complex and stupidI mean the characters are reading as complex for me outside of Aegon.
Alicent is about faith and duty, but she’s never been about power and that’s a huge conflict for what she actually has to do get Aegon on the throne. Otto, as Hand, is used to reading stuff at all angles to get the outcome he wants. Duty only if it doesn’t get it the way of his goals
before it was about rhae and her claim 'existing' being the fear needed to motivate alicent to be a bytch. now? she's just floundering in every direction at once. otto is a genius until he isn't. its goofy. no one has any consistent agency in this ep.
i think you're writing for them tbhViserys was holding onto life looking like a mummy for years. How would he know when he needs to know where Aegon was?
Plus, Otto’s over ambition has always been his problem. Trying to tell the king to marry Aegon to Rhaenyra and got rebuffed. Aegon keeps telling them he doesn’t want the throne, so why would he be the person relied upon to be where he needs to be?
last time we saw vicerys it was first time off the poppy in god knows how long, he collapsed and had to be helped to throne, and he just passed out again at dinner. how does the kings hand NOT around the clock watch on that shyt the actual heir ain't even around - this is supposed to be a layup not 30 minutes of going door to door in buddy teams and meeting daemon's old thot like who dis