I will forever mourn the plot we could have had if only hotd had given us a Daemon x Alicent scene in S3. You have Daemon in a moral dilemma, a man who has always solved problems with violence, impulse, and absolute certainty forced to make a sacrifice for the first time in his life, and then you have Alicent in a moral dilemma, a woman who has always navigated uncertainty and learned to weaponize patience, sacrifice, and manipulation, now forced to inflict violence for the first time. They're mirror opposites of each other. Just as sacrifice comes naturally to Alicent, it comes unnaturally to Daemon, and just as violence comes naturally to Daemon, it comes unnaturally to Alicent. They are both haunted, both trapped by prophecy in different ways, both convinced they're doing what must be done for their family and becoming increasingly unrecognizable to the people who love them, and both are in love with the same woman. They've spent three seasons orbiting one another as symbols. One conversation, that's all I wanted this season. Just one scene where two of the show's most psychologically fascinating characters realize they have become far more alike than either of them would ever care to admit. We only have one episode left and I'm afraid we're going to be robbed.
