These leaks about Alicent have got me more furious than I thought I could be. How is it the third season and the writers are still using SA as a meta narrative to punish, humble and humiliate her?
She was pimped out by Otto, raped by Viserys, and blackmailed by Larys in S1, blamed for B&C because she was having consensual sex for the first time in S2. Now in S3 she’s going to be kissed by her own son and Jasper Wylde is going to SA her?? This is literally more than all the other female characters combined. Forced to be a child bride and teen mum, paraded at the funeral, attacked by the smallfolk, in obvious pain from moon tea and/or miscarriage, her relationship exposed and ridiculed, constantly bathing and naked and her body “atoning for her sins” - I could go on and on.
You’re telling me even after her (terrible) “redemption” in S2, Alicent still needs to be assaulted multiple times by multiple men, when in the past this has been used to prove just how wrong she was for siding with them?? Except HOTD changed it so she had no agency in any of that anyway. She’s excluded from the green council, misunderstanding Viserys’s last words, and selling out her family to finally support the “right” side - so what exactly is there left for Alicent to be “punished” for in S3?
Like in what world does anyone feel comfortable inventing this amount of assault, perversion and obsession with a woman’s body, and continue to frame it as righteous punishment and redemption?
Alicent is simply their morality tale for “bad” women, but who wants SA as a “gotcha” moment even for people they don’t like? Because it’s not even standard for GRRM’s world - every single instance is a show invention. It’s the kind of thing you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. And yet the writers have the gall to claim this is a feminist retelling of F&B.
Was going to watch S3 for shits and giggles but this is genuinely veering into some of the most gleeful misogyny I’ve ever seen on screen, and there seems to be nothing left for Alicent but to repeatedly apologise and continue to be assaulted in spite of it
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