I don’t know if I have mommy issues, like my relationship with my mother is complicated (not all of it trough her fault), but it sure as hell seems like that from my preferences for characters that make me shout MOTHER.

Daemon Targaryen and Rhaenyra Targaryen holding hands through the years

RHAENYRA & DAEMON TARGARYEN HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-)

when you’re morally GAY

*house of the dragon episode 2 spoilers*

literally laughing SO HARD abt rhaenyra pulling up to dragonstone just like "uncle i know you fucking lied abt getting her pregnant and frankly this temper tantrum of yours is both tedious and a sad cry for attention. do you want to kill me? is that it? it'd be easier on all of us" and daemon just smiling at her as if she made him proud calling his semi-bluff before then scowling at otto and yeeting her the egg. truly if the targs have nothing else, it's an abundance of dragon-sized audacity

the way milly alcock held onto emma d’arcy at the golden globes >>>

Would really like to know how many people writing rhaelicent actually watched the show

Ok, y'all have succeeded, I f*cking hate Milly Alcock now, and I blame all Emma's haters for that. You insufferable people.

House of the dragon rant

I swear I get headaches everytime I see people trying to explain why they prefer Milly's Rhaenyra over Emma's like dude watch the bts of episode 6 for the love of God, that will help you understand what they were trying to do with the time jump. I feel like a broken record saying this so much but 10+ years passed dude a 30 year old can't be acting like a teenager SPECIALLY when they have 5 kids, Milly's Rhaenyra was rebellious, immature, carefree and was not prepared by the people around her for her responsibilities so in her mind she probably had none so of course she was able to act like she should act like a teenager, but after her engagement party where she sees her father pass out her lover punches a guy to death and said guy just so happens to be her future husband's lover you can finally see in her face something click and you can tell that she finally realizes what she has to do, and plus

another thing a lot of people seem to love to forget is the trauma that Rhaenyra experienced, bc I highly doubt those 10 years were all sunshine and rainbows I mean Emma said it Rhaenyra experienced trauma and Rhaenyra herself shows it on episode 6 and 7 even on episode 8, so yeah no shit that changes a person, it can have a drastic change or smaller changes but it does change you, adding the trauma to her being the heir to the iron throne + having a ton of kids and being an adult that cannot get away with shit as easily as before obviously her behavior will change, Emma's Rhaenyra is supposed to be a more cold and calculated person due to everything that I just mentioned but specially bc now she has kids that rely on her, the directors said it themselves, you can in fact still see small ticks that Rhaenyra had when she was younger and they still remain, bc that would be something slightly harder to lose but it's still there, when she gets mad you still see her essence and what she has always been like, but of course she can't be going around throwing that attitude at everyone bc there's a lot at risk, NOW she's finally realizing her responsibilities and her duty so she had to mature, idk what it is with this hate train towards the writers of the show and even Emma but like shut up, and don't get me wrong I don't love the writers either they made questionable choices but some of yall completely throw logic out the window sometimes just to hate on them, they did a great job with the transition between Milly and Emma, and this is just the beginning for Emma, Rhaenyra when she was an adult was not called the "maegor with tits" for nothing she hasn't had the opportunity to show her explosive side bc she didn't have to. And about the hate towards Emma, let's be real the hate towards them and even their Rhaenyra is 99.9% of the time rooted on transphobia, simple as that, had adult Rhaenyra been portrayed by a cis woman this would not happen. And I would also like to add that no Milly's Rhaenyra is not more popular, Rhaenyra as a whole is extremely popular, Emma's version is the face of the show but they are both extremely popular even though you mostly see posts about Emma's Rhaenyra now (therefore I do believe that Emma's is the fan favorite) but one is not above the other anyway, the only time you will see Milly's Rhaenyra being extremely praised, not saying she's not good, she is, but there's times where waves of praise for her come and with that some people feel the need to bring Emma down it's exclusively with the transphobes, or weird men that created this obsession with Milly bc she is a cis female that fits the beauty standards while according to society Emma doesn't. So please before you share your preferences which it's okay to have first of all don't shit on one to praise the other bc do you even like them if you have to bring in another person and shit on them just to praise the other, AND actually think about the timeline of things and basic shit like idk growing up and what life was like back then and in a place like westeros. Bc I'm certain that NO ONE here is the same as they were 10 years ago SPECIALLY if they experienced trauma.

