It frustrates me to no end that the HOTD writers chose to make Aegon look as vile as possible, tried to make Rhaenyra look better and instead only made her a spoiled brat, and flattened Helaena to an extreme degree. Aemond they actually softened a bit, but he doesn’t need my defending. And in spite of the show supposedly making Alicent a deeper character, the fandom still fails to see that she is a victim with no way out of her circumstances. She was forced to marry Viserys and have his children, she was blamed by Rhaenyra for marrying Viserys as if she had a choice, she was manipulated by Otto into turning on Rhaenyra, she was constantly afraid for her life and the lives of her children, and put her son on the throne in spite of his own inadequacies because she believed that otherwise she and her entire family would be slaughtered. Team Green deserved better writing. I don’t want a flawless girlboss to root for and a scumbag usurper to root against, I want the two disastrous heirs neither of whom was fit to rule and all the messy things that come with that!