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HOTD S3; E2: Queen's Landing (Patreon)

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2026-06-30 12:45:22
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usha

The acting is by far the best thing about this show. Give Emma all the awards! I understand the grievances some book fans have about Rhaenyra, but as someone who has not read the source material and only watches the show, it makes sense to me why she was hesitant to kill Otto and why she cried her way to the throne. Also, from my understanding, she really doesn’t have a lot of battle/fight experience no thanks to Viserys. That man will forever be a Villain in my book for multiple reasons. I like Olivia and she is doing an amazing job as Alicent, but that quote about what Alicent was thinking after she saw her father’s head on the ground made me rme. Tbh when it comes to Rhaenicent, I think the acting and chemistry is what elevates a mediocre written relationship. We are consistently being sold on this connection they still have, despite barely interacting since s1. I’d argue that even in s1 they barely had a handful of great scenes showcasing their bond before it got tense. I think I’d have preferred Alicent from the books. Maybe not 9 years, but perhaps they could have still aged her up a bit and maintained some of her book traits where she wants to be the no.1 lady of the realm and uses her political savviness to do so. I think it still would have given us some good sexual tension between both characters. Right now, whatever it is they are attempting to do with the relationship feels a bit shallow imo and it is a detriment to both characters. I really need to know what was going on in the writer’s room when they drafted that Alicent sexual assault scene. It was atrocious and it would have changed nothing had it been omitted. Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t much of Rhaena’s story in the book take place at the Vale? I’m not sure why they had her replace Nettles just to have her end up there anyways. Since they were already departing from the book, they could have found another way to create tension between Rhaenyra and Daemon without using Rhaena.

Aaron Lopez

I was taken so far left of field with Alicent's sexual assault scene. In my mind, I kept thinking this is SO unnecessary! Because, like you said, it changed nothing. I believe the writer's are trying to show Alicent as having no power, but in the worst ways.

usha

What really gets me is we have already seen plenty of examples of Alicent having very little to no power, literally from s1. Not that I particularly enjoy the showing of SA, but if fits within the narrative and there is some kind of payoff for it later, then I can get behind it. In this case, the guy's head gets chopped off by Daemon in the same episode and I doubt it will ever be brought up again by Alicent.

Aaron Lopez

I love, the idea of Vagar being out on these streets! 😂

Oluwadamilola Mustapha

Me from the future, you’re right there is no payoff. It never gets brought up again.

Oluwadamilola Mustapha

I agree. I've never really bought into Alicent and Rhaenyra's relationship, whether platonically or romantically, because I never felt the show established a strong enough foundation for it. We spend so little time actually seeing them as close friends before they're turned into adversaries. They also just seem like fundamentally different people personality-wise, so I never really understood what made them such inseparable friends beyond the fact that they grew up together and were always in the same circles. That's why I've never understood why, after everything that's happened between them, they're still written with so much warmth toward each other. If the show wanted me to believe their friendship was powerful enough to survive all of that, it needed to spend a lot more time showing why they were so close in the first place. Compare it to something like Theon's betrayal of the Starks. That hits because we spend seasons watching those relationships develop, so the emotional weight feels earned. With Alicent and Rhaenyra, they're really only close for a couple of episodes before the relationship starts falling apart. The show keeps telling us their bond is incredibly deep, but I never felt like it gave us enough on-screen evidence to make that emotional payoff land.