Anyway thank you for coming to my very long Ted talk. If you actually read all this then wow

EMMA D'ARCY DESERVES EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING!!!! Their Rhaenyra is so honest, raw and fierce in her strength as mother and queen, maybe unpopular opinion but I don't need to see her raining blood and fire to find her strong. I just love MY QUEEN RHAENYRA TARGARYEN SO MUCH

although i REALLY like the cast of HotD I can’t help but criticize the fact that they all are a little off for their canonical ages.

And it creates A LOT of problems.

Whenever I look at Olivia as Alicent my brain just cannot comprehend the fact that she is supposed to be the mother of Aegon, Aemond and Helaena. She looks like their older sister. I get that they were trying to go for the effect that “she was too young when she had her children” which is valid but still, she looks five years older than them at best. She is supposed to be almost 20 YEARS older than Aemond, yet in some shots of them together he looks like he’s older than her. It just makes it not really believable.

Rhaenyra is also supposed to be much much older than her siblings, yet they all also look just like three years apart. They don’t look like a woman in her mid to late thirties fighting with a man in his early twenties which is what it should’ve been. It takes away the drama and puts them on the same level.

Ewan Mitchell is amazing as Aemond but he looks so so much older than the actor who plays Luke. During Storm’s End, like many people have said, it actually looks like a grown ass man chasing a small kid, when the characters are supposed to be like four to five years apart. Where Luke is believable as a 14 year old, Aemond absolutely does NOT look 19.

Rhaenyra and Daemon also look fairly the same age because obviously there was no Daemon recast. They did a good job to make Paddy (Viserys) age throughout the years, but they kinda forgot to make Daemon age as well. And therefore Matt Smith looks the exact same in ep 1 and in ep 10, even tho these two episodes are like AT LEAST 20 years apart?? Matt Smith was in his early forties when they were filming, but by the end of season 1 Daemon is literally supposed to be in his mid to late fifties. The fact that Emma and Matt look around the same age, maybe having a 5 year age gap max, makes many people forget that they are two fully different generations of people, being around 20 years apart in the show, and hypothetically could’ve been father and daughter.

And obviously Laena. Other people have already talked about this, but I also find it super weird that the show tried to convince us that Laena went from (1) to (2) in like, i don’t know, two years maybe? And then after a timeskip of only like one decade, she suddenly looks like she aged 20 years? The actress is literally older than Emma, and Laena is supposed to be younger than Rhaenyra.

It just doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t really have a problem with changing some of the characters’ ages, but you have to consider casting the right actors as well. They did a fairly good job when adapting Game of Thrones, because they kinda aged up everyone and kept the same actors without having any timeskips. The only exceptions are probably characters like Brienne, because although I LOVE Gwendoline Christie, Brienne should’ve been a literal teenager.

imo the time jumps are where hotd gets messy, because they just really wanted to get to the dance by season two but that’s like having ned executed halfway through season 1 just so you can rush to the red wedding in season 2, i get the urge but pull it back a little babee, let the anticipation and tragedy build.

anyways, i think the biggest miss (and one of two that i think sinks the show from “excellent” to “great but i have notes”) is we don’t see alicent and helaena give birth because of the wacky ways they skip around in the timeline.

there are easy fixes for this tho. for the first time skip where you still have milly and emma, we should have seen alicent give birth to helaena. it doesn’t have to be the whole episode, but the end of it should be her giving birth to juxtapose with Aemma, and Helaena’s reception juxtaposed with Baelon’s, Joffrey, and Visenya. THEN you do the ten year skip EXCEPT it STARTS with Rhaenyra figuring out she’s pregnant again, go through most of the plot she goes through WHILE SHES PREGNANT, THEN a birth scene. second to last episode is laena’s birth scene & death, finale is driftmark fight, then a little jump at the VERY end where Rhaenyra gets the message about Vaemond and is like “guess we’re going back to court.”

THAT WAY season two can start with HELAENA having MAELOR and also we get more time with the little versions of the black & green kids. ALSO season two can then include aegon in flea bottom so we get LADY ESSIE HAVING GAEMON and a juxtaposition of how noble women are treated during birth and how smallfolk are!!!!!!

Comments on House of The Dragon s01e06

Alicent Hightower

I saw a tweet saying that Alicent is like those girls that have a kid right after high school so she had to marry the father of their kid so their youth, and grew resentful because their high school friends go on to college and live their best lives. Basically "you got to live everything I wanted to but Couldn't, so now I hate u" kinda of stuff and now I can't thing otherwise

Otto started te job and Alicent continue, If it wasn't for her and her resent towards Rhaenyra everything would be different. A lot of people wouldn't died.

