"Lamenting over not ruling" was a poor choice of words on my part, more like lamenting being a woman/lack of influence over men. My point is they cleaned the dirtier parts of Alicent & Rhae's characters to make them seem more thoughtful and wise. As if this whole tragedy would have been avoided if someone just listened to the wimmins. Which is unlike their book counterparts who were as vengeful & bloodthirsty as any of the men
To the bolded, why would her instructions be so at odds with Otto's that she would need to try & get Aegon's ear over him? She has gone along with everything Otto has ever asked of her and trusts her father's direction. Tbh though, this is not how I remember it happening on the show anyway. Everyone wanted Aegon to listen to Otto, Otto had told Alicent to get in his ear after Aegon was already starting to spiral & removed Otto as Hand.
You have a very biased superficial manosphere like perspective on this.
The stories in the book are recounts of stories and supposed to have inaccuracies compared to the show. As the show is supposed to show differences between what was written and what “actually happened” that those that wrote it either didn’t know or wrote because of various reasons.
Like Rhaenyra meeting Alicent in the crypt not being known,
so it wasn’t written as a recount.
Patriarchy is a real thing, a confident Black man can acknowledge that and see its flaws without resorting to feeling personally attacked and reducing Patriarchy’s issues to “just listen to women”
It’s very much like racist white ppl reducing valid critiques by us Black ppl to “woke agendas” lazy.
We clearly see that Alicent was a victim of Patriarchy through Otto as a little girl, being molded to be a judgemental sexually repressed woman in a highly religious family.
Only to do the same sexual behavior she condemned Rhaenyra for, like countless Pastor’s daughters.
We see her enforcing and weaponizing Patriarchy towards Rhaenyra, only to lose all her power to it and realize she was misled to believe in oppressive systems and having to reevaluate her whole identity as a result.
To reduce ALL OF THAT from just 1 character, to the show saying
“the tragedy coulda been avoided if men listened to women”
is just lazy, and shows lack of range.
Now that the story was changed to make her seem pure, they had to disassociate Alicent from her children who are put in the role of antagonists to Rhae, destroying her good/fierce mother characterization. They made her cold to Aegon's depression after losing his grandchild, fearing Aemond while having no way to reign him in cause misogy. Then decision to have her fukking Cole while her grandchild is murdered.
They wrote her into a corner so bad the bytch has done nothing all season but pout about the men not listening to her.
Now you trying invoke the mods on some "he's spoiling!"
