of the gullet but couldn't control Sheepstealer and ended up causing Jace's death.
But even characters who don't ride dragons end up causing suffering by trying to control those around them. Otto expected a pliable puppet king he could rule through but he couldn't control Aemon. The greens thinking they can control the Triarchy and use them as a weapon against their enemies only for them to go rogue in the battle.
George may not agree but i think this is exactly what an adaptation should do. The books are there if you want the "historical" account. But the show is saying okay these events happened but what if the people who participated in them didn't actually have the agency we thought they did? What if the entire Dance of the Dragons is the result of people desperately trying and failing to bend the world to their will and unintentionally causing not only their own suffering but the suffering of countless others in the process? I think that's pretty damn interesting.