And what's worst is that until this point or until they start to take a son for a son, Rhaenyra didn't hate Alicent or her kids, all by contrary.

In fact, I believe all this episode was about the construction of Alicent as the villain of the show for now. But she ain't the only villain...

I already hate her hypocrite and resentful ass.

Rhaenyra and Laenor

I like their relationship after all. Rhaenyra continue to be the hero of the story and Emma did such a amazing job portraying Rhaenyra feelings only with her gaze. She didn't needed much to show the power and dominance of the princess, something that we could see in the council scene where Rhaenyra dominates.

Something that was good to see after her humiliating scene where she had to drag herself so Alicent could judge the baby.

Poor Laenor, we saw he still resentful towards Criston in one lil scene in the beginning of the episode, rightfully so, and by the promo of next episode I think he will fight against Criston after all and maybe Criston will be the one to murder or severally injury him. I would be surprised if the show goes nuts again the Criston murder the king with consequences for his actions

Laena and Daemon

I like how they give Daemon the same choice they gave Viserys in the first episode. And it seems that different than Viserys, Daemon didn't choose the child over his wife or he simple refused to choose.

I really enjoy Vhagar and Laena little moment before the final Dracarys. It was like Vhagar wanted to know for sure that that's was what Laena really wanted and than did what her master command.

But I don't know, it feels of Laena died like that, It didn't seems to be some "you die or your die" situation, or she dying asking to go out in flames instead of go out in a bed. Like Bjorn did in Vikings.

The Strongs

Lyonel Strong was such a honorable man. He really is like Ned Stark but smarter.

I still don't get Larys, like plotting against his whole family? He is the reason why the Strong House no longer exists after the Dance. He really shows to be just a egoistic man who doesn't care about his own family and House legacy

I will watch Sor Harwin beating the shit outta Criston everytime I feel sad. Also, he would make a far better fight instructor than Criston

Criston Cole

What a cunt! What a asshole! Piece of shit excuse of a man. It's been 10 fucking years. Get over your incel freak. Can wait to see you die, and I hope the show give us this cathartic moment soon enough

The Kids

No much to say here other than Aegon II being a asshole and will become evil because of his mother. The same goes to Aemond.

The kids didn't hate each other, Alicent made them hate each other

Final Critic

I thought they were doing things fast because this all we've saw until episode 5 was really just a prequel to the dance but now that we already change actresses and all, yet they are still running.

Nothing big or something, is just that even tho the actors did a amazing job portraying a 10year story in 10 minutes, I really would like to see more of Rhaenyra and Harwin or Laena and Daemon, or even Laena with Rhaenyra

i thought that they would find an excuse for rhaenyra and alicent having a scene together but i didn't expect it to actually happen 😭 very happy for olivia and emma together tho

Inserting child marriage and sexual exploitation in a female character's storyline to make her more “sympathetic” and “complex”, stripping away both Rhaenyra and Alicent’s ruthlessness and desire for the throne, turning Alicent’s motivation into a misunderstanding and desire to protect her children, making Rhaenyra not even want the throne and willing to accept Alicent's conditions. It’s giving pathetic.

Btw, remember in GOT when Cersei tears up Robert's testament, “is this meant to be your shield Lord Stark ? A piece of paper ?”, that's exactly what Rhaenyra should have done with Alicent's old crusty book page.

Totally, PLUS the whole gROomINg agenda they are trying to impose on us regarding Daemyra. Emma just gave an interview saying Daemon groomed and traumatised Rhaenyra who couldn't consent because she was a minor even tho she literally wasn't ? I love them and I understand it's the writers that want them to say that but still. I'm preparing a huge rant for all of that, bear with me.

God the scene of Cersei tearing up Robert's testament, FUCKING ICONIC still after almost 10 years. It would have been equally iconic to see Rhaenyra tearing up the stupid page. Instead we got more tears 🤡

(OMG I misgendered Emma again guys I'm a fucking idiot okay, I am, I'm sorry.)

Another little AU tho

Imagine Rhaenyra and Alicent being separated ..Rhaenyra going to Dragonstone much earlier . Emma!Rhaenyra & Olivia!Alicent never meeting.

Until Viserys wants to see his family together in the last years of his life and Rhaenyra seeing her siblings, many for the first time - Daeron and such.

A fix it sort of thing.

Larys & Otto bashing (LOVE YOU GUYS BUT NOT HERE!)