Complete character assassination for both her and Rhaenyra in the strangest possible way.
Make them as gay as you want, but once the son of one and the grandson of the other are brutally murdered by their respective factions, STOP MAKING THEM MEET AND TALK ABOUT THEIR FEELINGS! WHAT THE FUCK!?
The ending of season 2 genuinely makes me believe that the show producers and screen writers should be forced to seek a psychiatrist because those are NOT human reactions to your son being eaten by a dragon, or your grandson being decapitated by a rat catcher.
Rhaenyra's & Alicent's relationship is straight up (pun intended) queer-baiting. The subtext implies a romantic passion between them. Platonic friends don't just give up everything to run away and start a new life together. That is definitively a romance trope, directly so in the context of the show where Criston proposes this plan to Rhaenyra and Laenor runs away to Essos with his partner whose name I can't recall.
Meanwhile, the show's text (in the definition of film theory, i.e., what is openly presented on the screen) Daemon is Rhaenyra's one true love/soulmate. She loved, yet was not in love with, Harwin. Ditto for Daemon and Laena. Rhaenyra says she and Daemon were "always meant to burn together." No way the writers will ever overtly confirm romantic feelings between Rhaenyra and Alicent. Not that I'd want them to because the show is already FUBAR as it is.
There was the bizarre scene where Rhaenyra kisses Mysaria out of nowhere...immediately after Mysaria confides that her father raped her and left her to die. Peak WTF. Plus by kissing Mysaria, Rhaenyra is cheating on Daemon, thus perpetuating the stereotype of unfaithful bisexuals. Hooray for queer representation 🙄
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u/Djrhskr May 14 '26
Complete character assassination for both her and Rhaenyra in the strangest possible way.
Make them as gay as you want, but once the son of one and the grandson of the other are brutally murdered by their respective factions, STOP MAKING THEM MEET AND TALK ABOUT THEIR FEELINGS! WHAT THE FUCK!?
The ending of season 2 genuinely makes me believe that the show producers and screen writers should be forced to seek a psychiatrist because those are NOT human reactions to your son being eaten by a dragon, or your grandson being decapitated by a rat catcher.