#We could’ve had it all

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

This has most definitely been said before, but we were robbed of the core four quarantining on-screen together at Buck’s place. ROBBED I say

[persephryne]

Making Aegon a rapist was straight up bad and lazy writing.

Let me elaborate.

In the show, the first thing we learn about Aegon as an adult is that he is a rapist. We haven’t seen him yet but still we already know that he is an horrible despicable rapist, especially since Dyana is so young, which pretty much makes him a pedophile too. How could anyone root for a man like that ? And that’s where the problem begins.

Rhaenyra had already been established many times as the rightful heir to the throne in season 1. It has been made obvious that she would make a decent Queen too. In the meantime, it had already been shown that Aegon is not even a good person. He’s selfish, inconsiderate, a bully, and does not act like a prince at all. To put it plainly, he sucks big time and we as viewers already know it. Add what we saw in season 2, how reckless he gets, how he’s an alcoholic immature asshole, how he obviously knows nothing about strategics nor how to rule efficiently, or even how bad he is at high valyrian, and you can’t have anyone tell you in good faith that he would’ve been a better ruler than Rhaenyra.

However, had Aegon not been made a rapist, you would still feel for him even though he is not cut out to rule. Because he knows it too and tried to escape it and he was forced to attend his own coronation . Because this crown that he did not want does not fit him, even though he really tries to show that he is not as worthless as everyone seems to think and he just keeps failing. You would feel for him because the war ,that he has started when he was made an usurper by the people around him, has cost him his son’s life. Because the brother, who is partially responsible for his son’s death has now betrayed him and tried to kill him with dragonfire. Because the injuries he suffered make him look more and more like his father who never cared for him, never loved him and that he definitely hates. Which also probably why he tries so hard to make his mother proud of him and love him but he can’t and his main attempt has left him half-dead, half-burn. Not only that but his dragon, with whom he has the strongest bond known in Targaryen’s, history probably died during this futile attempt to prove himself. The only thing about his Targaryen’s heritage that he seems to care about has been destroyed all because he wanted to prove himself. Because he truly resents his Targaryen’s, his father’s heritage, it’s obvious, just as it is obvious that he didn’t want to marry his own sister but was forced to. It’s completely legitimate of him to want to distance himself as much as possible from everything that is Targaryen related. He is indeed more of an Hightower than a Targaryen, but can you really blame him for that ? Would you not try to fit somewhere else too, if you were in his place ? It’s all absolutely and undeniably tragic.

I wholeheartdely believe that, even if you would’ve root for Rheanyra to be Queen, you woud’ve probably still thought that Aegon, as bad as he is, did not deserves this much pain.

But because he is a rapist, well, he honestly does.

By not trusting the audience to see that Aegon is not a good person, nor a good a king, without having him comitting a literal crime, by making Aegon a rapist, the writers have annihilated any possibilities for an internal conflict regarding Aegon and Rhaenyra. The whole concept of « teams » just goes down the drain because of this lazy, manichaean, writing. And that, my friends, is bad writing at its peak.

[darlin-djarin]

WHERE is the luke and grogu content ??? there are tons of din and grogu content but there’s BARELY any luke and grogu.

i want to see luke call grogu silly names. i want to see grogu bodyslamming himself into a sleeping luke. i want to see grogu picking up critters off the floor and offering them to luke. i want to see luke eating spiders directly out of grogu’s hand. i want to see luke putting grogu in a highchair and spoon feeding him soup. i want to see luke chasing grogu around the pond. i want to see luke and grogu in a fake duel. i want to see luke letting grogu win against him. i want to see luke pretending to be defeated. i want to see luke on the ground and go “AUGHHH NOOO SIR GROGU HAS DEFEATED ME!! HE TRULY IS THE GREATEST AND MOST POWERFUL JEDI IN THE GALAXY!!!” i want to see grogu giggling as he watches luke dramatically die from their battle. i want to see luke getting grogu bathed and cleaned up. i want to see luke tickling grogu on his little tummy. i want to see luke dressing grogu up in new clean robes he got him. i want to see luke holding grogu gently and rocking him to sleep. i want to see luke setting up a hammock instead of a crib for grogu to make him more comfortable and familiar. i want to see luke take care of grogu gently. i need to see them together, gently.

[gratefulnez]

imagine an alternate universe where the monkees and the beatles go against each other on family feud

[kenm4vhs]

ugly crying over teacher!suguru 🥺

[joekeerys]

Why couldn't they let the guy keep his regular hair and just bleach it? TGC has perfect hair. A root touch up is not that hard for the amount of scenes he had in both seasons

tgc with his natural hair/facial hair is literally just book accurate aegon. i will never understand the decision to shave his face and give him that god awful wig in season 2 that looks like his hair is seconds from falling out. literally one bleaching session and this is aegon

[navnae]

What if Eddie asks Steve about what happened with the Russians and how it affected him. Steve has never been asked how that experience changed the way he is as a person or how traumatic the whole situation turned out. I think season 5 would’ve been an amazing opening for that conversation and we get to see Steve’s genuine point of view if that day while Eddie even goes into detail about how he felt about the demobats and the upside down in general. Ugh what could’ve been 😞

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

They are best friends

[marinacourage]

sorry for low quality but was no one going to tell me that THIS HAPPENED?? EXCUSE ME??? SO THIS is what we could’ve had with peteway and FUMBLED???? EXCUSE ME WHAT???

[binaryboyfriendsblog2]

torys moms death would’ve been better if we actually knew literally anything about the character other than ‘she’s ill’ tbh

like she was mentioned a few times and then she died. #goals

[huntingrays]

my roman empire is the storyline we could’ve had with cody in the obi-wan kenobi show

[vesemirsexual]

cdpr is so wrong for giving us an empress ending but not an ending where ciri can kick off a violent revolution against her piece of shit sperm donor. this is also because having him usurped is objectively one of the funniest things she could do

[darlin-djarin]

anakin/padme shouldn’t have been called anidala. we could had so much more. we could’ve had anime 💔

[55szn]

i’m so fucking happy but i can’t help and be sad that we ALMOST had a carlando + max podium 😔😔😔😔😔

[pseudosaprophyte]

only disappointment from this episode is that ankarna isn’t butch. she is in my heart though 😔❤️💖 🙏

[foreverfearlessred]

Charles Leclerc just fell to his knees in a garage in Singapore after finding out Monaco aren’t going to compete in Eurovision 2024. Devastating.