let the darkness set us free

i love how the seaosn 2 ending almost haunts the season 3 one. they're similiar in a lot of ways but their circumstances have been amplified and have only gotten worse

it's the way rhaenyra and alicent are each others yin and yang. alicent doesn't have freedom without rhaenyra. rhaenyra wants to be a good ruler but the moment alicent leaves the city, it all goes downhill for her

if season 4 promo doesn't look anything like this then i don't want it

the way helaena embroidered herself wearing a green dress instead of blue for her death. green, the colour that represents her faction and the war, the thing that has been slowly killing her for years. the way she's smiling slightly because her death is finally giving her the freedom she yearns for but she also has tears flooding out of her because she didn't want any of this, she could've lived a happy life with her kids but it never worked out that way for her

rhaenyra will lose her mind if alicent gets mad at her and blames her for helaena's death. she will be doing anything to gain alicents favor again. i think we'll get a reversal and rhaenyra will be grabbing onto alicent desperately and pleading with her. alicent will see what being queen has done to her, mirroring the way alicent was changed by the crown, and will immediately want to help her

"i will return to you as soon as i am able. i give you my word. we will walk out in the sun." and actually it was helaena who retruned herself to alicent and they spent one more moment in the sun together

rhaenyra closing the window that helaena jumped out of reminds me of alicent warning her that in order to rule, there is a door in you that must shut