#i love alicent but those scenes stunning as they are didnt really do anything for the plot or progression

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as much as i thoroughly enjoy seeing olivia cooke on my screen, the alicent plots this episode were like, entirely unnecessary right?

anyone with eyes saw the matching wounds last episode, and we know she's losing power and spiralling a bit. it really just felt like they felt it was needed to tell us that, when we were already shown it.

what we dont know is whats going on with the northmen, baela, rhaena, helaena(!!!), even criston and gwayne etc.

they could be doing so much more with them, but instead we get alicent camping scenes, long small team green council meetings and a seasons worth of dragged out daemon acid trip dreams.

obviously this season had to be slower now that we are in one set time period instead of jumping decades like season one, but still its frustrating, it still feels like we arent diving into the characters and their relationships enough, and its very obvious which characters are liked more and less by the producers.

the silver linings for me have really been any scene with jace, rhaenyra and baela (and my queen rhaenys).