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My Complaints About The Casting Of House Of The Dragon

My complaints about the casting of House of the dragon

Hello, I want to clarify that I loved the series and the way in which they developed the conflict between Rhaenyra and Alicent as two women who suffer under their patriarchal society that comes to confront them when they are actually girlfriends friends separated by their own problems instead of the classic cliché from the evil stepmother who wants to steal the throne from her poor stepdaughter to give it to her lazy and lecherous son unworthy of the crown, here are all complex characters with their own excuse and motivation. That said, I still had a problem and that is that Alicent is represented as more beautiful and better dressed than Rhaenyra and that is not the case, in the book Rhaenyra was the delight of the kingdom considered the most beautiful woman in Westeros, she liked to dress richly in purple velvet and gold myrish lace, and you could often see pearls and diamonds on her bodice while from Alicent the guy who wrote this was an ardent supporter of her son can only say to her credit that she remained as slim and graceful as she was before her pregnancy to unlike Rhaenyra whom he constantly tries to describe as not as beautiful as before. I can only say that after seeing the image of Rhaenyra in World of ice and fire where she looks like Charlize Theron I expected more but instead they make the actresses ugly, I always imagined her with very curly hair but they gave it to Alicent as her good taste for fashion.

not counting the series of foolish decisions like cutting Alicent and Viserys' anniversary tournament where Rhaenyra and Alicent's supporters are nicknamed by the color of each other's dress instead of Rhaenyra's wedding to Laenor where she wears WHITE and not in black anymore Joffrey's murder at the party instead of the tournament makes you think they were all blind.

Honestly I imagined Alicent with dark straight hair and brown eyes, beautiful and very elegant but not so striking (for some reason the bootlicker who writes the book does not say anything more about her appearance that she was very thin) than properly as a queen but it was Rhaenyra the belle of the red fortress and the best dressed in court, they managed to act this out with Milly Alconk and Emily Carey at first but then lost.