That meeting was ridiculous.
I won’t even get into every single detail, but there are two major points that really bothered me.
First, it bothers me that the High Lords were treated like ordinary faeries. The Night Court constantly acts with this sense of superiority over the others, as if they don’t owe any respect to fellow rulers. The entire scene made the other High Lords look weak, which is absurd. And where the hell were the consequences for attacking people during the meeting? We already know there were protections against that in place.
Second, the way Beron was reduced to a complete joke.
Through Lucien, we know Beron is a terrible person, manipulative and untrustworthy. But he’s also the oldest High Lord. His age should give him advantages — experience, political intelligence, knowledge, the ability to position himself strategically. Nobody stays in power that long by being an idiot. He should’ve been ACOTAR’s Tywin Lannister.
Instead, the meeting made him look pathetic.
Feyre attacks him and he suddenly seems intimidated by her. Rhys destroying his chair felt like some childish middle school prank. And while I like Tamlin, him grabbing Beron by the throat also felt ridiculous to me.
It completely destroyed the aura and importance the character was supposed to have. Eris constantly needing alliances and political maneuvering to overthrow his father loses impact when Beron comes across as so incompetent that killing him seems easy. And that doesn’t make sense either, because Eris himself is portrayed as extremely clever and calculating.