Once again, the shitposters come to save the day.
Aegon's actor Tom Glynn-Carney- a quite handsome man in real life, imo- actually talked in an interview about how the makeup department purposely uglified him. Apparently they were shooting to make him look as much like Chucky as possible. In a similar vein, Helaena's actress Phia Saban is cute IRL, but Helaena more often than not is styled and shot in a way that makes her look mid at the absolute best. It seems that if the cast isn't naturally ugly, they'll try to make them look as unappealing as possible because God fucking forbid we see hot people onscreen.
Once again, trying to make the Greens look worse because God forbid the audience sides with the patriarchy. But given how sloppy the so-called ''good guys'' are, and the fact that in a medieval societal context, having the king's firstborn son succeed over his daughter is seen as just normal, people will side with the Greens given that they have tradition on their side.
Book Rhaenyra becomes real fat after having her first child. It's indisputable, because it's part of her entire character. She's lazy and entitled. She never does anything for herself, only making others act for her, down to her own children who she sacrifices. She's so fat and lazy that when she sits on the iron throne after winning it the thing actually fucking stabs her, with one character saying it's because she's unworthy of being on the throne and another just saying 'nah it's cuz she's fucking fat'. GRRM makes it so comical that even her fucking dragon becomes fat and lazy and no longer knows how to hunt for itself, needing food brought to it even when not being caged up.
That's because back when GRRM wrote the book, it wasn't a girlboss feminist thing, it was him trying to paint all monarchs as flawed or evil in some way, so even the ''realm's delight'' looks like she raids cake stores on the weekends and she's downright malicious. Between having Daemon kill Vaemond and feeding the guy to her dragon, to throwing Alicent and Helaena into the brothel to get raped because she was ass-mad about the ''bastards'' accusation, Book Rhaenyra was not a heroine to be admired, but a fat, disgusting piece of shit to be despised.
Book Alicent is very much an evil stepmother trope who absolutely hates Rhaenyra, calling her a whore, voicing to groups of people that she hopes the whore dies in childbirth, etc. The show has stripped all of that away in a vain hope to fight ~misogyny in media~. Vain because they actually made Alicent more fucking evil than the book accidentally by having her purposely sacrifice her children's lives so she can chase after Rhaenyra, who they've decided to insert some not-so-subtle lesbian fanfic relationship with.
Once again, like I said, it's an act of Providence that these girlboss writers make their ''sympathetic'' female characters look worse instead of better. It goes to show how these writers have no sense of context or decency; they're the kind that would burn the world down if it denied them what they wanted. Just like Daenerys in Season 8 of GOT. If the world went full patriarchal, Dany burning KL would be OK in their eyes.
Is there some uggo lesbian cabal writing this season?
Most of the central male characters are put through some weird humiliation ritual, either by fucking his mom, using a prostitute as a mom replacement implying some weird shit or just describing into great detail how one's penis burst into flame.
Am I the only one noticing this shit?
Is this in the books?
No, in the books, the women are just as bad, if not worse than the men. See what I and others said about Book Rhaenyra and Alicent.
Speaking of Rhaenys, Sara Hess literally stated that she wrote the character
as a representation of Hillary Clinton (lmao). In an interview with the LA Times, actress Eve Best revealed that Hess approached her and told her about this during her first day on set:
Sara Hess has been pushing the Rhaenicent romance narrative since Season 1. On her Twitter account, she's shared and praised articles about how Queen Alicent and Queen Rhaenyra
"would rather co-rule Westeros".
Then that makes Alicent even stupider that she didn't groom Aegon II to marry Rhaenyra and groomed the boy to hate her instead. She could've made her bestie her daughter-in-law and secured her crown.
Hess has an overwhelming fixation on the Rhaenyra/Alicent relationship, to the point where it negatively impacts the development and screen time that other characters receive. The Dance of the Dragons was written as a war between Rhaenyra and Aegon II, with Alicent's character diminishing in importance after Viserys dies. At this point in the story, the key players in the war should be the younger generation, such as Aemond, Aegon, and Jacaerys. Despite this, Hess insists that
the story should continue to revolve around the Rhaenyra/Alicent relationship instead of the literal civil war going on. She says this during the S2E8 BTS at 10:55:
Jeez loweez, no wonder GRRM wanted to distance himself from the show. That shipping was not in the books, but is now a central part of the show.
GRRM should've put his foot down and told HBO that he wants the rights to tell the producers to sod off if he sees something he doesn't like. Again, the fact that JK Rowling can have faithful adaptations of her books to the silver screen shows that it's not impossible for GRRM to have the same.
Ironically enough, it's the Viserys/Daemon performances in S1 that were the best things from the show, and now, they tossed that kind of nuance out to get their lesbo fanfiction into the TV show.
So that's pretty much confirming that Season 3 is going to be centered around Rhaenyra/Alicent fanfic shipping, despite the fact Alicent shouldn't even be part of the story anymore.
In the books, Alicent and her daughter Helaena were tossed into the brothels to get fucked because Rhaenyra was ass-mad about the ''whoring around and having bastards'' accusation. Then Helaena offs herself because of that, and the people riot and kill Rhaenyra's dragons, which is how she loses the war. So I suppose Alicent had the last laugh there.
As much as Ryan Cuckdal is to blame for a lot of issues, it is clear that people were jumpy for Sara Hess [ -> ((())) ? She looks asiatic but "Hess" sounds Ashkenazic. Weird...] and for a good fucking reason. She shat over an entire series, but I'm more concerned for that boy she will ruin in the future. A show is just a show, but the other is an actual human. Sad...
We can laugh at the former, but we need to pray for the latter.
The future non-binary kid comment was due to her and the dyke wife doing some weird science experiment where they decided to play hot potato with IVF embryos between themselves and implant the kid without knowing which one of the two is actually the mother
or the father, who one of the two sperm donors is one of the dyke's
brother. This poor kid is going to have to walk around not knowing who his actual mother or father is or if his uncle is actually his dad.
There's also the problem that both of these lesbians have extensive genetic health conditions (Hess had a mastectomy for breast cancer) and the other wife has a lot of problems herself. This led to them having to doctor-shop clinics and try to find one who purposely didn't do genetic tests.
The kid is fucked. Who's my mom? Who's my uncle? Who's my dad? Do I have any of these genetic predispositions to cancer or host of other shit? Who knows! Thanks lesbomoms!
As for how we know any of this, they just openly brag about it because anything LGBTQ*NKKHG is 'stunning and brave' and not a sign of moral decay:
https://pregnantish.com/profile-talia-osteen-sara-hess/
Like I said, we need to pray for that kid. God help them if they have parents like that.
Why can't these people just make their own crap instead of trying to insert their own fantasy? "Let's make Westeros a feminist fantasy" -> How about no? How about you GTFO?
Nobody's stopping them from making their own lesbian fantasy series. But I suppose ruining ASOIAF is good because it's the work of a straight white man who writes rape scenes in his books.
This'd be like me making a Pride and Prejudice TV series, but had Mr Darcy learn Ju Jitsu, fight a bear, and fuck all the Sisters at the end, then become king lol.
"I wanted to play around with the expectations of romance films"
Playing with expectations is code word for bullshit writing these days. I'm getting sick and tired of it. It used to be cute back in the early 2000s, but now, it's clear that most writers don't have the chops to make such stories good.
