re: House of the Dragon - Episode 2.2 - Spoilers okay

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I’d argue the show hasn’t really displayed Alicent as a character you can sympathize with. She’s a self-serving, conniving woman who at almost every turn has done things to serve herself. Just this last episode she fails to comfort her son who is struggling with being King, she’s still fricking Crispy, and she even tries to trauma dump on poor Helaena who is just grieving her kid.

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I think that’s the case for the most part of Season 1. First episode of Season 2 where she lit the candle was the first time she displayed any type of sympathy for Rhaenyra and her side of the family since Olivia Cooke took over. It made me want her to get her fricking act together, though I know she won’t.

Despite my disdain for her, she’s still written and acted really well because I don’t groan when she’s on the screen like Crispy. It’s just so interesting to watch someone SO fricking hypocritical and be such a godawful parent to each one of her children while thinking she’s being a dutiful mother. She’s raising them like Otto did her, the way Tywin did his children. Just political pawns in their schemes. And now she’s finally realizing it

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Doesn't help she is a space cadet all the time. Hard for the audience to form any attachment with her when she is always in lala land

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I doubt I'm alone in my inability to keep all these white-haired people with rhyming/identical names straight, so I had to look up who she is. That's his sister, good reason for her to be in lala land.

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there are rumors that her children were actually fathered by her other brother Aemond

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Is that just from the book, or I am just totally not remembering this from the show?

Ok Mick imagine you’re the lord of a vassal house or even a great house and the blacks petition for your support. You’re responsible for 4-6k fighting men, grey beards, farmers, subjects, your hold and house compliment and all of the families that go with this. You're telling me you wouldn’t think twice about taking a life/death oath for you and all these other people to serve someone who mocks her oaths?

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You're telling me you wouldn’t think twice about taking a life/death oath for you and all these other people to serve someone who mocks her oaths?

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dude
there are no right answers here if you are a nobleman

Choose green get dragoned by black
Choose black get dragoned by green

don’t even begin to talk about oaths. This is mutually assured destruction

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People forget that the pacing is what made GoT seasons 1-6 so great and when things got sped up in season 7-8 the show turned to shite.

The pacing so far in HotD has been much closer to season 1-6 which is a good thing.

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I was just about to post this. GOT was at its best when there was a lot of buildup followed by the huge “holy shite” moments. It went downhill when every episode started trying to be epic.

Anyone else love the Otto character? That actor is killing it

Team Black



Aemond and Daemon are the best characters

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Sean Bean, Charles Dance, Peter Dinklage Lena Headey etc are all heavy hitters. So is Rhys Ifans.

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I honestly never heard of any of these people until GOT outside of bean

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the acting overall in HoTD is excellent. I’d never heard of any of these actors except Ifans Smith and Considine but the show is exceptionally well cast

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I wish Helaena had a bigger role in the story.