Character Sheet: Daeron Targaryen

Character sheet: Daeron Targaryen

House of the Dragon S02E05, S02E01, S02E02 and S01E04 // "Labour" by Paris Paloma // "Astyanax taken from Andromache" by Louis Desplaces // "Fire and Blood" by George R. R. Martin // "The Anger of Achilles" by Jacques-Louis David (detail of Clytemnestra with her daughter Iphigenia)

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HotD + Sanitizing Rhaenyra Targaryen

In the show’s desperation to make Rhaenyra the hero, they have actually made Rhaenyra the worst character which is a travesty because book Rhaenyra is one of the best ASOIAF villains in my opinions

What went wrong with show Rhaenyra? Well for one thing, they are never going to make her the villain, it seems. Despite the end of season 1 making it seem like they were going that route. But looking back at season 1, we should have seen this coming

Rhaenyra didn’t kill Laenor, she let him escape. Rhaenyra didn’t feed Vaemond to Syrax, she had no say in his death. They don’t make it clear what she means by wanting Aemond to be “questioned sharply.” She’s innocent in all the above

And not only that, but they have set the story as a feminist crisis and not a succession crisis. This was the worst misstep they could have taken. Because not only Rhaenyra immediately sympathetic, but there is no chance they can go the book Rhaenyra route now because it would misogynistic. Imagine: A story about a woman’s power and throne being taken from her because she is a woman. A victim of the patriarchy. And then she becomes a tyrant and proves the sexist men right. That would be a terrible story

The book is not feminist story about a worthy woman being abused by the patriarchy. It’s about how power corrupts people. And Rhaenyra is the biggest villain in the story. If they went the book Rhaenyra route, she would be rewarding her council for Blood and Cheese. She would say “I will have my throne or my half brother’s head.” She would never offer to go Rook’s Rest, just tell Rhaenys to go. Book Rhaenyra and show Rhaenyra are two completely different people

And here is why I’m worried about season 3. There is no way to adapt the Rhaenyra Triumphant/Overthrown chapters without making her the villain. So either they are going to the book route and have people break out in anger the same they did with Daenerys, or somehow make it not her fault

Either way, they have written themselves into a corner

The same people who hate on Criston Cole are the same ones who unironically call Elia a bitch for ‘getting in the way’ of Rhaegar and Lyanna’s ‘perfect’ love story. Demonize Meria Martell for refusing to bow down to their white supremacy allegory Barbie when she came to her front door with a WMD and demanded she prostrate herself or else she and all her subjects would be burned.

GRRM couldn’t be clearer when he wrote fire and blood, not with the whole ‘surrender or die’ thing they got going on that was repeated seven times. And the entire thing Aegon did to two great houses,,, like are we supposed to view him as a good person when his response to someone not wanting to be subjugated by foreign invaders was to massacre an entire bloodline? Everyone agrees that Tywin was a monster for eliminating two lines yet Aegon is praised for what? Doing the exact same thing and more with the fields of fire????

Your blond Barbie can do no wrong and anyone who thinks these colonizers are colonizers get dogpiled and buried in anons telling them to die. Like how unserious can you guys get? It’s always the Targ Stan’s who think their fav is without fault and anyone in-universe or not, that says anything bad about them are the most horrible monsters to exist. Especially if said in-universe person is from Dorne.

I think the Ullers should’ve done everyone in ASOIAF a favor and shot down all three dragons. Killing Targaryens WMD: Electric Boogaloo.

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