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House of the Dragon Au

Once upon a time, there lived a lovely little princess named Helaena. She was happy until her vain and wicked sister, the Queen, in fear, sent assassins after her and trapped her in a tower, away from everyone and everywhere that mattered to her. “All the things you care about are Ugly. This place is Ugly. You, yourself... ugly.”

Alicent was definitely affected by this 180 the most, her whole arc was swooped from underneath her leaving the character with nothing to do. She’s a glorified plot device who exists solely to make Rhaenyra look better in comparison.

This was supposed to be Rhaenicent’s season and Alicent’s moment to shine as a full fledged member of Team Black. Instead they shoved her to the side because S2 made her the most hated character on the show so there was no point wasting valuable screen time on her character development.

Yes, is what everyone believed too.

That is why every leak was hinting at a kiss. Or something about Rhaenyra being pulled between two forces. To be honest tho I always felt iffy about it because, for me, that ship was always queerbait.

Either way. After the backlash, they clearly had to change things up. And it works well because it creates a great transition between Aegon and Rhaenyra. They already had parallels, and here they are even more.

The problem is that Alicent has nothing to do this season besides serve as a plot device, with no depth. And I see why Matt and Olivia are shipping their characters together this season, because they really have no emotional depth and arcs.

Alicent has been in survival mode all season. She hasn't processed what's happening around her in any meaningful way. She doesn't feel like a character at all.

Season 3:

Ratting: 8.1/10

Best Episode: Episode 5 Unbowed and Unbent

Worst Episode: Episode: Episode 2 Queen's Landing ( The main event of the episode makes no sense how play out and is the combination of all bad plots of S2. )

Best Character of the season: Ormund Hightower.

Worst character of the season: Alicent Hightower.

Best arcs: Rhaenyra and Aegon.

Worst arcs: Daemon ( more than 1h of screen time and only being a stagnant character for the whole s3).

2. Seasons 1, 2 and 3:

Best to worst seasons: S1> S3> S2

Best first Episode: S1>S2> s3

Best finales: S3>S1>S2

Best battle: Tumblenton. The fact they haven't any substantial information about this battle in the books besides the two betrayals. I really like how well passed it was, well structured too. I love how despite smaller in scale It had me feeling more invested.

I think the show did a decent job to show us Rhaenyra had desire for violence and vengeance. And how all the pretexts she was using to avoid that was slowly crumbling. Until episode 8.

To be fair. It could have done better if they had sprinkling better though the episodes instead of just holding until the finale. Because that may feel rushed. Again. The problem of this show is not that they don't set up things. Is the bad passing. I think this may have to do with the fact the writers room is probably a mess.

Fight of the dragonstone. I can see Aegon taking Dragonstone. But I think will be more like Stannis situation, where he just go there and is abandoned. Also Baela in the show now is Rhaenyra's hostage. So makes things even more unlikely to happen.

Battle of Kingsroad. What is a shame because I want to see the chad Borros Baratheon fighting. But since I think they are twisting the Moon of the three kings to be about Aegon, Aemond and Daeron. I don't see the point of it.

"Oh, is him the king?" Pointing to Ormund.

"Oh, he is the king married to the queen( Alicent)?"

"No.."

"Oh he is the king married to the daughter of the queen"

Urgh....I'm so tired of *insert character* joins tb fanfic. I cannot find a good pro tg fanfic without these popping up. Idk man, just go enjoy your Daemon. You know, the pedophile r*pist y'all glazed so much🙄

They also blame their misfortune on tg. While their sadness is mostly on tb.

Look I get you because I actually like parings between tg/tb but most of fanfics are just one side pro tb and is so annoying.

I am pretty sure that after the backlash of S2 the heads of hbo had a little talk with Ryan and Company.

You can feel this season is in many ways trying to fix Season 2 worst mistakes.

And to be fair. They did a better job this season. They listen the criticism and what they could fix. They fix it. And for that S3 is already superior in many ways compared to S2.

They actually tried to write multiple povs this season.Instead of only focusing on those two women. And it worked for some character more than others but still far better than season 2.

They even gave Daemon fans what they want. He being in battle scenes and everything instead of actual character arc 😂.

And to be honest. I don't know anymore is they are actually promoting Da*myra. Sure, we know, Nettles was erased. And Ryan say is because he didn't see this point of this story since Daemyra was so strong. But I think this is him being coy in deceiving manner.

The reality is. I think Ryan was chosen by Martin because Ryan and Martin favourite character is Daemon in the dance.

The reality is more likely I don't think Ryan cares for Rhaenyra and Alicent. I think Alicent is actually their scapegoat.

Well she does play a key moment on the final of the dance when she gives Jaehaera a dagger to kill Aegon. And I think despite the current situation with Alicent right now if they play the cards good enough we still could have this moment. And the Jaehaera chose not do so.

Would be a beautiful message of ending circle of violence. Finally the poison didn't infected her.

The way they nerfed my girl. She used to be great in S1.

And then he acts she has this depths we don't see about it.

Like girl, sold Aegon to be free. She still not free and Aegon is alive.

Then in S3 to free her and save Helaena she was send to kill Aemond. Helaena died. Aemond still alive and she still a captive. But now to a way worse tyrant.