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@friendsrequest i think this is a hate crime

I definitely agree that she doesn't fit book margaery at all but i think that's because a) d&d didn't get book margaery at all either and b) it's once again this issue of aging up the characters way too much.

they just kinda play her straight as a femme fatale when margaery is more an interrogation of that, and the way someone like her would realistically navigate a shitty arranged marriage while also exploring how and why margaery was given the space to grow as a politician whereas cersei is actively hindered in any growth by her own father. whereas olenna in the show is actually the head of the family despite her son being very much alive and her husband very much dead, so olenna can just openly negotiate with tywin even though the reality is that in the books it's mace doing these negotiations and olenna is forced to move behind the scenes (possibly along with alerie, another woman, or garlan, a second son, etc). so margaery as well gets rewritten to be drastically different - she is essentially the sort of woman that cersei believes margaery is, the sort of woman that cersei thinks she herself is (calculating, political, defaulting to sex as a weapon instead of like, anything else).