They adapted the dragon twins as black girls. Cool. Beautiful and talented actresses, I love it.

Then they decided to take away Baela’s rebelliousness and tomboyishness and instead have her only serve as a vehicle for the men to express their emotions (Jace, Corlys and now also Alyn). She is not a real character at the moment, she is only there to occasionally move the plot along. Mind you she is one of the few characters who actually survive the whole war but as it stands no one cares if she makes it because she barely exists.

And the problem is most obvious with Rhaena. Holy hell, what did they do to her character. Or, wait, is it Nettles now? They took a look at a character that is described as a beautiful, fine lady, beloved by everyone that later hatches a dragon and then they looked at a character that is some random peasant girl that rides a feral dragon and said “hey, you know what? Let’s make them the same character!” And why? Well, Nettles is a canonically black girl. I guess they decided the characters are interchangeable if Rhaena is also a black girl! So let’s let a member of the royal family just stray around in the wild even if the reason is extremely contrived.

Yes, I get that there are a lot of characters so Baela currently has limited screen time. Doesn’t explain why the little time she has is spent only fleshing out the characters around her.

Yes, I also understand that Rhaena doesn’t do much during the Dance. But there should’ve been a more creative solution to that and not mashing her with a fundamentally different character.

And I’m 100% convinced that these issues wouldn’t exist if white actresses played these characters.

And somehow they were cosmically rewarded by meeting each other again!! “But it’s not really them” Right, the angel and (former) demon are gone. And instead of an immortal existence tied down by the system of heaven and hell, they get to live their human lives FREE and TOGETHER and IN LOVE!!