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Sigh. That’s all that became of the dragon twins-marriage???

Aemond might as well be Maegor resurrected, a plum fool. Daemon is a tempestuous fool. Rhaenyra is making no progress while sitting upon her throne. And the illustrations are ugly. I’m getting bored. If the Doctrine of Exceptionalism had applied to Targaryen women and the question of inheritance none of this would be necessary.

HBO really adapted this so poorly. Everything is laid out to decisively tell the story and they completely crater the characters of the green side. They are so middling in the show. Rhaenyra’s character was already poorly written here so I’m not surprised they messed her depiction too. The change to Laena’s death is one of the most egregious- made no sense what they did in the show.

Jahaerys was a wicked fool meanwhile Viserys was a careless fool. From killing his wife Aemma like Jahaerys helped kill Alyssa and Daella to allowing the hightowers to hijack his bloodline. And to think Visenya and Aegon had no sense to ensure all dragon riders regardless of gender became warriors. The Doctrine of Exceptionalism in practice only benefited the men.