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Do you believe the queen's judgement to be sound? I would not serve her otherwise.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 2, "Queen's Landing"

#i can tell the writers are doing their thing this season because I'm actually enjoying that foul creature's screen time thus far #house of the dragon

rhaenicentdaily

"Seeing the shift in Rhaenyra's face and whole body as she sees Alicent. This breaks something in her. From this scene onward, Rhaenyra changes in a way that she doesn't even really completely understand in that moment." – Clare Kilner

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 2, "Queen's Landing"

#house of the dragon #i'm shaking like a chihuahua

visenyaism

ryan condal and co.: we want to examine how misogyny sets the foundation for this civil war headed by two rival queens who lived through the horrors of interfamilial sexual abuse over the course of their adolesence and are now faced with a patriarchal society that flat out doesnt want them

hotd audience: condal and co. are writing fanfic at this point why aren't rhaenyra and alicent just flatly cutthroat and bond-villain-level ambitious with no real meat behind their actions i Hate having to think about character motivations why cant we have Real complex women *more fanfic complaints* *ignoring the fact that the majority of things that happen to rhaenyra and alicent have also happened to cersei, whom they love*

I have accepted that lucking out into getting a show about my favorite thing with this kind of budget that is written, directed, and acted almost exclusively to my specific tastes means that everyone else is hating from the outside and hating loudly. No accounting for taste.

thenablade

The problem is that the HOTD showrunners are allergic to the idea of Rhaenyra and Alicent having any agency or involvement in immoral behavior.

Rhaenyra is completely uninvolved in Blood and Cheese, she doesn’t express murderous hatred towards her siblings, her justifiably violent and mournful reaction to the stillbirth of her only daughter is heavily muted, Nettles is erased from existence and so the complexity of one victim of grooming being jealous and misogynistic towards another victim is erased, Alicent has zero control over her children and therefore zero influence in politics beyond inventing a sexual relationship with Criston Cole etc. They have to give Rhaenyra an almost word-for-word Elizabeth I line (that is insanely sexist by our standards, especially when stripped of the context that Elizabeth was pragmatically saying this to an army of male soldiers) about ‘having the heart and spirit of a king’ but she doesn’t have the heart or the spirit of a king. At all.

That being said the ‘evil stepmother’ trope is washed and it would make more sense if Fire & Blood was written like the actual Anarchy where Rhaenyra’s ultimate opponent is not Aegon, but his wife/power behind the throne Helaena. The real Queen Matilda of Boulougne and Empress Matilda were ten times more interesting than whatever is going on here.

visenyaism

what do you think they might be trying to communicate about gender violence and war by adapting it like this. I think if you can’t see that they’re deliberately trying to tell a story about both of these women’s perpetual desperate struggle to claw for control and get out of these situations that patriarchy has trapped them in you are hating from outside

#the horse's refusal to drink the water is admirable at this point #house of the dragon

sobcat

fuuuck they are putting me to work at work 😭😭😭😭

television

“Liar.”

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) - 2.07 • “Lie to Me”

#😭#btvs

lakevida

i think its charming when peoples personal lives improve and they get drastically worse at posting

#im getting married this year but im not letting this go nope

branwinged

"What a jape the gods have made of us two," she said. "By all rights, you ought to be in skirts and me in mail." Cersei to Robert in A Game of Thrones

RHAENYRA & AEGON HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-)

#😘👌👌#house of the dragon

omtai

Normal groceries like milk or bread or whatever running out is whatever. Just anotha day. But when stuff like salt or cooking oil or rice runs out it feels like You’re supposed to be here for me and you’re leaving. You’re just like everyone else

#its true 😭