#DONT MAKE ME LAUGH SAPOCHNIK OR WHOEVER WROTE THAT GARBAGE EPISODE!

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The audience manipulation is almost hilariously pro-Black in every way. Otto sends his daughter to the king: ‘wear your mother’s dress’. Corlys does the same thing: no scene where he coaches Laena on what to say. The divine right to rule white hart. The fact that the show seemingly doesn’t realize they wrote a rape scene between Rhaenyra and Criston. The quick gloss over the ‘questioned sharply’ line so that people would have no idea she meant torture. Aemond ‘stealing’ a dragon and threatening murder to justify Jace and Luc. The total and utter absence of the political context which makes it crystal clear that Aegon has the superior claim and Rhaenyra’s bastards aren’t eligible for anything. The murder of an redshirt framed as LGBT allyship. Meanwhile Alicent gets implicated in the murder of fave fave Strongs despite having nothing to do with it and waves a dagger in Rhaenyra’s face while screaming about how jealous she is. And what they’ve done with Alicent is actually insulting because if you’re going to make a character ‘nuanced’ by giving her a backstory of forced child marriage and rape, you cannot then turn around and frame her as the primary oppressor of a far more privileged character.

I was actually planning on writing a post on how the show's framing absolutely sucks ass and tacitly never punishes Rhaenyra's side in the same way they do to Alicent's, but you literally said it all right here 💀💀💀